vicarious parasite

A person who feigns care for your situation only to use it to enrich their lifeless, mundane existence. Actions also typically include: (1) unsanctioned sharing of your personal information to others in the form of gossip, judgement, (2) continued prodding for more details to assist the recipient in seeming more interesting to others than their own life would allow, and (3) as a basis for engaging strangers in conversation that falsely makes them seem more interesting than they actually are. Also used in the form “pathetic vicarious parasite.”

I was temporarily comforted by my retired father’s interest in my back surgery until I remembered that he is a pathetic vicarious parasite with the primary objective of obtaining information to gossip and elevate himself in social circles.

by Observative December 19, 2020

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Political Parasite

Someone who makes politics their entire social identity, and won’t shut the fuck up about politics. Generally, they hate whoever espouses beliefs stemming from a party not of their own.

Don’t talk to Karen, she’s a political parasite, and will be fervently listening to every word you say, and will try to destroy your happiness based on that which she doesn’t agree. Tom is the same way, even though he’s on the opposite end of the political spectrum.

by MayneDeWayne May 27, 2021

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Sal Paradise

Sal Paradise is the main character in the beatnik novel "On the Road" by famous American writer Jack Kerouac. Sal is a young man, who, being sort of a star-strucked by his new friend Dean Moriarty, decides to travel through America with him in search for, as said in the first chapter 'girls, visions, everything'. Wandering throught the streets of the USA and Mexico, Sal faces many different people, finds love, adventures, gets drunk on life, listens to jazz, hitchhikes, and, mostly admires everything. There is some kind of sadness to the character too, but it's more of a bitter-sweet type, as he's always searching for something more, because he is amazed by the crazy and excited people he meets, the new stars of America in the 50s, who for him are the only people that are worth going after. He's the narrator of the story, which is believed to be some sort of a biography of the writer. The same character, which is Kerouac himself, appears in others of his novels by different names- Ray, Jack, etc.

Sal Paradise is the main character in the Kerouac's classic 'On the Road'.

by Nathaniel Flint January 11, 2022

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