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Build cathedrals just to fart in them

(idiom)

To put deep care and meaning into something - only to follow it with something hilariously undignified, awkward, or unexpected. A poetic expression of how beauty and absurdity coexist.
He gave a TED Talk that moved the crowd to tears while trying to suppress a fart - and tripped walking offstage letting it rip. We build cathedrals just to fart in them.

We spent hours crafting a delicate love letter to humanity… then added a joke about a presence queef. We build cathedrals just to fart in them.
by Ashfires September 6, 2025
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golden building

The act of stretching a man’s ballsack out to create a pool while he urinates lightly and you lap the pool of piss like a dehydrated dog.
Shawty pulled the golden building on me last night, Twas the best piss I’ve had in decades.
by AnalKing21 April 12, 2023
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Apartment building

a hotel but the rooms keep someone hostage for longer
by Acroavio January 30, 2022
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Seungmin in the building

#seungmin is the 7th member of the 8th member group #straykids.
its says that when seungmin was in highschool a helicopter crashed in his building and after that he still went to school.
since then he uses the joke "Long time not seen SEUNGMIN IN THE BUILDING"
stay always use this joke with other things for example "seungmin out of the building" or "seungmin was not in the building"
seungmin was spotted in the Cube ent building

Stay1: Seungmin everywhere all around the buildings

stay 2: seungmin in the Cube building!
stay3: SEUNGMIN IN THE BUILDING
by yourFellowSTAY March 17, 2024
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School of build

When your lifting partner keeps raising the weights every set in abnormally large jumps. But you usually are garenteed a new personal best
Fuckin Prav put me through the school of build lastnight. Got my best lift ever but I can hardly walk today
by Groundhogg June 8, 2017
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stepper build

someone who has a weird body shape or walks weird (like a duck) and or gives you the ick
omg he’s got the stepper build
by thatgirl0788 October 2, 2023
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empire state building

a sex move for a gay orgy. the first man, or foundation, lays with his back slanted, and puts his penis in the anus of the second man, floor 1. floor 1 then puts his penis in the anus of the third man, or floor 2. you keep adding floors until you eventually have the last man, or the roof. the roof is masturbating while being penetrated.
man one: hey boys, wanna do the empire state building tonight?
man two: sure, just let me be the roof
man one: ok
by CashMoneyK420 December 28, 2023
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