A chemical element theorized to be produced by the human body in a certain percentage of the population. The element is suspected to have a clear irreversible degenerative effect on the intellect. It is also a suspected contributor to the 'Bozone Layer' effect (please see Bozone Layer and bozone)
This element is not listed in the Periodic Table. It is illusive and has not yet been synthesized in the lab, and scientists suspect that they will never be able to. Naturally, there will never be a cure that reverses absurdium's effects.
This element is not listed in the Periodic Table. It is illusive and has not yet been synthesized in the lab, and scientists suspect that they will never be able to. Naturally, there will never be a cure that reverses absurdium's effects.
Your idea has the trademark of absurdium.
This is the most banal thing I've heard. You must be on absurdium or something.
Did someone accidentally add few absurdium drops to your kool-aid this morning?
Man, I can smell the absurdium in your breath. It should be illegal for you to think.
This is the most banal thing I've heard. You must be on absurdium or something.
Did someone accidentally add few absurdium drops to your kool-aid this morning?
Man, I can smell the absurdium in your breath. It should be illegal for you to think.
by Kurchatovium January 7, 2010
Get the absurdium mug.Absurdist theater is a phrase coined by Martin Esslin, a theather critic who grouped together several playwrights who wrote in a similar fashion. Absurdist drama is a direct result of World War 2, and is about the way people felt after it. There are three types of Absurdism: Fatalism, Existentialism, and Hilarious. Fatalism is the type of theater Beckett wrote (Waiting for Godot, End Game), where man is trapped in life, even basic communication is cut off. Existentialism is that if there is no point, at least you can rationalize an existance, No Exit is an example of this. Hilarious is the type Ionesco wrote (The Lesson), based off the Neitzsche prinicpal that man invented laughter to keep sanity. The entire point of Absurdism is that there is no point to life on the surface, so there has to be some reason to live. It's an attempt to answer to the fundemental questions, why are we here? etc.
One might argue that Samuel Beckett, the author of Waiting fo Godot, is the best absurdist playwright, even though crictics hated it until a group of prison inmates did a production of it.
by josh howard December 14, 2008
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A process of making something stupid because that is what Google says it is.
For Example: If you put “Reductio ad Absurdum” into Google Translate it detects the language as Latin, and translates it to English as: “Reductio ad Absurdum.”
Another Example: For years (through May 29, 2018 at least) if you ask Google "What does it mean to be an American?" it responds with this as the first answer (in a box even):
"It means that I can say "The Pledge of Allegiance" and that I can vote for the President, my county clerk, and the Mayor. But to me it means most of all to be free and to be proud that I live in the United States of America here in Wisconsin."
Dig deeper and you'll find it is written by an 10-year-old who, in addition to thinking that the U. S. is in Wisconsin, does not know that to be an American means she is free to NOT say the pledge and that she has 10 years to go before she can vote.
Thank you Google for establishing a 10-year-old as the #1 expert on what it means to be a patriot. Way to go.
For Example: If you put “Reductio ad Absurdum” into Google Translate it detects the language as Latin, and translates it to English as: “Reductio ad Absurdum.”
Another Example: For years (through May 29, 2018 at least) if you ask Google "What does it mean to be an American?" it responds with this as the first answer (in a box even):
"It means that I can say "The Pledge of Allegiance" and that I can vote for the President, my county clerk, and the Mayor. But to me it means most of all to be free and to be proud that I live in the United States of America here in Wisconsin."
Dig deeper and you'll find it is written by an 10-year-old who, in addition to thinking that the U. S. is in Wisconsin, does not know that to be an American means she is free to NOT say the pledge and that she has 10 years to go before she can vote.
Thank you Google for establishing a 10-year-old as the #1 expert on what it means to be a patriot. Way to go.
If we're going to Make America Great Again we've got to stop all this Reductio ad Absurdum going on.
by Len Bakerloo June 11, 2018
Get the Reductio ad Absurdum mug.by LeCapitainSmith November 6, 2011
Get the absurding mug.Apsurdistan is a name for a place or a country which is full of economic, political and social absurdities. For example Croatia which is full of abusrds.
Work inspection has come to a pharmacy and has found that workers work less than 40 hours per week as stated in work contract. The owner is OK with this. It pays full salaries which are far more than the average. Employees are happy. But not the work inspection which issues a penalty for this. Croatia is an apsurdistan.
by Abusrdistan September 21, 2013
Get the apsurdistan mug.Reductio Ad Absurdum (Latin for "reduction to absurdity") is a logical argument that refutes a statement by proving that the premise would lead to a logically absurd and ridiculous conclusion.
Another great phrase to use against flat-earthers and other conspiracy nutjobs alike.
Another great phrase to use against flat-earthers and other conspiracy nutjobs alike.
Flat-earther: THE EARTH IS FLAT!!!!
Me, an intellectual: Oh yeah, then explain how nobody has ever fallen off the edge of the earth. Reductio Ad Absurdum.
Me, an intellectual: Oh yeah, then explain how nobody has ever fallen off the edge of the earth. Reductio Ad Absurdum.
by Mary Mary Quite The Contrarian October 30, 2021
Get the Reductio Ad Absurdum mug.Hym "I'm glad the absurdity of the world continues to keep me (morally) in the clear. The Lizzard is doing God's work over there. Hahaha! That is great. You guys are the fucking worst. First you try to win the game. Now you're trying to prove that you're right. Why not just cut your losses and take the 'L'? 'We ShOuLdN't HaVe To LoSe To YoU!!! yOuR'e NoT bEtTeR tHaN aLl Of Us!!!' Oh! Be careful! That sounds familiar! You're starting to sound like ME! Hahahahahahahaha!!!! Holy shit! This. Is. Priceless. You HAVE to see how ridiculous this is! There is no way you don't! Hahaha! I can't! I just can't! Why do you guys have to be like this? And on a different note; swollen? Really!? You gotta do better than that! You're almost as bad a Shuuji over there! It does hurt a little bit though. When I bite or open my jaw. Ouch. I appreciate you thinking about me though. Whatever makes you feel better about the situation. Anywho... I wild. And to think, if I hadn't been hired to work in a sex cult none of us would be here right now. I still wouldn't be getting any but I'd probably be striving valiantly toward the future and you wouldn't know I existed. I'd still have people following me but think of all the things that wouldn't have been if I had kept my mouth shut. Hahahahahahaha aha aha! Hoooooo... This is tragic. Truly and seriously tragic."
by Hym Iam June 14, 2022
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