Someone who is not good enough, up to par, achieves satisfactory expectations. Someone who would be the best at what they do if only they are given the chance, which they never do.
Friend 1: Hey! What happened to Cindy? I heard she went home.
Friend 2: Yea, she was only an alternate so they had better people in line before her. So she didn't get the position she wanted and was turned away.
Friend 2: Yea, she was only an alternate so they had better people in line before her. So she didn't get the position she wanted and was turned away.
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Often, alternabears will have visible tattoos, plugs in their ears or pierced septums. Sometimes, they also can fit the category as hipsters.
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Get the alternvte mug.The idea that someone is guilty unless they can come up with another person who is either guilty or a strong suspect. The idea is usually based on an imprecise process of elimination.
Parent to child: Did you do it?
Child: No.
Parent: Well if you didn't do it, then who did?
Nearby observer: Ah ha, she's using the guilty until alternate suspect principle.
Child: No.
Parent: Well if you didn't do it, then who did?
Nearby observer: Ah ha, she's using the guilty until alternate suspect principle.
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Get the alternate term mug.a group of conformists that are all the same becuase they all hate conformist things.
seems to exist mostly of emo/scene kids.
seems to exist mostly of emo/scene kids.
Examples of alternitive conformity:
-people who hate people who wear abercrombie and fitch or hollister or ae.
"OMG all you prep fags are all the same cause you wear abercrombie and fitch"
~emo kid
-people who hate people who listen to bands like fall out boy only after they had become popular.
"i liked fall out boy BEFORE they were popular. you just like them cause you heard them on the radio."
~another emo kid
-people who hate people who wear abercrombie and fitch or hollister or ae.
"OMG all you prep fags are all the same cause you wear abercrombie and fitch"
~emo kid
-people who hate people who listen to bands like fall out boy only after they had become popular.
"i liked fall out boy BEFORE they were popular. you just like them cause you heard them on the radio."
~another emo kid
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