Taskalanche

A taskalanche is an event that occurs when a cohesive collection of tasks, usually in a vertical gains sufficient mass to overcome the friction permitting its precarious balance upon a sheer vertical mountain of other, typically older, tasks.

In contrast to an "avalanche" which slides and follows down a slope, a taskalanche typically topples. While there is often an initial diagonal rotational movement, the mass of tasks tends to become airborne, able to fly individually, then striking downward with an unnaturally coordinated and concentrated initial high-energy crushing impact followed by a trailing stream of additional tasks.

The precipitating event - commonly referred to as "the straw that broke the camels back" and other colorful metaphors - is usually the addition of one or more tasks in a haphazard or careless manner by a party ignorant of, or unconcerned with, the load-bearing capacity of the existing tasks and supportive structures.

Observers of a taskalanche may mock and/or sympathize with the victims, and there is a substantial amount of victim-blaiming, a belief that the victims brought this mess upon themselves through weakness such as procrastination, naiveté, idiocy, incompetence, ignorance, incontinence, negative karma, rambling run-on sentences, etc.

Victims of a taskalanche are typically defensive, believing all fault to lay with those that suggested or contributed the tasks, never their own failure to perform or be more selective about acceptance.

I just got hit with a taskalanche at work. I've been ignoring pointless tasks for years, and now suddenly they're all urgent and critical. Pick a lane, people.

by mesi October 7, 2020

trashabulary

( a combination of trash and vocabulary): a person's personal vocabulary made up entirely, or almost, of swear, racist, pejorative, misogynistic/misandristic words

enough with your trashabulary; is there any way i can wash your mouth with soap?

by Sexydimma February 8, 2015

Nathan Triska

A guy with a good personality💕💕 sweet funny has a short Jimmy😂😂 uplifting smart always knows how to lift someone up who is down doesn't care what anyone thinks the guy I want to marry 💍💍💍

That Nathan Triska is the guy I want to marry

by Nathan Triska March 23, 2017

trashatarians

People who believe too much food gets thrown away so they reclaim it from the trash before it goes to waste.

Example:
Girl: Why are you eating for the trash? Do you have money?
Guy: Of course I have money

Girl: Oh I get it, you're a trashatarians

by dnsnnds March 11, 2016

triskaidekaphobe

Tris (greek for three) deka (greek for 10) phobe (an individual affected by a certain fear) effectivey a triskaidekaphobe fears the number thirteen, or situation that involves anything in a 13 sequence... When a group of 13 objects is divided into two, three, four or six equal groups, there is always one leftover object. it is believed that Loki in the Norse pantheon was the 13th god. This was later Christianised into saying that Satan was the 13th angel. in a lunar calender there are 13 months as there are thirteen full moons a year, however the christian calender is only 12 months long... often times elevators in taller buildings skip the number 13.... the folloing is from wikipedia.com: The composer Arnold Schoenberg suffered from triskaidekaphobia. It is said that the reason his late opera is called Moses and Aron, rather than Moses and Aaron (the correct spelling with two As) is because the latter spelling has thirteen letters in it. He was born (and, it turned out, died) on the thirteenth of the month, and thought of this as a portent. He once refused to rent a house because it had the number 13, and feared turning 76, because its digits add up to thirteen. In an interesting story, it is believed that he feared Friday, July 13, 1951, as it was the first Friday the 13th of his 76th year. He reportedly stayed in bed that day preparing for what he thought as his death day. After begging her husband to wake up and "quit his nonsense," his skeptical wife was shocked when her husband simply uttered the word "harmony" and died. His time of death was 11:47 p.m., 13 minutes until midnight. Also, note that the digits of the time of his death add to 13 (1+1+4+7). end wikipedia.com quote

sitting at a table of thirteen is especially bad as it is rumored that one of those 13 will die within the year...

you refuse to buy that house because the house number is 13, you are such a triskaidekaphobe!

by Bridgit June 29, 2006

taska

A type of man who often offers sexual deeds in exchange for fast food and small amounts of change, there is no limits to what he’ll do in exchange for high fat content foods. Also features a large forehead of which is often polished to shine when light reflects off of it.

Yo did you see that Taska in the drive-thru earlier?

by What da dog doin April 29, 2021

Triskaidekaphobia

Triskaidekaphobia is the fear
of 13, a number commonly
associated with bad luck in
Western culture.

It is believed that there
were 13 people present at the
"Last Supper", Jesus and his 12
Apostles. Some say that
Judas was the 13th to
join the table & he later went on to betray Jesus. This may be the
origin of the superstition which led to "Triskaidekaphobia" i.e. fear of the number 13.

by Scorpio_Rishi May 29, 2014