Conversational Starfishing

When one person is driving the conversation and the other party only responds in small, unenthusiastic doses.

Dave: "Hey, are you going on a date with that girl you met the other day?"
Jackson: "No. I tried to set something up, but she started Conversational Starfishing every time I tried to find out more about her interests."

by Kool Kunk March 31, 2025

conversation-context nicknaming

Da uproarious act of playfully referring to yer present-company individual by one or more words dat he has just said to ya in yer back-and-forth light-banter-speech, often to jokingly mean dat ya think dat da other person either is presently being silly or is silly-natured overall. For example, if ya are having "huggy-roughhousing" fun wif a pretty girl by folding her legs up, plopping her cute warm rubbery feet against yer chest, gripping her hands to both savor their warm softness and steady yerself, and then leaning forward to press her knees against her chest while smilingly saying, "Squish-ish-ish-ish-squish-squash!", said "folded-up" chick gigglingly retorts, "YOU'RE a 'squish-squash'!"

Another example of conversation-context nicknaming would be if ya eye-twinklingly warbled, "Ding-dong!" to someone inside a building after ya had passed through an electric-eye-equipped door and thus rang an electric bell on yer way in, and da person inside chuckled back, "YOU'RE a 'ding-dong'!" Or if ya and a friend were assembling/servicing something together, and ya said, "Since we'll likely be needing to frequently loosen and tighten this particular fastening, I think we might want to use a wingnut here," yer helper "jumped at da chance" to toss a playful barb yer way by responding, "YOU'RE a wingnut!"

by QuacksO April 26, 2025

Conservation of Energy Harnessing

The cosmic grift of making sure every single joule works for you, forever. It’s about building perfectly closed-loop systems where energy is never lost, only transformed and reused indefinitely. Think of a perpetual motion machine, but one that's actually legit because it's a perfectly sealed system in a frictionless environment (like a superconductor ring in space) or one that's constantly topped up by an ambient source like quantum fluctuations. The goal is 100% efficiency, chasing the dream of a machine that, once started, powers itself and its functions for eternity.

Example: "The Dyson Sphere isn't just collecting star juice; it's a masterclass in conservation of energy harnessing. The civilization inside recycles waste heat into light, kinetic energy back into electricity, and even thought into computational work—a perfectly balanced, closed thermodynamic book."

by Dumuabzu January 29, 2026

Conversationslop

A conversation consisting of such boring and incomprehensible content that it can hardly be called a conversation at all.

Their interaction could only be classified as conversationslop.

by Perilous February 7, 2026

Conservation of Causality Theory

A principle proposing that causality is subject to a conservation law—that the total amount of causal structure in the universe remains constant. Conservation of Causality suggests that you can't create new causes or destroy old effects; you can only rearrange causal relationships. This has implications for time travel (you can't create paradoxes because causality is conserved), for quantum mechanics (entanglement redistributes causality), and for free will (our choices are causal transactions, not violations). It's causality as a budget: you can spend it, but you can't print it.

Conservation of Causality Theory "Time travel stories always have paradoxes—kill your grandfather, you're never born. Conservation of Causality says: can't happen. Causality is conserved; you can't create a loop that breaks the budget. Time travel might be possible, but paradoxes aren't—causality won't allow it."

by Dumu The Void March 5, 2026

cancercation

You walk into a random home and give kids cancer, or the act of killing kids with cancer, not killing the cancer, killing the kids.

hey I'm Mr beast and today we are going to teach my dog how to give cancercation to kids. like and follow

by fella cancer September 30, 2025

Textual Conversation

To talk to someone through a text messege on their cellular telephone and often saying that they are having a good day then leads into a conversation.

Steve: What are you doing?
Sean: I am having a textual conversation with Ali. She is good.

by uh9u9dgusekj8lqwg December 31, 2008