Frog Piking

A tradition that started when the Black Swamp was drained in Ohio during the 1800's, due to the overpopulation of frogs afterwards.

Locals will take a toothpick or other similar object and shove it up the frog's ass and have it come out the mouth, then plant the frog pike in the ground, usually a public park. This tradition is very popular during July.

"Hey dude, are you going frog piking later?"
"YEAH!!! Fuck them frogs!"

by Beef_the_Dog March 17, 2025

Tism Pinging

When you have a moment of tismic activity for a prolonged period of time.

Person: What is Christina doing?
Other Person: Oh that's just her tism pinging right now bro, LOL
Person: That's sick, dude

by Niggmada March 22, 2025

Hasty Picking

Selectively choosing only the earliest, most immediate, or most convenient data points to support a claim, while ignoring the broader timeline or later-developing information. It’s the fallacy of drawing a conclusion from a sample that is not only too small, but also prematurely snatched. The hasty picker is the person who declares a movie a masterpiece after the first trailer or a policy a failure after its first week.

Example: "He engaged in hasty picking about the new manager, citing her awkward first meeting as proof she'd be a disaster. He ignored the next six months where she turned the department around, because his initial 'data point' was already cemented as his truth."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Sweeping Picking

The act of cherry-picking evidence from across a wide range of sources, but only selecting those singular examples that appear to support a broad, universal conclusion, thereby creating the illusion of comprehensive research. It’s a scatter-shot form of confirmation bias that uses geographic or categorical breadth to disguise its selective depth.

Example: "Her case for 'global cultural decline' was built on sweeping picking: one rude tourist in Paris, a viral video of a fight in Bangkok, and a canceled art show in New York. She'd swept the globe for anecdotes, carefully picking only the ones that fit her pre-written thesis of doom."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

General Picking

The standard form of cherry-picking: selectively choosing data or examples that support a general claim while ignoring a significant portion of relevant, contrary data. It’s the most common method of constructing a misleading yet seemingly reasonable argument, where the selected evidence is truthful but the resulting picture is false because it’s incomplete.

Example: "The ad used general picking to sell the supplement: 'Studies show increased vitality!' It picked the two small, company-funded studies with positive results and ignored the fifty independent studies showing no effect beyond a placebo. The general claim was built on a specially picked foundation."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Special Picking

A more insidious form of selection that focuses on extraordinary, anomalous, or extreme cases and presents them as representative of the whole. It often involves picking the most emotionally charged or bizarre examples to provoke outrage or fear, making rational assessment of the typical case impossible.

Example: "The debate turned into special picking when he argued against immigration by focusing solely on the one, highly publicized crime committed by an immigrant last year. By specially picking this extreme, traumatic outlier, he painted a picture of universal threat, drowning out all statistical reality."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Bending Picking

The selective curation and presentation of data in a way that not only omits contrary evidence, but actively twists or misrepresents the chosen data points to force them to fit a predetermined narrative. It goes beyond cherry-picking into data-wrangling; it’s putting the facts on a rack to stretch them into the desired shape. Charts with manipulated axes, quotes taken grotesquely out of context, or statistics presented with misleading comparisons are all tools of the bending picker.

*Example: "The lobbyist's report was a masterclass in bending picking. He took a study showing a 2% risk reduction in a specific lab mouse model, presented it as a '20% relative improvement' on a logarithmically-scaled graph, and declared the chemical 'virtually risk-free' for humans."*

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026