Term invented at Reading festival 1998. Refers to when a gentleman fails to shake excess urine from his penis, instead putting his manhood back into his pants. As a result, urine dribbles through the pants onto the trousers in a circular/bead-like shape. Most noticeable on chino-style trousers.
An activity or field of study so arcane and detached from, and with no application to, the real world that it is rendered absurd. E.g., theology, analytic/linguistic philosophy.
A waste of one's time.
Refers to the recondite game studied and played in the Herman Hesse novel, The Glass Bead Game.
Synonymous idiom: Ivory Tower
The theologians contemplating how many angels can fit on the head of a needle is mere glass bead game.