Cargument

The act of having an argument in an automobile.

"I was late getting here because I was having a cargument".

by Lorne Weiss July 20, 2008

Fragmentation Bomb

how to describe your mood, when a million thoughts rush through your mind at once and you have no explanation of them.

You may get the feeling that your mind is about to explode and all emotions in one such as happy, sad, angry, excited are all jumbled into 1 emotion

A fragmentation bomb is this

Bob: "Hey Steven, how are you feeling today?"
Steven: "my mind is a bit of a fragmentation bomb at the moment."

by rosspapadakis September 4, 2021

Conservation Of Argumental Volume

The person who speaks least in an argument, wins.

Johannes spoke four words. Jenny spoke twenty. By Conservation Of Argumental Volume, Johannes won.

by Wuadada November 28, 2009

A Thymer Argument

When Ones points in a argument are opinion based, have nothing to do with the topic, or is a hollow argument.
typically used when one is clearly wrong in an argument and in the moral wrong so one proceeds to spout bullshit as a self defense mechanism

Person 1: Well i may have joked About Your suicide attempt but you dated a girl me and this other guy think is Weird!
Person 2: dude that's such A Thymer Argument

by retardmoments69 October 22, 2020

motte-and-bailey argument

Also called the motte-and-bailey fallacy. A sort of rhetorical bait-and-switch where one puts forward a controversial point, then claims that they're actually arguing something far less controversial if challenged. This is often done by giving something an agreeable name (e.g., claiming that people who oppose Black Lives Matter the group oppose black lives mattering as a basic concept).

First coined by the philosopher Nicholas Shackel in 2005 and popularized by Star Slate Codex in 2014. Named after a style of medieval castle, where the hillfort (motte) is surrounded by a walled village (bailey). If the bailey was overrun, defenders could fall back to the motte and better weather the attack.

"You don't like MAGA flags, huh? What's wrong with wanting America to be great?"
"Stop it, that's a motte-and-bailey argument and you know it."

by admiralakbar1 April 22, 2022

Do you want to win the argument, or make a difference

So much of our current social and political discourse is based on proving the other wrong i.e. winning the argument. We don't demonstrate enough empathy to understand where the "other" is coming from and the merits of their point. A black and white world is a construct of our own imagination and our desire to imprint our views on to others. It ignores the beauty that the synthesis or fusion of diverse ideas enables.

John had made a life out of proving people wrong. He took pride in being able to argue against any position and win. He was a talk show host. One night when he was grilling a guest who was making a point around having improved gun controls in place. John, barely let she finish her sentences, was adversarial and was not listening. At the end of the segment the guest said; "John, do you want to win the argument, or make a difference".

by Yusuf Wazirzada May 7, 2019

Puck to the Face Argument

An argument that an individual will make despite the fact they don't believe the central premise of their own argument. An argument that's made just to argue.

This is such a puck to the face argument, Chris, you don't even believe that WWF wrestling is real.

by RalphMonkey June 9, 2008