Crabs in a bucket can easily escape from the bucket one at a time, but instead of doing that they pull each other down whenever one rises to the top - thus insuring their collective demise.
This is analogous to the behavior of a person who diminishes or pulls down anyone else who achieves or is about to achieve success greater than their own.
This is analogous to the behavior of a person who diminishes or pulls down anyone else who achieves or is about to achieve success greater than their own.
Crab mentality: We all like to see our friends get ahead, but not too far ahead.
If I can't have it, no one can have it.
If I can't have it, no one can have it.
by mythical89 June 5, 2009
Get the crab mentality mug.The mentality were you have decided to fuck anxiety and worrying about shit. At this point in life you have just wanted to be happy and that is the F.R.M (floating rock mentality). WE ARE LIVING ON A FUCKING FLOATING ROCK SO WHY ARE YOU WORRYING ABOUT HOMEWORK!!! Go live your life! Life is short and you only get one so have as much fun as you can and live it up and experience everything!!
by Floating Rock Mentality December 7, 2020
Get the Floating Rock Mentality mug.The idea that since every man (and his gun) is needed for the common defense of the group, any one man's behavior, short of murder, must be tolerated, even including mild insanity and such serious crimes as rape. (From the Afrikaans voortrekker word 'laager' - a circle of wagons forming a defensive perimeter, as when the days journey was done and the group settled in for the night)
When the cop shot the unarmed perp his buddies closed in with their laager mentality and made a thorough investigation of the facts impossible, intentionally misplacing evidence and confusing investigators.
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Get the mental stalking mug.When you're riffing on an idea with someone, and the words are coming so smooth & fluid & satisfying that you feel like you're losing yourself in the soft luscious cavern of their mind. And you kind of just want to stay there forever.
Whenever I talk to him I’m titillated and aroused...intellectually . It's like we're mental making out.
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Get the Mental Making Out mug.The mentality of adapting every situation to a race, drastically negatively impacting communication skills and relationships. It is a distinct mentality analogous to the thought that ‘I need to beat them to it, before they beat me to it’.
“I need to break up with her before she breaks up with me!”
“I’m going to leave her on read before she leaves me on read”
“Why are you so desperate to leave her on read? You have some serious race mentality!”
“I’m going to leave her on read before she leaves me on read”
“Why are you so desperate to leave her on read? You have some serious race mentality!”
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