When a person is given permission to use something only in an emergency and their rationalization of what constitutes an "emergency" becomes laxer and laxer each time they want the thing.
I told Bob he could use my car only in an emergency but last night his creeping rationalization made him think that missing the basketball game was an emergency.
by BillyBuggy November 14, 2010
1. Something big, hairy, and scary. (No, dude, not your penis...I said big :-) ) that can ACTUALLY happen to you, as opposed to an irrational fear.
2. Something not physically scary, but mentally terrifying yet very real...like an "aw, shit" moment.
2. Something not physically scary, but mentally terrifying yet very real...like an "aw, shit" moment.
Examples of rational fears:
That 90 pound Rottweiler that's about to latch onto your ass like it was a big, meaty, steak.
That 15-year old girl's father after he found out you were studying anatomy instead of geometry.
Worrying that you're gonna flunk geometry because you were studying anatomy instead of geometry.
That 90 pound Rottweiler that's about to latch onto your ass like it was a big, meaty, steak.
That 15-year old girl's father after he found out you were studying anatomy instead of geometry.
Worrying that you're gonna flunk geometry because you were studying anatomy instead of geometry.
by StevieTheOldFrigginFart August 12, 2016
A wiki mostly dedicated to debunking antiscience movements and other quackery aswell as countless other articles dealing with logic and current events. Often touted as being biased towards the left a more accurate definition might be biased towards facts.
Hillaryforprison88: The stupid leftys at the rational wiki think being egalitarian means your a chauvinist
Normaldude14: Actually if you read the article it explains how egalitarianism and feminism are not mutually exclusive and that egalitarianism in almost certainly a good thing, and that people who claim to be egalitarians instead of feminist have fundamental misunderstandings of what feminism is and instead choose to lump all feminism into one monolithic ideological project.
Hillaryforprison88: Wait that is reasonably abstract and complex and doesn't instantly fit into my world view, therefor it must be irrational
Normaldude14: Actually if you read the article it explains how egalitarianism and feminism are not mutually exclusive and that egalitarianism in almost certainly a good thing, and that people who claim to be egalitarians instead of feminist have fundamental misunderstandings of what feminism is and instead choose to lump all feminism into one monolithic ideological project.
Hillaryforprison88: Wait that is reasonably abstract and complex and doesn't instantly fit into my world view, therefor it must be irrational
by Ilovemmikehawk0000 June 27, 2017
At the Democratic National Convention, some Hillary supporters clung to the post-rational belief that Hillary could be the Democratic nominee.
by Jayrosh August 27, 2008
The rationality that is only understood by you. Usually used when you say or do something that makes no sense.
Person 1: Why did the banana turn into a coconut?
Person 2: Why?
Person 1: BECAUSE IT WAS A COOKIE!!!!
Person 2: That makes no sense
Person 1: Understand my rationality
Person 2: Which is?
Person 1: I'm an asshole.
Person 2: Why?
Person 1: BECAUSE IT WAS A COOKIE!!!!
Person 2: That makes no sense
Person 1: Understand my rationality
Person 2: Which is?
Person 1: I'm an asshole.
by Harry Scrotes June 02, 2008
The word utilized by caucasians in the scientific community when they realize that their 10 years in graduate school went down the shitter and they have no fucking clue what they're talking about but they still want to sound smart. Comparitive to conjecture, speculate, or hypothesize. This term is basically the honkey's way of saying "guess" while still maintaining a know-it-all air about themselves.
"I may be going out on a limb, but I will make a rational assumption and say that in 20 years there will not be a single white NBA player left because they are all afraid of Lebron James's big black cobra."
by zac sutherland June 17, 2008
Rationalization Hamster - It is a creature that inhabits the female brain and helps them spin out rationalizations when they get into a predicament. When faced with a a dilemma, the female brain that houses the rationalization hamster, causes the hamster to start working by jumping on its wheel and running really hard. In the process it spins out a rationalization – an excuse, that absolves the woman of the blame and predicates it upon farcical self- justification.
Female - I know it is not his baby, but if I don't tell him that, it's not actually a lie. After all, I won't be hurting his feelings.
Guy - Wow! So you believe it's not a lie when you make him falsely believe that the child is his, and hide the fact that you lied to and cheated on him?
Female - It just happened like that. I was heavily drunk and was not thinking clearly. So it's not my fault, you see.
Guy - Damn, that female rationalization hamster must be working overtime!
Guy - Wow! So you believe it's not a lie when you make him falsely believe that the child is his, and hide the fact that you lied to and cheated on him?
Female - It just happened like that. I was heavily drunk and was not thinking clearly. So it's not my fault, you see.
Guy - Damn, that female rationalization hamster must be working overtime!
by DDwd5 February 20, 2014