When one has so many options in a game and/or real life where they want to explode into a massive atom cloud of fun to spread like a virus just so they can feel human again
Ex.)
P1 - “Yo Skyrim is so much fun”
P2 - “I feel like we need mods for it though”
P1 - “we’d be in fun purgatory for weeks if we brought that much excitement right now”
P1 - “Yo Skyrim is so much fun”
P2 - “I feel like we need mods for it though”
P1 - “we’d be in fun purgatory for weeks if we brought that much excitement right now”
by SupercalifragilisticGoon May 29, 2023

A state of existence in which the sufferer is subjected to a prolonged bout of Shit Labor, oftentimes making multiple unsuccessful trips to the commode. Sensation is characterized by the familiar symptoms of an impending bowel movement, though the subject finds that even spirited attempts to deliver the specimen are met with futility.
After loading up on cheese steak sandwiches, Charles became beseiged by the pains of Shit Labor. After multiple trips to the toilet with no tangible result, Charles realized he had become trapped in Shit Purgatory.
by Rev. Be Easy November 19, 2011

The area in facebook you let people who added you as a friend remain because you neither want to confirm nor ignore them.
My boss added me as a friend on facebook but I have him in facebook purgatory because if I friend him he'll be up my ass and if I ignore him, he'll fire me.
Sheila's in facebook purgatory because I don't want to piss her off until after she gives me the $20 she owes me.
Sheila's in facebook purgatory because I don't want to piss her off until after she gives me the $20 she owes me.
by sole sista February 10, 2010

When an UD submission bounces around in limbo for months, receiving exactly as many approvals as disapprovals.
Dude: Where's that cool word you made up? Rejected?
Dude 2: No, it's still bouncing around in urban purgatory.
Dude 2: No, it's still bouncing around in urban purgatory.
by TreeWeezel May 9, 2011

Julie keeps texting me and only half of them make sense, she must be stuck in pillow purgatory again
by Zappafan76 April 23, 2011

When the status of a friendship request is left without a response, neither accepted nor denied, therefore leaving the request in limbo between the two. Sometimes can work to avoid hard/awkward feelings from the requestor.
by DubKing99 July 17, 2011

by DeadlyNarwhals May 19, 2020
