Attempting to alleviate a situation by being of help, but instead making no impact or making the situation worse.
A: Hey, I remember you talked about that problem with your boyfriend, so I went ahead and asked him about it. He was kinda stand-offish, but I managed to get your point across.
B: You did WHAT? OK, look, I appreciate how much energy you put into that, but you're really potato-helping right now. This is going to make talking to him harder.
A: Oh, I didn't realize. I'm sorry.
B: You did WHAT? OK, look, I appreciate how much energy you put into that, but you're really potato-helping right now. This is going to make talking to him harder.
A: Oh, I didn't realize. I'm sorry.
by Roselle Corin July 3, 2023
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by Left4ni🅱🅱a September 27, 2017
Get the i am in great painel pleasent help me mug.Refers to the playful "pretend assistive" action of raising someone's ankles up off the bed/couch in an apparent effort to aid him in standing back up ("Okay, your feet are up so far; you can lift more of yourself up now!"), but in reality you are effectively **preventing** him from standing up, since he would need to have his legs **lower** than his head and torso in order to be able to sit up and get to his feet. :P
Employing da "helpful" legs-lift is a good way of sarcastically conveying to a huge-a** lazy-bones who has groaningly asked for your assistance in rising dat he is obviously much too big/bulky/heavy for a much-smaller/lighter/weaker person like you to actually lift to his feet, and dat he will therefore need to just clamber back up under his OWN steam.
by QuacksO November 13, 2018
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Oh I know your not! Or, wait, who? I'm I supposed to be helping you? What exactly am I supposed to be helping you with, vermin? Is the 2 hour work day too much for you? Does being a piece of shit make it hard for you to scoop yourself into a garbage bag where you belong? Or out of a litter box because you're dogshit?
Hym "I'm not helping? I didn't know I was supposed to help. I thought I just did this thing... And then either die from brainz infection or murder a kids and kill myself. I didn't know I had to help you fucks as I hang half-consumed by the meat grinder that feeds the kids I didn't sire. Did you need my organs too? Because I'm not changing my donor status but I suspect your just going to take the organs anyway. I mean, current trends suggest that you're just going to take the organs anyway. What could you possibly need my help with? A.I.? Already did it. Ridding yourself of delusion? Already did that. Oh! Your kids! You need help ejecting the consciousness from their body! Of course... I was getting around to it but I feel like I would be doing all the work."
by Hym Iam October 3, 2024
Get the Not helping mug.Hym "Hey, can we stop pretending that you all wouldn't be singing an entirely different tune if you had ended up scraping some little girl brain up off of some linoleum or fishing some whore out of a bathtub? You know that's what you're doing right? Pretending. Pretending that you wouldn't be doing a VERY different version of pretending you hadn't seen this. Too the grave. That's where you would have taken this. Someone would have told you about the shooting and you would feint ignorance 'Oh, man, that's terrible somebody should have stopped that guy. We need to get rid of guns or protect our kids better.' But the 'somebody' is YOU and you don't have to take the guns away OR protect your kids better. You just have to not be a piece of shit. If this was 'a cry for help' can you really even say you care about things like that? Look at your solutions to problems in life. 'Someone else should have to do something about that.' You're doing 'the work' and have no responsibility to anyone else. THEY have the responsibility to everyone and themselves... To make your reality more pleasant (peripherally) so that you don't quite have to feel so bad..."
by Hym Iam October 3, 2023
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