When you ask your significant other if they want anything to eat and they decline, but then proceed to take food from your plate when you sit down to eat.
I'm eating in the car because I live with a plate pirate who's constantly trying to plunder my booty.
by the_urban_oracle February 22, 2021
Person who recognizes the superiority of dishes part way 'tween plates and bowls and decree other dishes to be inferior
In the end we're all just plate racists who want to find bowls that sort of look like plates that are sort of like bowls.
by Ive_had_wrse January 21, 2024
by BigGuap January 27, 2023
An act of using parts and/or walls that are fastened into place, and then removed for other purposes in surface displacement.
My car was so corroded that we had to use pirate plating just to pass inspection. The only problem is none of my repairs were legit.
by Laser platforms November 04, 2022
Me: Is it possible to lead plate gold?
Roommate: Yes... but why the fuck would you want to do that?
Me: Because... *facepalm*
Roommate: Yet another brilliant lead-plated-gold moment, brought to you by lack of sleep!
Roommate: Yes... but why the fuck would you want to do that?
Me: Because... *facepalm*
Roommate: Yet another brilliant lead-plated-gold moment, brought to you by lack of sleep!
by Dr. WubWub March 06, 2015
by Regulus Night Lightcaster November 17, 2023
A practice in European Union, when its Member State adds new (and often more demanding) requirements to those that are expected in common legislation - mainly directives. Sometimes caused by overzealous bureaucrats, sometimes it is just their pure idiocy.
Bureaucrat 1: Recipients of this EU schemes are asked to submit invoices upon the end of the project.
Bureaucrat 2: Let's also ask them to write a 100-page long end-of-mission report, 10 testimonies of beneficiaries and copies of Annual reports 10 years back.
Bureaucrat 1: But that is gold-plating!
Bureaucrat 2: Sure, but we do not really want European money.
Bureaucrat 2: Let's also ask them to write a 100-page long end-of-mission report, 10 testimonies of beneficiaries and copies of Annual reports 10 years back.
Bureaucrat 1: But that is gold-plating!
Bureaucrat 2: Sure, but we do not really want European money.
by Blavak Mike February 06, 2019