Polite replacement term for clusterfuck. When speaking in certain social situations, a speaker may feel the necessity to dramatize the futility of events, but decorum prevents. By utilizing clusterflop, the gravity of the event is emphasized without resorting to profanity
clusterflake is the social phenomenon characterized by a buttload of people just not showing up, typically so sporadically, in such numbers, and with so little advance warning that the original plan or plans are thrown into disintegrating disarray. (syn: cluster flake)
"Despite a week's notice more than half the movie group clusterflaked, most without even calling."
"We'd arranged a big dinner, followed by a meet with another crew, then all hit a party downtown. Three people showed up in total, the whole night. It was a complete cluster flake."
Originally a military term describing a disorganized situation with pending dissappointing results, 'ClusterShag' is used when describing such situations when profanity is not tolerated.
Gained popularity on late nighttelevision(The Daily Show) when recounting the actions leading up to the 2010 UK elections.
Office Manager: "The computers are down, our receptionist called in sick, the fax machine is on the fritz and the auditors will be here in 20 minutes. We're Screwed!!!"
Employee: " I know. It's a virtual clustershag of endless possibilities"
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.