Dessertification
Dessertification by KennyLing January 23, 2017
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dessertification
(1) The process by which relatively healthy menu items evolve into, or become outnumbered by, versions with more sugar, fat and empty calories. The dessertification process leads to menu items calorically indistinguishable from dessert even as they continue to be presented as not-dessert.
(2) The phenomenon of traditionally dry cocktail names being applied to sweet variations to appeal to drinkers who like the *idea* of e.g. a Rat Packer's martini but prefer chocolate to gin and skewered gummy bears to olives.
(2) The phenomenon of traditionally dry cocktail names being applied to sweet variations to appeal to drinkers who like the *idea* of e.g. a Rat Packer's martini but prefer chocolate to gin and skewered gummy bears to olives.
When I started at Starbuck's most of my customers took a black Pike, maybe with maybe milk or sugar. Then it was cappuccino with a little squirt of caramel on top. Now, thanks to dessertification, 90% of our sales are mocha Frappuccinos in a sugar-rimmed cup, with vanilla-bean whip and maraschino syrup drizzle on top, with more calories than lunch.
dessertification by anonymous June 4, 2025
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vagina desertificationifier
The male equivalent of a Bonerkill; a male who causes the complete and utter eradication of any positive sexual feelings in a woman's vagina, causing the inside of the vagina to become drier, or in extreme cases, become on par with a desert in terms of (lack of) humidity.
"Hey, you hear about that new guy?"
"Yeah, I've seen him before, I wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole, he's a total vagina desertificationifier.
"Yeah, I've seen him before, I wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole, he's a total vagina desertificationifier.
vagina desertificationifier by AKADarkie March 8, 2011
desertification
Creation of expanding deserts by human activity. Normally by human wanton destruction, mismanagement, industrialization, development, clearing out forest areas. Climate change without investment in water projects that would help bring ecological stability.
Human activities without regard to Earth ecological balance is causing the desertification of the planet.
desertification by 1OldGeek April 16, 2016
dedesertification
1. The restorative process by which a degraded cultural, institutional, or discursive environment regains the capacity for generative meaning, competence, and trust after collapse caused by extractive feedback loops.
2. In sabachtan gnosticism theological and polymorphousmythology epistemic usage, a post-act of degorgonification in which petrified discourse becomes speakable again through disciplined indirection, constraint-preserving symbolism, and restored correspondence between claims and demonstrated capacities.
3. By extension, a methodological reversal of cyberpunk conditions of enclosure, scarcity, and legitimacy theater into solarpunk conditions of regeneration, shared competence, and durable survivability.
2. In sabachtan gnosticism theological and polymorphousmythology epistemic usage, a post-act of degorgonification in which petrified discourse becomes speakable again through disciplined indirection, constraint-preserving symbolism, and restored correspondence between claims and demonstrated capacities.
3. By extension, a methodological reversal of cyberpunk conditions of enclosure, scarcity, and legitimacy theater into solarpunk conditions of regeneration, shared competence, and durable survivability.
ah wow i remember this place as being so rundown cyberpunk, but after degorgonification post gorgonwars, dedesertification really helped to bring out the solarpunkisms of this place.
dedesertification by cyberphunkisms December 22, 2025
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Fleg
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.
The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.
The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.
The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.