Acronym: "Fuck You, Got My Orders"; more pointed and personal variant of FIGMO (nothing matters; short-timer; under 90 days prior to reporting for next assignment). Found widespread use during the Viet Nam "conflict"; representative of the changed generational attitudes between WWII and post-Korean "conflict". Used especially toward authority figures; illustrative of the military's reliance on orders considered unchangeable once committed to paper and signed by even higher authority. The attitude arose from the conviction by dogfaces that they could commit murder while FYGMO and the court martial wouldn't take place until they reached their next assignment.
Straighten your uniform, uncover in the house and get a haircut, ya sad sack!" "I'm FYGMO, Looie; I'll see YOU back in the world."
By extension, FYGMism (capitalising the initial acronym) is the philosophy that one places their own collection of material wealth or goods over the greater good of the society or of their community, writ large.
Ayn Rand is all about FYGMism. People pretend she's a libertarian, but really was just interested in quietly saying "fuck you, got mine".
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).