"fake cancer." Also known as a reason why people have to come home from college. A health condition in which a patient exhibits cancer-like tendencies but clearly doesn't have cancer, and the doctors have no clue what the hell is wrong with you
Becca: "Ugh!!! I hate my fancer! I'm so mad I keep having to come home to Boston from Michigan during my first month out here! I wish the doctors would just figure out what's wrong with me!"
Anne: "But at least we get to watch Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist together! And hang out at the Y!"
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.