So, 'gumping it' is when someone is not quite retarded, but they're like just on that line.
"I need to confess a sin, Father. I worked at a grocery store in my teenage years, I won't get specific. There was this one girl-- are you familiar with the term 'gumping it' --so while it's an ethical conundrum, it's not fucking a retarded person if you were to sleep with 'em. This will come important later in the story..."
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 โ one checked fact at a time.