Used to describe a person (or subculture) that does everything in it's power to destroy the ambitions of those among them who wish to improve themselves.
It comes from the story of catching crabs in a bucket. When you catch a crab and place him in a bucket, the first thing he'll try to do is escape. Now, if you put two crabs in a bucket (hence the plural form of 'Crabs in a Bucket') and place them in there together, as soon as one tries to climb up out of the bucket the other will grab the escaping crab by the legs and try to escape itself, to which the process gets repeated to the point where NO crabs end up escaping.
Carl: "Isn't it a shame honey? How Johnny and Bobby are always constantly jabbing at (and insulting) eachother whenever they approach a group of girls, trying to make themselves look better than the other?"
Linda: "Exactly, they're like a bunch 'crabs in a bucket', they both end up as losers.
A phrase that doesn't mean anything in particular.
Used by Tobuscus during some of his Lazy Vlogs when he is walking through a busy place in public and doesn't want people to know he is vlogging. Because he vlogs with his iPhone, he just puts it to his ear and pretends he is talking to his mom on the phone and uses the phrase.
In a similar way, while he was in college, he used the phrase Probably Monday.
"There are a lot of people here, shh, shhh... (Puts his phone to his ear) Hey mom? Yeah? How many? Sixteen! Sixteen horses in a bucket? Alright... alright, I got it! I got it, sixteen---in one bucket, okay."
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 brownwill 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.