A badassPolish poppa who beats you regularly and with fervour, and who is probably both bald and sporting a mean handlebar moustache. Not everything he says always makes it from his Polish mind to his English vocabulary.
"You forget for making signing of your agenda again? Go to shed and pick 2x4 for beating-time." - Janusz to his 6 year-old son.
A stereotypical Polish small-time businessman or self-made entrepreneur who believes he’s always right and above everyone else, running his business according to his own, usually unprofessional and often comical rules. Characterized by lack of class, pettiness, greed, and a disregard for social or ethical standards, a "janusz biznesu" frequently embarrasses himself and those around him with his crude behavior and questionable decisions. He embodies the „new money” hustler—someone who ignores basic manners and any sense of professional culture.
This is a frequent meme archetype in Polish internet culture, mocking the absurdity and grotesque side of local “business folklore.”
A classic example: a public scandal where a businessman snatches a signed cap from a child at a sports event. Calling such a person a "Polish millionaire" or "CEO" (as English-language media did about Piotr Szczerek) completely misses the point—"janusz biznesu" is the only label that perfectly fits this brand of zero-class entrepreneurship in Poland.
My boss just took all the tips for himself—total janusz biznesu vibes.
My boss demanded we bring our own toilet paper to work—classic Janusz biznesu behavior.
Everyone's favorite snek boi. The sassiest. Lies a lot. An amazing lawyer. Aggressively tells people to practice self-care. Threatened by Leslie Odom Jr. Is mean to princes. Likes to push people down the stairs.
Janus: So, I suppose now we begin compiling a list of people we need to nudge down a flight of stairs until they hold another round of callbacks?
Thomas: Oh my gosh, no!
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.