When you use Japan's post-war economic miracle to justify your poor planning and organization as being more efficient.
Dave: Bro, isn't your PhD thesis due next week? Shouldn't you have started it by now?
Henry: Nah dude, I'm using this new system where I do things at the last possible second. It's more efficient.
Dave: It just sounds like you suck at time management.
Henry: Nah dude, it's Lean Manufacturing. It's from Toyota or some shit.
Henry: Nah dude, I'm using this new system where I do things at the last possible second. It's more efficient.
Dave: It just sounds like you suck at time management.
Henry: Nah dude, it's Lean Manufacturing. It's from Toyota or some shit.
by Street Louis March 12, 2021
A phrase used to describe any overhyped, zero-talent 'celebrity'. Usually rises to alleged stardom with the aid of sleazy sex tapes, obnoxious behaviour in public, leeching off someone else's celebrity status, petty crime or extremely questionable dress sense. Another sickening product of an entertainment industry hell-bent on pandering to a worthless generation of drooling, slack-jawed morons.
by Bugzapper May 12, 2013
by Hi August 24, 2004
A web design company making unremarkable websites that conform to the trends of the Web 2.0 revolution. These style conventions would include but are not limited to: shiny, reflected buttons; subtle textures and drop-shadows; excessive use of gradient backgrounds; rounded corners; jQuery slides above the fold; and nonsensical cutesy, vector illustrations.
by Danxyeal July 17, 2011
A politically correct word for a mobile home built after 1976. Call it what you want, its NOT superior to a regular house and it is still a fucking trailer that once had wheels!
by anonymous October 17, 2003
An invention of the mainstream media MSM intended to drum up outrage at a statement or situation. The key characteristics of manufactured outrage are: (1) prior to the media’s intervention, the vast majority of the general population had never heard of the statement or had never found the statement or situation to be objectionable in any way and (2) the outrage over the statement or situation is intended to generate support for a left-wing cause, a left-wing politician and / or is intended to damage the credibility of a right-wing politician or any person connected to the right-wing.
In the 2006 campaign, Sen. George Allen of Virginia called out a heckler in the audience for one of his speeches. The heckler was working for his opponent, James Webb. In the process, he twice referred to the heckler as a “macaca”. Few people in the US had ever heard of the term before, but the media quickly played it up into major story, in order to portray Sen. Allen as a vile racist. The manufactured outrage over this incident was a major factor in Sen. Allen losing his re-election campaign.
by Ellsworth December 18, 2006
Rita Hayworth was the definitive 'Manufactured Celebrity ' of the 1940s. She had to undergo painful transformations that the film company liked.
by Snapper2001 March 28, 2018