When you're in the middle of a discussion and you make a point, and the other person starts rattling off straw men versions of your comment and trying to make you defend the words they just put in your mouth, they are "Cathy Newmaning" you. Named after an infamous debate between Jordan Peterson and Cathy Newman.
Alex: Apples are different than oranges
Brenda: So you're saying apples are superior to oranges. So you're saying oranges should be treated less well than apples. So you're saying we should stop growing oranges and only grow apples from now on. So you're saying it's OK to burn orange trees because they are a blight on the environment. So you're saying....
Alex: Lol, damn I ain't say none a that shit, quit Cathy Newmaning me
Cardinal Newman high school is a catholic school in west palm beach with a ridiculous amount of hot girls and shitty ass sports teams and everyone there is a nicotine fien and kids who think they are big because they have daddy’s money to flex.
A talented English singer. He is best know for his single, "Love Me Again," which has been an hit in many European countries and has peaked at #1 in the UK charts.
When a full grown man throws a hissy fit and goes back on his word
Mike: "Noah just left the fantasy football league."
Mark: "What? Did he Pull a Newman?"
Mike: "No. I kicked him out of the league before he could quit."
Charity, Paul Newman's cat, is whom all of Paul Newman's profits go to, hence the term on all of Paul Newman's food and drink products," All Profits To Charity."
verb.
When a person twists the words of what another is saying to suit their own ideological narrative and to make said other person seem sexist, misogynistic, homophobic, Islamaphobic, etc. While starting the their rebuttal with "so you were saying."
I told her that I likeCoca Cola and she Cathy Newmanned me by telling me I love Coca Cola Death Squads.
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 flying everywhere, 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.