Skip to main content

orders of magnitude 

A hyperbolical and completely unnecessary adverbial phrase in techie or business-speak that simply means "much" or "considerably".
"I think we would like it to be more reliable," Katz-Bassett said. "It's orders of magnitude less reliable than the telephone network right now. I think it should be pretty possible to get it closer."

(From a Yahoo! news report)
orders of magnitude by sayasan April 12, 2008
orders of magnitude mug front
Get the orders of magnitude mug.
See more merch

Orders of Magnitude 

Let's get one thing straight: You ARE trying to kill me with this. When I die alone "without ever having any real friends" after spending the vast majority of my life being derided almost exclusively so you can use me as an instrument for ridicule in a way that leaves me unallowed to retaliate, that isn't "you not killing me." Sorry, I'm not an incest cultists so nobody told me that I was just subject to your whim, ad infinitum. Which is par for the course in a place where I'm expect treat women like pleasure dictators that imbue the subject of THEIR whim with an inflated value that then multiplies AND COMPOUNDS. That sounds like a DEBT. Or a LOAN.
A fucking retard "But a GOOD person would forgive us. Jesus would forgive us."

Hym "You mean the guy you fucking mangled in spite of the fact that he didn't to anything wrong? Fuck that guy. As a matter of fact, if you were fucking that guy he wouldn't be getting nailed to some wood."

A retard "Well if you're not a GOOD person then you're a BAD person and then-"

Hym "I'm subject to your whims again? Yeah. That seems to be a general theme. And now that my fate affects you there are orders of magnitude? What order of magnitude is weaponize schizophrenia and harvesting my soul for consumption? Because... BOTH OF THOSE THINGS WERE ALREADY HAPPENING BEFORE I SAID ANYTHING. Am I working of the debt you deferred good enough yet or what?"
Orders of Magnitude by Hym Iam April 11, 2025

Order of Magnitude Analysis 

Only slightly less useful than real analysis, order of magnitude analysis (instead of using actual values) only considers what size "ruler" one would choose to measure each thing then compares those "ruler" sizes to assertain whether thing one is huge compared to thing two or vice versa.
By order of magnitude analysis, the scale of an atom is a 1 billion-billion-billion-billionth the scale of the observable universe. So, quite frankly my dear, we astrophysicists don't give a damn!

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026
To take something small, that doesn't quite qualify as a theft. Probably from the Danish "skæv" or the Dutch "scheef", both of which are pronounced similarly, meaning "askew, or not quite right'. To change an item's ownership without permission, but only something small and of little worth.
"I skeefed an apple off the neighbor's tree." "I skeefed some chips outta your bag when you looked away." "Don't skeef my chair when I go to the bathroom."
Skeef by kachinaflonk July 16, 2026
Word of the Day on July 17, 2026

Hair spider

A tight, tangled knot of loose hair and lint that forms inside clothing during the clothes dryer cycle. It typically hides inside garments, causing an annoying lump or a phantom tickling sensation against the skin until it is found or falls out onto the floor during folding.
I was folding my clothes and a huge hair spider fell out onto my hand
Hair spider by Kmorsels July 15, 2026
Word of the Day on July 16, 2026