Owenisim
Owenisim by Urbanmaster23 December 21, 2019
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Owenism
A complex mental state somewhere between ambition and delusion, where a person is utterly convinced they’re destined for greatness but hasn’t taken a single concrete step toward it. The disciple of Owenism wakes up every morning declaring they’ll “lock in today,” only to be found hours later lost in the depths of motivational videos titled “How to become successful in 30 days.” It’s not pure laziness — it’s performance procrastination, powered by overconfidence, caffeine, and the belief that destiny is just running fashionably late.
In social settings, an Owenist can usually be identified by their dramatic sighs about “how busy” they are, even though no one has actually seen them work. Their natural habitat includes cluttered desks, half-written essays, and 15 open browser tabs on “how to stay focused.” While incurable, Owenism can be managed with small doses of humility, accountability, and maybe actually doing something once in a while.
Think of the word scum. Belives they can help society but they're useless and will never amount ot anything. Copes saying they have OCD but really is just lazy. SCUM OF THE EARTH
In social settings, an Owenist can usually be identified by their dramatic sighs about “how busy” they are, even though no one has actually seen them work. Their natural habitat includes cluttered desks, half-written essays, and 15 open browser tabs on “how to stay focused.” While incurable, Owenism can be managed with small doses of humility, accountability, and maybe actually doing something once in a while.
Think of the word scum. Belives they can help society but they're useless and will never amount ot anything. Copes saying they have OCD but really is just lazy. SCUM OF THE EARTH
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A Booger In The Nose Of Progress
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
A Booger In The Nose Of Progress by Rok'n'rol Wannabe October 19, 2006
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fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)