Underwater ‘Parasite’ Cocaine Smuggling — A tactic where gangs use scuba divers to attach cocaine stashes to the hulls of unsuspecting ships.
I make my living as a scuba diver; but, I ain’t no Jacques Cousteau — I’m into Underwater ‘Parasite’ Cocaine Smuggling . It’s dangerous but quite lucrative!!!!!!!
Someone that grows their entire personality off of the lifestyle or personality of someone who is already famous, or some cultural phenomenon, basically anything popular, in a vain attempt to get famous themselves.
For example, any YouTuber that has over 100k subscribers, or maybe even less.
Sometimes this works, but most of the time they just come off as a parasite, leeching off of the success of the person or TV Show or whatever, the "crystal" they "parasite" off of.
Thus they seem instead like talentless hacks with no worth of their own besides what they echo from their "crystal".
Essentially they are a clone of the person, but worse. Much worse.
Person 1: Ugh, that guy's such a crystal parasite, always leeching off of Merg's success.
"that guy": What's up guys, welcome back, to *insert game that Merg's already played here*.
I walked in to a bagel shop for a bagel and noticed a table full of wifi parasites, laptops open, paper and pens out and pure business discussions flowing.
Parasite privilege is when elites weaponize identity politics to deflect legitimate criticism or to protect their class privilege.
Sane person: Billionaires are parasites. No single person can create a billion dollars worth of value, their wealth relies on rampant worker exploitation.
Privileged NeoLiberal: What? You’re not allowed to criticize billionaires, that’s anti-Semitic.
Sane person: You’re disingenuously using identity politics to protect the powerful. That's parasite privilege.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).