The dreaded third stage of dragging your heels when there is a task at hand.
It starts with precrastinating. That is when you haven't even started thinking about the task at hand.
Procrastinating is when you are fully aware you need to get going, but you don't want to.
Pastinating is when you actually cross the zero hour threshold, and you really don't give a damn. It always presents itself with copping and attitude and zero patience for the world at large. It is usually followed by going back to bed for the rest of the day.
I was pastinating for an hour after work was supposed to start.
The boss calls and asks where I am. I tell him, "Don't worry about it. It's my job and I will do what I want with it; right now I don't want nothing to do with it. See you tomorrow."
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.