Poorspective 

A personal view of individuals raised or exposed to the poor lifestyle for extended periods of time. Often accompanies extreme paranoia over money and hoarding.

Individuals with poorspective often have concerns spending money on everyday items such as tooth paste and toilet paper because there could possibly be a less expensive alternative. They are the last person to buy a round and generally have burner cell phones and receive several forms of government aid including welfare, food stamps, housing assistance, and WIC.

After the Great Recession of 2008 an epidemic of people with Poorspective has surfaced. The only remedy is to get a job and earn your money.

Sandy: I was thinking we could go to Olive Garden for dinner.
Jack: Are you kidding me? I could get the same crap from the grocery store near the Ramen noodles!
Sandy: Jack, I understand your poorspective, and I'm sorry your parents were deadbeats, but we do have the money for Olive Garden.

Poorspective by NotBroke March 20, 2013

cosmic perspective 

The concept, understanding, idea, and/or knowledge that the Earth is a tiny mote of dust traveling around a medium-sized star on a spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy with around 100 billion other stars in the galaxy, and there are 100 billion other galaxies (all with about 100 billion stars in each of them) in the Universe. Yet, the atoms that comprise life on Earth were forged in the center of a massive star that had to explode for us to live. We are seemingly insignificant, but very special at the same time, for we are literally star stuff.

Having the cosmic perspective is a humble, yet empowering realization.

cosmic perspective by ecoastro May 27, 2013

Total Perspective Vortex 

The most horrifying form of torture/punishment in the known Universe. The Total Perspective Vortex (it's so mind bogglingly terrifying it even gets Capital Letters) is a small, featureless steel box, barely big enough for one man to stand in.

The hopeless victims stand in the Vortex, and are suddenly shown, for the merest instant, the whole of the Universe: the whole infinity of creation, spanning over several trillion light years, and countless millennia, with an insignificant dot saying "You Are Here".

The victims, totally demoralised by their experience, fall dead from the vortex, wherupon they become the burden of the Vortex' custodian, Pizpot Gargravarr.

To date, Zaphod Beeeblebrox (former President of the Galaxy, and "The best bang since the Big one") is the only man to have survived the vortex, solely because he is a hoopy frood and the Vortex told him as much.

The total perspective vortex derives its picture of the whole Universe on the principle of extrapolated matter analyses.

To explain - since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way affected by every other piece of matter in the Universe, it is in theory possible to extrapolate the whole of creation - every sun, every planet, their orbits, their composition and their economic and social history from, say, one small piece of fairy cake.

The man who invented the Total Perspective Vortex did so basically to annoy his wife.

Trin Tragula - for that was his name - was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

And she would nag him incessantly about the utterly inordinate amount of time he spent staring out into space, or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins, or doing spectrographic amalyses of pieces of fairy cake.

"Have some sense of proportion!" she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.

And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex - just to show her.

And into one end he plugged the whole of reality as extrapolated from a single piece of fairy cake, and into the other end he plugged his wife: so that when he turned it on she saw in one instant the whole infinity of creation and herself in relation to it.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realised that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this siz, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

Total Perspective Vortex by Svlad Cjelli December 17, 2004

put it into perspective

If you put something into perspective you show that you realize or make others realize the importance/significance of the thing you are referring to. Alternatively, it means you put the thing into its correct place (or make it clear for you and others).

1. You know that we have done a good research. We ask you to do a favor for us and put it into perspective when you talk to the stakeholders. (to show the significance of our work)

2.Let's put it into perspective: 100 years ago the frequency of skin cancer was way lower than what it is now. (to give a clear idea of what has happened)

put it into perspective by saeed (saeid) April 7, 2008

Skewed Perspective 

The mindset of viewing things through a new, or skewed, perspective; looking at things from a different angle; the act of not following the crowd.

My life has greatly improved ever since I’ve had a skewed perspective.

Skewed Perspective by kerylteith May 24, 2022

Perpetually Purple Perspective Person 

(short) PPPP
1. a hardcore gay
2. a really homosexual person

That dude's totally a Perpetually Purple Perspective Person (PPPP), he suscribes to Men's Health.

Perpetually Purple Perspective Person by spaceboyyy February 6, 2010

cartoon perspective 

When someone sees all that occurs through a lens of wacky humor in which even mayhem and sudden death is wildly hilarious.

She copes by retaining the wildly colorful cartoon perspective she’s held since childhood.

cartoon perspective by Dr Bunnygirl April 12, 2019