The phase to "refloat my kidney", originally from the UK, means to start drinking, usually after an unusually longperiod of sobriety.
Dave: You keen to go to the bar after work?
Mike: No, but you sound pretty keen!
Dave: I'm dying to refloat my kidney - I haven't had a beer in a couple of weeks.
Logging in to a game or online service directly after being connected. This is used to help whoever is relogging in one way or another, such as connective issues or getting something daily, and will tell friends that you will be afk during the time.
Player 1:(at 12:05 am) Have you got your dailygift yet?
Player 2: Relogging now
Example 2:
Player 1:Can't see anything in inventory, relogging
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 flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.