Svejk is the main character in a book written by Jaroslav Hašek named "The Good Soldier Švejk". Svejk is trying to sabotage his superiors' orders by acting as an imbecile. Svejking entered the Czech vocabulary as a verb meaning to undermine the system through intentional acts of stupidity.
A word that is used to describe in trading terms, riding in the opposite direction to the current trend, usually resulting in a account drawdown.
Invacio Ltd, introduced the word to describe how a human trader was compared to their Artificial Intelligence trader in a live trading scenario, Archimedes was trading Sterling down, whilst the human trader was Svening his account trading in the opposite direction until all funds were lost and the account was in - figure drawdown.
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.
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.