Used when someone states the bloody obvious, taken from playwright Alan Bennett's Talking Head "HER BIG CHANCE", the story of a vaccuous actress who employs this phrase constantly when trying to seduce the director of a porn film, the aforementioned Simon.
He said: "When you go to school, you learn stuff." She said, "That's interesting Simon!"
usually something that may be interesting, provided the deliverer of the comment ACTUALLY bothers to elaborate as opposed to leave it as an open-ended comment...
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.