The Cannella 

The act of fingering the ass hole of a drunk desperate hoe in a club with no lubricant in an attempt not to get thrown out

Brian almost completed The Cannella but failed as he was caught and made to leave

The Cannella by Insomnia-man April 13, 2016

Theory of the Cancellation of the Future

A critical theory proposing that contemporary society—through a combination of ecological dread, economic precarity, cultural nostalgia, and technological saturation—has lost its capacity to imagine a collective future worth striving for. The future is “cancelled” not because time stops, but because the narratives that once gave it shape (progress, utopia, generational improvement) have collapsed. What remains are recycled pasts, apocalyptic forecasts, or endless presentism. The theory explains why cultural production fixates on reboots and nostalgia, why politics retreats to safety rather than aspiration, and why even visions of technological salvation feel more like survival than flourishing.

Example: “Her generation couldn’t imagine buying a house, retiring, or even a stable climate—theory of the cancellation of the future, where the horizon has shrunk to next month’s paycheck.”

Theory of the Cancellation of the Future by Dumu The Void March 30, 2026

The three-part text message cancellation

The passive-agressive, real-time technique a girl will use to cancel a date with a guy, starting with an initial postponing ("seeing a friend from out of town!"), a second postponing ("my friend is late, sorry!") and ending with outright cancellation, often without a second date suggestion ("Sorry, can't make it tonight! Talk soon")

The three-part text message cancellation goes as follows:
Girl: Hey, yeah, my friend Anna is in town for the night, and we'll just get dinner. Meet afterward for drinks?
Guy: Sure.
Girl: Yeah, so she's kind of down, I'm gonna have a couple of drinks with her, is that okay?
Guy: Yeah, I'll see you later.
Girl: Okay so Anna is sleeping over, girl's night in. Really sorry.
Guy: Okay, so we do this later then?
Girl: ...

The three-part text message cancellation by TheMontrealGuy October 21, 2011