The uncontrollable urge to make "tribute" merchandise and put it on your Etsy store before the body gets cold.
"After Whitney Houston's death, I rushed to my color printer so that I could begin tragicrafting with some brand new and unique 'Whitney in Our Hearts' mugs."
the act of slapping together some commemorative bullshit and putting it up for sale before the body gets cold. After all, it’s only by making money that the healing can begin.
When Whitney Houston and Davey Jones died, there was a lot of tragicrafting items for sale on Etsy.com.
"Tragedy"+"Geocache" = "Tragicache". The activity of geocache, but placement of the cache is designed to emphasize a tragedy. Common participant characteristics include hijacking a conversation and turning it towards the latest tragedy; talking about personal hardships (a.k.a. "TMI"); or dwelling on tragiclocal news topics.
I am so excited to tragicache the site of that accident that killed three teenagers! I saw it on the news!! Did you know that Victor Gondola also geocaches?
The type of TV show that presents unfortunate mishaps, accidents and disasters as entertainment. Tragedy + entertainment= tragitainment.
TV shows such as 'What Went Wrong?', 'When Weather Goes Bad', 'Pet Rescue', 'Air Crash Investigation'. And so on. Tragitainment tells the tragic tale of boy swept away by flood, airshow crash spectators incinerated, NASCAR driver baked to crisp in horror smash etc.
Being so obsessed with keeping up with the latest retro or counter-culture fads and social pretensions that you lose your ability to think for yourself and suppress any originality you may have ever had. In the process of doing this you completely embarrass yourself but since you're so hip you don't care what lesser mortals think of you.
All those mindless hipsters wearing their lame Urban Outfitters uniforms and shopping for used vinyl records at thrift stores are tragically hip. Actually, they're just tragic.
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
I had a trucker's tan after driving for 10 straight hours on a sunny day.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing peecalculus.