Watching Paint Dry

Internet slang for staring at your download progress bar or watching download speeds fluctuate.

Man sits there slumped over staring at a computer screen watching each file segment's progress on utorrent hoping somehow his DVD rip of the Dark Knight from aXXo will download faster because he's willing it to happen.

Friend walks in and asks. "looking at porn??"

Man replies "no, just watching paint dry"

Friend says "really should be looking at porn."

Watching Paint Dry by LashedOut2k March 26, 2009

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watching paint dry

In basketball, the slowness of a defender near the basket, getting beat by a fast-moving player who scores. The paint is the center[ lane from the foul [line to the basket.

Number 27 was watching paint dry on that drive to the hoop.

watching paint dry by yes juanito yes March 17, 2015

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Watching paint dry

Used to describe Manchester United.

I didn’t do much today, i was watching paint dry.

Watching paint dry by Kopthis October 3, 2019

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like watching paint dry

It is very boring

It is like watching paint dry, it was so boring

like watching paint dry by VitorCarmona January 11, 2018

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🤡🫵🏻

How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.

Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
Person 2: 🤡🫵🏻

🤡🫵🏻 by Ubeenbamboozledson May 31, 2026

Word of the Day on June 1, 2026

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fogey

Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!

You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)

fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005

Word of the Day on May 31, 2026

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Jarlic

Minced garlic in a jar

Add a tablespoon of jarlic to two teaspoons of butter and spread it in bread to make garlic bread

Jarlic by YSAC fanboy June 6, 2020

Word of the Day on May 30, 2026

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