To buy a ton of unnecessary shit, but never buy anything you actually need (especially in the realm of personal hygiene). To use other people's stuff but never tell them or compensate them in any way. To make a huge net negative contribution to the overall war effort. To be overly spontaneous, but not in the cute way. In the annoying way. To make random, mind-boggling decisions, or to say things at completely inappropriate times around the wrong crowd.
Person A: "I just bought the complete boxed DVD set of every season of The Tick!!! It has over 100 hours of special features! Lets spend the rest of our lives watching it, please, please, pleeeaase?"
Person B: "Wow talk about pulling a joseph...I think i'll pass."
Term for blowing a spy's cover and used it to escape, dodge or evade the truth.
Named after Joseph Allen, who Vladimir Makarov iced after he does the massacre on an airport named after his master, in No Russian.
Underling: There's a rat on us.
Boss: Everyone, I'm Exposing a Joseph Allen on our group. *Shoots the underling* There, everybody knows that we never tolerate snakes on our group.
An American male who moves to a foreign country (primarily in Eastern Europe) with the premeditated intention of hoaxing a local into a romantic relationship with him. With the inevitable result being marriage between the two individuals. Then the male subsequently takes his "trophy wife" back to America. The male being less than desirable. The female fitting the traditional standards of being extremely attractive and, of course, fertile!
"I heard through the grapevine that you were pulling a Joseph this weekend," remarked Ronald.
When you are hard at work at your desk, and begin to snooze off. Your head can nod back and forth, even fall completely down. You wake up every once in awhile, but proceed to fall back asleep.
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 brownwill also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.