The act of moving your mouse pointer carefully around a web page to avoid nuisance pop-up ads. This technique requires some skill and a sharp eye to dodge "hover-over-and-pop-up-ads" embedded in a news article or column.
"Come'on! I just want to see who won the game, but these pop-ups keep trying to sell team jerseys. Looks like I'm gonna need my advoiding skills for this site..."
A holiday on the campus of Gannon University. The university cancels classes for Advising Day so the night before is known as Advising Day Eve. Students celebrate by drinking, partying, and running around campus making fools of themselves. A popular Advising Day Eve hangout is Antlers Bar. Even certain professors are known to participate in Advising Day Eve festivities.
Dude I had the craziest night! I did shots with the Dean at Antlers!" "Well, yeah it was Advising Day Eve!
'Self-Advising' is the term for doing what you ought not, KNOWING BEFOREHAND that you ought NOT and yet . . . you do it anyway. This is especially true of calling with a known dead hand in poker. Against our own best advice to ourselves and gut instincts (and sometimes even the odds), we do what we know is wrong because . . . well, you know the list of reasons, we all have them and interchange and use them at random.
When am I going to start listening to myself and STOP! listening to myself? That's what I get for self-advising again.
The act of consciously avoiding discussing the plot details of a piece of media while in the presence of someone who has not experienced it. Alternatively, the act of consciously avoiding or ignoring information regarding media you have not experienced.
A portmanteau of "avoiding" and "spoiler".
"Mike hasn't seen Star Wars yet, so we're aspoiding it around him."
"I can't afford to see the new Star Wars until the end of the week... it's tough aspoiding it on the internet."
"I haven't seen that yet. Please aspoid it if you can."
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.
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.