A painful lack of accreditation to Ringo Starr's talents and contributions to the Beatles' discography. Mans can't get any peace or love.
Johnny was straight-up Ringo-bashing when he said, “Ringo wasn’t the best drummer in the world… Let’s face it, he wasn’t even the best drummer in The Beatles."
The act of humiliating another person by criticizing them about their poor or supposedly poor manners in front of other people.
Sometimes, it is done to a person who really has poor manners. Other times, it is done by one person to another who does not necessarily have any problematic manners simply for the sake of causing the victim pain or anguish, or to take out anger or get revenge on the victim.
I cannot stand being around my mother-in-law. She is always manner bashing me.
A bit like train spotting or train photting, but with the aim of actually travelling behind your favourite type of traction for as many miles as possible rather than taking numbers/photographs
Character bashing is the act of shaming, flaming and saying defamatory things about a fictional character. This is done to vent one's hatred for a character by relentlessly criticizing the character -whether it be just or unjust- or taking the characters negative traits and blowing it out of proportions which would leave behind only a hollow one dimensional husk.
Character bashings are most common with in Fanfictions and online forums. Any character may be on the receiving end of bashing, even the main character.
There are multiple reasons why this phenomenon exists such as Ship wars, Spotlight hogging Main character, etc.
Person 1: Ugh I hate Sakura so muuuch! Why does she have to such a useless character?
Person 2: Yet she done more than other characters. You're unjust Character bashing is pointless. Use your time better than something so meaningless.
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.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
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.