One who talks for no reason other than to meet their daily word quota. A nonproductive speaker. One who is starving for attention and reaching for it with their tongue.
Etymology: The words stems from the contrast between a constructor,(one who hammers nails into boards in order to build something) and a boardnailer,(one who does not see the bigger picture, only thinks that hammering nails is in and of itself productive).
Steve - "My girlfriend is such a boardnailer. When I get home from work I just want to relax, but if Jen hasn't hammered her nails for the day I have to listen to the racket"
Marcus - "I feel you. Get her a girlfriend and a treadmill, that's what I did."
Simon - "It's weird, my wife can talk for an hour without saying a thing"
Jason - "So, you married a boardnailer. I'm sorry.."
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 brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.