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going for the capillaries 

Making an ineffectual attack against a relatively minor aspect of an argument or adversary, leaving the object of the attack unaffected.

An attack that is misplaced and off-target and does not address the fundamental issue.

The tactical opposite of "going for the jugular."
In argument, correcting your opponent's grammar instead of attacking her argument is an example of "going for the capillaries."
The art of going to the gym and having a shit yarn with the boys.

One must be dressed up in appropriate gym attire to give the impression that lifting is being done.

Even sit on a machine or two.

It is the male equivalent of a coffee date.
"Bro we gunna hit the gym later on?"

"Yeah sounds good. Are we lifting or doing a Capill?"
Capill by uncle nip August 6, 2014
The discrimination or prejudice against someone, because of the color of their hair.
Believing that blondes are dumb is capillism.
capillism by nalydnosbig May 1, 2011

capillocide 

A way of provoking deep unhappiness in a person by cutting a crucial amount of their hair against their own will. Tends to be worse for girls, and may be a particularly sensitive way of provoking irrevocable pain and hate in them. A completely legal way of violating another person's body for the purpose of cruelty or revenge.
GIRL 1: Have you thought of what are you going to do that bitch who stole your boyfriend?
GIRL 2: Yes. I think a big nasty plan of capillocide will do it.
GIRL 1: Of what?
capillocide by smoothdelorean January 12, 2010
Quite possibly the best family of PKers ever to walk the Lothlorien and Deadly Temptation realms.
As you type who, you see two Capilla family members, and all you can hear is someone chanting, "Rape, rape, rape, rape..."
Capilla by Negger October 11, 2003

Capillus Crispus Puella Cum Specula Morbo 

A highly contagious disease that causes certain girls with wavy hair and round glasses to spontaneously combust.
"Uh oh, I think I might've caught Capillus Crispus Puella Cum Specula Morbo..."