A style of filmmaking that uses odd angles, zooms, pointless video effects, musical numbers, and sudden noises to try to keep an audience's attention, but ends up just drowning whatever information is intended with sheer noise. Common in the 1990s, for instructional videos and commercials. Best exemplified by Bill Nye.
Coined by the RedLetterMedia series "Best of the Worst"
"Ugh, I didn't learn a thing from that science video, all I got from it is a headache. It was too full of commercial surrealism to understand."
Having a conversation with someone only during the commercial break of a TV show or sporting event, quickly ending when the program comes back on.
Only having 2 minutes and two seconds per commercial conversation, Danny and June took the entire Super Bowl to decide where to have dinner that weekend.
The mythological one black friend that every group of young white males has in evey TV commercial. Most noticeable in all beer, car, fast food, deodorant and cologne commericals.
"Hey, check out that Bud Light commercial, 35 scruffy white guys in cargo shorts at a barbecue, and they invited along their TV Commercial Black Friend."
"Yep, he was just in the Taco Bell Commercial getting drive thru with 7 other white dudes."
To go out looking, hunting for extremely obese women(like the mother in, What's Eating Gilbert Grape), to have sexual relations with.
Way past hogging, plus no alcohol, or drugs is involved, just the pure enjoyment, and bragging rights of beaching a real heavey, or worthy trophy.
My cousin said upon seeing a two extremley large girls, one with a 4 prong cane, the other on a jazzy scooter, "it looks like a great night to be Commercial Whaleing".
A coworker of mine, said after a night of commercial whaleing, he was afraid they were going to have to cut the wall out of his house to remove his prize.
Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.
Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.
Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppymetrosexual assholes."
"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
In a tabletop game, a murderhobo is a player who murders NPCs indiscriminately. This is normally derogatory, referring to a player who totally ignores quests, dialog, backstory, trade, world building etc.
The term is most common with Dungeons and Dragons, but it can be applied to most RPGs where the player is allowed to kill most quest-giving NPCs and NPC traders. E.g. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Divinity original sin.
DM: The sad little orphan girl tugs at Steve's trenchcoat to get his attention, and ask for help saving her pet dog from...
Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
In sales terms, a whale is a prospect that is significantly larger than an organization’s average customer.
Whales are large and extremely difficult to close. Due to their immense size, they are highly sought-after.
A whale is typically identified at first by a whale hunter on the sales team, but often requires cross-discipline participation in order to close; this includes assistance from operations, engineering, creative, client success, and business development teams.
"Shit...the sales director chewed me out on the sales call this morning. He's totally pissed that I have nothing in my pipeline. I've been focused on this one whale for so long that I haven't had time to prospect for normal-sized deals."