I commiserate for several iterations of back and forth, then someone actually identifies what they are stuck on and I can often quickly offer a suggestion/fix.
A practice, often enacted by single people together on Valentine's Day, of masturbating while commiserating over the lack of romantic or sexual prospects.
To mark an occasion that is worthy of celebrating yet also feels like you are due commiserations. Birthdays that make you far older than you want to be, or to mark the end of a relationshit sad that it's over, but glad that you're single.
We should really go out & commiserbrate your birthday. Forty or not we should still celebrate.
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!