The mind can only comprehend...what the buttocks can endure! This is a saying about long classes and seminars. If attendees have sat to the point of discomfort, they probably won't pay attention to the class.
The students had glazed eyes and shifted in their seats. The mind can only comprehend...what the buttocks can endure!
A large shitty school where all the displaced kids from oxford hills are crammed.
A place where the staff are money hungry and the principle is a bigItalian ass clown who only cares about his golf equipment.
"The oxford school for unimaginative kids"
"The drool school"
Do you see Timmy over There? Yeah three time special Olympic champion. He got his high school diploma from oxford hills comprehensive high school. Maybe you should too!
Pretending to have competence in an area, usually in a professional setting, where one's ability to pretend to know a subject maygo further than actual knowledge. Think Dilbert + competence + pretense
Jesper's compretence led him to rise quickly in the company.
- Was Sarah's experience a match for the new project?
- No, but she had enough compretence that management didn't see through her bullshit.
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 pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).