When the police arrest you for enjoying a succulent Chinese meal, put you in a headlock (they know their judowell), and can't keep their hands off your limp penis.
System in which you do and vote exactly as instructed by left-liberal Democratic media and political establishment. Our Democracy™ is often threatened by things such as parents, guns rights, ethnic homogeneity, transparency, voter ID laws, free speech, voting for stuff media and Democratic Party doesn't like, not supporting BLM or any other Current Thing, and many others.
The Atlantic: Allowing parents to decide if teachers should give their children pamphlets about Genderqueer Castration Theory is threatening Our Democracy™
CNN: Voter ID laws would stop illegal immigrants and dead people from voting, and it's threatning Our Democracy™
MSNBC: Watching news networks that don't say the same shit we say is threat to Our Democracy™
The fact of device working perfectly always except when demonstrated for an audience. Something unexpected that goes wrong only when someone else than just oneself is seeing.
Somewhat connected to Murphy's law.
Deal would have been easily closed but the machine developed a demo effect during introduction.
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 brownwill also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.