1. A mental disorder characterized by the compulsive urge to do or change something, even though everything is going just fine.
2. The deranged mental state induced by the concept or belief that change for the sake of change is good.
Example 1:
Person 1: Kenneth left the message board; now what should we do with his private forums and groups he created?
Person 2: Lets make them all public and reorganize them in a different way. Maybe we should split them up between different forums.
Person 3: You are both crazy and suffering from dosomethingism! Those forums were fine before and are fine now! Leave them alone!
Example 2:
Person 1: The network ranges at our various sites are non-sequential. We need to re-IP our entire network so that there are no empty network ranges in between the segments.
Person 2: Are you crazy? Do you know how much downtime that could cause? You must be suffering from dosomethingism and you are probably a Democrat! Go see a shrink!
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 peecalculus.