Dude, I'm tired of hearing Jake talk about his girlfriend that none of us have seen. Bro is totally a flandman.
by TheHulkOveThere March 21, 2016
Get the flandman mug.verb. (to flandangle) Literally, the act of going commando in a flight suit, although more commonly used to describe any situation where a mans testicles bounce around freely, usually when freeballing.
Captain Rogers had a smirk on his face at the staff meeting yesterday, indicating that he was probably flandangling.
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Joe ran track in his boxers, which resulted in some wicked flandangling.
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Joe ran track in his boxers, which resulted in some wicked flandangling.
by MajorHassell December 14, 2008
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by Thatoneguyouknow July 20, 2016
Get the flandanglewang mug.Pronoun. The phrase meant to address a man who vends flan, a famous dessert made of various fats and sugars.
I prefer to order from the mochi vending chain restaurant, but this Flanman is cute, so I'll go purchase some of his flan in hopes he becomes rich one day.
by FSRueful February 13, 2019
Get the Flanman mug.A flanaman is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "attack a flanaman" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "flanaman"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.
The flanaman man fallacy occurs in the following pattern of argument:
Person A has position X.
Person B disregards certain key points of X and instead presents the superficially similar position Y. Thus, Y is a resulting distorted version of X and can be set up in several ways, including:
Presenting a misrepresentation of the opponent's position.
Quoting an opponent's words out of context — i.e. choosing quotations that misrepresent the opponent's actual intentions.
Presenting someone who defends a position poorly as the defender, then refuting that person's arguments — thus giving the appearance that every upholder of that position (and thus the position itself) has been defeated.
Inventing a fictitious persona with actions or beliefs which are then criticized, implying that the person represents a group of whom the speaker is critical.
Oversimplifying an opponent's argument, then attacking this oversimplified version.
Person B attacks position Y, concluding that X is false/incorrect/flawed.
This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious, because attacking a distorted version of a position fails to constitute an attack on the actual position.
Person A has position X.
Person B disregards certain key points of X and instead presents the superficially similar position Y. Thus, Y is a resulting distorted version of X and can be set up in several ways, including:
Presenting a misrepresentation of the opponent's position.
Quoting an opponent's words out of context — i.e. choosing quotations that misrepresent the opponent's actual intentions.
Presenting someone who defends a position poorly as the defender, then refuting that person's arguments — thus giving the appearance that every upholder of that position (and thus the position itself) has been defeated.
Inventing a fictitious persona with actions or beliefs which are then criticized, implying that the person represents a group of whom the speaker is critical.
Oversimplifying an opponent's argument, then attacking this oversimplified version.
Person B attacks position Y, concluding that X is false/incorrect/flawed.
This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious, because attacking a distorted version of a position fails to constitute an attack on the actual position.
by Laura Roslin July 25, 2012
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