Durning an operation. The attending surgeons asks the resident to pull on something so he can see. “Hey pull on that like you mean it”. The resident then pulls too hard and causes audible bleeding! Surgeon says “what is wrong with you? Do you have metastatic Down syndrome?”
When a clusterfuck basically explodes into a thousand little fucks that go flying everywhere making it impossible to track them all down and rendering you nostalgic for back when the problem was ONLY a clusterfuck as you put out all the fires.
Covid went from being an outbreak in Wuhan to a full fledged international metastatic clusterfuck
A sunburn or suntan focused on the left arm. It is caused by the left side of the body being the only half that gets exposed to sunlight while driving. Presumably, it would be located on the right side of the body in countries where they drive on the left side of the road.
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.
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.