Term used to show that a person (of any race or color) has been successfully changed to a more respectable manner/appearance/attitude. Usually refers to white teens and young adults who were influenced enough by peers to go from sideways hats, sagging shorts/pants, gold chains/rings, and speaking in Ebonics to wearing clothes that fit, reducing or completely removing gaudy jewelry, and speaking understandable local language.
Aunt : Wow, Jeremy is so much more well dressed and well mannered than when I saw him two years ago.
Mom : Yes, well, after taking him out of that school and moving to the suburbs, he stopped trying to imitate all the other kids and feeling like he had to dress and act like a retard to fit in.
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 flying everywhere, 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 brown will 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.