Particularly during the 1980s and 1990s, a term used to denote parties for watching ‘Tippekampen’, the football matches aired by the national broadcaster in Norway simultaneously being part of the national football betting lottery. The word ‘pling’ comes from the gong sound played when new results from other games were shown on-screen, and ‘fest’ means party. Commonly, people would cheer (or boo) and have a drink when given matches came up.
A similar kind of party would be drinking to Postman Pat doing incorrect gear shift, drinking to Die Hard when McCaine serves up a one-liner, but these are more like party games then the reason for meeting in the first place. Plingfest, therefore, is more like tailgating.
–Blir du med på plingfest hos Andersen i kveld? (Will you join the plingfest at Andersen’s tonight?)
–Så klart! Lyn spiller mot Bodø/Glimt, og det er snødekt på banen. (Sure! Lyn plays Bodø/Glimt, and the pitch is covered in snow.)
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.