Semi-derogatory term used by professional gamblers to describe just another sucker at the casino. While professional gamblers are at a blackjack table counting cards, the "ploppies" are the players at the table who the casino loves because they play the game at an average level (or below) and just don't know any better. Sometimes ploppies can get in the way of the professional players.
advantage player at Three Card Poker table: "if only the damn ploppy at third base would leave, then I could take his seat and have a clear view of the dealer's hole card each hand!"
ploppy at the table: "darn, I didn't think the dealer would have that ace!"
Derived from the well-known aquatic shelf animal, lobster, the plopster has many identical attributes as the lobster like an external skeleton, however the plopster's outer skeleton is completely composed of shit. The plopster like the lobster is eaten in several different cultures, only unlike the lobster which is usually eaten as a main course, the plopster is eaten for dessert.
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 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.