Since we installed oil heat in our home, we never have wood fires anymore, but we still keep our family's original fireplace-tools in their stand by the hearth; they're of great sentimetal value.
The need to keep tons of things for "sentimental" reasons. The inability to get rid of anything. Usually involves the need to rent storage lockers, because every room in the house and basement is already filled with sentimental knick-knacks and memorabilia.
When Jane moved out of her house, she needed to rent 3 storage lockers to store all of the things she couldn't part with. She suffered from Sentimental Retardation.
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.