Literally, "Some Else's Problem," as coined by Douglas Adams in Life, the Universe and Everything, the third book of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
by dwardio July 29, 2008
I thought we would have problems with that project, but it's SEP now that the manager has been fired.
by salamandir May 18, 2006
by pentozali March 18, 2008
1) a member of sigma phi epsilon fraternity
2) a tool
3) a person who talks shit but always backs down from the fight
4) a person who screeches their tires in order to impress
5) a person who is most likely a virgin and will remain one for the duration of life
2) a tool
3) a person who talks shit but always backs down from the fight
4) a person who screeches their tires in order to impress
5) a person who is most likely a virgin and will remain one for the duration of life
Look at that sep lifting weights and trying to impress those girls. I bet that sep has a 2 inch dick.
plural: Look at those seps being gay with each other on a slip-and-slide.
plural: Look at those seps being gay with each other on a slip-and-slide.
by TrueFratDude May 09, 2005
"Somebody Else's Problem", an effectively-magical field that obscures things you think aren't relevant to you, such that even though you see them (or hear them or read them) you don't actually *notice*, and quickly forget.
More generally, the phenomenon that causes people to ignore issues that they know about but think of as either not something they can do anything about, or not personally relevant to them right now. This can result in something that's very important to a group of people being ignored by every individual member of that group.
Popularized by Douglas Adams in the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" series, in which Ford Prefect describes it as:
"An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem.... The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye."
In that series, a strange object can be effectively hidden from view while out in plain sight, by an "SEP field", which "relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain."
More generally, the phenomenon that causes people to ignore issues that they know about but think of as either not something they can do anything about, or not personally relevant to them right now. This can result in something that's very important to a group of people being ignored by every individual member of that group.
Popularized by Douglas Adams in the "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" series, in which Ford Prefect describes it as:
"An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem.... The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot. If you look at it directly you won't see it unless you know precisely what it is. Your only hope is to catch it by surprise out of the corner of your eye."
In that series, a strange object can be effectively hidden from view while out in plain sight, by an "SEP field", which "relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain."
It's just been sitting there all day, hundreds of people have walked by, and nobody said anything or even turned to look! It's like it's got an SEP field around it.
by my name is Cos July 11, 2008
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when your out eating with friends or doing any activity costing money, paying separately or individually; not paying together.
by jay moody March 24, 2011