A fun sponge in the military is a socially inadequate, humourless & deeply unpopular person who, through a sense of bitter loathing & revenge, sucks all the fun out of everything. Normally calls senior officers ‘sir’ on twitter.
Dude: why don’t we show our human side & engage online?
Military Fun Sponge: all this social media stuff is only a passing fad & has to be boring.
That person in your group of friends who doesn't have a licence and seems never likely to get one. This means either you or your other licenced friends, if going on an outing together have to drive them around ALL the time as they don't have a licence which means they are unable to return the favour and drive you for once.
George: Kyle totally pisses me off, why can't he stop being a car sponge and get a licence
Stu: Yeah tell me about it, the other day I had to drive that car sponge to the bank and I had to wait over an hour for him
The quite ordinary sponge used by physiotherapists to treat injured soccer players on the pitch. After applying the damp sponge the player is miraculously healed. This leads many to speculate that the player was only feigning injury in order to gain advantage or a penalty. The sponge is merely a prop to give the impression that some treatment has taken place.
That effing Ronaldo was rolling around in agony as though his leg was broken in five places, then the physio rubs him with the magic sponge and he's fine! There's less diving at my local pool.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing pee calculus.
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).