a stopstacle is an obstacle that will very likely not be overcome. It stops one from proceeding.
The fact that kale has to be washed, cut from the stem, massaged, and chopped is a total stopstacle for me. I just won't eat it, I'll stick with the pre-washed romaine in a bag.
Some asshat in a luxury car going under the speed limit in the fast lane like he/she owns the damn road, often seen changing lanes right in front of you without a turn signal, and guaranteed to honk angrily at you when you pass them.
Im late for work and all I need right now is to dodge past these fuckin' snobstacles clogging up the freeway!!!
Any store display or meandering checkout line meant to control your movement throughout the building, and simultaneously try to sell you additional items before you leave. They are usually a nuisance, and border on being a fire hazard in the event of an emergency. Such as preventing a quick exit from a building. Sometimes the displays can be so large you can't see if there are any available registers open.
This store is such a shopstacle course! It has all kinds of floor displays blocking the aisles and I have to wander back and forth through a merchandise maze just to check out!
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.