the fear of the number 4
tetraphobia is serious and you ignore everything that includes the number 4. you do not say 4 letter words, write them in essays or notes, eat 4 skittles at a time, have 4 buttons on your shirt, play a fourth on the piano, etc...
My boyfriend can't say "i love you" to me because he has tetraphobia and love is 4 letterslong.
Mark: "Hey, have you heard about Wendy? She wants her boyfriend to dress up as Bigfoot the next time they have sex."
Duncan: "Tetraphilia?"
Mark: "Yup. I'd pity her boyfriend if she wasn't so hot."
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.