Travelbation is an act of escapism and mental self-gratification, achieved by the imagining, investigation, or planning of a trip or trips.
M: Wow! Tickets to Ulaan Baatar are so cheap right now. You know, at this price, I could actually afford to go, then come back via Tuvalu after driving the Silk Road. Look at these beautiful pictures of all of the aforementioned!
E: Enough travelbation, you know you won't have more than a week off at a time for the next four years
The art of sneaking extra people into your ridiculously cheap travelodge room and managing to dodge the receptionist and other hotel staff. This can be achieved by wearing different disguises, asking difficult questions at reception to create a distraction, or unscrewing the windows and climbing in.
person 1: how many people can that room hold?
person 2: ehmm 3
person 1: how many of us are there?
person 2: 14
person 1: how's this gonna work then?
person 2: it's time to do the travelodge dodge
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.