This expression originated with the Royal Navy where stores or equipment were found to be damaged, wouldn’t work or could not be used for the purpose for which they were intended. The expression quickly found wider usage and is now applied to not just stores and equipment, but to organisations, designs even concepts. It can also be applied to co-workers if they are not doing their job properly and, in extreme cases, used as a put down where someone is a complete arsehole and unsuitable to be considered part of the human race.
Bullshit name of an election campaign committee that convinced the Supreme Court to allow corporations decide who wins and who loses federal elections.
Obama State of Union Address mentioned Citizens United with an "in your face" to the Supreme Court. Justice Alito visibly disagreed.
Citizens United is for good for citizens the same way rat poison is good for rats.
Citizens United sucks. I wanted Joe Shmoe, who seems kind of honest, to win the Senate seat and go to Congress. But the fucking Supreme Court let XYZ corporation provide a billion dollars in advertising for a crook named Bernie Madoff running against him, and it totally sunk Joe's campaign. Now Madoff will haul in millions of dollars in bribes from XYZ and a bunch of their crony companies. America the Beautiful!
Retard Units is an unofficial synonym for "imperial measurements". As the rest of the world use metrics, the internet culture started mocking the medieval traditions of the Americans, and how little sense the usage of imperials pose compared to metrics.
Space begins 100 kilometers from the earth, that's 62,14 miles in Retard Units.
United Airlines, Inc., commonly referred to as United, is a major American airline headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. It is the world's third-largest airline when measured by revenue, operates a comprehensive domestic and international route network, and has significant presence in the Asia-Pacific region.
The motto of the company: If we can't beat the competition, we beat our customers.
Hey, why is your face covered with blood?
I bought a United Airlines ticket.
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).
Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.
After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.