Solid Mantis's definitions

Grief/tragedy/sympathy machine

A machine that needs functional, cooperative parts to keep going.

If the coronavirus hype didn't keep going, people would begin to wake up. Therefore the grief/tragedy/sympathy machine keeps it going, keeps the misinformation spreading like wildfire.

by Solid Mantis December 10, 2020

Poser

Someone who acts like they're from Baltimore even though they're from outside Harrisburg. Someone who has not only a thousand different screen names or online profiles, but also has fictional hometowns or current locations, fictional lives to go with them. A poser tries to outdo other people at silliness while trying to get taken more seriously than everyone else.

The poser was always this and that, always under somebody else's skin to make himself/herself look/feel more authentic. The poser wanted an authentic image.

by Solid Mantis December 11, 2020

Poser

Someone who's always someone other than who they were growing up.

The poser never told anybody he/she was a poser.

by Solid Mantis December 11, 2020

Poser

Someone posing as something other than who they are.

Never trust someone who claims to be a good guy/girl but isn't who they say they are/seem to be. Someone like that is a poser.

by Solid Mantis December 11, 2020

White lightnin sandwich

A deli opened after the 90s in certain cities wouldn't offer one.

As authentic as they were trying to seem, and as many street name signs as their eyes had recorded like cameras, they didn't offer (or know why to call it) the White Lightnin sandwich on their menu at the deli.

by Solid Mantis December 12, 2020

Dropped

An overutitlized word, a lot of journalists write things like dropped to make their writing sound tougher. If a guy hasn't landed on his head, or fell 2 or more storeys against his will, he wasn't really dropped, he was just knocked down (if he went all the way down).

Quarterbacks who got sacked didn't get dropped (no matter how many yards they lost in the process), they got knocked down. The same applies to a guy getting knocked down in any other sport.

by Solid Mantis December 15, 2020

Fire sale eviction

An eviction where they sell all your shit, anything that was in your old apartment must go, no matter what it meant to you.

He/she thought the fire sale eviction was hilarious, that was why he/she tried to make one happen a few years ago over nothing.

by Solid Mantis December 15, 2020