Knowing that playing music after 11:00 P.M. would be make him illegally happy, the teenage boy raised the volume of the music he was listening to and was legally happy knowing that from 7:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. the police, enforcing the laws, allowed anyone to play music below 8 decibels.
by but for October 20, 2017
Get the Legally Happymug. To get consumers to go buy things,
via the media,
corporations make individuals feel
so superior to most people
they feel disgusted of others
and stop interacting with them.
via the media,
corporations make individuals feel
so superior to most people
they feel disgusted of others
and stop interacting with them.
The glorification of movie stars, and the innate—it seems—cognitive bias that makes everyone think they're better than almost everyone else, help induce "consumer self-isolation".
by but for February 23, 2020
Get the Consumer Self-Isolationmug. A witness who saw someone else do something which embarrassed that person and also feels embarrassed for having witnessed what took place and knowing that the person who committed the embarrassing action, or to whom the embarrassing thing happened, saw the ( usually sole ) witness.
by but for February 08, 2018
Get the embarrassed witnessmug. The unexpected things that suddenly happen in people's lives which can in the most extreme cases shock them, but always force them to adapt because the unexpected event(s) prevented them from doing what they were planning to do and hoping to be able to do on a certain day, at a specific time.
Charlie told Kathryn, "It made me so happy to see you guys after the "unexpecteds" that popped into our lives." Monday, you had a family emergency and forgot to take your phone, which left me bewildered not knowing why you were not replying to my emails. Then Tuesday, my Internet was down which prevented us from meeting in ZOOM for me to tutor your lovable son.
by but for April 02, 2021
Get the unexpectedsmug. 
Get the unpostponablemug. Living by applying the scientific method to make the most important decisions, all along doing all one can to never make a decision based solely on an emotion.
Individuals who live scientifically make the most important decisions only after taking the scientific method's six steps: 1) asking a question, 2) doing background research, 3) constructing a hypothesis, 4) testing the hypothesis by doing an experiment, 5) analyzing the data and drawing a conclusion, and 6) writing down the results.
Scientific living also entails doing a great deal of observation, writing down as much as possible what one perceives, along with prioritizing, planning, and calculating likely outcomes.
The opposite of scientific living is living 'spur of the moment.'
Scientific living also entails doing a great deal of observation, writing down as much as possible what one perceives, along with prioritizing, planning, and calculating likely outcomes.
The opposite of scientific living is living 'spur of the moment.'
by but for January 08, 2018
Get the scientific livingmug. She is "diff," means she is "different." It is an apocope, a type of word that cuts off the last syllable or syllables of a word; the way bike, (all) caps, deli, demo, diff, dis, exam, fries, gas, info, intro, limo, peds, perp, rehab, rep, specs, stats, and others do.
by but for April 15, 2022
Get the diffmug.