Bigotrism: The misguided belief that one’s politics are primarily determined by
one’s attitudes towards the rights of racial and sexual minorities, and not by
one’s socio-economic circumstances. People who suffer from bigotrism typically make
few useful contributions to public debate, as most of their arguments are based
on appeals to abstract issues that their opponents care very little about in
the first place, such as basic human rights. Bigotrists tend not to realise the political implications of
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs; they underestimate the need to appeal to one’s
financial security before one’s compassion for other people.
Monday, 27 March 2017
Monday, 20 March 2017
Twit
Twit: verb. To post an idiotic tweet. People who twit are alternatively called twits
and twitters, depending on how
derogatory one intends to be. As with all things, it may seem that determining
whether one is twitting or not is a
highly subjective matter. Luckily, there is but one truth, and being an idiot
is not a matter of opinion but of objective fact.
Monday, 13 March 2017
Memephany
Memephany: noun. A sudden and important realisation about
something to do with memes. The most common memephanies
are that Pepe is read as “peh-pay” and not as “peep,” that the doge meme is
much dead such six feet under wow, that Australia is an actual country and was
not made up for the amusement of the European bourgeoisie, that socioeconomic
stereotypes perpetuated by meme culture are surprisingly accurate, and that
Donald Trump is not a meme but an actual person, and the president of the
United States of America at that.
Monday, 6 March 2017
Gnuisance
Gnuisance: noun. Someone or something annoying
in the manner of gnus. A gnuisance makes
annoying grunting sounds, smells, kicks, headbutts others, or has a silent g. Much
talk has been dedicated to how to pronounce the word gnuisance. After some ten years, the Movement for the
Rationalisation of the English Language decided that the word should be
pronounced with a silent g, as that was deemed to be hilariously
self-referential. The movement then briefly renamed itself to the Moovment for
the Rash-n-lihzeyshun of thee Inglish Langwidge, but readopted its former name
once it sobered up in the morning.
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