I was trying to think of non-judgmental terms to describe a couple of feelings I have as a person with chronic depression, feelings that were attributed to laziness growing up because my Mom - despite having chronic depression herself even then - apparently was not aware that kids can have chronic depression, too ( Read more... )

 “Envybation - When you masturbate to pictures/thoughts of someone not out of any sexual attraction, but because you envy how they look and a part of you hopes you can wank your way towards looking more like them.”
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So Pi just coined a phrase: "pay it backwards." It means to bully or belittle someone when you yourself have been bullied or belittled. Sort of the opposite of "pay it forward."

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So lately I've been thinking about the old letter called thorn, which makes the TH sound:


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Okay, Molly Elizabeth just coined this one. Sometimes she internally giggles in a way that's almost a cackle, hence:

Gackle: verb. To giggle in a manner similar to a cackle.

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Robert Anton Wilson came up with a better word for rigid belief than what "dogmatic" has become: "modeltheism." (IE, worshiping one's model of the universe to such a degree that one refuses to ever let it change, therefore rejecting any new data that might make it need to change ( Read more... )

Two new words for English that I'm proposing:

Ontle [ont-ull] - Genderless term for aunt/uncle.

Niephew [nee-few] - Genderless term for niece/nephew.

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Advertainment [ad-ver-tain-ment] = 1. Noun. Entertainment that is a thinly-veiled advertisement. 2. Noun. Any entertainment which uses advertising tactics to boost ratings.

Exogermaphobia = Fear of other people's (or other beings') germs, but not of one's own germs. Exogermaphobes don't mind their own rooms being messy, or throwing their garbage around the room, but are fearful of germs from other people and other peoples' messes. (I should know, I *am* an exogermaphobe.)