Obesogenic Society
I see politically correct term for
lardass people :mrgreen:
Pharmageddon
neurocracy
nutraceutical
She Who Is Inevitable = Hillary Clinton
I much prefer She Who Must Not Be Named, myself, though.
Trashophilia Cinematica
Thank you Swato! :mrgreen:
Cliterary
velology
there's even a magazine- The Velologist (http://www.velologist.com/main.html)
Read, rather than heard:
drapetomania
as in
Slaves who bolted were said to be suffering from the mental illness of 'drapetomania' or the irresistable urge to run away from plantations. -p.223
Users and Abusers of Psychiatry, Lucy Johnstone, 2nd ed., 2000, Routledge
Central message of the book is Psychiatry is a system of social control in which psychiatric conditions are created/worsened by the system of treatment ~ not well explained here by me: read the book!
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Does no one else increase their vocabulary around here? :mrgreen:
Most of the new words I pick up are not for polite company... like "shart".
I'll let you work that particular portmanteau out for yourself. ;)
Earworm
A song or tune that is stuck in one's head, especially as unwanted or repetitive
I really like this word. Usually I don't like new words so I am happy. It only takes simple things to make me happy.
I was looking up Tourette syndrome and found as one symptom Coprolalia. First the obvious interpretation seemed to be too absurd to be in a serious medical dictionary but it turned out, it isn't. This really means what it says: literally 'talking shit' :mrgreen: (i.e. using lots of fecal words and related).
Fishlessness.
Actually, I discovered it yesterday, while reading through a permit application for reconstruction of a dam on a remote pond. Fishlessness is a characteristic evaluated by a wetlands delineator while certifying the status of an IUD* as Not a Vernal Pool, a Vernal Pool, or a Significant Vernal Pool. It's a checkoff box on the state's official field evaluation form, with a space for elaboration.
*That's Isolated Upland Depression, for any reprobates that might stumble on this thread. ;D
scareware
""Scareware" merchants trick computer users into clicking on pop-up alerts that claim their device is "damaged and corrupted". They are then persuaded to buy software that corrects the non-existent issue by offering fake security fixes.
It's a least a year old but I only just came across it. The word that is, not the product which is ubiquitous.
I thought scareware was the electronic gizmos they sell for you to put out on your porch on Halloween. ???
http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/ (http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/)
Quote from: Earthling on September 13, 2009, 04:59:38 AM
I thought scareware was the electronic gizmos they sell for you to put out on your porch on Halloween. ???
http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/ (http://www.halloweenmonsterlist.info/)
Wow.
Your link just let me waste a good hour or more looking at all the cool how-2's.
I really got lost on the DIY vacuum-forming linkages....imagine, for less than $50 you too can vacuum-form flat sheets of plastic into really interesting shapes...
:)