Pull-The-Plug, Slice The Pie:
A fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the net
worth of his parents.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
A fantasy in which an offspring mentally tallies up the net
worth of his parents.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Poverty Lurks:
Financial paranoia instilled in offspring by depression-era parents.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Safety net-ism:
The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional
safety net to buffer life's hurts.
Usually parents. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Ozmosis:
The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Strangelove Reproduction:
Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer
believes in the future.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Now Denial:
To tell oneself that the only time worth living is in the past
and that the only time that may ever be interesting again is the
future.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Metaphasia:
An inability to perceive metaphor.
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Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Paper Rabies:
Hypersensitivity to littering.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation... - Spectacularism:
A fascination with extreme situations.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - The love of meat prevents any real change.
-- Douglas Coupland,
Generation...
From the same category:
- How many
dull people
--
does it take to change a light bulb? One... - A conservative sees a man drowning fifty feet from shore.
The conservative throws the man a rope 25 feet long... - If you ever want to have a lot of fun, I recommend that you go off and program
an imbedded system.
The salient characteristic of an imbedded system is... - There are many inside dopes in politics and government.
Mark B.... - I'm easy to please as long as I get
my way...
