Bradyism:
A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in
large families. A rarity in those born after approximately 1965,
symptoms of Bradyism include a facility for mind games, emotional
withdrawal in situations of overcrowding, and a deeply felt need for a
well-defined personal space.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
A multisibling sensibility derived from having grown up in
large families. A rarity in those born after approximately 1965,
symptoms of Bradyism include a facility for mind games, emotional
withdrawal in situations of overcrowding, and a deeply felt need for a
well-defined personal space.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Poorochondria:
Hypochondria derived form not having medical insurance.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Spectacularism:
A fascination with extreme situations.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Celebrity Shadenfreude:
Lurid thrills derived from talking about celebrity deaths.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Strangelove Reproduction:
Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer
believes in the future.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Derision Preemption:
A life-style tactic; the refusal to go out on any sort of
emotional limb so as to avoid mockery from peers.
Derision Preemption is the main goal of Knee-Jerk Irony... - 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... - Diseases for Kisses (Hyperkarma):
A deeply rooted belief that punishment will somehow always be
far greater than the crime:
ozone holes for littering. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Armanism:
After Georgio Armani: an obsession with mimicking the seamless
and (more importantly) *controlled* ethos of Italian couture.
Lake Japanese Minimalism, Armanism reflects a profound... - Me-ism:
A search by an individual, in the absence of training in the
traditional religious tenets,
to formulate a personally tailored religion by himself...
From the same category:
- So how long have you been working at a cat
house... - I thought it would make a wicked wave to surf on.
-
Moses, talking about the real reason he parted the... - I wanna reach up and touch the sky;
I wanna touch the sun but I don't wanna fry... - Men stumble on stones,
not mountains... - Today is the first day of the rest of my death.
Tomorrow will be the next day of it.
Bwwaahh...
