Dumpster Clocking:
The tendency when looking at objects to guesstimate the amount
of time they will take to eventually decompose: "Ski boots are the
worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova."
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
The tendency when looking at objects to guesstimate the amount
of time they will take to eventually decompose: "Ski boots are the
worst. Solid plastic. They'll be around till the sun goes supernova."
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
- Power Mist:
The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be
diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Survivulousness:
The tendency to visualize oneself enjoying being the last
remaining person on earth.
"I'd take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens... - Option Paralysis:
The tendency, when given unlimited choices,
to make none. [Often experienced when asked what kind... - 101-ism:
The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail,
all aspects of life using half-understood pop psychology... - Knee-Jerk Irony:
The tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive
matter of course in everyday conversation.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Vaccinated Time Travel:
To fantasize about traveling backward in time,
but only with proper vaccinations. -- Douglas Coupland... - Homeowner Envy:
Feelings of jealousy generated in the young and the
disenfranchised when facing gruesome housing statistics.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Native Aping:
Pretending to be a native when visiting a foreign destination.
Douglas Coupland, Generation... - Poor Buoyancy:
The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
Douglas Coupland, Generation...
From the same category:
- Waffle softly and talk a bit
slick... - There is no knowledge that is not power.
--
Ralph Waldo... - So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames... - Musicians duet
better... - Just My Opinion (But I'm Always
Right...
