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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/a-lago-gate-trump-scandal-article-1.2973421
I’ll leave it to greater minds (looking at you, Dan Rather) to determine how yuge the Flynn scandal is, but one thing is certain: The Trump presidency is starting out so rocky that we’re going to need a better scandal suffix than the hoary old “-gate.”
The obvious choice? It’s “-a-lago.” As in the winter White House, Mar-a-Lago.
http://www.allure.com/story/what-is-an-ab-crack
Forget the thigh gap; there's a new, pretty much impossible fitness standard sweeping the world (or, um, Instagram). It's the ab crack. Picture every swimsuit model you can, or Bella Hadid and Jasmine Tookes. Do they have a line going down their abs? That's an ab crack.
Short for Adverse Childhood Experiences.
An ACE score is a tally of different types of abuse, neglect, and other hallmarks of a rough childhood. According to the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, the rougher your childhood, the higher your score is likely to be and the higher your risk for later health problems.
http://www.whatisasexuality.com/am-i-ace/teen/
You can be asexual even if you've had sex. I know, it sounds strange, but having sex doesn't mean you can't be asexual. Some aces are curious. Some aces think it's what they're supposed to do. And some aces even like it.
It just so happens, NOHUMP, that plenty of asexuals (aka "aces"), identified as L, G, or B before realizing they were more of an A. Julia Sondra Decker, asexuality activist and author of The Invisible Orientation, gives some context:
And I’m talking about AFAB (Assigned Female At Birth) and AMAB (Assigned Male At Birth) people, never mind transgender folks. And when you add intersex people into the mix, there isn’t even a reliable or easily identifiable binary when referring to “biological sex.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39279500
They say this could threaten the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 which will take place across a large geographical area. In their view it poses a greater threat to these future games, than dirty air did to the summer games in 2008.
"Had the Chinese government not reduced emissions as much as they did in the last four years we would have seen the same or worse airpocalypse events," said Prof Wang.
In a recent column for Vanity Fair, the writer James Wolcott lumped many of these types of publications and their writers under the label “alt-left,” joining them to the Trumpian alt-right under the banner of their mutual discontent with Obama and Clinton, as well as what he called a desire for a “climactic reckoning.” “They’re not kissin’ cousins,” Wolcott wrote, “but they caterwaul some of the same tunes in different keys.”
And I’m talking about AFAB (Assigned Female At Birth) and AMAB (Assigned Male At Birth) people, never mind transgender folks. And when you add intersex people into the mix, there isn’t even a reliable or easily identifiable binary when referring to “biological sex.”
"Amatonormativity" is a relatively new term — coined about five years ago by Elizabeth Brake, an associate professor of philosophy at Arizona State University and the author of Minimizing Marriage — to capture two widely held assumptions. The first being a person who isn’t in a monogamous romantic relationship is seeking that type of relationship, and the second being a person would automatically be better off in a monogamous romantic relationship than he or she would be while single or in another type of relationship.
In a phone interview, Brake told me she modelled "amatonormativity" after the term "heteronormativity," or the belief heterosexuality is the default sexual orientation. ("Amatus" is the Latin word for "loved.") When the default assumption is that being in a committed relationship — any relationship, regardless of its quality — is prized above all else, it can leave some singles feeling singled out.
"Amatonormativity" is a relatively new term — coined about five years ago by Elizabeth Brake, an associate professor of philosophy at Arizona State University and the author of Minimizing Marriage — to capture two widely held assumptions. The first being a person who isn’t in a monogamous romantic relationship is seeking that type of relationship, and the second being a person would automatically be better off in a monogamous romantic relationship than he or she would be while single or in another type of relationship.
In a phone interview, Brake told me she modelled "amatonormativity" after the term "heteronormativity," or the belief heterosexuality is the default sexual orientation. ("Amatus" is the Latin word for "loved.") When the default assumption is that being in a committed relationship — any relationship, regardless of its quality — is prized above all else, it can leave some singles feeling singled out.
asexual= Someone who does not experience sexual attraction to anyone.
Aro= Someone who does not experience romantic attraction to anyone
Grey= Someone who experience sexual attraction very rarely
Demisexual= Someone who only experience sexual attraction when creating an emotional bond with another.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Aspec
Aspec
On the asexuality spectrum.
Oh, Autumn, she said she was slightly on the aspec.
https://datasociety.net/output/media-manipulation-and-disinfo-online/
Far-right groups develop techniques of “attention hacking” to increase the visibility of their ideas through the strategic use of social media, memes, and bots—as well as by targeting journalists, bloggers, and influencers to help spread content.
https://www.eater.com/2017/5/22/15674630/avolatte-australia-avocado-latte
From the country that brought the world fairy toast and flat whites comes another breakfast innovation: the avolatte, a latte inside of an avocado. It’s actually a latte inside of half an avocado skin, with a little bit of the flesh of the fruit still clinging to its shell.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/amazon-banana-stand-seattle-market
Amazon’s community banana stands were thought up by CEO Jeff Bezos, who thought the company could help the local community by giving out healthy food. The first stand opened on campus of the online retailer and cloud computing giant in December 2015, and it was joined by another in October 2016. More than 1.7 million bananas have been given away by the “banistas” who run the two stands, Monday through Friday.
https://www.artofplay.com/collections/amusements/products/copper-begleri
Break out your EDC ninja moves with this stylish brass Begleri. Inspired by traditional Greek worry beads, the Begleri is a popular skill toy that's kind of like nunchaku for your fingers.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flameless-cremation-funeral-homes-alkaline-hydrolysis
Technically called “alkaline hydrolysis,” the process of using nothing more than water, heat, and a small amount of chemicals to break down a body is also known as “bio-cremation,” “resomation,” or simply, “flameless cremation.”
https://qz.com/592710/why-some-koreans-make-10000-a-month-to-eat-on-camera/
Mukbang is a portmanteau word that combines the Korean word for “eat” (muok-da) with the word for “broadcast” (bang song). The top mukbang earners can earn as much as $10,000 a month by some accounts, not including sponsorships. The oddest part of their payment structure is that it’s not pay-per-view, ad-based, or salary-based. Rather, ordinary viewers voluntarily send their favorite BJs (which stands for Broadcasting Jockey, a uniquely Korean use of this acronym) money in the form of “star balloons”—a type of proprietary virtual currency that can be bought and sold with regular fiat cash.
https://blavity.com/12-awesome-blerd-accounts-you-should-follow-on-twitter/
Blerd, or black nerd, is a term that has gained more and more popularity in the past couple of years. Try searching for #blerd on Instagram and Twitter and you'll be flooded with tons of nerdtastic thoughts and personalities. In fact, it's likely that you'll get sucked in to some rabbit hole of randomness ... because let's face it, all of us have a bit of nerd inside of us. And so, here's a dozen Blerd accounts in Twitter that you should be following to get your daily dose of blerdiness:
http://www.marieclaire.com/beauty/news/a24241/blorange-hair-color-trend/
Enter the perfect winter pastel: Blorange, which is—you guessed it—blonde + orange. Created by the empress of crazy AF hair colors, Bleach London's Alex Brownsell, her test subject was none other than Georgia May Jagger who has become her dye-job guinea pig of sorts.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/347340-ny-police-union-were-victims-of-blue-racism-against-cops
A police union in New York called the Sergeants Benevolent Association says in a new video that officers are often victims of “blue racism.”
“The average person doesn’t see the things that make me human,” a narrator says. “When they look at me, they see blue.”
The video describes a “strange form of racism” that is growing across the country, and points to the number of police officers who die while on duty. The video says that “blue racism” is “even more racist” than judging a person based on their skin color.
http://www.myproana.com/index.php/topic/248668-thinspo-fitspo-or-bonespo/
What type of inspiration pics do it for you? Do you ultimately want to be thin, fit, or v thin like bonespo? Or just bmi healthy?
Police said in a Facebook post that boogeling is the act of going out at night and looking for unlocked cars or garages to enter and steal from. Police also said that they knew what boogeling was, they just didn’t know it had a name.
Layton Police Sergeant Clint Brobowski told Fox 13 that the “boogelers” entered the homes through unlocked doors and even through unsecured doggy doors.
Police said in a Facebook post that boogeling is the act of going out at night and looking for unlocked cars or garages to enter and steal from. Police also said that they knew what boogeling was, they just didn’t know it had a name.
Layton Police Sergeant Clint Brobowski told Fox 13 that the “boogelers” entered the homes through unlocked doors and even through unsecured doggy doors.
http://www.startribune.com/word-of-the-week-let-s-drink-a-toast-to-brewstilleries/421009663/
Definition: A brewpub that’s also a distillery. Not vice versa; that would a disery.
Sample usage: “Bro, we can probably get like a pail of whiskey at that new brewstillery.”
Popularity: It makes sense in context; otherwise it sounds like a word for inebriated shenanigans. “All right, you two,” the policeman said, “cut out the brewstillery.”
Netflix dropped the first trailer for its new comedy series Dear White People today, and already broflakes (what I’ve decided to call MAGA hat-wearing dudes who complain about “snowflakes” but are themselves overly sensitive) are cancelling their accounts.
NEW SENSE: COMPANIES THAT PREDATE THE INTERNET
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whys-so-hard-trying-make-things-easy-paul-shetler
When we think of digital, we rarely think of brownfields, those large organisations that predate the Internet. We usually think of Amazon, or Uber, or Netflix: companies with digital at their core, which grew to take advantage of it. That makes sense, in a way. As a rule, brownfields have over time accumulated established ways of doing things, and often a large and change-resistant bureaucracy.
https://aeon.co/essays/what-more-evidence-do-we-need-to-stop-killing-pigs-for-food
But pigs suffer on an astounding scale on their way to our tables. Of the 100 million pigs annually raised for food in the United States, 97 per cent are confined to factory farms. These farms or CAFOs (concentrated animal-feeding operations) can best be described as ‘huge lagoons of pig sewage’. These farms do great environmental harm, and the pigs there endure short, miserable lives.
The timing is right to drop the name Washington. Washington, D.C. has plans to steal it. Plus, we couldn’t very well be named after an American president if we become Canadians. What about the name that was almost ours, Columbia? British Columbia might have something to say about that name — as they might South British Columbia. We could become the province of Cascadia or Calicadia.
https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/carnism-why-do-we-eat-animals-3-copy
Carnism describes the invisible belief system that conditions us to eat certain animals. The ideology sees the wide-spread acceptance of meat-eating as 'natural', 'normal', and 'necessary'.
In addition, it sees its opposing ideology - veganism - as unnatural, and not 'normal'.
http://www.extracrispy.com/food/4563/how-to-make-chilaquiles-with-cheetos
It started from such a good place. Unlike Pizza French Toast, which began as an attempt to salvage a series of bad decisions, Cheetoquiles actually began with a series of good decisions.
Short for Coachella.
http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/music-festivals/7760469/coachella-2017-day-2-recap
9:02 p.m. "Chella, how you doing? We've missed you. We do not have the words to say how happy we are to be here," Oliver Sim of The XX first addresses the crowd after a few songs. During the hour-long set, the English band kept mostly to the tunes, adding simple, yet sincere commentary like Romy Croft's admitting that she was "a bit nervous." Yet, one of the most stand-out parts of their show was when Croft took the mic for a solo performance of, fittingly, "Performance." — Taylor Weatherby
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/10/what-famous-writers-most-used-words-say-about-them
For my book Nabokov’s Favourite Word Is Mauve, I created a computer program to sort through thousands of books by the most revered and popular authors to find out their “cinnamon words” – relatively rare words that a particular writer uses often. Obviously every author used function words such as “the” and “from” at a high rate, and basic adjectives like “big” or “fast”, but cinnamon words are the words that each author uses disproportionately compared with other writers.
http://diymag.com/2017/04/12/in-the-studio-oh-wonder-interview-ultralife-2017
Their latest track ‘Lifetimes’ is a hip-hop flavoured number, inspired by seeing Drake live. It even has Anthony doing a spot of rapping or, as he puts it, doing a “pathetic white-boy rap.” He’s being very harsh on himself. It’s also a track centred on climate change, and the pair think they invented a new word in the process of writing it: “climaphobe.” “Is it a word?” Anthony asks. Josephine is straight on to Google. Apparently “climacophobia” is the fear of climbing, but there’s no such thing as a “climaphobe.” Yet.
http://reallifemag.com/computer-moves/
Computer analysis discourages risk-taking; humans tend to have a psychological resistance to retreating, whereas algorithms don’t even possess the concept of “backwards.” As we learn from these machines, we also adopt their tendencies. The term “computer moves,” when it isn’t simply an accusation of foul play, is often used to denote moves that are far-sighted and counterintuitive. I’ve also seen it used to refer to moves that are tedious, uninspired, or oppressively safe. There seems to be a tinge of old-man nostalgia to this attitude: Sure, the kids these days can beat us, but where’s their sense of style?
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/shaming-users/
A problematic trend is spreading like an epidemic on the web. In a desperate attempt to nudge users towards conversions like newsletter signups some websites are adding manipulative link text to their popup modals. These user-shaming labels are called manipulinks (a clever term coined by Steve Costello): they employ the practice of what is often referred to as confirmshaming — making users feel bad for opting out of an offer (logically, this practice might better be described as declineshaming).
https://www.alternet.org/media/8-most-popular-types-copaganda-how-police-play-media
To counter this, police reform and police abolitionist activists on Twitter have invented a rather useful term: "Copaganda." Copaganda is any news story that uncritically advances a police department's image or helps undermine reform efforts.
Toronto woman joins the fight against creepshot image sites
There’s a Toronto woman named Roxanne who has an on-again, off-again hobby. For the past four years, she’s spent her time reaching out to those whose photos, some explicit, she’s found on a site dedicated to titillating men by, among other things, humiliating women by posting their stolen images and personal details.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/fashion/mens-style/daddymoon-father-vacation.html
But his wife, Danielle Labadorf, 31, reassured him that she would be taken care of by her parents and sister, who live on Long Island. Perhaps realizing his life would soon be incredibly different, Mr. Lamberg went ahead and maxed out on golf, playing a round at the Royal Troon Golf Club and watching the Women’s British Open. “It turned into my unofficial daddymoon,” he said.
Per a conversation I've had, a Saturday where dad takes the kids to give mom a break.
More famous for populating Wild West gangs, superhero movies and the New York subway, vigilantes are now found in all corners of professional life, a new survey has found. Over the course of their careers, more than half the people surveyed had experienced at least one “Dark Knight employee”, as researchers dubbed them, while 18% said they still worked with one.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/shaming-users/
A problematic trend is spreading like an epidemic on the web. In a desperate attempt to nudge users towards conversions like newsletter signups some websites are adding manipulative link text to their popup modals. These user-shaming labels are called manipulinks (a clever term coined by Steve Costello): they employ the practice of what is often referred to as confirmshaming — making users feel bad for opting out of an offer (logically, this practice might better be described as declineshaming).
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demiguy
A demiguy (also called a demiboy, demiman or demimale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man, boy or otherwise masculine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a boy or man.
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demigirl
A demigirl (also called a demiwoman or a demifemale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a woman, girl or otherwise feminine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a girl or woman.
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demigirl
A demigirl (also called a demiwoman or a demifemale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a woman, girl or otherwise feminine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a girl or woman.
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demiguy
A demiguy (also called a demiboy, demiman or demimale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man, boy or otherwise masculine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a boy or man.
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demiguy
A demiguy (also called a demiboy, demiman or demimale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a man, boy or otherwise masculine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a boy or man.
http://gender.wikia.com/wiki/Demigirl
A demigirl (also called a demiwoman or a demifemale person) is a gender identity describing someone who partially, but not wholly, identifies as a woman, girl or otherwise feminine, whatever their assigned gender at birth. They may or may not identify as another gender in addition to feeling partially a girl or woman.
Are you Joe Public? One of America’s more than 94 million permanently unemployed? A doctor, truck driver, or other worker at risk of technological unemployment? Then you, Joe, had best learn a new word: Democide.
What’s “democide?” It’s the killing of people by a government most often based on their socioeconomic status.
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs
If you’ve never heard of the term before, “digital blackface” is used to describe various types of minstrel performance that become available in cyberspace. Blackface minstrelsy is a theatrical tradition dating back to the early 19th century, in which performers “blacken” themselves up with costume and behaviors to act as black caricatures. The performances put society’s most racist sensibilities on display and in turn fed them back to audiences to intensify these feelings and disperse them across culture. Many of our most beloved entertainment genres owe at least part of themselves to the minstrel stage, including vaudeville, film, and cartoons. While often associated with Jim Crow–era racism, the tenets of minstrel performance remain alive today in television, movies, music and, in its most advanced iteration, on the Internet.
Frost moved to New York City in 2013 to play in a punk band and write music reviews, blogging for the website Dangerous Minds. But she turned to political Twitter and to writing research-driven criticism for Jacobin and other publications, working for the Democratic Socialists of America as secretary for a time. An empty room opened in her Bed-Stuy apartment, and Felix Biederman, who went on to cofound Chapo Trap House, moved in. Frost became a regular podcast guest. In a tweet, she coined the moniker “Dirtbag Left” to describe her crew, a piquant alternative to James Wolcott’s.
That’s how I’d describe 2016’s purest film heroes. This year, we cemented a new genre: the docbuster, which regales audiences with brave tales of real-life modern men. Docbusters first bleeped on the radar when Lone Survivor and American Sniper were shock hits. This year, we had four: Sully, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, Deepwater Horizon, and Patriots Day, two of which reteamed Lone Survivor star Mark Wahlberg with Lone Survivor director Peter Berg, and all of which took recent-ish headlines and simplified them, and their idealized saviors, into a satisfying adventure where the good guys win—or, at least, make it clear who’s to blame. Docbusters are strangely soothing bedtime stories that whisper yes, the world is cruel and dangerous, but everything’s going to be OK if a competent white man is in charge.
(Amy Nicholson)
https://www.eater.com/2017/6/26/15858180/raw-cookie-dough-trend
When pitching their idea, Schmid and Pacetti claimed their product was the only edible cookie dough on the market made to be eaten as-is. Not anymore: Between new shops, expansions, and menu upgrades, 2017 is set to be the breakout year for edible cookie dough. Dō — based in New York City, where there is a line for everything — certainly garnered a lot of publicity during its January opening, but it wasn’t the only doughy debut of the year. In February, Tart Sweets bakery in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, started selling its dough in “doughwiches” and by the scoop through its cookie dough bar, which is only open Fridays and Saturdays. Earlier this year, Yoyo Berri frozen yogurt shops in Nebraska and South Dakota started offering raw cookie dough to liven up yesterday’s snack craze. And four flavors of the stuff, served with a side of “ice milk,” will be among the newest items featured at this year’s Minnesota State Fair.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/melissaharrison/crock-pot-dump-dinners
One of the best things about dump dinners is that they're often freezer-friendly — meaning you can prep (or bulk prep!) in advance, pack away, then use whenever you're ready. Find this make-ahead recipe along with others here.
https://themeaningofbisexuality.tumblr.com/post/147553978486/what-tf-is-perisex
What tf is perisex
It’s one of the words proposed by the intersex community to refer to someone who isn’t intersex, much like cis refers to someone who isn’t trans.
The other words I’ve seen around are endosex and dyadic, and they all seem to have pros and cons and there’s not been a great deal of consensus about what word would work best.
http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/earlymoons-latest-wedding-trend/story?id=48438576
While honeymoons give newlyweds a chance to relax after their wedding, more and more engaged couples are taking a vacation even before their wedding festivities begin.
Couples say the pre-wedding vacation, dubbed an “earlymoon,” gives them a chance to de-stress and reconnect before tying the knot.
https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/877637588529561600
(And that's for cis women--for society that has trouble remembering trans women, enbys, etc. exist, the HORROR that they would take the mic)
https://themeaningofbisexuality.tumblr.com/post/147553978486/what-tf-is-perisex
What tf is perisex
It’s one of the words proposed by the intersex community to refer to someone who isn’t intersex, much like cis refers to someone who isn’t trans.
The other words I’ve seen around are endosex and dyadic, and they all seem to have pros and cons and there’s not been a great deal of consensus about what word would work best.
It’s not fair to blame individuals for other people’s wrongdoing. Yet we let envy-peddlers get away with it when unfairly attacking rich people.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/inside-the-great-poop-emoji-feud
“Organic waste isn’t cute,” Everson wrote, aghast that the technical committee would even deign to consider additional excremoji. “It is bad enough that the Emoji Subcommittee came up with it, but it beggars belief that the Unicode Technical Committee actually approved it,” he wrote. Everson continued:
http://everydayfeminism.com/2016/02/femmephobia-queer-community/
Now, femmephobia is the fear or hatred of all people and things which are perceived as femme, feminine, effeminate, and/or twink, regardless of their gender.
A direct result of femmephobia is the oppression of anyone (men, women, and other genders) whose gender presentation is in any way classified as being on the feminine end of the gender binary, due to their clothing, behavior, or mannerisms.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/doree/feminist-hypocrisy-is-the-new-trend-in-startup-narratives
But Agrawal is just the latest in a string of female company founders and CEOs, from Nasty Gal founder Sophia Amoruso to Arianna Huffington and Ivanka Trump, whose business practices don’t entirely match the narrative of empowerment (or “fempowerment”) that they put forth publicly. And all these stories raise the question: Is it possible to be a committed feminist and a committed capitalist at the same time? And why are we still so surprised when these women — who have built brands on saying the things we want to hear — turn out to be just as flawed as their male peers?
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/3/15529506/fidget-spinners-trend-science
If you don’t have kids, you’ve probably never heard of the fidget spinner. But if you do, you may have recently been dragged to a toy store or 7-Eleven to purchase this latest must-have gadget.
Fidget spinners, made from plastic or metal with a bearing in the center and several prongs that can spin around it, are intended for mindless play while working or sitting in class.
http://www.bewebsmart.com/social-media/instagram-social-media/what-is-a-finsta/
You may be wondering, what the heck is a “finsta”? No, it’s not the latest new app. Finsta refers to a fake Instagram account. Just add “F” to “Instagram” for “Finstagram” and shorten that to “Finsta”.
A finsta is a second Instagram account used for sharing with a smaller circle of followers. A finsta is usually a private Instagram account. While a teen’s primary account might also be private, a finsta is for close friends only. Only your BFF’s, your baes. (I can imagine my teen daughter cringing as she reads this – if she reads this!)
The future of American fintech may hang in the balance of a pitched battle that has grown in intensity over the past four months. An obscure request for comments on regulatory standards, released by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) last March, has since evolved into a complex turf war between the states and Washington, DC.
Caught in the middle is the entire online finance industry, raising the question of just what a “fintech” business really is. Though it hasn’t made many national headlines, this fight may determine the future of innovation, competition and survival in the fintech world.
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flameless-cremation-funeral-homes-alkaline-hydrolysis
Technically called “alkaline hydrolysis,” the process of using nothing more than water, heat, and a small amount of chemicals to break down a body is also known as “bio-cremation,” “resomation,” or simply, “flameless cremation.”
http://www.conwaydailysun.com/newsx/130970-jumbo-shrimp-are-state-seaperch-champs
The boys attached an 8-inch piece of PVC pipe to the front of their SeaPerch that was capable of picking up rings in obstacle course and challenge course events.
They also drilled a number of holes in their SeaPerch, and in the process coined a new word — "flinking."
"It means floating but not sinking," Ben explained.
https://austin.eater.com/maps/best-frose-frozen-rose-wine-austin-bars
Hot weather means it’s prime time for frosty beverages, and what better way to indulge than with glasses of the still-trendy frosé (a.k.a. frozen rosé)? Take the summer-perfect wine, freeze it, and viola, it becomes even more seasonally appropriate.
http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2017/02/14/move-over-millennials-here-comes-gen-real
So-called 'gen real' (that’s generation Z to the unacquainted) currently constitutes 35% of the world’s population and will soon make up four in every 10 consumers in the world’s largest markets.
Rhyming synonym for "asshole" in a public forum.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. What the H?! No, any manager who isn’t a complete and utter glassbowl is not going to start feeling that FMLA is being abused if the employee who has properly requested it actually uses it.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4575646/Glow-dark-doughnut-created-Black-Star-Pastry.html
The mastermind behind Strawberry Watermelon Cake, dubbed the most Instagrammed cake in the world, has now given us the gorgeous 'Glonut'.
And creator Christopher Thé has told Daily Mail Australia just how he managed to get his doughnuts to look radioactive - while still tasting delicious.
https://www.citylab.com/work/2017/04/how-to-survive-a-retail-meltdown/524868/
The proliferation of half-vacant shopping centers and abandoned malls on the fringes of cities has become such a pervasive problem that we have a new word for it: greyfields. Chances are you have a few in your community: acres of paved parking with weeds creeping through the cracks and a dilapidated big-box structure standing in the middle. They’re the increasingly hard-to-ignore manifestation of what’s often described as the retail meltdown. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the retail sector lost approximately 30,000 jobs in March alone, with thousands of store closings projected through 2017. At this pace, store closings in 2017 are likely to surpass the Great Recession year of 2008.
http://www.eater.com/2017/2/27/14706474/whole-foods-restaurant-grocery-store
The concept of blending a restaurant experience with the grocery experience has been around for decades, according to self-described “supermarket guru” and food service analyst Phil Lempert. But the changing perspectives millennials and generation Z-ers have toward food and shopping are pushing more supermarkets to make their stores feel more like experiential food destinations than mere shopping markets. Analysts like Lempert predict that these “grocerants” will become the new standard for grocery stores in the more health-conscience future.
https://www.tastingtable.com/drinks/national/hard-seltzer-taste-test
Looking for something refreshing, bubbly and not too sweet? Oh, and alcoholic? We've got just the thing: hard seltzer. Yes, your boozy LaCroix dreams have come true.
https://twitter.com/NoisyAstronomer/status/911213826527436800
My friends coined a word: hepeated. For when a woman suggests an idea and it's ignored, but then a guy says same thing and everyone loves it
http://www.avclub.com/article/heroes-actor-comes-out-after-bryan-fuller-outs-him-258084
At this year’s Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, Bryan Fuller accepted an Achievement Award for his visionary work on shows like Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, and, more recently, American Gods. During his speech, Fuller touched on queer representation on the small screen, and how it’s changed in the course of his career. Where his current TV show recently featured a bold and erotic gay sex scene, Fuller reminded his audience of all the “het-washing,” i.e., when a homosexual character is written to be heterosexual, that had occurred on other series. The writer-producer, who is an out gay man, alluded to a Heroes season-one cast member who threatened to walk from the show if his character were revealed to be homosexual. Fuller said that despite the fact the actor was gay, he didn’t want to play a gay character.
http://people.com/bodies/hiplet-dancer-ballet-hip-hop-pointe/
“Hiplet is a mixture of hip-hop and ballet, but really anything that we can try to put en pointe that has, like, a groovy feeling to it,” dancer Zipporah Wilson said in a recent video. “You have to have a certain posture when you’re doing ballet. Usually, you’re up tall … pointe shoes were designed for ballet. Hiplet is different.”
http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/03/5-ways-to-be-a-backpacker-and-not-be-a-total-dick-6780232/
Your worn-out Havaianas, shoddy attempt at dreadlocks and a tan that makes you look like an extra from Geordie Shore make it abundantly clear you’ve been on holibobs.
There’s no need to harp on about it
Sure your friends will good-naturedly enjoy a story or two, but there’s a shelf life to your ‘this one time…’ stories.
http://uproxx.com/sepinwall/it-gets-better-after-six-episodes/
Shows taking time to become good is just the way TV works. Occasionally, you’ll find a Sopranos or a Cheers or a Mary Tyler Moore Show that arrives fully-formed at the peak of its powers, but most shows are evolving organisms, where the creators need a while to figure out how to best tell their stories, use their actors, work within constraints of budget or schedule or network, etc. Patience is required to see which shows live up to their full potential and which never get there; sometimes you get a Parks and Recreation (which went from mediocre to great after its first season) or an Americans (which went from good to great during that same second year transition), but other times, you might spend a season-plus waiting for a sitcom like Up All Night to stop being somehow less than the sum of its talented parts, only for it to be canceled before that happens.
My wife dubbed the practice “hope-watching,” and I’ve done plenty of it over the years as both amateur couch potato and professional.
http://ariaste.tumblr.com/post/163697878524/ariaste-ariaste-the-opposite-of-grimdark-is
> The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk. Pass it on.
#this is a good post #also I need an example of hopepunk #bc the name #resonates with me #and I need it #please #if you don’t mind (via @lavender-starling)
So the essence of grimdark is that everyone’s inherently sort of a bad person and does bad things, and that’s awful and disheartening and cynical. It’s looking at human nature and going, “The glass is half empty.”
Hopepunk says, “No, I don’t accept that. Go fuck yourself: The glass is half-full.” YEAH, we’re all a messy mix of good and bad, flaws and virtues. We’ve all been mean and petty and cruel, but (and here’s the important part) we’ve also been soft and forgiving and KIND. Hopepunk says that kindness and softness doesn’t equal weakness, and that in this world of brutal cynicism and nihilism, being kind is a political act. An act of rebellion.
Alternate spelling of "as hell" — or a new word meaning that same thing.
Manager Joe Maddon made it clear it didn’t feel like a normal July game to him.
“It’s Jaugust,” Maddon said. “It’s already there. There’s no getting around it. I love it, I absolutely love it and I think our players do. It’s great. The fans were absolutely energized tonight. It’s good stuff. And of course, it’s better when we win.”
But you kindasorta accidentally consented to this treatment/scene/behavior—sortakindasorta—by "sort of" saying "no problem." You're allowed to withdraw your kindasorta consent at any time, of course, and if sex with this might-be-an-asshole guy is making you unhappy—if taking his loads and being his come dump makes you feel bad/used/unsatisfied—withdraw your consent or renegotiate your deal. If not getting to come yourself during these encounters isn't what you want going forward, HOLE, make your dissatisfaction known and your satisfaction a requirement.
http://mailchi.mp/ladyswagger/double-double-toil-and-trouble?e=37cc0e1863
On the podcast, we talk about "loophole women" who enable or apologize for men who behave badly.
Desert Cove is a relatively affluent school — only 32.1 percent of the students there qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. So it's easy to imagine that singling out students whose account balances are low could be a traumatizing experience for them.
"Lunch shaming" can lead students to skip meals altogether, one Houston-based nonprofit found.
https://twitter.com/GlennF/status/894029507148996609
The intellectual bankruptcy of lacking good sources is the reason that Google manifestbro doesn’t deserve a detailed response.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/shaming-users/
A problematic trend is spreading like an epidemic on the web. In a desperate attempt to nudge users towards conversions like newsletter signups some websites are adding manipulative link text to their popup modals. These user-shaming labels are called manipulinks (a clever term coined by Steve Costello): they employ the practice of what is often referred to as confirmshaming — making users feel bad for opting out of an offer (logically, this practice might better be described as declineshaming).
Sarah was open about what she viewed as the most dangerous aspect of the pro-anorexia subculture: "meanspo." You might've heard the term "thinspo" -- people posting pictures of incredibly skinny models, celebrities, etc., as inspiration to keep up with their weight loss. Meanspo is its even uglier cousin: Users can request to have someone basically shit-talk them into keeping their diet:
http://www.animatorisland.com/what-is-mermay/
The legendary animator Tom Bancroft has a challenge for you this month! Come check it out and join in.
Over on his Instagram account, Tom has created #MerMay, a drawing challenge that invites you to “post a new mermaid drawing every day in May.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-waxman/a-letter-to-our-middlesce_b_14263078.html
As a middlescent you are living through a time of growth and change—you may complain to one another that your body is morphing -it takes more time, energy and attention to cultivate your vitality. You know you aren’t young anymore and you also aren’t old in any way shape or form. Your relationships will certainly be shifting...sound anything like the life stage of your daughters—adolescence?
No surprise. The stage you are in, Middlescence, may be best understood as something akin to a second adolescence, but with wisdom. Between the ages of about 45-65, middlescence is marked by an increased ambition to find or create meaning in your life. Often accompanied by physical, social and economic changes, it is a turning point from which you continue to develop and grow—yes there is so much life to be had and learning to come!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-waxman/a-letter-to-our-middlesce_b_14263078.html
As a middlescent you are living through a time of growth and change—you may complain to one another that your body is morphing -it takes more time, energy and attention to cultivate your vitality. You know you aren’t young anymore and you also aren’t old in any way shape or form. Your relationships will certainly be shifting...sound anything like the life stage of your daughters—adolescence?
No surprise. The stage you are in, Middlescence, may be best understood as something akin to a second adolescence, but with wisdom. Between the ages of about 45-65, middlescence is marked by an increased ambition to find or create meaning in your life. Often accompanied by physical, social and economic changes, it is a turning point from which you continue to develop and grow—yes there is so much life to be had and learning to come!
For those of you not fluent in It Tints: Millennial pink is the pale, blush-peach-salmon-baby pink hue that's on everything from home goods to tote bags. It's also known as Tumblr Pink or Rose Quartz. We were warned to expect it in fall 2015, when Pantone decreed it to be one of the colors of the year for 2016.
And Pantone's color forecasters looked like geniuses when it broke out big. According to color forecasters, this pink was the right hue at the right time: the muted tone reflects "society's understanding of femininity ... changing the way people think about the female experience."
As a result of its timeliness, millennial pink is the icy hue that refuses to go away in 2017 -- it's selling bigger than anything in green, which was supposed to be the It Color for 2017, a sort of "Well, that was a crazy year! Aren't we all glad we're chill and into saving the environment now?" palate cleanser after society had finished wrestling with questions of how we define gender.
https://qz.com/592710/why-some-koreans-make-10000-a-month-to-eat-on-camera/
I am frequently asked why Koreans are so weird. Just as soon as I think I have an answer, some new trend materializes that subverts all previous theories. Take, for example, mukbang, a uniquely Korean trend of people getting paid to eat large meals in front of a webcam for a live-streaming broadcast. Wow, the future really is now.
Mukbang is a portmanteau word that combines the Korean word for “eat” (muok-da) with the word for “broadcast” (bang song). The top mukbang earners can earn as much as $10,000 a month by some accounts, not including sponsorships. The oddest part of their payment structure is that it’s not pay-per-view, ad-based, or salary-based. Rather, ordinary viewers voluntarily send their favorite BJs (which stands for Broadcasting Jockey, a uniquely Korean use of this acronym) money in the form of “star balloons”—a type of proprietary virtual currency that can be bought and sold with regular fiat cash.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/15193930.The_secret_to_happiness_____short_naps/
Scientists have discovered a link between happiness and short naps. And they have coined a new word to describe the contented state that follows a brief daytime doze: nappiness.
https://medium.com/@nickbkim/why-were-closing-walnut-a452225e7127
We learned through our needfinding process that not knowing who will show up on moving day can be a stressful part of the experience. To address this, we sent photos and bios of our moving teams before every move. Meeting their movers in advance gave Walnut customers peace of mind.
http://ariaste.tumblr.com/post/163697878524/ariaste-ariaste-the-opposite-of-grimdark-is
Here I am with more addendums to this post: Seems like a lot of people are saying the word “noblebright” at me, and I just want to be really clear about this: Noblebright is not hopepunk. Noblebright does not espouse the same ideals that hopepunk does. They are two distinct, separate, coexisting things.
Noblebright is Arthurian legends. The world is a good place, people are essentially good. The codes of chivalry are in full effect. People in positions of authority are there because they are wise, prudent, caring leaders. They rule because they deserve to rule. They protect the weak, they uphold their ideals, there’s people practicing chaste courtly love in every bower and garden. Things are fine, and people have adventures in which they triumph because (see: all of the above).
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/693n3a/im_officially_a_nocoiner_sold_all_my_remaining/
Im officially a nocoiner. Sold all my remaining coins
http://blog.foodnetwork.com/healthyeats/2014/09/13/meet-nutritional-yeast-thats-nooch-for-short/
Although it shares a name with the same stuff used to get bread to rise, nutritional yeast is a deactivated form of yeast. So it’s not a leavening agent and it won’t froth when it hits liquid. And because it is not derived from animal or wheat products, it’s considered vegan and it’s also gluten-free. You’ll find it in both powder and flake forms, in bulk bins of health food stores and in shaker bottles. And as for the less-than-fun name, the vegan blogosphere has taken care of that by nicknaming the stuff “nooch.”
(Short for chicken nuggets.)
https://twitter.com/carterjwm/status/849813577770778624
HELP ME PLEASE. A MAN NEEDS HIS NUGGS
http://www.theroot.com/i-tried-it-bacon-is-the-sza-of-meats-1819411377
Anyway, I want to make it clear before my co-workers tarnish my name that I am in no way dissing bacon, but what they not finna do is have me out here needing a stint in my aorta because I’m outchea sampling bacon flavors trying to find the right one. Bacon is cool. Sza is straight.
https://www.seeker.com/health/90-percent-of-american-men-may-be-overfat
In other words, a person whose body weight is “normal” might have enough excess abdominal fat on his or her body to create health risks, while other people — in particular, athletes — might be technically “overweight” by standard measurements, but much healthier.
Laursen and his colleagues want everyone — doctors, nutritionists, and the rest of us — to start using a new word he says more accurately describes the problem: overfat.
https://www.nytimes.com/guides/travel/how-to-pack-a-suitcase
Packing cubes: Inexpensive fabric containers (square or rectangular) that zip closed and fit into carry-on bags and suitcases are an efficient way to separate and organize items for multiple family members, said Rainer Jenss, the president and founder of the Family Travel Association, a trade group. “Each person gets his or her own cube so you know exactly whose stuff is whose,” he said.
http://www.businessinsider.com/companies-give-employees-pawternity-leave-2017-3
Puppies need time to settle into their new home and bond with their owners. They've probably just been taken from their mothers and introduced to a brand new environment, so there's likely to be a lot of crying. And that's before you can even think about house-training.
As it turns out, some companies sympathise with this transition and offer what's known as "pawternity leave." In fact, research from Petplan found that 5% of owners have been offered paid leave from their job to adjust to their pet owning duties.
https://themeaningofbisexuality.tumblr.com/post/147553978486/what-tf-is-perisex
What tf is perisex
It’s one of the words proposed by the intersex community to refer to someone who isn’t intersex, much like cis refers to someone who isn’t trans.
The other words I’ve seen around are endosex and dyadic, and they all seem to have pros and cons and there’s not been a great deal of consensus about what word would work best.
Living with an abusive and controlling partner can feel like living in a cult—except lonelier. Victims' ** own viewpoints, desires, and opinions may fade as they are overwhelmed by the abusers'. Over time, they may lose a sense that they even have a right to their own perspectives. This is called perspecticide—the abuse-related incapacity to know what you know (Stark, 2007). Perspecticide is often part of a strategy of coercive control that may include manipulation, stalking, and physical abuse:
http://corporate.ford.com/innovation/petextrian.html
One pedestrian is injured in a motor vehicle crash every eight minutes, a number that’s been on the rise in recent years. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has equated this increase in injuries to a global influx of “petextrians” – pedestrians who simultaneously walk and text. This, combined with the rise of distracted driving due to smartphones, created a massive new safety problem for drivers and pedestrians alike.
http://mashable.com/2017/08/01/plandid-instagram-trend/#.wMIJZNFdmqM
So, what exactly are plandids? The word is a portmanteau of "planned" and "candid," which kinda sounds like a contradiction in terms. The idea is to post "as if you didn't know the picture was being taken, but you're still posing," according to Instagrammer Maria Gillett.
pooner = someone who pays for sex — same as a john?
"pooning" = seeing sex workers/paying for sex
If you spend hours in front of the mirror each day poring over the little openings on the top of your skin and willing them to disappear before you take an Instagram selfie, you're not alone.
In fact, obsessing over our pores - from the size to the number of them - is the beauty industry's latest preoccupation.
This is so much the case that dermatologists have coined a word for this pore fixation - 'porexia'.
Powell’s Pottery Barn rule—“you break it, you own it”—is one of the iconic rhetorical flourishes of the Iraq War era, representing warnings ignored and unintended consequences unleashed. It turns out that the Pottery Barn rule is neither Powell’s nor Pottery Barn’s, as the following exchange with interviewer Walter Isaacson made clear.
https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/5/11/15587088/prestige-tv
In recent weeks, the knives have come out for so-called “prestige TV,” the high-toned cable and streaming dramas that drive so much discussion on the internet and earn so much attention from the media.
http://seattle.eater.com/2016/10/4/13163348/anchorhead-coffee-cafe-open
The retail location serves Anchorhead's coffee, from espresso to bottled and cold brew on draft, plus beer and wine in the evenings. In the morning, look for pastries from Salmon Berry Goods that are baked in-house: sausage-fennel scones, bacon biscuits, cardamom buns. There's also a "quaffle," baked to order, which is constructed of a croissant dough that's rolled like a cinnamon roll, smashed on the waffle iron, and served with maple syrup.
http://www.iupui.edu/~idd/active_learning/quescussion.html
First, the professor explains the rules of quescussion, which are:
Everything said must be in the form of a question.
Participants must wait until four (this number can vary with the size of the class) other people have spoken before they can speak again.
Statements in the form of questions are not allowed (e.g. “All professors wear polyester, don’t they?”).
If someone makes a statement, the rest of the class is to shout “Statement." (The exercise is self-policing.)
Is it Terrible Christmas Movie season already? Seems like Terrible Halloween Movie season just ended. The first of 2017’s miserable entries is this grim sequel to last year’s modestly amusing “moms gone wild” raunch-com that thrived on chemistry between harried Mila Kunis, subservient Kristen Bell and reckless Kathryn Hahn.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-weird-things-you-learn-growing-up-in-melting-pot-city/
It's okay to be a refugee. You wouldn't know that if you lived in a city filled with them. But what you really don't want to be is a "ref," and you don't ever want to be caught acting "reffy." That's the slang term Miamians created to divide themselves from a certain type of Latin American newcomer who hasn't quite gotten the hang of American life yet. Even minority groups that have been traditionally oppressed and segregated in America manage to find ways to oppress and segregate amongst their own. I'm going to launch that sentence into space as a warning for any incoming armadas of aliens looking to make friends.
http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a44886/stealthing-is-not-a-trend-its-sexual-assault/
The reality is that, stripped of its trendy new name, "stealthing" is a common form of domestic violence, which is typically called "reproductive coercion." It includes, not just removing or sabotaging condoms, but a wide array of tactics intended to sabotage birth control or render it unavailable. "Reproductive coercion" cases are hard to take to court—either because the laws don't exist, or because the cases are difficult to prove—but it's still regarded as unambiguously abusive. It's also common: In 2010, the National Domestic Violence Hotline surveyed 3,169 women, and found that a quarter of them had been ordered not to use birth control. In another survey, 16 percent of women reported that their partners "poked holes in condoms, hid birth-control pills, or threatened them if the women didn't get pregnant."
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flameless-cremation-funeral-homes-alkaline-hydrolysis
Technically called “alkaline hydrolysis,” the process of using nothing more than water, heat, and a small amount of chemicals to break down a body is also known as “bio-cremation,” “resomation,” or simply, “flameless cremation.”
https://www.inlander.com/spokane/an-indomitable-spirit/Content?oid=6265584
Breathe is almost (and yet in no way inappropriately) fun. Thanks to Robin's activism, the British press coined a new word — "responaut" — for people reliant on respirators but not letting that stop them from living. The resolute, cheeky intrepidness of that wonderful word is all over this movie.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/3/16091744/voxcare-senate-right-to-try-bill
You might have heard of the "right-to-try" movement. The gist of it is: Terminally ill patients should be given wide latitude to try out unproven treatments if they have exhausted all their other options.
More than 30 states have passed a "right-to-try" bill, often favored by more libertarian-minded people, and now the Senate has too. Supporters portray it as a humanitarian exercise for people with no other hope that removes the risk of a bureaucracy getting in their way.
Yesterday I learned a new word: sanguinarian. It’s as bad as it sounds, as I discovered in the secret vampire group, where 2,000 group members exchange resources for best ways to find willing human donors for their blood consumption and how to keep the habit a secret from their immediate circles who would never understand what it’s like to be an actual vampire. It’s an elevated life form, one that common folk could never understand. But still not hurting anyone…okay, well at least not without their consent. So what’s the problem?
http://www.entertainmentsa.co.za/lol/memes-reason-satafrika-no-chill-check/
While every day is a different crisis in ‘’SATAFRIKA,’’ the world of memes keeps on growing into a no-chill zone that finds humour in everything and everyone. Whether you are Jacob Zuma, Malusi Gigaba or Unathi Msengana, when it is time for social media to roast and meme-fy you afterwards, your status or money won’t be able to save you!
Although the syndrome is rare, enough patients have visited Scripps Mercy Hospital that led the emergency room staff to dub the symptoms of CHS—screaming and vomiting—into a new word: “scromiting,” Lev said.
Chalfonte LeNee Queen, a 48-year-old woman living in San Diego, experienced “scromiting” for nearly two decades.
First use? Elayne Boosler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElayneBoosler/status/797658318411960324
1/20/17, when our classy POTUS & FLOTUS are replaced by SCROTUS and HOTUS. #nevertrump
From Dec 15 2016, "Supremely Corruptible Ruler of the United States"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debra-jane-campbell/its-the-little-things-fro_b_13642952.html
I have been reminded of Roger Boisjoly recently as I see our current President-Elect crossing some ethical lines that others have not crossed in the past and I worry that we are taking baby steps in a very dangerous direction. I fear that instead of choosing the next President of the United States (POTUS), the electoral college is about to vote for a man who could become known as SCROTUS - Supremely Corruptible Ruler of the United States.
https://nypost.com/2017/12/15/selfitis-is-a-genuine-mental-disorder/
Are you obsessed with taking selfies?
Chances are you might have “selfitis” — a genuine mental condition that makes a person feel compelled to constantly take photos and post them on social media, psychologists say.
The term has been around since 2014 to describe obsessive selfie-taking but has not been backed by science until now.
http://tinyletter.com/jessamyn/letters/tilt-35-solo-yolo-librarianship-stories
One of my special skills is identifying and remediating shameholes. I wish I had taken an "after" photo of this under-desk nook, because it is now a thing of beauty. Nearly every library has a space that looks like this. I also cleaned out the closet.
http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/03/thinx-employee-accuses-miki-agrawal-of-sexual-harassment.html
Agrawal, who responded to initial reports that she was out as CEO by saying she remained the “SHE-eo,” wrote a post on Medium to address the Racked and Jezebel stories: “MY THINX RIDE” is “a personal statement from me, Miki, as a human being, not as a representative of THINX,” in which she explains that she “was maniacally focused on top and bottom line growth and on our mission to break the taboo … Like any Co-Founder/CEO, all I did was the best I could under these crazy circumstances. Yes, I have made a TON of mistakes along the way but I can proudly say that our company has grown from an idea in my head to an innovation that is worn by millions of satisfied women globally in a few short years.”
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-03/08/c_136113199.htm
The "sheconomy" appeared as a new word in China in 2007 and refers to the new economy resulting from a rise in female consumers.
Over the past 10 years, the sheconomy has played significant role in boosting China's consumer market in sectors such as e-commerce, tourism, medical cosmetology as well as vocational education.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Slobbyist
Fat, middle aged trolls that hide behind an alias on escort review boards. Their purpose is to insult, defame and harm an adult entertainer’s reputation. Their misogynistic attitude is prevalent in their critically unflattering reviews and board posts.
http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/reese-witherspoon-on-films-smurfette-syndrome.html
Appearing at the TCAs, Witherspoon got candid about Hollywood's so-called "Smurfette Syndrome," wherein she was frequently the sole woman in the room. "For 25 years, I've been the only woman on set, so I had no other women to talk to ... They call it 'Smurfette Syndrome.' Because she's got a hundred Smurfs around her and she's the only girl," she explained.
http://www.thestranger.com/savage-love/2017/05/03/25119439/savage-love
We've been sleeping with another couple for three months (first time my BF and I opened our relationship). How do I suggest full penetration with the opposite partner? At this point, we just do oral and that's the "groove" we're in.
Only-oral-with-others may be this couple's preferred groove and the lane they want to stay in. If they're only up for the "soft swap," as it's known in swinging circles, penetration isn't gonna happen. But you should feel free to ask for what you want—at the very least, you'll get some long-overdue clarity about their boundaries.
http://www.etiquettehell.com/?p=5120
In the new trend called “sologamy,” women are committing themselves to themselves with their own wedding ceremony. These women, such as self-styled “sologamist” Erika Anderson, throw on a white gown, invite their close friends and family and marry themselves in a legally nonbinding way.
http://www.etiquettehell.com/?p=5120
In the new trend called “sologamy,” women are committing themselves to themselves with their own wedding ceremony. These women, such as self-styled “sologamist” Erika Anderson, throw on a white gown, invite their close friends and family and marry themselves in a legally nonbinding way.
https://younginrome.com/2012/01/19/word-of-the-day-squillo/
Apart from sounding like some dirty act, ‘squillo‘ is one of the most useful words in the Italian vocabulary, in my opinion. What does it mean, you ask?! Well since there is no exact translation into English, it means, ‘call someone on his or her cellphone, let it ring 1-3 times, and then hang up.’ This will let your friend know that you have arrived at your previously agreed upon destination.
http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a44886/stealthing-is-not-a-trend-its-sexual-assault/
But, though "sex trend" coverage is always obnoxious, it becomes downright dangerous when it obscures and trivializes sexual violence. The latest instance: "stealthing," a practice in which men remove their condoms during sex without their partner's consent. It's drawn plenty of overheated coverage already: The New York Post dubs it "The New Dangerous Sex Trend;" it's a "Disturbing Sex Trend" as per USA Today. You would hardly know from these headlines what the fuss is about: National Women's Law Center fellow Alexandra Brodsky's recent paper in the Columbia Journal of Law and Gender advocates for criminalizing "stealthing" as a form of sexual assault.
http://tinyletter.com/TwoBossyDames/letters/pandas-sunnies-nighies-oh-my
If eyes are the windows to the soul, then apparently nothing makes me feel more glamorous than HIDING my soul behind cheap sunglasses. I have been known to call sunnies season selfie season because once I have the right pair, I become incapable of NOT taking pictures of myself in them literally every second. The pair featured in all but one of these pictures is the pair of sunglasses I have been looking for since my Entirely Cliche Holly Golightly Obsession at 14, and they can be had on Amazon for just $9.99! I Which is very important, because the only thing I do more often than take selfies of my sunnies is lose them.
(Acronym: Sex Worker Exclusionary Radical Feminist)
https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/855470241798922241
"SWERFs" are exclusionary of sex workers; "AERFs" are exclusionary of ace and aro and aspec people. So "REGs" covers a spectrum.
Threatcasting emerged in 2007 as a variation on the futurecasting process that one of us, Brian, created when working as a futurist and trying to imagine what individuals would expect from their technology products in the future. Threatcasting is also a descendent of scenario planning, a tool that allows organizations to image a range of possible and probable futures based upon overlapping forces or trends. Imagine you’re a car company that envisions the possible futures of gas prices and the unemployment rate. If gas prices rise and unemployment falls, what might your sales look like? But what if both gas prices and unemployment rise? From these basic components, you can develop specific scenarios for your company and plan for them.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jul/04/50-shades-of-gay-review-rupert-everett
What about girls, you ask? Granted, this is mainly about chaps, but then so much of it is personal, and Rupert has more experience of being a gay man than he does of being anything else. And he does go to Hebden Bridge, lesbian capital of Britain, and meets some lovely women. And I learn a new word: tresbian. As in a male-to-female transgender woman who identifies as a lesbian. Rather than French – or Franglais, or even Polari possibly – for very good. Which this is.
For those of you not fluent in It Tints: Millennial pink is the pale, blush-peach-salmon-baby pink hue that's on everything from home goods to tote bags. It's also known as Tumblr Pink or Rose Quartz. We were warned to expect it in fall 2015, when Pantone decreed it to be one of the colors of the year for 2016.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/10/emma-watson-still-has-a-silicon-valley-boyfriend/
Tech nerds are now landing highly desirable actresses and models, and the Sun says a new word (maybe more a British term) has sprung up to describe these celebrity females who hook up with these men. These tech wives and girlfriends are called “twags.”
Being a twag is a “thing,” judging by the fact that there are a number of high-profile “twags” out there, as the Sun outlines.
Probably most high profile twag is Miranda Kerr, the Australian Victoria’s Secret model and ex-wife of Orlando Bloom. She’s engaged to Evan Spiegel, the 26-year-old billionaire founder of the Snapchat mobile app.
Breathing heavily on a phone call. (Came up in an IM.)
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/24/vanlife-the-bohemian-social-media-movement
Scroll through the images tagged #vanlife on Instagram and you’ll see plenty of photos that don’t have much to do with vehicles: starry skies, campfires, women in leggings doing yoga by the ocean. Like the best marketing terms, “vanlife” is both highly specific and expansive. It’s a one-word life-style signifier that has come to evoke a number of contemporary trends: a renewed interest in the American road trip, a culture of hippie-inflected outdoorsiness, and a life free from the tyranny of a nine-to-five office job.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/annehelenpetersen/wackadoodles-north-idaho
The “whiteopia” of North Idaho has become one of the most desirable places in the West for conservatives to relocate. So why is the local Republican party tearing itself apart — and who’s responsible?
http://neguswhoread.com/wypipo-explained/
Why not just say “white people?” Again, because Black people are cool as fuck. Also, just because the terms are derivatives of each other, doesn’t mean they are the same thing. Wypipo are different from White People.
Do tell. How so? Well, first of all, Wypipo say shit like “do tell,” whereas there are a number of white people who would never utter that phrase. To understand fully, you must come to terms with one fact:
Not all white people are wypipo.
The two should not be confused or used interchangeably.
https://www.good.is/articles/generation-xennials
Between Generation X and the Millennials, there’s a group of people currently in their late 20s and early 30s who don’t identify with either label. We call them the Xennials—a micro-generation that serves as a bridge between the disaffection of Gen X and the blithe optimism of Millennials. But why aren’t they as pissed off as Gen X or as confident as Millennials? Are they luckier than both the preceding and following generations? Or did they get screwed that much harder, thanks to a unique combination of developmental milestones and world events? Our authors, born on either end of the four-year-window, disagree.
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/xicano/
The transition of the spelling from Chicano to Xicanx(a/o), which is by no means total, is in large part due to the rise of Chicana Feminism, also known as Xicanisma. Ana Castillo, a pioneer author in the field, coined the term using an ”X” at the beginning instead of “Ch” as a means to more directly identify with the indigenous etymology of the term. Her works, along with many other Xicana authors, pushed the Xicano conversation into deeper consideration about the economic and cultural oppression of Latina women (who are still the most underpaid demographic in the United States) even within the Chicano Movement itself.
As Xicanista intellectuals incorporated queer and gender theory, the second “x” was used to be more inclusive of non-binary Xicanxs, as has occurred with the term Latinx. All these new considerations have transformed Chicanismo into a new Xicanismo.