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irrationalize

To explain behavior or attitude with illogical, implausible reasons.

"Because my closest friends will be there", she said, "everyone I most like spending time with", explaining why she refused to go to the party. He could counter any reasonable explanation with facts, but hearing her irrationalize, he became flummoxed and just gave in.

by Monkey's Dad March 15, 2020


thinkless task

An action requiring no concentration or cognition. Anything you find yourself doing without questioning whether it is necessary, productive, moral or life enhancing.

Making the bed at ten o'clock at night, knowing it would get messed up again in an hour, was one of the things a person did because they were a person who did things like that, one thinkless task among many, and ain't no use to wonder why.

by Monkey's Dad January 7, 2022


Sane Patrick's Day

The special day in mid-March when people do NOT gather in tightly-packed spaces to get drunk, yell, sing and generally breathe in each others' faces, because there is still a global pandemic.

With his six-pack of Guinness, he sat on his sofa to celebrate Sane Patrick's Day, and set his sights on next year.

by Monkey's Dad March 17, 2021


Quaranteenager

A person coming of age in the coronaviral age, home-schooled, missing out on dating, beer, pot and every other rite of social passage.

Watching "Clueless", "Ladybird" and "Booksmart" while in lockdown, she yearned to experience the geeky teen years which were her birthright and hated-hated-hated being a dorky quaranteenager.

by Monkey's Dad March 28, 2020

10πŸ‘ 3πŸ‘Ž


cyberotic

An erotic connection through Internet only.

He hadn't been in the presence of an actual woman for such a long while, yet he had a full cyberotic life, so much free time, nowhere to go, endless online porn.

by Monkey's Dad April 4, 2020


Bland Finale

Dashed expectations. A bit of a letdown.

The audience had been anticipating Clapton would close the concert with a soaring rendition of his number one megahit, not the bland finale of Layla performed on solo ukulele and a kazoo.

by Monkey's Dad February 27, 2020

5πŸ‘ 1πŸ‘Ž


new social norm

Once, the collective representation of acceptable group conduct, now the nullification of group conduct.

In spring of 2020, people the world over were forbidden to gather, instructed to stay away from each other at specified minimum distances. The new social norm during the age of coronavirus was that there was no social norm.

by Monkey's Dad April 10, 2020

2πŸ‘ 1πŸ‘Ž