fiction lag

The temporary change in personality that occurs after being deeply involved with a movie, book, game, or some other work of fiction.

Can also be expanded to nonfiction ("documentary lag" or some other variant), but is less common because those works are typically experienced through the frame of the reader/player/watcher's default personality.

CHRIS: Don't think. Don't hesitate. Just say it.

ASHLEY: Why are you talking like that?

CHRIS: What?

ASHLEY: You sound like a movie trailer. Is this because you just finished watching Fight Club?

CHRIS: Uhh... yeah I guess I'm a little fiction lagged.

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pedohysterics

Hair-trigger accusations of pedophilia. Usually, this accompanies a "you're with us or you're with the pedophiles" false dichotomy style of thought, not unlike "you're with us or you're with the terrorists."

Alt: pedohysteria

Person: Can we please have a rational discussion about the consequences of running a sex offender list?

Pedohysterics: Why? That sounds like something a pedophile would say. Only pedophiles and pedo apologists would want a list like that gone.

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Metaoffended

Being offended at offense, usually when the metaoffendee feels that another's offense is highly unjustified.

CHRIS: You're gay? You offend me.

JOHN: Are you fucking serious? You're offended at that? I'm metaoffended.

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illeglawl

A kind of illegality that is laughed at, rather than taken seriously. alt spelling: illeglol

A: Isn't it illegal to honk like that?

B: Probably. More importantly, it's illeglawl.

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illeglol

A kind of illegality that is laughed at, rather than taken seriously.

alt spelling: illeglawl

A: Isn't it illegal to honk like that?

B: Probably. More importantly, it's illeglol.

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self-misconception

A false belief of the self. If exposed, can lead to existential embarrassment.

Susan believed she had mastered writing due to the grades she earned in high school, but was wrought with existential embarrassment when her self-misconception was brought to light after receiving a C on her first college paper.

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syrup summary

A definition or summary of something in the most agreeable terms possible, omitting the nuances of ideology or the specifics of policy.

syrup summary of libertarianism: "we like freedom."

syrup summary of democrats: "we dislike inequality."

syrup summary of republicans: "we like America."

syrup summary of feminism: "we want equality for women."

syrup summary of white supremacists: "we like white culture."

syrup summary of Bush-era foreign policy: "we don't like terrorists."

syrup summary of MADD: "we don't like drunk driving accidents."

syrup summary of NRA: "we like freedom and safety."

syrup summary of PETA: "we oppose animal torture."

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