"Just fucking wow." An expression of disbelief over something truly amazing, astounding, or mind-bogglingly stupid.
"Did you see how much taxpayer money the Obamas are spending on their Martha's Vineyard -- while even the rich gomers that live there are hurting in this economy? JFW."
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A consequence of random chance (a force which affects everyone equally and is therefore the fairest thing in life) (contrary to the bitching, whining, moaning and complaining of people who think it's "unfair" that other people make more effective use of luck than they do) (seriously, the difference between "bad" luck and "good" luck is WORK) (dammit).
"So he and I found a bundle of $100 bills, and we split them up evenly, and he spent his on women and booze while I invested mine and got rich, and now he's pissed off because I was 'lucky.'"
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"Too stupid; didn't read." Used to warn new visitors to a site that one of the regular denizens habitually makes comments lacking in factual basis, logic, or perspective. Plays on "tl;dr," frequently used as a criticism of commenters who post walls of text to make points unworthy of the time either to write or read.
I see our usual font of idiocy has posted another ts;dr comment. If you value your brain cells you'll skip reading it.
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The condition of being unable to control spending, often extending even to the point of printing more money just to spend it.
"How did we get more than $16 trillion in debt? Could it be because of the federal government's dollarrhea?"
A holder of any one of myriad possible jobs in the field of journalism, from the noble reporter of news on down to the gossip columnist or the sleazeball who puts his byline on a press release and submits it unaltered for publication. Derives from the verb "to journalize," which shares with the public's respect for journalists the fact of being non-existent. For reasons as yet undetermined, actual respectable reporters have even embraced this vacuous label.
From what he told me about his job I thought he was some kind of hard-nosed reporter dedicated to getting at the truth and telling it to the public -- but when I asked him again what he told me was, he was a journalist. So I shot him in the head.
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Someone who insists on referring to Tea Party activists as "teabaggers" because of the word's pre-existing sexual connotation. Derives from some TP sympathizers' response of inviting such persons to suck their 'nads.
You're never going to convince that guy to stop calling you a teabagger because he's a habitual nadsucker hoping to score.
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1. Mismanagement that is clearly deliberate and malicious.
2. Innocently incompetent mismanagement that has such detrimental consequences that it could not be worse if it were deliberate and malicious.
3. (proper) A specific administration that meets either of the above definitions.
We still have two and a half more years of the Obama Maladministration ahead of us, but fortunately I can see 2012 from my house.
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