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Word of the Evening

ruffriter — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:14:00 -0400

Flapples

Urban Dictionary’s definition:

1. Flapples

Flappy Nipples

Wow… did you ever see the Flapples on Simon Cowell? DISGUSTING!

2. flapples

1: the folds of baby fat underneath a child’s arms that are an obvious precursor to childhood obesity, possibly even diabetes and depression. (If you have flapples you should see the treadmill at your local gym immediately)

“Dude, you know the honey boo boo child has some wicked mad flapples.”

A good rule is to never have flapples.

Word of the Day

ruffriter — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:52:04 -0400

Cockalorum

Mac Dictionary’s definition:

noun ( pl. -rums ) informal dated
a self-important little man.

ORIGIN early 18th cent.: an arbitrary formation from cock 1.

cock 1
noun
1 a male bird, esp. a rooster.
• [in combination ] used in names of birds, esp. game birds, e.g., moorcock.
• Brit. a male lobster, crab, or salmon.

Do you know any cockalorums?

Fucking Isn't Lovemaking

ruffriter — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:11:11 -0400

Despite contradiction, fucking isn’t lovemaking. Why? Well, that’s a good question.

The reason is that when you make love, you’re actually doing that: making love; creating love with another, participating in love because you love them.

If you write that you fucked them, all that meaning is lost.

Fucking is what pornstars do. Fucking is for one night stands that are meaningless sex. You should call it fucking whenever you do it with someone without love.

Fucking is really just consented rape. I mean, think about this way, what’s better:

“We fucked” or “We made love”?

I would think “we made love” as “we fucked” sounds so harsh when someone says it. But if you said “we made love” when you clearly didn’t, well, you’re just lying to yourself, whoever you were with, and whoever you’re telling.

Here’s a passage from my novel Drunk to help you understand love better:

I was now lying in bed with Blaire, with the sheets overtop of us. We had done it, but very slowly. And as the stereotypical man would want to go in fast and hard, it felt so romantic and loving. With my skin pressed up against Blaire’s, it felt like the love from each of us was drifting into the other. I now understand why it’s called “making love” because it seemed any love for each other we had had before, had been heightened and that we actually did feel love go through us.

I personally believe that you should never fuck someone but then I also believe you should never participate in meaningless sex so I think a lot of people would disagree with me here.

I believe that when you engage in sexual intercourse, it should be meaningful and it should be with someone you love. Otherwise, you’re just fucking.

Do it right,

-The Rufflovologist

Word of the Day

ruffriter — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:46:00 -0400

Pogonotrophy

Urban Dictionary’s definition:

The act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair.

Sam Brinkley was perhaps the world’s greatest authority on pogonotrophy. That’s right, pogonotrophy, the science of beard growing. Sam didn’t start out to be an authority. As a young man he simply became disgusted with the speed with which his beard grew. Twice a day he had to shave the stubble from his face. So, in his early twenties he got mad and quit shaving, his wife’s protests to the contrary. His beard grew and grew — down to his chest, down to his navel and down to his waist.
Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State, by Dr H G Jones, 2007.

Do you participate in pogonotrophy?

Word of the Evening

ruffriter — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:13:52 -0400

Ferocious

Mac Dictionary’s definition:

adjective
savagely fierce, cruel, or violent : the wolverine is nature’s most ferocious and violent animal.
• (of a conflict) characterized by or involving aggression, bitterness, and determination : a ferocious argument.
• extreme and unpleasant : a ferocious headache.

DERIVATIVES
ferociously adverb
ferociousness noun
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin ferox, feroc- ‘fierce’ + -ious .

Are you ferocious?

Word of the Day

ruffriter — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:09:25 -0400

Incompatible

Mac Dictionary’s definition:

adjective
(of two things) so opposed in character as to be incapable of existing together : cleverness and femininity were seen as incompatible.
• (of two people) unable to live together harmoniously.
• [ predic. ] ( incompatible with) (of one thing or person) not consistent or able to coexist with (another) : long hours are simply incompatible with family life.
• (of equipment, machinery, computer programs, etc.) not capable of being used in combination : all four prototype camcorders used special tapes and were incompatible with one another.

DERIVATIVES
incompatibility |-ˌpatəˈbilitē| noun
incompatibly |-blē| adverb
ORIGIN late Middle English : from medieval Latin incompatibilis, from in- ‘not’ + compatibilis (see compatible ).

Who are you incompatible with?

Word of the Day

ruffriter — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:44:00 -0400

Natural Procrastination

Benjamin Gabbay’s definition:

an unintentional lethargy in accomplishing a task, stemming from necessary distractions and absence of mind (e.g. inability to find desktop icons, forgetting said tasks, informing Facebook comrades of progress).

Do you suffer from natural procrastination?

Does someone have autism or are they autistic?

salihdina — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 21:46:09 -0400

I have a younger sister with moderate to severe Autism, so I spend a lot of time interacting with the local “Autism community”, consisting of people who actually have the diagnosis, people who are biologically related to someone with the diagnosis, or people who work with someone with the diagnosis. Now, this has been a huge part of my life since my sister was born eighteen years ago; however, recently I was talking to an SEA (Special Education Assistant) about my autistic sister, only to be inturrupted with, “HAS Autism. Your sister HAS Autism, she is not autistic. You say that someone has cancer, not that they are cancerous, right? It’s just a feature of that person but it shouldn’t identify them.” In my bewilderment, I decided to pose this question to everyone else I know in the community: do you say that someone has Autism or that they are autistic?

Surprisingly, I got a bunch of mixed answers. From those individuals NOT on the autism spectrum, they agreed on saying that someone has autism. From individuals that ARE on the spectrum (from higher functioning individuals, as the lower functioning ones do not give two flying fucks), I got an overwhelming response from them that they ARE AUTISTIC. It is such a huge part of their identity that when people refer to them as being basically normal, but are burdened with “having Autism,” they are extremely hurt and offended.

The thing is, I’m wondering what extent this will be taken to. Is someone suicidal, or do they have suicidal tendencies? Is someone Asian, or do they display Asian-like features? Am I a dessertaholic, or do desserts strongly influence my life? Labels are already such a tender topic, but honestly, if we get so wrapped up in which is the politically-correct label to use or not to use, we lose sight of what really matters: the individual themselves, with or without their complications.

My sister is autistic, and she has Autism. Whatever. She’s still my sister, with or without a politically-correct label.

ruffriter: ruffpost: All I want in life is to be ultra fit and do nothing all day except eat...

salihdina — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:01:00 -0400

ruffriter:

ruffpost:

All I want in life is to be ultra fit and do nothing all day except eat unlimited amounts of food

Is that too much to ask for

You’d have to just constantly work out for that to work.

Are you trying to sneak in genuine logic into my misery

Word of the Day

ruffriter — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:49:54 -0400

Egregious

Mac Dictionary’s definition:

adjective
1 outstandingly bad; shocking : egregious abuses of copyright.

2 archaic remarkably good.

DERIVATIVES
egregiously adverb
egregiousness noun

ORIGIN mid 16th cent. (sense 2): from Latin egregius ‘illustrious,’ literally ‘standing out from the flock,’ from ex- ‘out’ + grex, greg- ‘flock.’ The derogatory sense (late 16th cent.) probably arose as an ironical use.

Have you found anything egregious lately?

All I want in life is to be ultra fit and do nothing all day except eat unlimited amounts of...

salihdina — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 02:15:58 -0400

All I want in life is to be ultra fit and do nothing all day except eat unlimited amounts of food

Is that too much to ask for

Word of the Day

ruffriter — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 14:48:29 -0400

Car

A vehicle that can take, gas, hydrogen or both, and electricity. Cars come in all shapes and sizes and many different colours too.

What kind of car do you have?

Word of the Day

ruffriter — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:12:02 -0400

Orpheus

Mac Dictionary’s definition:

a poet who could entrance wild beasts with the beauty of his singing and lyre playing. He went to the underworld after the death of his wife Eurydice and secured her release from the dead, but lost her because he failed to obey the condition that he must not look back at her until they had reached the world of the living.

DERIVATIVES
Orphean |-fēən| adjective

Do you know Orpheus?

Word of the Day

ruffriter — Fri, 31 May 2013 11:35:12 -0400

Countenance

Mac Dictionary’s definition:

noun
1 a person’s face or facial expression : his impenetrable eyes and inscrutable countenance give little away.

2 support : she was giving her specific countenance to the occasion.
verb [ trans. ]
admit as acceptable or possible : he was reluctant to countenance the use of force.

PHRASES
keep one’s countenance maintain one’s composure, esp. by refraining from laughter.
keep someone in countenance help someone to remain calm and confident : to keep herself in countenance she opened her notebook.
out of countenance disconcerted or unpleasantly surprised : I put him clean out of countenance just by looking at him.

ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French contenance ‘bearing, behavior,’ from contenir (see contain ). The early sense was [bearing, demeanor,] also [facial expression,] hence [the face.]

What kind of countenance do you give off?

Word of the Day

ruffriter — Wed, 29 May 2013 13:08:19 -0400

Elephantine

Mac Dictionary’s definition:

adjective
of, resembling, or characteristic of an elephant or elephants, esp. in being large, clumsy, or awkward : there was an elephantine thud from the bathroom.

ORIGIN early 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek elephantinos, from elephas, elephant- ‘elephant.’

Elephantine is also an island in Egypt in the Nile River in Nubia.

Have you been or been to elephantine?

Word of the Day

ruffriter — Tue, 28 May 2013 07:18:23 -0400

Hesitated

Mac Dictionary’s definition:

verb [ intrans. ]
pause before saying or doing something, esp. through uncertainty : she hesitated, unsure of what to say.
• [with infinitive ] be reluctant to do something : he hesitated to spoil the mood by being inquisitive.

PHRASES
he who hesitates is lost proverb delay or vacillation may have unfortunate or disastrous consequences.

DERIVATIVES
hesitater |-ˌtātər| noun
hesitatingly |-ˌtāti ng lē| adverb
ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from Latin haesitat- ‘stuck fast, left undecided,’ from the verb haesitare, from haerere ‘stick, stay.’

What have you hesitated from doing?

Word of the Day

ruffriter — Mon, 27 May 2013 19:01:00 -0400

Crimping

Mac Dictionary’s definition:

verb [ trans. ]
compress (something) into small folds or ridges : she crimped the edge of the pie.
• squeeze (metal) so as to bend or corrugate it.
• connect (a wire or cable) in this way.
• [often as adj. ] ( crimped) make waves in (someone’s hair) with a curling iron : crimped blond hair.
• informal have a limiting or adverse effect on (something) : farmers complain that the drought could crimp their income potential.

noun
a curl, wave, or folded or compressed edge : this cascade of delicate crimps depends on a perm | the wool had too much crimp to be used in weaving.
• a small connecting piece for crimping wires or lines together.
• informal a restriction or limitation : the crimp on take-home pay has been even tighter since taxes were raised.

PHRASES
put a crimp in informal have an adverse effect on : well, that puts a crimp in my theory.

DERIVATIVES
crimper noun
crimpy adjective

ORIGIN Old English gecrympan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch krimpen ‘shrink, wrinkle.’ Of rare occurrence before the 18th cent., the word was perhaps reintroduced from Low German or Dutch.

What are you crimping?

Word of the Evening

ruffriter — Sun, 26 May 2013 19:15:00 -0400

Shniggly

When you go to have a giggle but it comes out all shitty.

I’ve had a few of these.

This word was created by my friend Sam Ghiran. You can create words too. Just submit your madeup word to The Ruffetting Post and it can become the next word of the day.

Have you had shnigglies?

I’m curious. Let’s take a vote and see what people think are real or not: - Depression...

salihdina — Thu, 23 May 2013 16:34:00 -0400

I’m curious. Let’s take a vote and see what people think are real or not:

- Depression

- Anxiety

- ADHD (or ADD for that matter)

- Homosexuality

- Global Warming

- Learning Disabilities (dyslexia, etc)

You can reply here, or reblog and add comments. As a psych major I’m ultra curious about this.

DO YOU EVENTUALLY WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN?

salihdina — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:24:46 -0400

Well, here’s a list of HOW TO RAISE YOUR POTENTIAL OFFSPRING

To do when raising kids:

1. Love them. Love the living shit out of them. Who cares if they’re prostituting themselves for a McDonalds cheeseburger, just tell them, “I don’t approve of that behaviour but I still love you as a person.” Easy as that.

2. Put them on a team sport. Whether it be softball, soccer, water polo or what the fuck ever, just get them involved so they can at least have some sort of ability to actively socialize with people and not make a total fool of themselves.

3. LISTEN. This can’t be emphasized enough. Liiiiisten listen listen to them; how else are you supposed to get effective feedback? Let them tell you about their shitty drawing that they’re so proud of. Let them tell you about that person they’re banging. Let them tell you about the drugs they’ve tried. Just LISTEN, for fucks sake, and let them feel important enough for your undivided attention.

4. Don’t have kids if you’re not going to be open to everything about them. If they’ll be gay, if they’ll be a goth, if they’ll have Down Syndrome or Autism or ADHD or be a conservative or a communist, you better damn well be ready to deal with that. If not, then what are you doing, hoping nurture will win over nature? Don’t count on it, friend.