Concepts that there needs to be a word for

– Having your shoelaces tied at different tensions so that your shoes vary in tightness between your left & right foot

– When you are wearing a long sleeved shirt & forget to hold onto the tips of your sleeves when you put on a coat, and the shirt sleeves get smooshed up high inside the coat sleeves

^wouldn't it be nice, if there was a word for that? Then you could say that word in a mournful tone and everyone would know what was happening to your sleeves.

– when you're suffering from gastric upset, and you decide to roll the dice and see if the reason is really just gaseous

diarrhea
diarrhea

– the really shitty moment when you have to admit you're actually sick, and that the symptoms you've been ignoring for days are actually A Thing

– the childhood paranoia that others around you are automatons or living a performative existence only in your presence (as expressed multiple times in that 'childhood ideas' thread)

oh, oh

– when you're really sleepy and you get the giggles and maybe sometimes tunnel vision and some sort of disassociative fugue (the 'is this real?' moment)

why on earth do you people not own this

http://fugato.net/wp-content/deepermeaningofliff.jpg

recently i've gotten this one a lot:

– when you're reflecting on an emotionally-charged moment/fight from earlier in your life in which you perceive yourself as having been victimized only to realize 'wow, i was a huge cock and probably the villain in that story' and then you feel like crap all over again for something that happened when you were, like, a teenager

- when you're so tired you can't pass out and you just sit about in bed thinking 'where the fuck are you, sleep?'

– When you are wearing a long sleeved shirt & forget to hold onto the tips of your sleeves when you put on a coat, and the shirt sleeves get smooshed up high inside the coat sleeves

― blah blah blah my entire life happened to me once (Abbbottt), Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:16 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

HATE THIS

isn't that called insomnia?

– when you're reflecting on an emotionally-charged moment/fight from earlier in your life in which you perceive yourself as having been victimized only to realize 'wow, i was a huge cock and probably the villain in that story' and then you feel like crap all over again for something that happened when you were, like, a teenager

I call that one "that nervous breakdown I had my sophomore year"

i call it sobriety.

there should be a word for that move dogs make when they lift one leg to pee and then switch and lift the other leg to finish peeing

guess that's not exactly a concept tho

– the childhood paranoia that others around you are automatons or living a performative existence only in your presence (as expressed multiple times in that 'childhood ideas' thread)

― blah blah blah my entire life happened to me once (Abbbottt), Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:20 PM (4 minutes ago)

solipsism, innit?

ha yeah but a specifically prepubescent solipsism with a little more wonderment & fear than vainglory

unevenly-tied shoelaces and scrunched-up sleeves are both horrible. also, when i was a little girl in nz we had to wear gumboots (rainboots) to walk a mile to school in wet weather and they were always too big and our thick socks would slide further and further down the boot until our feet were bare apart from a big uncomfortable clump of wool covering our toes, it was a nightmare for fusspots.

– Having your shoelaces tied at different tensions so that your shoes vary in tightness between your left & right foot

― blah blah blah my entire life happened to me once (Abbbottt), Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:15 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

I have this down to a science, there's some sort of slight 'protrusion' on my left foot that makes it uncomfortable if the shoe's too tight

"Having your shoelaces tied at different tensions so that your shoes vary in tightness between your left & right foot"
lace-ial discrimination

"– the really shitty moment when you have to admit you're actually sick, and that the symptoms you've been ignoring for days are actually A Thing"
an epiphlegmy

I am on an epiphlegmy as we speak. This thread is already paying off.

– when you're really sleepy and you get the giggles and maybe sometimes tunnel vision and some sort of disassociative fugue (the 'is this real?' moment)

The beginning stages of Astral Projection.

unevenly-tied shoelaces and scrunched-up sleeves are both horrible. also, when i was a little girl in nz we had to wear gumboots (rainboots) to walk a mile to school in wet weather and they were always too big and our thick socks would slide further and further down the boot until our feet were bare apart from a big uncomfortable clump of wool covering our toes, it was a nightmare for fusspots.

― estela, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 03:36 (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha oh man i know this feeling so well, when ever we went and visited our cousins who lived on a farm we would have to wear some hand-me-down gumboots that didnt fit v well + this would always happen.

the direction you turn the crank to get a car window down

When your teeth slip against each other and it feels horrible for about five minutes after.

http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml

The Meaning of Liff

– when you're reflecting on an emotionally-charged moment/fight from earlier in your life in which you perceive yourself as having been victimized only to realize 'wow, i was a huge cock and probably the villain in that story' and then you feel like crap all over again for something that happened when you were, like, a teenager

― they call him (remy bean), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 03:22 (9 hours ago)

A past incident where you were going to say/do something stupid, but you didn't actually say/do whatever it was. But you remember the incident and get embarrassed as though you did say/do something stupid.

The Meaning of Liff

― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 21:45 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sigh

Wait, that's the whole thing! On the internet! OMG

– when you find a piece of art (music, writing) you completed a few years ago and forgot about, and you think 'whoa, this is good'

– when you walk into a room full of coworkers, all jovial-like and energetic and say 'hey guys, what's going on?' or 'good morning!' and the people look up at you, all dim and gloomy, and they're all 'uh, hey' and you feel like a gauche idiot for trying to inject a little bit of happiness into life.

- the awkwardness you feel when you're eating a sandwich in polite company and you get a piece of bread stuck to the roof of your mouth and you have to do some serious tongue yoga behind your hand in order to shift the thing and all the while you're involuntarily making crazy eyes at your lunch partners

Isn't there already kind of a word for "concepts that there needs to be a word for"!?

Sniglets

!!!!!

- realising for a moment that your life is full of rich and cool things to be getting on with, and then suddenly gloom sets in as you cannot decide which one to start first.

the situation of thinking you have an absolutely full schedule and won't have time to do anything, when really the appointments and tasks you have to do in the day(s) ahead can be accomplished really quickly and so you actually have time on your hands.

"when you find a piece of art (music, writing) you completed a few years ago and forgot about, and you think 'whoa, this is good'"
-narcistolgia

"– When you are wearing a long sleeved shirt & forget to hold onto the tips of your sleeves when you put on a coat, and the shirt sleeves get smooshed up high inside the coat sleeves"
-unwanted biceps

– the childhood paranoia that others around you are automatons or living a performative existence only in your presence (as expressed multiple times in that 'childhood ideas' thread)

reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

- when you see someone else having a bad time and you take some pleasure in it

Schadenfreude?

- When whatever the latest of anything you've consumed (mostly media) is now offically YOUR FAVORITE.

Not that while in the midst of consumption are you going that "oh boy this is now my favorite" but more that this is the kind of shit first-dates ask and you really stopped cataloging these sort of things in, like, the 4th grade.

Like is green my favorite color? I mean fuck i guess. That shirt you're wearing - that color. Yeah, that's nice. (r u seduced?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StxizUfvtig

When you poop, flush, redress yourself, and then realize you also need to pee.

"L'esprit de meiere"

-the process of revisionism by which your waking mind edits a weird, impressionistic dream (or series of dreams) into an easy-to-follow narrative.

-the desperate muscle motions (toe wiggling, eye rolling) that you make in an effort to snap your body out of sleep paralysis

Is that possible, even? If you can wiggle things, you're already past sleep paralysis, I thought.

for me there's usually a point where I can move a few muscles (or at least imagine that I'm moving them) while most of my body remains paralyzed. at that point I'm almost past sleep paralysis but still immobile enough to be a little freaked out.

although at this point I tend to be more amused than freaked out by the whole process, since I'm aware of what's going on & am pretty sure I'm not either dying or permanently paralyzed.

"point" "point" "point"

is there a word for when your mind thinks keyboard shortcuts when doing things irl? I've thought control-z before when messing something up mechanically around the house.

-"macro"vision

nice

when you're watching a tv show or movie or reading a book and one of the characters experiences something really embarrassing or awkward and you feel such horrible sympathetic embarrassment for them that you have to stop watching / reading

-- of which I was reminded by:

when ramona the pest casually told her dad at dusk to switch on the dawnzer because she'd been singing at school, oh say can you see by the dawnzer lee light?

(i was an easily embarrassed child)

"one of the characters experiences something really embarrassing or awkward and you feel such horrible sympathetic embarrassment for them that you have to stop"

sounds like you've got "empatharalysis"

btw didn't the whole "dawnzer" situation come about because ramona had bullied her parents into letting her drop out of school, and somehow one month outside of structured education made her so stupid she started mishearing lyrics?

no, that is not how it happened in the book at all.

she also did things like think a "quarter past" meant 25 minutes after the hour instead of 15, because a quarter is 25 cents; such thinking caused her to be late for school.

didn't she also eat a pile of apples by taking the first bite and chucking the rest because the first bite was the sweetest?

i don't remember, but i know how you can find out

http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/readingrainbow_lavar-234x300.jpg

there's definitely some anti-montessori schooling style sentiment in ramona the pest now that I think about it.
i'm worried my memories of beverly clearly will be tainted by a re-reading that reveals her to be a right-wing duck.
there should be a word for this.

There needs to be a word for that particular form of procrastination where I start a project, then start another project, and then another, so that I have several projects running simultaneously, so that if someone asks I can say "but look I'm really busy", when really I'm just buzzing between projects without doing much work on any of them.

That feeling when someone else told you they were doing something you knew would backfire, and you made doubtful but noncommital "oh uh well if you're sure" noises and flaked out on being their cartoon-style floating good conscience, and now you probably feel guiltier about it than they do

jiminy ah fuck it

When you're walking to your car in a crowded parking lot but you aren't planning to leave, and some driver sees you and thinks they're going to be able to take your spot, and you have to awkwardly and kind of guiltily wave them on.

stalking

Is there a word for people who you follow on social networks that shit up your feed with aggressive trivial nonsense but talk to you just enough that you would look heartless if you unfollowed them?

A word or phrase that gets stuck in your head – although it is an understandable phrase, something in it is just evocative enough to give it a koan-like quality. por ejemplo the phrase "respectable Republican cloth coat" from Nixon's Checkers speech – it enters my mind like a phantom and will just sit around haunting the joint with its strobe light contrasts between perfect lucidity and perfect wtf-ness.

when you have a social event at your house and you end up with random leftover foods and beverages that people brought over but weren't finished, some of which are things you like but wouldn't normally buy and some of which are things you don't like and are just going to sit there until you throw them out.

When it takes so long to get going and leave the house, or if you get stuck on a train, or so lost that you end up being SO LATE for an appointment it starts becoming like some epic dream from which you can't escape.

idiocy iirc

I find travel plans going wrong just about THE most stressful thing. Cannot deal with them, get massively upset quite out of proportion to how likely they are (fairly), or how much you can do about them (generally sod all, but yr mind fills with a ticker of increasingly stupid ways round it, none of which you're going to take as they're all very expensive and highly unlikely to work out any better, but your brain taunts you with that tiny possibility).

Sorry, that's nothing to do with the thread. As you were.

Odd bodily hairs that evade detection for *ages* and then you suddenly spot it in the mirror and it's huge and you think to yourself wtf, how long have I been walking around with this one weird and wiry whisker on my neck and why did no-one tell me I was slowly turning into a goat?

"Russell Brand"

word for surreptitious swipe one makes across one's crotch to verify that pants are zipped up