Invent your own idioms!

[Athena]

The sort of half knowledge that come of not really listening to what someone's saying.

To have a hole in one's bucket.


Letting food grow stale.

[JoB]

Letting food grow stale.

Schwammbert.

(Sorry, local in-joke. The kinda infamous-making stuff that happens when someone called Humbert puts a pot into the office fridge and somehow gets the idea he should treat the mold he discovers in the pot (much) later as sort of a pet. We intervened when the thing started to lift the lid off.)

The feeling when the cow-orkers not only ate the food that you wanted to bring your relatives on a vacation trip starting the next day, but somehow get the idea that praising how tasty it was would somehow count as an apology.

[Adrai Thell]

The feeling when the cow-orkers not only ate the food that you wanted to bring your relatives on a vacation trip starting the next day, but somehow get the idea that praising how tasty it was would somehow count as an apology.

Roasting marshmallows on a burning home.

The feeling when you walk into a room and realize that you know nobody there.

[Noodles]

The feeling when you walk into a room and realize that you know nobody there.

Being among goats.

When you look up and realise that you've been looking at the internet for a long time and it got dark out without you noticing

[Unwary]

When you look up and realise that you've been looking at the internet for a long time and it got dark out without you noticing

Pixel eclipse.

When you go to introduce two people, and realize you have forgotten both their names.

[urbicande]

Pixel eclipse.

When you go to introduce two people, and realize you have forgotten both their names.

Brain burps

To sit at work looking busy when you really have nothing to do.

This does NOT mean me today, why do you ask?

[Adriano]

To sit at work looking busy when you really have nothing to do.

This does NOT mean me today, why do you ask?

Faking communism

Feeling more sorry for the death of a troll than of a human

 [very SSSS-ish, yes x'D]

[Auleliel]

Faking communism

Feeling more sorry for the death of a troll than of a human

 [very SSSS-ish, yes x'D]

To go into Minnionized mourning.

The feeling you have while refreshing sssscomic.com...

[P__]

To go into Minnionized mourning.

The feeling you have while refreshing sssscomic.com...

acute effive-itis

The feeling when you've also been refreshing Hivemill.com for about 7 hours now and still don't know if you will be able to spend your money today or not

[Adriano]

acute effive-itis

The feeling when you've also been refreshing Hivemill.com for about 7 hours now and still don't know if you will be able to spend your money today or not

post-apocalyptic(al) insecurity

(since it's about the first book i guess ?)

That feelin when you're hungry and want to eat sweets, but you can't because you'll have dinner in an hour.

[Unwary]

That feelin when you're hungry and want to eat sweets, but you can't because you'll have dinner in an hour.

Meal-shift.

When you have three or more books you are reading, without finishing any of them, and you find a new one.

[JoB]

When you have three or more books you are reading, without finishing any of them, and you find a new one.

Standing on the backs of a bookshelf.

You have a task to do, alone, during non-office-hours, and technically everyone goes well except that the last step - the one that doesn't count against the official done-by-time anymore - takes 6+ hours instead of the expected 1-2. And could have been left running unattended if only you had suspected beforehand that you might want to walk away from it.

[Asterales]

You have a task to do, alone, during non-office-hours, and technically everyone goes well except that the last step - the one that doesn't count against the official done-by-time anymore - takes 6+ hours instead of the expected 1-2. And could have been left running unattended if only you had suspected beforehand that you might want to walk away from it.

Waiting out the troll, because three ugly fairies showed their goodwill.


Realizing that something you assumed to be (a rather stupid) prejudice is actually a thing.

[Noodles]

Realizing that something you assumed to be (a rather stupid) prejudice is actually a thing.

Finding a dead possum

Getting invested in a show/movie/webcomic/whatever without actually seeing it, just as second-hand fangirling from people you know

[Adriano]

Getting invested in a show/movie/webcomic/whatever without actually seeing it, just as second-hand fangirling from people you know

Getting Tuurized
(as in : getting involved into something by Tuuri's enthusiasm)

Escaping from a family dinner just to find out you left your fav books/games/whatever at home