26 definitions by Blue Jack
Where there seems to be an emotional connection or sexual tension between two characters from fiction, as if they could be in a relationship. Shippy scenes can inspire shipping.
by Blue Jack July 11, 2008
The crossover between physics and philosophy, like around the origins of the universe. Closer to mathematics than either of these disciplines.
Stephen Hawking is a philosophysicist - he is involved with philosophysics.
by Blue Jack August 13, 2008
"To bulk up a television news report with needless vox-pop soundbites from ill-informed members of the public." (Screen Wipe's Charlie Brooker)
To pebbledash the broadcast with the opinions of plebs.
To pebbledash the broadcast with the opinions of plebs.
The breakfast news is heavily plebbledashed. They seem to care more about the opinions of people texting in than they do about standards of reporting.
by Blue Jack May 4, 2009
TV show that attempts to tackle an issue, but is geared up more to entertain than to make a difference.
Originally coined by Screen Wipe's Charlie Brooker.
Originally coined by Screen Wipe's Charlie Brooker.
Did you see that issuetainment last night, where they made those fat kids do sports? They weren't trying to help them, just make them look silly on TV.
"The only solution is to find a new threat, which brings us to 'Ian Wright's Unfit Kids' (C4), a weekly 'issuetainment' programme in which the former footballer and renowned enemy of grammar forces a bunch of overweight youngsters to take part in some extracurricular PE." - Charlie Brooker, Screen Burn (9/16/2006)
"The only solution is to find a new threat, which brings us to 'Ian Wright's Unfit Kids' (C4), a weekly 'issuetainment' programme in which the former footballer and renowned enemy of grammar forces a bunch of overweight youngsters to take part in some extracurricular PE." - Charlie Brooker, Screen Burn (9/16/2006)
by Blue Jack October 12, 2008
"Dismal paparazzo whose career consists of lying in the gutter desperately pointing his camera up the skirts of celebrities exiting limousines."
Coined by Screen Wipe's Charlie Brooker.
Coined by Screen Wipe's Charlie Brooker.
The tabloids employ crotchdogs as the world has a right to see what Z-list celebs have under their miniskirts.
by Blue Jack March 29, 2009