" discussion "

 [ "discussion" ]

1: Also known as a "we need to talk" situation. It means you're in trouble, or you're being dumped... you poor, poor dear.

  * e.g.,  ... She said we needed to have a discussion and next thing I knew... my clothes were all being tossed out the window... (usually in this context over beers) 

 [ "discussion" ]

1: An interplay between a man and a woman, in which a woman talks while a man tunes her out and grunts occassionally to create the illusion that he is paying attention. The woman may interpret these grunts in any way she wishes. Discussions are inherently dangerous to men, because they may unknowingly agree to things that lead to unlpeasant surprises later.

  * e.g.,  ... Male: What do you mean you stopped taking birth control? 

 [ "discussment" ]

1: Half way between a discussion and an argument. A heated discussion and mild argument.

  * e.g.,  ... We were having a discussment about todays football game. 

 [ "discuss" ]

1: Term used on forums by people that don't have anything useful to say and are asking other people to reply with something useful which they can absorb in their more than likely empty head.

  * e.g.,  ... o my gawd i saw britney shaved her haid!!!! 

 [ "</discussion>" ]

1: "And that's the end of that."

  * e.g.,  ... It's an awful movie and anyone who thinks otherwise should die a slow, painful death. 

 [ "</discussion>" ]

2: Term is mainly used in forums and instant messaging, to show the source's opinion that what he has just said is the be all/end all truth, he has spoken, and that all further discussion might as well stop.

  * e.g.,  ... </discussion> 

 [ "</discussion>" ]

3: It can also be spelt /discussion.

 [ "[/discussion]" ]

1: spoof of BBCode tags on a forum used to boldly say "end of discussion"

  * e.g.,  ... we aren't going. 

 [ "Discuss" ]

1: What should you do in an Among Us emergency meeting

  * e.g.,  ... Emergency meeting! Discuss! Who is the impostor? 

 [ "rainfall discussion" ]

1: A rational dialogue in which all the bullshit gets washed away, and straightforwardness is valued over emotional manipulation. Alludes to the gentle fall of rain, as rational discourse is more cleansing and beneficial than typical heated arguments driven by anger.

  * e.g.,  ... Instead of another rant, let's try and have a rainfall discussion about Islam. Both sides are much too emotionally charged to make any real progress. 

 [ "Ugandan discussions" ]

1: "Ugandan discussions" is a euphemism for sex coined during the early 1970s by the satirical British magazine "Private Eye". The basis of the term arose at a party in London hosted by Neal Ascherson at which Irish moralist and journalist Mary Kenny, during her early, wild phase, spent some time upstairs with a former Ugandan government minister. On rejoining the other guests, Kenny explained their absence by saying they were "upstairs discussing Uganda".

  * e.g.,  ... — Where are they? 

 [ "Rainfall Discussion" ]

1: a rainfall discussion is a rational discussion where all the bullshit rhetoric eventually erodes and washes away during the conversation

  * e.g.,  ... Extremist ideas can never survive a Rainfall Discussion. they only exist by suppressing dissent