{"id":32,"date":"2010-05-13T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyville.org\/xblkx\/?p=32"},"modified":"2019-05-06T22:01:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T03:01:16","slug":"ruint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"“Ruint”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I owe my dear friend April “Apes” Kincaid a debt of gratitude for teaching me that great word. I don’t really know how to define it, but I can describe it by example and I know when something is ruint<\/strong>. It doesn’t mean ruined or match any of the urban dictionary definitions. Try this example that just happened and made me want to write about it:<\/p>\n

So I have this “sort of” friend who calls from time to time, but she really just wants to pump me for information about life updates and gossip about people we know in common…. she doesn’t actually want to talk to me, and we don’t have much in common, and she is always elusive, doesn’t ever tell the truth (then wonders why I don’t believe a word she says), never answers a question straight up (changes the subject or talks about something unrelated).\u00a0 ‘She doesn’t take calls \/ she only makes calls’ [Killola reference], and she only calls me while driving (probably when no one else answered and I’m the last resort) then brags about some dickhead guy she hangs out with and…. never mind. I want to hear about that about as much as I enjoyed listening to everyone throwing up on South Park last night. Then, when I didn’t answer, she left a voicemail that was just four seconds of that farting noise that kids make. What did *I* do?!<\/p>\n

Ruint!<\/p>\n

One definition I wrote that’s close but not quite on is this:<\/p>\n

“Ruint” (adj.) pathetic and without foundation; irrelevant; consisting only of meaningless diversion or distraction.<\/p>\n

That definition came to me after reading a somewhat nonsensical article on Yahoo news about scientists who allegedly cooled atoms below absolute zero<\/a> (?).<\/p>\n

Like most of their articles, stupid people who can’t spell wrote completely worthless comments, references to politics, Obama, whose fault it is, that sort of thing.\u00a0 Ruint!<\/p>\n

I wrote in a reply to one of those comments:
\nAre you right?\u00a0 Who knows.\u00a0 But I thought this was supposed to be a science article.\u00a0 It’s definitely not a politics article.\u00a0 Right or wrong, these comments are off-topic and stupid.\u00a0 No wonder everyone who wants news and can spell is looking for a better source.
\nI propose the introduction of a new word into English for your comment:
\n“Ruint” (adj.): pathetic and without foundation; irrelevant; consisting only of meaningless diversion or distraction.<\/p>\n

It’s different than “annoying”, which would be like how I was just now making a drink and putting ice into my glass from a container, carefully avoiding a small bug that had flown in there, but observing when my was glass was full of ice, the bug was unaccounted for. [No, I didn’t just drink it you fools! I threw it all out and got new ice after washing everything!]<\/p>\n

A person can’t feel “ruint”.\u00a0 In fact, usually “ruint” applies only to situations and actions that people do<\/em>, rather than the people themselves (like in the above example).\u00a0 Here’s another really good example:<\/p>\n

An ice storm froze my car window and caused it to detach from the regulator and fall down inside the door (letting a lot of rain in as well).\u00a0 On Jan. 7, 2014, on the coldest day of the past year, I spent many hours cleaning the garage to get the car in, and worked off and on for the next two days tearing the door apart to fix this.\u00a0 The procedure is very involved: I had to follow 23 steps to remove the door panel<\/a> and more than 50 steps in this great online tutorial for fixing the window problem<\/a>.\u00a0 Although I got it fixed, just as I was finishing up, of course<\/em> I had to get injured.\u00a0 I cut my hand down near the wrist… out of all that<\/em>, when I was cleaning the window<\/em>.\u00a0 Ruint!\u00a0 Hit some stupid sharp edge doing the most mundane step in the entire procedure.<\/p>\n

Now you know what Ruint means.<\/p>\n

And that I like South Park. Don’t miss Grey Dawn<\/em> (old people driving! eeeek!), Cat Orgy<\/em>, Scott Tenorman Must Die<\/em>, Gnomes<\/em> (underpants gnomes!), Cow Days<\/em> (“I Declare Shenanigans”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I owe my dear friend April “Apes” Kincaid a debt of gratitude for teaching me that great word. I don’t really know how to define it, but I can describe it by example and I know when something is ruint. It doesn’t mean ruined or match any of the urban dictionary definitions. Try this example […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xblkx.lkramer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}