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[crianca_aldain]

"L'esprit de l'escalier" is a French term for when someone says something to you at a party or wherever, and you don't think of the perfect comeback until much later, when you've already left. It usually happens to me when I'm lying in bed trying to fall asleep, though the literal translation of the phrase is "the wit of the staircase," meaning it

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[bluenazareth]

Daisical cognitive usurption - a lull in brain activity, lasting between ten and thirty seconds, during which one seriously considers not returning to work from a lunch break. The brain is known to trick the mind into thinking there will be no consequences for such an act.