I haven’t added to the GPD Lexicon in a while, but I had a phrase come up recently that I realized I’d been using mentally but had never actually used on this blog. It came up in the context of someone sending an insane statistic to a group chat that immediately all of us believed was wildly wrong. No one particularly had time to look it up, although thanks to Twitter someone was able to find pretty quickly what the issue was. I mentioned I had seen the stat flash on my screen previously but just simply didn’t have time that day to go down the rabbit hole of debunking it. That’s what I call a “Not Today, Satan statistic”, which I would define as:

Not today, Satan statistic: a statistic you see in passing that is so clearly wrong or designed as clickbait/ragebait that you decide to scroll by without even stopping to figure out where the heck they got those numbers.

Now, this one you have to be a bit careful with. You can’t use this one to dismiss statistics that are being thrown out in the context of an argument you are actually in the middle of, you actually have to deal with those. These are more the types of things you see on social media or hear in passing in conversations, where you can either go on your merry way or actually stop and push back. This is a moment of choosing to protect your peace over derailing yourself in to a follow up.

You also can’t use this one if you are the type of person who has no problem not challenging incorrect information, and just let it go regularly. If you don’t routinely hear record scratches in your head when people say wrong or unlikely things in conversations, this phrase is not for you. This is for those of us who regularly derail discussions in to a “wait is that true?” and find that a noble calling. For those people, this is an occasional permission slip to let it go sometimes. In 2026 there are any number of trash websites generating ridiculous statistics just to get you riled up.

In the immortal words of the AVI to my younger brother when he was in middle school: you know you don’t have to die on every hill.