What is The Uncaromshot? It’s like Uncola. If an unfortunate mode of blogging is the caromshot, this blog is the uncaromshot.

The conceited prick at UMX explains:

This is a passive/aggressive tool wherein a person wants to tell another person something, but lacks the courage to tell them directly. This is why it is a Passive/Aggresive tool. The person who wields this tool prefers to get their information/intent across in a “bank shot” (or “carom shot”) fashion. For example, say Person X wants to threaten Person A, but want to come off clean (“plausible deniability,” I do think they call this).

Rather than saying “how about we step outside and scrap,” directly to Person A, Person X says to Person Y, while Person A is in listening range, “Wow, my hands sure feel itchy. If only I had a neck to grab or someone to beat up.”

This is, of course, a ridiculously obvious example. The Carom Shot can be as subtle as someone telling your friend (again, you are in listening range) “Some people just have no class,” and they could be, on the surface, talking about a celebrity, for example. But involved in the Carom Shot is the fact that the speaker knows to whom the message is really intended, probably wouldn’t speak the “surface” line were it not to zing that message over, and the receiver knows it, too. Perhaps in the above instance, the speaker had a conversation tying you and “class” together a long time ago. Or perhaps everyone in the room knows their feelings about you already. The Carom Shot is an underhanded way, in this instance, to dig in once more, without being held accountable. Because typical to the Carom Shot, there will be no hard “evidence” as to what this bank shot/carom shot is really about.

Common sense will point to intentions, though, and those less inclined to play along with the subterfuge may just call the wielder on it, though, so this method is not always safe to use against those who prefer to confront such tactics, or shoot the ball in directly.

Excellent! Uses the carom shot to criticize the users of the carom shot. He’s magical.