The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: words we dislike

[cw5523729]

I just got feedback (VERY constructive, I was really appreciative of the comment) that I need to add more punctuation to my poetry. Can I please have your commas? I'll give them a nice home and they won't have to die.

More punctuation in poetry? Do those same people look at the Mona Lisa and complain she should show some teeth when she smiles and that Picasso should have used more red during his blue period?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Colons and Semicolons are looking for good homes as well.

I just got feedback (VERY constructive, I was really appreciative of the comment) that I need to add more punctuation to my poetry. Can I please have your commas? I'll give them a nice home and they won't have to die.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Actually, I have no problem with the word. Or with eggs themselves. It's just that I feel there's only so much discussion you can have about the topic before it gets boring. I mean, wouldn't we all much rather be talking about booze and boobs?

Aren't eggs kinda required for any sort of impregnation type fetish?

 

[StillStunned]

My Cat race is humanoid with only two bobbies. I borrowed the Caitian race from that long-running Sc Fi franchise, who boldly go where no one has gone before.

My cat-woman gets picked up and carried off by a giant bird at a certain point. I've only just realised how ironic that is.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Colons and Semicolons are looking for good homes as well.

I'll adopt them all and even learn how better to use them so they feel right at home.

 

[MillieDynamite]

You know what the 600-pound canary said, "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty."

My cat-woman gets picked up and carried off by a giant bird at a certain point. I've only just realised how ironic that is.

 

[cw5523729]

Colons and Semicolons are looking for good homes as well.

Everyone knows that semi-colons aren't real; like birds.

 

[StillStunned]

Everyone knows that semi-colons aren't real; like birds.

Eric the Half-A-Colon disagrees.

 

[cw5523729]

Eric the Half-A-Colon disagrees.

Pretty sure half-a-colon is called a period

 

[Bamagan]

Tell us, are the eggs in your life strange, or the boobies?

If they are, I doubt I would know.

 

[Britva415]

I like that word.

It's fine when used nominally for the material it literally names.

 

[StillStunned]

It's fine when used literally.

Fair enough. Although I'll stipulate that each author is allowed one use, in all their collected works, of "alabaster" to describe a character's skin.

 

[Britva415]

Fair enough. Although I'll stipulate that each author is allowed one use, in all their collected works, of "alabaster" to describe a character's skin.

I'd object to that less if the character were deceased than the way it's usually used.

 

[Off_base]

"Circa" irritates me.
"It is what it is" too. I guess that's more than one word, which are fine individually, but together, in that order? Irritating.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Pale, pasty, fair-skinned, (completely skinned, yikes), whiteish, vanilla, white chocolate beauty, snowy white, ivory, milky-white, a chalky-skinned ugly duckling, albescent, pallid, ashen, sallow (the ainti-swarthy), faint, bloodless, a ghastly, deathlike Aryan, light-skinned cornrow wearing wanna be, opalescent, and lastly alabaster.

Fair enough. Although I'll stipulate that each author is allowed one use, in all their collected works, of "alabaster" to describe a character's skin.

 

[cw5523729]

Pale, pasty, fair-skinned, (completely skinned, yikes), whiteish, vanilla, white chocolate beauty, snowy white, ivory, milky-white, a chalky-skinned ugly duckling, albescent, pallid, ashen, sallow (the ainti-swarthy), faint, bloodless, a ghastly, deathlike Aryan, light-skinned cornrow wearing wanna be, opalescent, and lastly alabaster.

Slow down, slow down, I'm making notes for my next story!

"White chocolate beauty" - that's a keeper, right there!

 

[StillStunned]

Pale, pasty, fair-skinned, (completely skinned, yikes), whiteish, vanilla, white chocolate beauty, snowy white, ivory, milky-white, a chalky-skinned ugly duckling, albescent, pallid, ashen, sallow (the ainti-swarthy), faint, bloodless, a ghastly, deathlike Aryan, light-skinned cornrow wearing wanna be, opalescent, and lastly alabaster.

"Her skin was the colour of the underside of a fish that had washed up on the beach a week ago."

The true master of similes was Terry Pratchett. At one point he describes Ankh-Morpork as "as full of life as a dead dog on a hot summer's day".

 

[MillieDynamite]

Well, that image stinks up the conversating.

"Her skin was the colour of the underside of a fish that had washed up on the beach a week ago."

The true master of similes was Terry Pratchett. At one point he describes Ankh-Morpork as "as full of life as a dead dog on a hot summer's day".

 

[MillieDynamite]

I don't like comparing people to food myself; it's dehumanizing.

Slow down, slow down, I'm making notes for my next story!

"White chocolate beauty" - that's a keeper, right there!

 

[StillStunned]

Well, that image stinks up the conversating.

It's supposed to, if you've ever read Discworld.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Opps, I forgot white marble and opaline.

 

[cw5523729]

I don't like comparing people to food myself; it's dehumanizing.

In the censorship thread, we are discussing eating "puffy tacos"

 

[MillieDynamite]

I'm in there, saw that, didn't comment.

In the censorship thread, we are discussing eating "puffy tacos"

 

[NuclearFairy]

White chocolate is chocolate if it has cocoa butter in it. Otherwise it's a milk candy that is merely an imitation.

 

[SyleusSnow]

The word "utilize" should not exist. There is nowhere the overly grandiose "utilize" is better than plain "use."