The "I don't want to talk about AI" thread, and the new topic is: should we really be talking about our dreams?

[stickygirl]

Won't help, anyway. Our streaky windshields are usually from dog slobber on the inside. Have to Windexize them.

That's what I meant - dog slobber You're welcome to try Wind-eze on him

 

[Off_base]

Clabbered
gross
Inebriated
Salesperson or anything __person
Livid
Booger

 

[Bramblethorn]

What? Like "Simonized". Wiping poor Simon all over your car? Is he going to be okay?

And then your car becomes a bishop.

 

[Bamagan]

And then your car becomes a bishop.

Sounds like a sequel to Christine, except the vehicle mostly targets altar boys and some of the choir.

 

[cw5523729]

Sounds like a sequel to Christine, except the vehicle mostly targets altar boys and some of the choir.

To this day, I'm freaked the fuck out by cars that automatically adjust the driver's seat when you get in it. It's like not a single automotive engineer ever watched that movie.

Something something doomed to repeat it

 

[NuclearFairy]

To this day, I'm freaked the fuck out by cars that automatically adjust the driver's seat when you get in it. It's like not a single automotive engineer ever watched that movie.

Something something doomed to repeat it

Either that or they all watched it and went, "Okay, but what if..."

 

[stickygirl]

Not the words in themselves but the intention

“Should…”
“Just…”

Both are words by someone who is suggesting a possibility is pretty much a certainty

 

[cw5523729]

Either that or they all watched it and went, "Okay, but what if..."

You know, I've long suspected all engineers are sadistic bastards... it all fits...

 

[StillStunned]

And then your car becomes a bishop.

Very subtle comment!

 

[stickygirl]

Very subtle comment!

I'm still working on it!

 

[StillStunned]

I'm still working on it!

It's a joke about simony.

 

[stickygirl]

It's a joke about simony.

The church is so cringe

 

[MrPixel]

It's a joke about simony.

You lost me, then. "Simoniz" is an old-school car wax.

 

[Bramblethorn]

It's a joke about simony.

I was so smug when it was mentioned in Conclave and I knew the word. Though I can't say I get a lot of chances to use it.

You lost me, then. "Simoniz" is an old-school car wax.

I got that. I was playing on the fact that there was another verbable use of "simon".

 

[StillStunned]

I was so smug when it was mentioned in Conclave and I knew the word. Though I can't say I get a lot of chances to use it.

I was quite smug that I got the joke.

 

[onehitwanda]

And then your car becomes a bishop.

Bit of an issue if it can only move diagonally.

 

[onehitwanda]

I was so smug when it was mentioned in Conclave

 

[StillStunned]

Bit of an issue if it can only move diagonally.

I used to know someone whose car only seemed to move diagonally. Maybe that was the driver, though.

 

[onehitwanda]

I used to know someone whose car only seemed to move diagonally. Maybe that was the driver, though.

They should have eaten another quarter of that delicious pi.

 

[SimonDoom]

I am literally, at this very moment, writing a story in which two characters talk about Bound.

EDIT: I rewatched it last night. For research.

Research for a "friend," I'm sure.

 

[SimonDoom]

I have always disliked the word "utilize." It's the perfect example of a word that never has to be used, because "use" is always better. It's the perfect illustration of a mindset of writing that believes the longer word indicates more intelligent and more elevated writing, a mindset that is as wrong-headed about writing as one can get.

The worst word use I see, by far, is in academic writing, especially in the humanities. The insufferable use of woolly abstractions. The addiction to long words. The taste for obfuscation.

 

[cw5523729]

"whom"

Whom actually uses whom correctly in speech? English teachers, that's whom uses it.

See how annoying this post was to read? Just get rid of it.

 

[StillStunned]

"whom"

Whom actually uses whom correctly in speech? English teachers, that's whom uses it.

See how annoying this post was to read? Just get rid of it.

Now I'm wondering whether Treebeard was inspired by Tolkien's pedantic English teacher.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Now I'm wondering whether Treebeard was inspired by Tolkien's pedantic English teacher.

Allegedly, Treebeard is CS Lewis, who was also quite pedantic.

 

[StillStunned]

Allegedly, Treebeard is CS Lewis, who was also quite pedantic.

I was wondering whether to say "a pedantic colleague". But most giant-sized characters with booming voices tend to be references to or inspired by early authority figures.