GeorgeGlass

TFW your phone makes a Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference.

“She’s...beautiful, she’s rich, she’s got huge...tracts of land!”

Did your phone also suggest an emoji for “Steamer?”

A more technical explanation, as I typed, it’d pop-up the auto-suggestion, and focus would change, while I kept typing, thus the results were a tad unpredictable.  However, the phone auto-sending text messages while I was still composing them was, unacceptable.

That looks like the reason you were looking for to disable autocomplete.

I was texting my wife and almost sent “I need new pedophiles for my mountain bike.” Autocorrect is my worst enema !

Butt hurt? 

“What my phone hears” sounds like a brilliant story prompt.  “Amir was an ordinary beat cop, doing his job and living his life.  Until, that is, his posterior became sapient and started loudly expressing its own diverging opinions.”

Cheers!

They also found a letter written to the tomb’s late occupant reminding him that the warranty on his palanquin was about to expire.  😝 

We are already a remarkably green city, but I’m always eager to see less green areas of the city getting new trees. It makes such a tremendous difference!

We had some expired SSL cert duplicates, I’ve cleaned it up and things should resolve themselves over the next couple of days.

@manta2g    

Thanks, Manta!

I will respectfully disagree. Velma is latest definition of skinsuiting in which people will take a beloved and old franchise and rather than develop their own setting and stories. Force their own story where it doesn’t belong in a setting where it doesn’t belong and it shows.

Like the wolf that ate little red riding hood’s grandmother. We can see the imposter wearing a well defined character that obviously doesn’t fit. Like the roach in MIB wearing the farmer it hollowed out.

Everyone thanks to popular culture knows these characters. And rather than give us more appreciation for Velma the character it constantly bludgeons you over the head that this isn’t Velma. Its neither quirky nor fun watching some creature badly pilot her corpse and trash the setting in which its supposed to be in.

The dissonance only grows more disquieting and horrifying the longer it goes on.

I also have to respectfully disagree.  Velma is worse than “just” skinsuiting.  It’s Woke Skinsuiting.  While one seldom wins credibility by citing Wikipedia, I have to quote the last two sentences of the second paragraph from their English language article on the show.  “Audience reception was overwhelmingly negative.  A second season is in development.”

Woke Skinsuiting isn’t merely “cultural appropriation,” it’s “cultural mis-appropriation.”  It is no more and no less than the soulless gangrenous circus-mirror reflection of Pat Boone (badly) covering Little Richard songs in the 1950’s.  Even Warner Brothers, the modern owners of all the Hanna-Barbera intellectual property, who love the Woke Dollar just as much as any other corporate megalith, flat-out refused to allow Velma’s producers to give Norville a dog—lawyers at the ready and all.

If someone were to Whitewash The Boondocks, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, or Dora the Explorer; or if they Whited out Hadji Singh from Jonny Quest, they would rightfully be ripped a new one.  Same-o same-o here.  If you want to create a cartoon series featuring lead characters of “non-perceived majority” demographics, then go for it!  But create that series, don’t just “Wokify” an existing one that is “too White” for you, especially if you don’t understand the original main characters and circumstances.

Ret-conning the White out is fraught with peril at best, even if occasionally works.  For every Nick Fury, there are at least a dozen Velma Dinkleys or more.  In Fury’s case, you could make him Black all the way back to his WWII origins, and make him more believable as a character instead of less.  In the case of Velma, it’s somewhere between pointless and baloney.

Velma won an amazing 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, with a seven percent audience score.  Perhaps they’re on to something?

The first 10 things I can think of that are more worthy of outrage than Velma:
1. The war in Ukraine
2. The opioid crisis
3. People dumping unwanted pets in public parks.
4. Catalytic converter thefts. 
5. Contractors who don't show up for weeks at a time while your kitchen remodel is only half finished.
6. The fact that Honey Bunches of Oats contains more wheat, corn, and sugar than it does oats.
7. Every Jaws movie after the first one. 
8. HOAs that will fine you $500 for having pumpkins and Christmas decorations in your yard at the same time.
9. The fact that Disney Plus has had season 1 of The Replacements since the service launched in 2019 but STILL doesn't have season 2.
10. The astonishing lack of Hamster and Gretel r34 porn.
 

Very Hellraiser!

I thought you said stupid idea? Not awesome story prompt.

it wasn’t a story for me, but a poem… I wrote two poems when I was a teen that were scenes of candy and soda… as in “the dark Dr. Pepper night”, and marshmallow cars… Candy floss (cotton candy) clouds, etc. I think the idea came from thinking about Candy floss as clouds, and possibly imagining sneakers made of liquorice or something like that. 

Worst part was, they actually worked. Both of them! They weren’t even half bad, if I do say so myself. 

If that isn’t the stupidest idea ever, I don’t know what is. Even for a sixteen year old… 

I haven’t had an entire story idea that was like that, but I did have a scene recently where I was like “This is insane...and if I can pull it off it’s gonna be AWESOME!”

This phone has learned well.

Your phone lives to make your life difficult, George, it’s time to face that fact, I think   :sobs with laughter too: 

Your phone’s predictive algorithm is hella shit

You know, it’s entirely possible that your phone holds the answer to world peace. Just sayin’…   

42 is always the answer. 

I try to keep my perviness to a separate profile on my browser, always private mode with auto-clear on exit.  Mostly works.

It’s not a browser; it’s Google Keyboard. It knows everything. 

Figured that part, disclosing what *I* do to try to minimize… spills.  However, you don’t realize how much the search engines are listening until you ask how to unclog a bathtub trap.  Maybe try searching for dating sites?

Why’d I think of “Epipen” when I read “Epilog”?  Dunno.  Anyways, I agree, should be “Epilogue” IMO.

is that a thing? Cause I’ve always written it as epilogue.

Meow in C#?

Oooh… when cut, you’ll cry.

Nobody trick-or-treated to my house (I’m too far off the beaten path)

@Desiderius Price you can’t count this anomalous year though the pandemic.

@InvidiaRed It’s not like it was unexpected.  Eleven Halloweens at this house, and ZERO trick-or-treaters in that time.