They suck. You have to be able to count higher than 1 to use them. Digital, baby!
You know who else used analogies?
My analogy for this thread is giving birth but then balloons come out like on America’s Funniest Home Videos instead of a baby but everyone is upset because there wasn’t enough space in the delivery room for all those balloons. I hope that didn’t go over your head…
That actually is pretty good
This analogy is like lifting yourself up by your own bootstraps.
FXMastermind is to analogies as Boko Haram is to feminism
Insulting somebody in the Pit is like taking a piss
in an ocean of pee
Ernst Roehm?
Now that thread (and the related shit it links to) is some good analogies.
I just hate it when someone uses metaphors like a madman followed by an ocean of similes.
“Love is all, like a horse in a stall.”
- Woody Allen
Jonathan Swift?
Ben Bova?
You know who else used analogies? Winston S. Churchill.
“A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
And Albert. Albert Einstein used them
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
For an actual real discussion about analogies, go here
And yeah, it already has a post about washing machines
Unfortunately, you’re not engaged in that discussion.
FX, you’re a fucking idiot.
I think you actually meant to say, “Fortunately, you’re not engaged in that discussion”, since you think I’m an idiot.
I’m not going anywhere near that thread. They’re in there framing hypotheses, or hypotenuses, or something.
For me, it’d be like playing baseball with a piece of cooked spaghetti for a bat.
That’s just a simile