How to find your antagonist: Place two people with mutually exclusive goals in a situation where neither one is willing, or able, to back down. Pick one of them to be your protagonist, and the other to be your antagonist.
Asides
Wry Grins Kill People
A: But don’t you need a gun, though, if you want to shoot someone?
B: No. Not at all. You can shoot them a wry grin. See, you can shoot someone without a gun. In fact, guns don’t kill people… people kill people…
A: With wry grins?
B: Ehhh…exactly…
Internal Monolog Race
The Devil You Don’t KNOW
Choosing the devil you know over the devil you don’t know can be very risky, because the devil you don’t know may not be a devil at all…
The more absurd the idea…
The more absurd the idea, the more complex the defense…
Thank God We’re not Pod-people
A: (ANY STATEMENT)
B: I disagree!
A: Thank God we’re not all pod-people.
Voting
If you have to explain why every adult citizen in a democracy must be allowed to vote, you’re having serious problems with your democracy!
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Time estimate conundrum
When developers say a piece of work will take 2-4 hours what really happens is one of three things:
- It takes 2-4 hours to finish the job
- It takes 2-4 radians of hours (a.k.a hours times pi) to finish the job
- It takes 2-4 bitcoins to finish the job
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Marketing
Marketing:
“I’ll give you a $100 discount!”
“Wow, what will that give me?”
“A sandwich… with cheese… If you want ham it’s $200…”
“…”
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123 Handmaid
Step 1: Ban abortions
Step 2: Ban contraceptives
Step 3:
And then I’m not even commenting on what’s going to happen to USA’s already abysmal maternal mortality rate… (Oh yeah, American women die during birth more often than women in any other developed country! Abortion bans will not help…)
Did you really vote for this?
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