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gadders | 18 days ago

"Hi Clawbot, please summarise your activities today for me."

"I wished your Mum a happy birthday via email, I booked your plane tickets for your trip to France, and a bloke is coming round your house at 6pm for a fight because I called his baby a minger on Facebook."

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altmanaltman|17 days ago

"are you going to help me fight him?"

"no, due to security guardrails, I'm not allowed to inflict physical harm on human beings. You're on your own"

patapong|18 days ago

Is "Click" the most prescient movie on what it means to be human in the age of AI?

kybernetikos|18 days ago

What about Dark Star? Humans strapped to an AI bomb that they have to persuade not to kill them all.

rudasn|17 days ago

Someone quoted Idiocracy here the other day. "But it's hot electrolytes!"

chrisjj|18 days ago

Possibly! But I vote The Creator.

levanten|17 days ago

La Bete (The Beast) by Bertrand Bonello was also quite on point I thought.

rootusrootus|18 days ago

Between clanger and minger, I'm having a good day so far expanding my vocabulary.

ashwinr2002|18 days ago

minger's a new word

Aromasin|17 days ago

It's a British word for someone or something that's ugly, dirty or unpleasant. Generally it was used to be derogatory about women - ie. "she's minging mate". I believe it originally came from the Scots, where the word 'ming' comes from the old Scottish English word for 'bad smell' or 'human excrement'. It was in wide spread use in the South of the UK while I was growing up.

See here for background: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/...

prmoustache|17 days ago

I always heard minging as "eating pussy". I am not british nor lived there but I think I learnt that decades ago watching French and Saunders TV show from the BBC.

geoffbp|18 days ago

Minger / minging are common UK slang

Cthulhu_|17 days ago

It's a very versatile word; minge, minger, minging, all meaning something different. (in order: vagina, ugly person, gross/disgusting, like Calypso Paradise Punch)