Do You Name Them?
Do you have any non-living thing that you treat as a living thing? I was reading Drew Magary’s latest post on defector.com which talks about cars, and in the comments people brought up naming their cars.
For example, one person had a PT Cruiser that they called Petey. Someone else had a Mustang they called Sally. My wife named one car Abby because the license plate started with AB.
Boats traditionally get names, which led to the long running tradition in science fiction to treat space ships as having character too.
And of course some things get treated as living things even without being named. Computers, for example, get spoken to as if they are alive, and a lot of people feel the same about their phones. I will admit to crossing that line sometimes and pleading for a favor.
Some people treat Siri, Alexa and Echo as more than just robots. If you’ve ever had a physical robot like a Roomba or a toy, have you named it or otherwise anthropomorphized it?
We may see AI foisted on us and interfaces force us to converse with things. Do you see yourself giving in and treating it as at least semi-human?
We’re all real here, Deadsplinterhumans, so please treat each other with dignity, but feel free to share whether or not you treat things as conscious beings, or at least like to pretend they are sometimes.
im still waiting for a person that buys a kia and calls it robert
robert the niro
i dont name my stuff….i do treat my stuff like people tho
gently till they fail me.
Do you hold Viking funerals?
mostly for christmas trees yes
everything else…..well….burning it is just not helpful nowadays….you know..considering the climate
so…i just beat it up and hand it off for the gubment to burn it
my hands are clean….if the world ends the powers what be did it
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well…okay some smaller things i blow up with carbide
We used to have two Hondas, an SUV & a Civic. My wife would say “I am taking the Honda” & I would say “which one?” So my girls started calling the Civic “baby car”. It stuck. We all started calling it that. I sold it to my friend for his daughter when she just got her license after owning it for 18 years & she crashed it about a week later. When he sent me a pic of the wrecked car he said “I am so sorry we wrecked baby car!”
baby car doo doo doo doo
anyways dont mind me…….i still have fond feeling for the superdream i learnt on and the crx i always wanted
i might be a honda fan
at the time i could only afford a bandit tho….so it was a suzuki what nearly killed me..
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if you are gonna try tho….buy a bandit….that bike was lovely…little wheely happy..but lovely
So was the bigger one the daddy Honda or the momma Honda?
We never named the other one for some reason. I tried to force a name on my new car but never really worked out. My younger daughter’s Subaru is haunted by a Mexican ghost named Jorge but that’s not the car, just the radio ghost that keeps changing the station to Mexican talk radio randomly.
Whatever you do, don’t get an exorcist. Let Jorge be.
We love Jorge! I make sure my daughter leaves him a taco on the dash for Día de los Muertos.
I don’t name my cars or talk to them although one time the engine was sputtering on my late Civic and I kept muttering “You can do it. Hang on. Just keep going” etc.
I’ve wondered if the intimate contact we have with cars leads us to talk to them more than something like a washing machine.
I talk to cars and appliances and plants but don’t name them.
I tend to use complimentary babytalk as encouragement. And a lot of praise.
party time in H-town
I was wondering if she was going to do more, and she did. Willie Nelson too!
It’s always good to see not all wrestlers have brain damage.
I knew it would be Mick. The guy’s a legend.
My obsidian blue Honda Ridgeline pickup is “Rodan”.