An idea for a bumper sticker:
"Be nice + No More Weapons"
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Yesterday, I was seeing the point of the gun-control advocates -- (a gun only makes most situations worse); then today, trying to use a self-service check-out (beep, honk, digitized voice speaking at me, visual messages jumping about on the screen), had facetious thought: ("where are those guys with the guns and tasers when you need them?!") -- [confused anxious grumble] -- "...could come down here and really explain things t' this -- infernal -- machine."...
This infernal, wretched machine.
I think the computerized, mellow-y, echo-y, female voice in the selfservicecheckoutcomputermachine was probably designed to sound helpful and polite -- even soothing, but somehow it only succeeds in sounding weirdly scary, in a low-level way, similar to the flying monkeys in The Wizard Of Oz.
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