Bill Gold, who for some 34 years wrote the Washington Posts' "District Line" column, would periodically offer examples of "Gold's Law: The Perversity of Inanimate Objects." Just last week, I had cause to comment on Facebook on "Notes on the Perversity of Inanimate Objects (and/or the people who design them: Section 4.1 Printers."
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld books, there's a goddess Anoia, the Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers.
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There's also a neologism for this: Resistentialism.
ReplyDeleteBill Gold, who for some 34 years wrote the Washington Posts' "District Line" column, would periodically offer examples of "Gold's Law: The Perversity of Inanimate Objects." Just last week, I had cause to comment on Facebook on "Notes on the Perversity of Inanimate Objects (and/or the people who design them: Section 4.1 Printers."
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