"It's like a horrible car accident; you want to look away but you just can't."

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I taste bile whenever I hear this cliche wheeled out by professional writers and other people who ought to know better. Just shut the fuck up -- you like staring at automotive carnage and you won't convince me otherwise. Can't we come up with better analogies for morbid fascination?

― elmo, holy helper (allocryptic), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

It's like a horrible roller skating bear accident...

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

It's like walking in on your grandparents having sex...

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

I much prefer...

― Trainwreck, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

It's like watching your momma eat pie...

― Dan (OOH SNAP) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

It's like trying not to smell your own farts.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:54 (twenty years ago)

holy shit huk otm

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

It's like two cheerleaders making out...
It's like Professor Gizmo's evil hypno-ray...

― Abbott (Abbott), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

It's like looking back into the bowl after a particularly vigorous BM.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

I propose:

"Much like this sentence, it's like a horrible car accident (ie. you want to look away, but you're still reading, aren't you?)"

― Dave Q., Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:01 (twenty years ago)

like peeking at the enormously well-endowed dude in the next shower stall.

― elmo, holy helper (allocryptic), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

Like this: http://host.oddcast.com/espn_bbplayer.swf?gDoor=121&gClient=34&gTopic=46&bgcolor=&mid=2593169&gDynamicServer=http://host.oddcast.com/

Wherever I place my mouse, blount watches me. He wants to look away, but he can't!

― Mousercise, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:04 (twenty years ago)

like trying not to look into the glory hole.

― Lurker McLurkerstein, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

like getting an erection watching a high school sporting event? (or is that something else?)

― elmo, holy helper (allocryptic), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm amazed this wasn't an N thread!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)

It's like a horrible roller skating bear accident...

huk stop stalking my house! 'bear on rollerskates' is a classic meme among my housemates

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

-- a scott stapp sex tape
-- a george bush press conference
-- the internet

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

it's like a cursed mirror that reveals how you will die; you know you shouldn't look...

― elmo, holy helper (allocryptic), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v82/brand_new_loser/yankee/perverts-anonymous2.gif

― R.I.P. West Village Bird Shaman ]-`: (ex machina), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)

It's like fucking a weasel.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:44 (twenty years ago)

It's like an owl coming out of an obese woman's vagina.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

OTM

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:39 (twenty years ago)

it's like an owl coming in an obese woman's vagina.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:58 (twenty years ago)

It's like an obese woman coming in an owl's vagina.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 23 March 2006 02:10 (twenty years ago)

It's like yet another thread about cliches. You want to ignore it, but you post anyway.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 23 March 2006 02:38 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

It's like staring at the sun with your eyelids forceably held open and your head in a locking device of some kind: you want to look away, but can't.

― moley, Sunday, 20 May 2007 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

It's like the animation where a manga girl grows a giant dick

― Tape Store, Sunday, 20 May 2007 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

It's like trying not to feel high.

― remy bean, Sunday, 20 May 2007 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

It's like the severely physically disabled

― Slumpman, Sunday, 20 May 2007 07:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.chufter.com

― luriqua, Sunday, 20 May 2007 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

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