Functional opposites
I just saw a TV show where contestants pitch their inventions/ideas to a celebrity who decides whether they're a genius or not (it's called genius). It's like a funnier Dragon's Den.
One of the ideas was a new way of defining opposites. If you want to find the opposite of something, you find its function and then find something with the opposite function. A freezer, for example, keeps things frozen, so its opposite is something that warms things up: a cooker. A hammer puts nails into things, but it also takes nails out, so it's a prime opposite.
I'll post something along with a picture, and the next user posts a picture of its functional opposite and explains why (If you can't find a picture on the internet, draw one in paint/photoshop/whatever or just leave the picture out), then they post something else along with a picture so that the next user can find its opposite. If you can't think of anything for the second part, try http://www.orderedpixels.com/misc/rand_obj/
A Cup.
One of the ideas was a new way of defining opposites. If you want to find the opposite of something, you find its function and then find something with the opposite function. A freezer, for example, keeps things frozen, so its opposite is something that warms things up: a cooker. A hammer puts nails into things, but it also takes nails out, so it's a prime opposite.
I'll post something along with a picture, and the next user posts a picture of its functional opposite and explains why (If you can't find a picture on the internet, draw one in paint/photoshop/whatever or just leave the picture out), then they post something else along with a picture so that the next user can find its opposite. If you can't think of anything for the second part, try http://www.orderedpixels.com/misc/rand_obj/
A Cup.
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A table.
A volcano.
Kind of.
A bed
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beer
(let me know if I'm not playing this right)
A sports watch
A hat
A community rowboat
An iceberg.
Toilet paper.
Poison.
remote control
(that's exactly the same as my remote, lol)
The opposite of a Remote is a Rhinoceros.
Pie.
The opposite would be an uniteresting book that has nothing to do with dark lords or wizards or action of any kind, the opposite is Twilight (just trying not to be shunned here)
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Jak 3