The point that I think some people are missing (alan, koobie) is that we are not literally suggesting it isn't a simile, we are suggesting that it is a "simile" in the same sense that The Room is a "film". I'm sure you're all proud of you'reselves for remembering the elementary school definition and all, but simile is fundamentally a rhetorical technique for expressing specific meaning, and by that standard Koobie's simile is without any merit.
What do
you get out of "talking to you is like talking to a legless donkey"?
- Well donkeys are stubborn, but... er
- They don't really understand speech.
- Does that mean I don't understand speech? Is that what he's saying?
- What does being legless have to do with it?
- Is this a donkey who understands speech, and would otherwise comply, but can't because it has no legs?
- Is he saying that I am willing but incapable of doing something?
- What is this? I don't even