Posted: Jan 14, 2016 5:29 pm
My dad called it "talking to the ashtray". He'd be lecturing me over some adolescent idiocy and would pick up the ashtray and start talking to it.
Lifeboat for the rational mind :D
http://www.rationalskepticism.org/
http://www.rationalskepticism.org/viewtopic.php?p=2359829#p2359829