The Bernard Pivot Questionnaire: Ten Small Windows into My Damaged Soul

This blog post is the result of a conversation in the blaugust discord about using GenAI to make it look as if it was not generated by AI. I took a post I had already written and asked ChatGPT to rewrite it in the style of Frankie Boyle. You can see my prompts here. Posting without comment During August, I’m taking part in Blaugust, a month-long blogging challenge: thirty-one days of attempting to convert the vague electrical activity in my brain into words before it returns to its natural state of low-level panic and biscuit consumption. This post is an answer to Roger’s Blaugust post about the Bernard Pivot Questionnaire. Roger omitted question 4, presumably because even questionnaires now have to make cuts. I’ve answered all ten, because if there’s one thing I enjoy more than being asked pointless questions, it’s answering them publicly in a way that will eventually make me unemployable. Q1: What is your favourite word? There are lots of Scots words I love, but dreich has to be up…