h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Why don't you all take some youth-pills or something?

Shows what you know.

I'm only 49.

I'm intending to live at least another 11 years = to make it to my next Chinese birthday in the year of the goat/sheep. It will take that long to get the house cleared for my next of kin to deal with.
PH unshredded paper souvenirs

I'm not even 42 yet!

(It's later this year)

(Yes, I'm already planning the party)

(Yes, I do now own a brewery, a piff-up in it may well be on the cards)

I was in a building today and used the lift, what annoyed me was, every time it stopped, a recording would say......"Doors Opening" followed by "Doors Closing"

Of course it is, .....I can see that for Gods sake!..........I don't need a recording telling me😡😖

Smudger.

My best Gypsy fortune teller tells me I'll be around till 94.

Others tell me I'll be lucky to beat the odds.

Both are probably correct.

I intend to do better than that though, if I can.

...lets see, what to do the next 20 odd years or and still have time to enjoy a quiet second retirement...

I wish to revise my earlier statement:


Soon you're all gonna' die of old age and I'll be left all alone in a digital ghost town, wandering aimlessly in and out of abandoned convo threads and listening to a forlorn wind whistling through empty servers.


...is catchier.

...is *much catchier.

I think I can safely say that just about no one here is likely to want thst to happen.

Terrible thing that, wind through your servers, most unpleasant.

Should we be asking for a smiley?

'I do now own a brewery, a piff-up in it may well be on the cards'
- Note to self – don't buy any beer from Pastey immediately after his 42nd birthday...

<BB<

I'm not sure Pastey has the organisational skills to do it.

Not a hate, but...

Nice to see one of my first fave h2g2 conversations still going 13 years later!
I suppose it'll soon be long enough to show a Generation Gap.

Or, more likely, to show what an outdated, short-sighted, counter-productive bit of received wisdom that concept is. (There you go - a hate! They will keep muscling in).

Well hello Polly Math. Welcome back to the fold!

PH: when you see a fun advert that say 'why not sign up to do this exciting thing (bike ride/run etc)? Only £50!'
And then you think, '£50 is not too expensive – taking into account food and transport, I could just about afford it – I'll sign up for that!' only to find out that the small print says, 'Participants must raise £1,000,000 in sponsorship'

<BB<

...or else what? I'd ask.

People...
people who fold over the top of the bin bag when it is full but for some unknown reason do not take the bag to the outside bin...
people who do not replace a bag in the kitchen bin leaving it empty and frustrating when you have your hands full of stuff to put in the bin to then realise the last person did not replace the bag
people who leave cereal like weetabix or shredded wheat to solidify in the bottom of the bowl making it impossible to wash off...

these may or may not be the same person...

Thank you, You can call me TC!
Not sure I'm entitled to a 'Welcome back into the fold', though (I have been calling in periodically throughout).

Just noticed my original 'Welcome' message in My Space, dated March 2003, nearly 3 years after h2g2 was founded. Not a lot of website ideas get it so right that they're still right 17 years later!
(Right down to not slowing things down with manic animations, videos and other clutter - there's another petty hate for you!).

Hospitals, or rather, the tmperature in hospitals. I wonder how much money the NHS would save if they turned the thermostats down by a few degrees. Almost every hospital I've visited has been far too warm. My trip to Kidderminster Hospital on Thursday was a case in point. The staff were all wearing short-sleeved tops. I was down to my t-shirt and I was still too warm. Surely such high temperatures can't be healthy.