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

This is why I don't have a camera.

I do have to ask darakat, why were your group so upset to be mistaken as gay?

I love getting photos back though. There's a couple of amazing ones on the film I'm trying to use up at the moment, including one of a pancake stuck to the ceiling (you probably had to be there) and a few of people lapdancing. Aint life grand.

The difference with my group of mates is that we had actually been up to naughty things, just not while I was with my boyfriend! That makes a total of 1 gay and 1 bi person you've said you were really upset about being mistaken as gay in front of! Oops!

Hey, don't get me wrong I don't give a pair of fetid dingoes kidneys what stirs your's or anyone else "boat". The reason was not that he said quite clearly and cohearantly "you do know those guy's are gay" it was the fact he actuly said it as if we dident actuly exsit. Like if we where whatever he thought we where it dident matter anyway. Almost like we realy where just figments of his imagination. The other reason was some of us where with our girlfreinds at the time. Right there with us. So it was a bit weird this guy just comeing out of the blue and expecting to be able to say whatever he wanted and get away scott free. As if he sould have said "you know those gus all do somthinarather with small children" (I am simply useing examples and this has nothing to do with anything in particular) and he thought he could go back and sit down and eat his lunch or whatever and never think the last of it. I hate the kind of person who thinks they can say anything about anyone.
Freedom of speach and all but you can't just go and say "he does this with other people" or "he's racist" or whatever insult you plese TO THERE FACE. I don't care if someone calls me somthing I am not I to my face just prefer they do it with at least think for two seconds before saying it. This guy seemed he didnot have two briancells to rub together.
In over words someone has to be at least on first name terms with me before thay can start making assumtions about my life.

"you know those gus all do somthinarather with small children"

I don't know how you think you can even compare what they said to that!!!

"or whatever insult you plese"

Sexual preference is not an insult.

I can understand that you were annoyed that you were talked about in third person while you were standing there, but that's a different kettle of fish to what it sounded like you meant earlier. I think there may have been some misrepresentation and misinterpretation on both sides.

It was not nessasarily the sexual insults you are thinking of, sure they mostly purile and not worthy of notion (water of a ducks bum as it where) however they way this guy said it was as if he not only beilved whatever came out of his mouth in conjecture to us was true nomatter what it was. Sortof like "You know blah blah" and then "Really? Well I supose I heard blah blah blah.". I know "your mum" is not realy an insult (and never was for me I just said what about her and that usealy stoped whatever insult power it was suposed to have). The point is that the majority of the people who where on the receving end of the insult considerd it as such becuase thig guy seemd to think that he could call us anything. This fact was supported when someone asked him how he knew this and he came up with a lame excuse I can't remeber off the top my head. I never said that my or anyone elses sexual prefrence can be considerd a insult at any time, but this guy used it as such and thus he would consider a refrence to his prefrence to be an insult. This is what i think happend, it dident realy matter to us that this guy tried to insult us in this way just that he did it with such conviction and haterad like it was somthing that you where suposed to despise with every bone in your body.
Yes there may of been some miscomunication he was adressing the girl who had just sat down with us, but it was almost as if he was attempting to pick her up after whatever blow he had delt us with insult. I think perhaps gay was porbebly the first thing that came to his mind, he could have said anything insulting and the result whould be the same.

At leat I think It whould be the same. I have no evidence to back this claim up. However I whould sure like to think that this is the case.

I've lost havent I? I shall now bow my head in shame....

I'm afraid to say it does look very much as though you've lost... it was kind of a case of casually commenting on something without realising that others have strong opinions on it. I did something similar to a train spotter once! AARGH!

Yeah, thats what I thought. I applogize for any inconvence I may have cuased and will now go stick myself into a pit of ravid parranah's.

Lol never mind

Yeah well.......

Don't go anywhere! You are forgiven. I think I misunderstood bits of your original posting, which made it worse. It is great fun going off one one to random members of the public, never tried a trainspotter before.

Shake hands Darakat?

I whould if it was not physicly impossible to do so over the internet, instead i sugest a meterphorical shake: *shakes hand*. Er random members of the public are always fun to go off at, but confusing missonaries is better (although somtime harder and possibly slighly more dangerous).

*metaphorical handshake* indeed. Never tried to confuse a missionary. Got into a surreal conversation about nymphomaniac suicidal mice with a priest once when I was 9...

Well there is always the glass + bird problem. Which is in its simpelest form like this:

Say you throw a brick at a window, and say at the exact same time that it hits a bird sqwarks. You can't say that the noise produced by the bird smashed the window or the brick broke it. And of course it might not brake at all.

And if it doesn't break at all, is it the brick or the bird that didn't break it? Did the bird hang in the sky exactly the way the brick didn't?

Exactly like a brick doesnot. Unless its thrown at say a very large bird in which case the brick and bird will probebly tumble to there (death?) on the ground. Unless of course it's make a for a interesting work of art and thus gets held there by the artistical right.

What if the birdsong killed the brick?

Well for a start we know that a brick is not alive (from the defition of life being "The peroid for which a orginisum(s) shows a contious undertakeing in it's own internal workings or the world outside, be it instinctive, chemical or behavioural".) since we know a brick to possibly have bateria inside it it has life, but the object itself does not show any contious (instinctive or overwise) undertakeing in the outside world. Thus it cannot die unless there is a animal named " brick" in which case I can say that the likelyhood that a bird kills the poor strangely named beast and thus there is a likelyhood that the creature, if it can be killed as such, by birdsong and thus no longer be a brick. Thus it is now a dead brick. Of course it still has the inevative velocaty it used to have and it can be assumed that it eiter does one of two things.
The first of these is to do somthing else completly uncomprehesisble or somthing as a result of any sloppy thinking so far.
The second is it now smashes the window. However there is still the chance that the birdsong destroyed the window. And thus we are at the start of the anaolgy.

However the chance that the brick no longer exist (falls out the sky in exactly the way that bricks do), either because of the birdsong or because of some unknown reason (like becuase we say so). There is still some chance that the window is still after all this intact. However becuase of the state that the minds of many people are at this point its time to go have a drink and eat some chese. There is nothing better than chese on a empty stomic after some good old fashioned phonomnolagy.