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

We are a much better society for it altho the other extreme are shows like Trisha where there is too much opening your heart in public just for effect I think!

Yep, agreed - talk about it by all means - but broadcasting it on TV is unecessary and feeds voyuerism...

Ljx

Sorry I disappeared ..the computer was playing silly b*****s!
People must get their kicks from appearing on those shows, can't seee it myself!
Going back to our earler chat, I must reread, if only skim read Mocking Bird.
I know what you mean about it being a satisfying read, a very rounded book.
OOps no more of this, otherwise Adrian will nick all our best lines for his review!

if he ever does it

and to add to what you were saying above - i was born with a cleft palate and was in hospital for over a year from birth - my mother and father were not allowed to visit because it " might be too distressing for me " how cruel is that ?? i dont think i was affected by it but i imagine my mother found it very hard

Oh LBP how cruel for everyone concerned.
That really is awful
Talking of hospitals , I'm off now as I said on the other thread, have agood afternoon!
Tara!

see ya

strange ideas the medical profession have!! I think that The Memory Keepers Daughter is similar. A 60s view of what was best for a child with Down's Syndrome. Cruel and heartless as far as we are concerned, but a very different view at the time I think.

Ljx

oh yeah i think so and although it seems bizarre now i can see the thinking behind it although today you would be able to stay in hospital with the child and of course you wouldnt be in hospital that long - i had the first operation to correct a cleft palate ever done on a child of my age so i guess there was a lot of work behind the scenes - also children with that affliction are very prone to pneumonia as if not done right the food / liquid goes down the wrong hole and onto their lungs another reason for keeping me in for so long - however as you know there is no sign that i was born like that and i havent ever had any kind of problems linked to it so i aint complaining

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test what?

who could say