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

I'm with Amy on the username thing.

But then, there are TWO Amy's on here. So I lump them both together and hope for the best.

Here's another.

People online who are couples, who infiltrate general threads with coupley-behaviour. Or write incessantly in their journal about the other person. DRIVES ME INSANE!!

Actually there's three... but I'm the original.

Apparition - the books. Same goes for the weird randomness that happened a few weeks in relation to LOTR.

Ooh, and even though I'm guilty of this - people who merely respond to posts with a smiley. It's not that big a deal now that I have my T1 at school and a cable modem at home, but it used to be that I would wait forever to find a smiley or the like. Quite annoying.

...but seriously, I've read somewhere that the FCC limits communication speed over dial-up in the US. T/F?

You mean that they limit how fast you can get stuff on like cable and ADSL lines? Yeah, they do. Dial-up is come as come can. We ususally did pretty well with like 49.9 or so... but I know people who barely make 28.8.

ewww, no wonder hi speed connections are so popular over there. I haven't seen a good reason to switch, myself. But I don't have a speed limit, only a tech limit, ie the line

Both of my connections are nice... home's faster than here at uni because here we have people downloading music like crazy, despite the fact that at home we have a household network and there's often 3+ of us online at a time.

Here at work we have a fibre connection and the ISS department has it's own microwave connection. But when all the students come back next week it'll slow down a hell of a lot.

my old highschool has a satelite connection

I always laugh at myself when I have to go to dialup when I'm at the beach or at my grandmothers' houses. Pitiful that I get annoyed when I have to wait for 15 seconds when a few years ago I was lucky if stuff loaded in 2 minutes.

The TV show "Cops." Every single episode has a shirtless redneck, creating a bad reputation for the rest of the white trash community.

Ah. People who watch "reality tv" like they think it's entertaining or something.

programme directors who buy reality TV and fill our veiwing time with it like we want to watch it or something

The show Friends. It was never cool to begin with.

Oooh - since I'm at an American uni - people who run around wearing their frat/sorority letters ALL the time.

People who drive at 65mph in the inside lane of the motorway *until* you pull out to overtake them, when they speed up to 85 because they can't bear to be overtaken by a Ford Ka

The green and yellow ones in a packet of sweets

Shops/market stalls that advertise "crazy" prices. No businessman sells anything for crazy prices.

Cleaning out the gunk from plugholes

Long gaps of empty spaces in postings...














... like that. Sorry, bug bugs the hell out of me.

People who constantly go on about how bad Microsoft are, and how great their preffered alternative is.

People who spell Microsoft with a $, as in Micro$oft. Why?