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

It's getting too late, I'm afraid.
*calls a taxi to take her home*
DON'T DRIVE DRUNK
bye

Not that I'm sensationalist in terms of what I like to watch (not entirely sure that's the way to phrase that...). I just think that, with highlights costing £62m, we really should have more to watch. Wonder how much that is per goal. Anyone know how many premiership matches happen a year?

I was single-handedly responsible for Man U's last minute victory last year by dint of turning on the telly at the right time

Bye Hannah. Hope Austria's as sunny tomorrow as Portsmouth has been today

*lol* They ought to have live broadcasts of wars - we'd win every time on that premise.

The last war was 'live' via the editing department of the Pentagon i believe.

I did see the Man U goals last year as i turned the telly on before i went to work but todays game was at 4 in the morning here and only on pay tv so i didn't watch it

Well, I'm off to bed. I've determined that sometime this week I'm going to get up nice and early so I can go for a run along the seafront without anyone watching

*sticks in dishwasher*

'night all.

Somehow I've failed to tempt MBH over here . He's probably too busy downloading Shockmachine. Perhaps tomorrow.

Well, well, well - what a busy H2G2 night it was. Hi Hannah, nice ot see you exploring H2G2 a bit more.

Football - yep, I saw England's victory - although the house 5 doors down on the other side of the road had a party, and let off fireworks on England's goal and when the match was over. I could still hear their drunken cheerings at around 3am... Plus their stereo was on full in the garden. But then, it was too hot a night to be able to sleep.

I'm sorry, but I don't like Leeds. No-one there that I met knows how to speak English, and the bus drivers are downright insulting. If I get on a bus, I expect to be taken where I pay to go, not to be sworn at and insulted for having an Isle of Wight accent. How anyone in Leeds can understand anything anyone else there says is beyond me.

Hi Bluebottle, you know, we don't have Pubs here. I have no other opportunity to sit in a pub and hear people discussing cities I don't know. I seem to meet you everywhere I go

Hi Hannah, yes, I have been accused of being almost everywhere around H2G2 - but it's not true - honest! As for discussing cities, well, I'm just a poor young country boy, mother nature's son, and Leeds just seems to be a big collection of buildings for little purpose. The city centre has a good idea in having all the shopping area in one gurt-big square in the middle, but the rest of the buildings seem soulless (apart from a cool huge market) and a lot of the people I met there are very unfriendly and have an attitude problem towards accents. They couldn't understand mine, I couldn't understand theirs, and they got angry at me and thought I was an idiot, and treated me as such.
Of course, not everyone in Leeds is like that - just a stereotype of the people I noticed most. The people who treat you normally aren't noticed as you expect to be treated like that, and are soon forgotten. It's the unexpected that's noticed most.

And I don't really like the idea of cities. Villages and small towns are far superior for human communities.

I like your accent
Have a drink with me!

I like big cities, you have more choices where to go, what to buy, whom to talk to. You can find all kinds of people and nationalities and you can be all alone, nobody will watch you and know your name and recognize you.

Hello there BB

*hopes BB is sitting down when he reads this due to the change in timezones *

Hello Hannah, nice to meet you.

I must say i'm a bit of a city boy (Sydney FYI) the country appeals to me but i think i'd be bored within a day or 2...

*Pours Linus a and a |_| for Hannah*
I don't know, I find that most cities have no community identity, and all seem very identical to each other. Sure, you can shop, but that's all really. Somewhere smaller, like a village, and the Isle of Wight as a whole (I normally speak about either the Island or Southampton - afterall, it's inevitable as they are what I know) have their own unique character as they are guided by those in them, and you can feel you belong a lot more. I grew up knowing everyone in my street quite well, and often going to their houses for lunch and we always said hi when walking down the road - that doesn't happen in cities. Yes, in villages people know you - but it means you feel you belong and you exist, not that people are "spying" on you. In cities you are ignored, which is unfriendly. If you said "hi" to everyone you passed in a city centre, you'd probably get very bad reactions and accused of interfering, being nosey, or just plain shouted at and abused. Why?

Sad but true my friend

It's an unfortunate survival instinct in most cities these days...better safe than sorry blah blah blah although whta you are talking about still occurs in the suburbs especially where people of similar ages move to bring there kids up.

Unfortunately in Oz country life is not really viable for most people partly due to the fact that we are such a large sparcely populated country and because we are such a highly urbanised place there are no jobs out there...

Yes, you're right that in Australia it is harder to have a countryside life - but I don't think that in an age of (occasionally) efficient transport and excellent communication, cities are needed any more. During the industrial revolution when people were needed to be in the same area to work in factories, cities were needed, but now? Shopping can be done over the internet. You can get trains to and from in one day places where 200 years ago no-one would have gone when the only transport were your legs unless you were rich enough to own a horse. A lot of office jobs can be done from home. There's no real need to have cities anymore - except for the sad rise of overpopulation.

If i could think of some sort of income raising scheme so i could earn enough to live and support a family in the country here i would.

Telecommuting is really only an option for a lucky few at the moment and as most people are involved in service industries they need to be where the work is ie the cities

Mind you not being able to go out and get something to eat or drink at 2 in the morning would take a LOT of getting used to...

Phew, all this serious talk is thirsty work. I better have a quick before i go...

Well my friend, i must do as the good shepherd does and get the flock out of here...

Talk to you later

I like big cities, can't help it.

Thanks for that |_|, Bluebottle

People come together in big cities, everything gets mixed up a little, it's more exciting to me.

Hi folks. I'll have something non-alcoholic with ice please. (No, not a fish BB).

Hi Linus, I must see if I can persuade my friend MyBrainHertz to come to this bar. He's from Sydney too.