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

t'as bin a poor year for Fools - it's either the climate or world heconomiks at fault

not enough entering the profession! times

(governments are not included)wrong type of fool

about us

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mm.. yes, I see what you mean there's far too many fools, but they're all clogging up government positions ing amateurs posing as pseudo professionals .. mmm ..

nah! they can't even claim hammer chewer status, they are at the bottom of the A1 motorway, while we in the Fools guild(well! I am anyway)at the top

this is a right fools question(not that your one(yet)me I mean)

Hapi - on your PS, you wrote:
and .. no: I only speak Dutch and no Eastern Europe languages.

err! but your writing in english ??

the top of the A1? well, well... that sounds rather busy .. the bottom of the A1 .. would be .. what .. six feet deep? and the top then would be in between the busses?

well.. I did try Dutch for a while but I got moderated for that so there ..

you'll have to have a natter with Pheloxi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/U170113

I've met him and he's a great bloke

yes, Pheloxi's comments sometimes refer to Dutch phrases

he baffles me some times

in a good way of course

yes, I can understand the effect translating back and from between English and Dutch helps in understanding that is .. for Dutch speakers

being a Yorkshireman,I struggle with the English languageso I don't try

Ah, Yorksha eh? well, dutch language 'ood not be 'a' easy.

we can spake along side the best of them, but I'm a Yorkshireman and hate being called English - British mmmm ok ish

mmm.. yes .. I recognise the idea a Scottish friend once mentioned "Och, thes has bin a great day fur scottish fitball!" .. but the Scottish team didn't play today! .. "Ah ken 'at, but th' sassenach team lost frae th' french."

.. good .. so Yorkshire isn't English

* makes notes *

people talk about the queens english(language)but we up north actually still speak old english! as in Thee and Thou



http://www.yorkshire-dialect.org/dictionary.htm
not all of our speak

.. I'm gathering "reasons to be" all over the world .. maybe you'd like to contribute the reasons to be from Yorkshire?

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING ENGLISH:
1. Two World Wars and One World Cup.
2. Warm beer.
3. You get to confuse everyone with the rules of cricket.
4. You get to accept defeat graciously in major sporting events.
5. Union jack underpants.
6. Water shortages guaranteed every single summer.
7. You can live in the past and imagine you are still a world power.
8. Bathing once a week - whether you need to or not.
9. Ditto changing underwear.
10. Beats being Welsh.

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING SCOTTISH:
1. You ain't English!
2. You ain't English!
3. You ain't English!
4. You ain't English!
5. You ain't English!
6. You ain't English!
7. You ain't English!
8. You ain't English!
9. You ain't English!
10. You ain't English!

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING WELSH:
1. You've got to be having a laugh, haven't you?

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING IRISH:
1. Guinness.
2. 18 children because you can't use contraceptives.
3. You can get into a fight just by marching down someone's road.
4. Pubs never close.
5. Can use Papal edicts on contraception passed in second Vatican Council of 1968 to persuade your girlfriend that you can't have sex with a condom on.
6. No one can ever remember the night before.
7. Kill people you don't agree with.
8. Stew.
9. More Guinness.
10. Eating stew and drinking Guinness in an Irish pub at three in the morning after a bout of sectarian violence.

there's more of them .. several european countries and a few others most were posted in other threads, some are relatively new

ok ok ok ok .. just one more ..

TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING FRENCH:
1. When speaking fast you can make yourself sound gay.
2. Experience the joy of winning the World Cup for the first time
3. You get to eat insect food like snails and frog's legs.
4. If there's a war you can surrender really early.
5. You don't have to read the subtitles on those late night films on Channel 4.
6. You can test your own nuclear weapons in other people's countries.
7. You can be ugly and still become a famous film star.
8. Allow Germans to march up and down your most famous street humiliating your sense of national pride.
9. You don't have to bother with toilets, just shit in the street.
10. People think you're a great lover even when you're not.

due to a certain Russian and that area liquidI'll reply at a later datemust be constructive

but thanks as well Hapi

doth thou have a journal entry for this ? TOP 10 REASONS FOR BEING " "