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

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Bi
English/British/European/Whatever
Also Lefthanded
Also Cynical
Wannabe Writer
Writer of "Puberty: A Male Perspective", which thanks to you I'm now going to rewrite.
Also a fan of pockets.

You wrote: Vegetarian.

So do you eat dairy produce? A vegan, erm, acquaintance of mine tells me that vegetarians don't do it properly, and that they're nearly as bad as yer standard meat-eater... On the other hand, I don't care what I eat, so I'm in no position to criticise other people about their diet

> Extremely sarcastic.

That's alright, you'll grow out of thinking it's fashionable to be sarcastic at everyone.

> Night person.
> Cynical.
> Bitter,
> with occasional bursts of euphoria.

Def Leppard or Pete Tong?

> Repressed.
> Allergic to cats and pollen.

Lots of people are allergic to pollen. It's called 'hayfever' round here. During summer, it's about as common as a cold is during winter. If you see what I mean.

> Bored.

As my mother used to say: 'A bored person is boring'. Yes, I hate this sort of mindless proverb too. I can tell that you're bored by the way you spend so much time on the internet. [Thinks]. D'oh!

> Classic rock fan.
> Baseball player, die-hard fan.
> Current resident of near-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
> Agnostic, Jew.

Which? I thought that agnostic meant belief in some higher entity without specifying one associated with any particular religion. Mind you, I don't want to start some enormous debate about interpretations of religion, so I won't press too hard.

> Virgin.
> Pathetic. (meaning the opposite of apathetic...)
> Opinionated.
> Political.
> Activist.
> Socialist... maybe.

I didn't know there were socialists in the US. I thought it was a typically British complaining-about-the-government-type thing, like 70's punk rock.

> But I flatter myself.

You're the best person to do that, you know yourself better than anyone else.

> Favorite books:
> Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
> the Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
> If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, somebody or other
> Shoeless Joe, JP Kinsella (which became the not-nearly-as-good-but-still-incredible movie "Field
> of Dreams")

> Some good movies:
> Monty Python - any of the movies

You don't seriously like Meaning of Life? (although you're apparently too young to see it). It's by far the weakest of the three films. It's like an adult episode of the TV series, dragged out to 90 minutes. The songs are good, though.

> Being John Malkovich
> Bulworth
> Pulp Fiction
> BRAVEHEART!

Freeeeedooooomm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
erm, etc.

> Music I like:
> Ani DiFranco
> They Might Be Giants, Moxy Fruvous
> Pink Floyd
> Sublime
> Beethoven
> and absolutely, positively NOT Shania Twain

She's not as bad as the Spice Girls. At least she has a proper genre, even if she tries to draw attention to herself by wearing not a lot in her promotional videos. What a rip-off of Robert Palmer's masterpiece etc. etc.

> My dog's name:
> Ori

At the last count, we had no less than 4 cats. 2 have biblical names, and the other 2 are randoms inherited from a neighbour. I don't know why people bother on stupid names like "Salome" for cats... Any reader's of T S Eliot's book of Practical Cats will know what I mean. Anti-fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber will disagree entirely, even though he had nothing to do with the original poems.

From what is written here, we are uncannily similar in personality. There are very few nonphysical/nondemographic characteristics that I disagree with, and none that I strongly disagree with. I too am a teenage vegetarian, classic rock fan, JRR Tolkien fan, politically liberal, bored, night person. Uncanny. Anyways, I was just checking out your page before admittng you to the H2G2 Vegetarian Society. It's just something I like to do, so I can get to know my members a little. However, I need to start getting ready for bed, so I'll handle it tomorrow, if it's all the same to you.

You know who I am, so I won't bore you with that again

Interesting to read about you...don't expect me to do the same though . You can just ask if there's anything you want to know . I don't mind...so long as what you ask is within reason

Gee... I got myself a whole bunch of readers, and didn't notice.I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote this... but it's not half bad. Maybe like a quarter. I don't know.

...there are lots of socialists in the US.
And I've seen Meaning of Life, twice, just didn't get it. I thought maybe I'd understand someday. Perhaps I was wrong.
Jew, because (not by my own choice) I go to a Jewish school, which means all my friends are practicing Jews, and that's how I identify myself culturally. What I'm doing is rejecting (with a question mark) the existence of the Jewish god.
I do eat dairy products... milking don't kill the cow. And since I only get kosher milk (at home at least) I happen to know that the cow wasn't mistreated too badly.
I get colds in the winter, too
and I ain't sarcastic cause it's fashionable. That's just me.

But Zarquon, you're not a girl!

Tatty... you crack me up

and, def leppard.

Milking don't kill the cow, but if you're getting the milk, then some little calves somewhere are going short...

Seldom do I find/see/read about someone even more odd than myself. Congratulations.

BTW I'm also left-handed. And sarcastic, cynical, bitter, etc.

And public displays of affections piss me off for the same reason they piss you off. That's why I always carry a couple of (filled) water balloons with me, just in case.

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Good idea.

You know reading this forum it seems there are an awful lot of cynical bitter people on H2g2

And proud of it.

No shock there.