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

I had so many good intentions for this evening, but instead of being tempted away from them by watching TV and going on h2g2 I was instead distracted by Medical Staffing offering me Locum Rates ()to do the twlight oncall 5-9pm. I've not done general medicine yet, only surgery and psychiatry. But they said if I didn't do it no one would and I must be better than no one.

I was really nervous, but I was fine, and it was great fun! I really enjoyed it, and saw lots of really interesting things..

What sort of demented person would set fire to a thousand porta potties? I wonder what other targets this guy has.

I must correct my earlier entry about the portapotties. There weren't a thousand--there were only 250 and the tanks they were threatening were not propane. They were tanks of jet fuel!! Anyone care to comment???

I've been in several porta-potties, and despise the things. I can see why he might be inspired to torch a couple.

I wonder if the fumes inside the potties helped them to go up in flames?

I'm just waiting for Jamie Oliver's next book: The Naked Chef Fries Bacon.

I thought I was done - but I remembered my funniest moment inside a porta-potty...

It was at a festival, and I'd carefully balanced my beer atop the toilet paper dispenser. Somebody else left the potty and slammed their door, and the vibrations sent the cup hurtling off the dispenser and it spilled its contents in my lap.

Fortunately there was an ample supply of paper products nearby!

Port-a-potties and flame, not a combination I would want.

Port-a-potties and beer. Not a combination I would want.

Port-a-potties and flame........
Not a combination anyone would want, I imagine.
My only experience with a portapotty was at a drag race. I was in one when one of the big fuelers roared by...............The world shook.

Mikerhike... Slammed means that at work I took over three times the normal load today. I did that in hlaf the day. So the pace I was on was for 600% of normal load. It was brutal.

does everyone here remember the fuss about the proposed adscreens in portapotties along with ad-printed TP? thank god those two didn't come to pass (though i know that ad-printed TP is indeed out there, in the wild).

run lola run is a great movie. that dinah washington song really added a lot to the depth of the movie. of course, so did franka's hair.

The first time I saw Run Lola Run was in a sacred texts and mysteries class. A lot of the esoteric in that flick.

I apologize to everyone for not getting the new thread going today. The time slot in my day for adding a new conversation was pre-empted by server misbehavior. And after that other parts of my life demanded full attention.

I'm off to Roswell tomorrow morning for routine car service and avoiding alien abductions. After that, maybe I can proceed with original programming....

Morning All,

Mr D, if it rains will you go rusty? will you have to be scaled and painted like the Forth Rail Bridge? will we have to take a wire brush to you? or maybe a good dousing in WD40. We really should be told.

Duncan is rather dashing in his chainmail, he just needs a white steed.

I sometimes wonder if I'm the only person in the world who doesn't much like Jamie Oliver. I respect him for what he has achieved with 15 and school dinners, but there is just something about him that puts me off.

I'm with mikerhike on the brand of smoothies. The packaging makes me giggle, read the back of the pack, and they have a fun website.

Saffron was mentioned in the backlog, and someone not knowing what to do with it. I like to fry bianchi di Spagna (big white beans) in olive oil, saffron and finely chopped garlic...

*settles down on the hearth rug to give the two unaus a thorough cuddle*

Saffron's expensive? Come, and buy a whacking great bag of the stuff for 70p. Mind you, all I use it for is making rice less dull.

Assuming porta-potties are the same as portaloos, remind me some day to tell you about the jamboree, the fat Guider, and the mightly drunk Ventures.

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*inserts missing 'here'* .

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Apparently the recommended method is to put the chainmail in a pillow case full of sand with a little oil and then put it all in the tumble dryer on low heat... while I'm sure this works very well I don’t really fancy shoving 20 kilos of steel into a tumble dryer, not least because of the noise!

I think the easiest thing would be to just let it all rust solid and then stand there like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz mumbling ‘oil can’.

Portaloos, terrible things. Micheal Evis (Glastonbury festival) had the best idea when he dug out pits for long drop toilets for his festival, much cleaner.
As for what happens when tanks of avgas go up - http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/read_this/buncefield_explosions/

Our council having initiated kerbside recycling is now going to be trialing collecting normal rubbish every two weeks. It's fine for me and MC as we don't generate that much rubbish and do recycle. I just wish they'd have better recycling facilities or collect more in the kerbside boxes (plastics and cardboard would be nice if they collected).

Looks like it's finally started snowing here, a light frosting on the ground and it's coming down lightly at the moment.

Morning all.

Am pretty sure this is tonsilitis again I can no longer swallow (no sniggering at the back there).

I think smoothies would be good for people that don't get good levels of nutrients from their food, but given the amount of vegetable matter I consume surely I'm getting all I need?

Anyway, off to phone the quacks.