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

Okay, I'm not much of a prude, but the pair of little girls' underpants I saw at a clothing store earlier this summer was way out of line: they said "Hot Stuff!" across the crotch. I think the whole kinderslut look has gone a bit too far.

::slinks off in embarrassment after seeing her misspelling in the subject line::

What amazes me is that parents buy this crap for their kids, and women buy these things for themselves. Who are these women that buy the pointy pointy shoes? Who are the mothers and fathers that buy their 8 year old a shirt that says "bitchin"?

I don't know these folk, and I wish I knew where they lived, because I would go to their homes and berate them.

Is kinderslut a real word? It's brilliant!

Zeppo, I hope you had a rip roaring birthday. of Baskin Robbins coupons and a box of Milk Bones. Ok, where's my thank you slurp?

If it wasn't a word before, 'kinderslut' deserves to be one now.

hey, fg, you've coined a new word!

So, I've been getting re:stupid stuff in my email from people I've never heard of. Now, the question I have...do I have the virus, or does that mean someone else does? I've been deleting them without opening, and then dumping my deleted mail asap. As long as I don't open the attachment, I'm okay, right?

Yes, likely it is viri infested e-mail, but you don't have it unless you open the attachment. This latest is called sobig-f I think.

Keep in mind that the sender is not the real sender, and that it clones headers based off of valid email. So flame lightly, if at all.

Get a virus scanner and check out your machine. Make sure that you have all your bases covered. Or change mail clients to one that is invulnerable to all the M$ related email viri. Pegasus, Thunderbird, Eudora, Netscape are all good choices.

I can still keep my email address, right?

You know me...computer inept!

I've done a search for "sobig" and "blast" and "lovesan" and I don't have any thing with that name.

Well, those search terms are not going to really help. The only way to be sure is to run an updated virus scan.

And no, you will not need a new e-mail address. You likely can set up POP3 and SMTP in any system without trouble.

It is simple enough to do, most email clients will even walk you through it.

dumb question, but for the luddites like me, which one is most like Outlook Express?

That is a hard question. Perhaps Eudora, but not exactly. Pegasus in it's preview mode (default configuration choice) looks somewhat like outhouse, but not really. Netscape and thnderbird do not look much like it at all.
All will have a learning curve associated with them.

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As long as it isn't as archaic as pine, which utilizes DOS codes...yuck!

They are each graphical, but have differnet idiosynchrocies.

MR, the parents that buy such clothing for their children are the same ones who let 8 or 9 year olds wander the neighborhood at midnight. And there are a lot of them. In my neighborhood it's not too much of a problem, but head west across the Salt Lake Valley and you will find it's commonplace. Twelve and thirteen year old girls go to drinking parties hosted by older boys- and their parents don't care ! I am always amazed by how much of our society belongs on "Jerry Springer"

Yeah, I know what you mean. I really wonder...a neighbor has a 13 year old son who has a lot of issues. His bedroom window faces my porch, and I saw him sneaking out one night. I talked to her the next day, and she freaked...but at least she cared. She had the maintenance folk put bars on his window. he may hate her now, but he'll appreciate it later.

Most of the girls I see locally are teenagers and tend to wear jeans and crop tops.

I have never given much thought as to whether younger girls are dressed inappropiately. Perhaps that will change when/if I have grandchildren.

Caer, go to the local shopping centre around the time school gets out. What do you want to bet that the bathrooms are filled with girls getting out of their uniforms and into the hoochie mama clothes they shoved in the bottom of their bookbags?

Then again, I wouldn't take that bet!

Fashion? What's that. Oh yes it's what those pictures are in a huge range of magazines I don't buy