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

Toc, I ~am~ living at home and keeping house. I hate nothing more than housework. I did it so I could raise my own children to my standards. I like keeping things organised but it is dull, dull dull! Which is why I spend so much time on hootoo.

Gee, dave, you are one popular guy! Crabbing is optional, you may if you like, or even water ski.

You have a sloping lake then WM

My ideal would be no job, and servants! The dangerous thing about the way I live my life right now is that I enjoy not working fa-a-a-a-a-r too much.

A dear friend gave me fifty quid's worth of book tokens yesterday, and I have just bought a second copy of the latest Pratchett for the Stepson's birthday, he is around this weekend and then goes to join his father for the forseeable.

I also bought Playing the Moldovans at Tennis for laughter, Dead Air by Iain Banks for spikiness, The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter for wierd poetic eroticism, The Wife by Meg Wolitzer for mindless giggles, and The Life of Pi because it has been recommended to me too often for me not to.

Fifty quid doesn't go far, these days, does it? I was shocked that neither Waterstones nor Ottakers had Angela Carters essays, and irritate that they are both going through a stage of not having sections of erotica.

B

I don't think I could cope being at home all day. My brain would escape out of my ear!

I don't cope well when i have enough hours in the day.. I feel right when I don't have spare time.

In fact one of the things I disliked most about my year out was not having anything I should be doing in the evenings. I worked until 5, and then nothing. I was odd having so much free time, and I didn't like it.

Here's a good quiz for you all.

http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/W/worstjobs/quiz.html

30 to 70 You don’t mind doing your fair share of hard graft, but you’d prefer not to be killed while doing it. If tough is your bag, try Sedan-chair bearer, searching for bones or cigar ends as a Scavenger, Roman gold miner, operating a Treadmill or working as a Navvy.

Same as GDZ. I thought I was harder working than that!

B

In the 30 - 70 range as well.

That was a fantastic TV programme as well!

I got 75

70 to 100 You're bold as brass and brave as a lion, but not such a messy pup. You might be prepared to cope with being an Arming squire with its potential for you becoming a knight, but you're actually ideally suited to some of the high-risk worst jobs such as Topman, Powder monkey, fish-fingered Viking sailor/warrior, outnumbered Riding officer, Petardier's assistant or even Guillemot-egg collector.

Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, Dead Air by Iain Banks, and The Life of Pi I have all read. And they are worth it. I have not long read Banksies latest, Raw Spirit, and would recommend it as well to anyone who likes whisky or dislikes the current Iraq affair. He could rant for his country that man.

I scored 15 on the worst jobs test.

0 to 30  No one is saying that you’re work-shy, but a more sedentary occupation would suit you, even if it gets a trifle monotonous. It’s a little messy, but being an Executioner won’t put huge demands on your time. If you don’t mind getting wet or sitting still, Bath attendant or Artist’s model might do for you. Or if you’re not too squeamish about the sight of blood, pus or the odd taste of urine, try putting in an application form for some of the medical jobs: Leech collector, Barber-surgeon or Loblolly boy.

I like the idea of executioner best, I think .

Do you have a little list Amy? Of no-one that will be missed

Funny you should ask, Phil... *rummages down the side of the sofa and extracts a long piece of paper*

Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn!

I am doing some deep level tidying up in a vain attempt to find a quarter's worth of receipts for expenses and also because I actually prefer to live an organised life than a disorganised one.

So far, so fine.

I opened a box with some clothes in it, and a dozen moths flew out. Most of them appear to be ok, or ok-ish, but (shut your eyes, Z) the little fur shoulder-cape of my mother's is so ruined all I could do was bin it. I had put moth sachets in there, but obviously not enough.

It isn't as if I would ever actually wear the fur cape. It is a period piece now, and was only likely to be worn for fancy dress or as a piece of costume in an Am-Dram play from the 1940s.

But I *loathe* avoidable destruction and waste.

(You can open your eyes, Z).

Off now to Superdrug to buy moth-sachets for the rest of the clothes, and - realistically - for the whole of the flat. Enough of the bastards escaped to put every other garment in the flat at risk.

I am *so* annoyed with myself about that.

B

30 to 70 You don’t mind doing your fair share of hard graft, but you’d prefer not to be killed while doing it. If tough is your bag, try Sedan-chair bearer, searching for bones or cigar ends as a Scavenger, Roman gold miner, operating a Treadmill or working as a Navvy.

I'd be a good scavenger.

A toaster that works by temperature sensor is a bad idea in a house with no central heating.


ltp -- plenty of pictures of women in Janson, right, but no women artists. A woman might be led to conclude that she had no place at the easel, only on the model's couch.

Oh Shame, I ought to get mothballs, I horde allsorts of costumes.

I Scored 55 on the test

I scored 65


I now know what the inside of a water closet cistern looks like - last night when I flushed it the handle came loose into my hand and the toilet went on flushing and flushing. I loosened the top of the cistern and poked around inside it enough to stop the flushing and then got up early this morning to fix it before going to w*rk...

But I did fix it! But the flashligt I used to see enough of the inside also revealed quite some yuck on the inside of the cistern...

lill,supose most female art went into the clothes of the times,along
with the furnishing,...

costumes. thats every day dress to me ,
scored 130, doesn't suprise me
wonder how big amy's list is plenty of job satisfaction

[MTG]

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Ooh and Ben, fur isn't any different to leather really.