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

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Redpeckhamwhatever.

We are not hear purely to entertain you.

There are plenty of other places on h2g2 to have silly conversations, why don't you go there?

We're happy the way we are thank you.

now you've really provoked me!

wiseman say lil's attelier bit snobbish

Trolls are best left ignored Z - have you heard anything from the exam results yet?

Wiser man say Redpeckham should realise that Lil's isn't here purely for her benefit.

Even wiser man say that Redpeckham should remember that Trolling is very naughty.

exam results mean nothing

Quite

Well we had a feedback session where they pointed out the mistakes that were made without saying who made them. And I've realised I made one.

So I'm an ickle bit p***d off right now. Mainly with myself. We don't get the results until Janurary, so I'll be on edge for a while.

edge of what?

I think Z means 'on edge' as in 'apprehensive'.

[tartaronne]
Z. It's a done deed and you cannot go back.

Relax and enjoy. You've earned it.

Well yes. On edge as in nervous. These exam results certainly *do* mean something, considering if I don't pass I can't become a !

Well actually they would mean that I have to take a resit to become one.

I'm fairly sure that passing's a distict possiblity but the fact I know I made a mistake that would possibly have been serious has really knocked my confidence. I do actually think that I would have not made that mistake in real life, but still.

I can't relax too much because I've got another one tomorrow.

You'll be able to consult books, other doctors and nurses when you're a doctor Z. In exams you generally can't do that.

*mmm thank you*

Still I think I passed anyway.

And I'm doubely sure I wouldn't have done it in real life. Because It was a case where you were admitting a terminally ill patient who was in pain and vomiting, you only had six minutes to decide which drugs to put her on.

I wrote out her painkillers, adding one and increasing another one, then ran out of time so I didn't have time to think abuot what to do about the vomiting.

But I did think 'oh damn the bell's gone and I really need to sort out the vomiting'.

And obviously if I'd had time to think about it I would have noticed that the vomiting was caused by the painkilled I'd increased and crossed it out.



*sulk*

Z

Oh well, you're only human.

Good morning, everyone, and good day to those whose time zones have moved on from morning.

Mr. Dreadful, welcome to the atelier! The conversation is indeed multithreaded, as other salonistas have remarked, and the backlog builds up quickly, but just float along with us.

redpeckham, if you'll check A304354, you will see that the one thing we prize above all else at the atelier is good manners. It's by manners that you show your respect for others in the conversation. If having standards of behavior is snobbish, then so be it, but I don't think 'snobbish' is the right word. You were made welcome when you first came here, and no-one has been rude to you. Please don't be snarky to us in return.

My day got off to a bad start. I went to the kitchen area and found it so thoroughly strewn with catnip that I had to vacuum before anything else. The adoptee cat, Precious, has no kitchen training, and will jump on the counters while I'm abed, which is how she found the plastic bag of catnip. My cats learned which flat surfaces were allowed and which forbidden in the first month they lived with me, but Precious spent her first 8 months in a house with many other cats and no discipline to speak of. People who love animals in the abstract but don't take care of them in the particulars, such people puzzle me...

Good afternoon!

Thanks to everyone who's welcomed me, I'm sure I'll be able to follow things a bit easier once I've shaken off The Cold That Would Not Die.

My mate bought a little catnip pillow once. One of his moggies looked like he was going to have a coronary and the other to had such a vicious fight over the thing that it had to be locked away until they calemd down.

Mr Dreadful leave this thread if you dare?

Why 'if you dare'? Will I find Lil waiting around the corner with a baseball bat or something?

You can check out any time you like/But you can never leave.