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

Heehee. Not all of it is good discussion! Yeah, but Im determined to do something with this, because i like it!

The article is very good - I'm to have it in the edited guide, but it could be added to the underguide at the very least.

At the end of the guide you should ask for updates, regional view and alternative names to be added to the conversaations.

Awww...thats sweet.
Do you mean put a sort of little footnote thing at the end of the entry, Brenden? "If anyone has anything to add..."

Are you still working on this, Elbow Yangle Mk2?

Occasionally. Loads of people keep giving me things to add now Im away at uni, so I'll do a whole big update thing soon.

How soon>

Erm...soon when i get round to it?

... and that will be ... when?

2003? 2004?

Wow, over here in America we have goths, skaters, ravers, and punks (like skaters) but nothing equivalent to your scallies. We also have plenty of subcultures that are probably underreprented elsewhere, like wiggers and rednecks. As an anthropology student, such variations are very interesting to me. It is a mixture of international cultural variations and local histories.
-MotDoc

Tum te tum!

you might want to add that in bristol kappa slappers are reffered to as meaders, so named after the southmead area of bristol from which the style is thought to originate and be most popular. however one need not come from southmead to be a meader and vicey-versa. the term "meader" has now become derogatory in bristol, and is considered a huge insult.

I can't believe you have missed charvers http://www.newcastlestuff.com/charver/charver.html

Anyone know how to add other researchers to your list when writting entries, to say they helped with research, but without it then saying that they wrote the article? Hmmm...

Elbow its a small world out there I have just joined and I work in Bangor!! But I thought that the teenagers around here were all divided by music ie rock (Goths etc) and Townies (more mainstream music)!!

Paul

Elbow - you were doing the right thing! When you're the author of an entry and you add other researchers, the system will automatically put you down as the editor and everyone else as the writers.

If it gets into the Edited Guide, the Sub-Editor will take your place as editor and you will join the list of writers. The list of writers will always go in researcher number order, so you'd almost certainly be at the front of the list.

That number ordering is supposed to be something that they're looking at, as the way it works is not always fair, but as someone with quite a senior researcher number because I joined h2g2 quite early on, personally I don't mind it

So I'd suggest going ahead and adding extra researchers. If it doesn't get into the EG, if you like I'll create a new page and paste the entry in there, which will mean I'd be down as editor and would make you a writer.

How's that?

In university towns/cities, 'townie' is used for pretty much anyone who lives there full-time (not just during terms). But especially those who appear from nowhere on friday and saturday nights and throw up on the pavement after drinking too much cheap booze (cos only students are allowed to do that).

If this is Britain, shouldn't the word 'trousers' be used instead of 'pants' (in the Avril Lavigne wannabe section). Or maybe a note that normal people would call them trousers, but that they, in their bid to be American skater kids, call them pants.
Although isn't she Canadian or something?

Thanks no.6, I will get round to that. I doubt it will ever get in the editied guide though!

I've been English all my life (oddly), and I always call them pants. Although people often ask my why I talk about my knickers so often, and therefore it is possibly an americanism. And I'm afraid I don't know where Avril Lavigne is from. Somewhere far away from me. Points noted.
In Bangor, where I go to university, the residents of the city are called gogs. Something to do with the fact that its North Wales, and its an abviviation of the Welsh word for North, "gogledd". I'm not sure they'd be too please if they were called that though.

Elbow,

You've been persistent with this entry. There's no reason for it not to go into the Guide once all the comments have been incorporated and/or you feel it is finished.

Give us a shout when you've made the amendments.

I have a new category: Dork (which actually comes from a slang word for 'penis'!). Basically, it is someone who is not especially popular, and prefers more cerebral pursuits to football. It can be divided into three subcategories: Nerds, who are especially into scifi and video games, geeks, who are especially into fantasy and RPGs, and otaku, who are especially into animé and manga. I would describe myself as a nerd, semi-geek, and epprentice otaku. Here in Ireland, we also have (at least from my point of view). We tend to exibit social xenophobia while welcoming ethnic minorities, but if you get to know us, we're actually very nice.

Knackers: generally annoying person, but comes from a slang word for traveller. Seem to be a bit like you scallies. almost Always drinking

Jocks: Big, beefy, very physical but not usually too bright people. Arrogant, but can be surprisingly nice.

Clones: Generic people who look down on individuality. I think you mentioned these in your entry.

Moshers: pretty much the same.

Goths: again, the same, albeit less white, more pentagrams, dark but warm personality.

Also, you may or may not wish to add in at some point the well know fact that rasinig teenagers is like nailing jelly to the ceiling.

Great entry though, and very interesting.

Cheers Hussassan! Knackers is about right!

Ok, I've made some changes, added some bits and stuff.Have a gander and see if owt else needs doing.

Elbow xx