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

commerce has been branded as the new order, shame but most things are centered around that. (tis probly why I try and do things for myslef)

-- DoctorMO --

Darn right.

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I hope your thinking along the lines of "Why should we all have to use some product, just because most people do, and why is it that people look at you as if your mad if you want to cook your own food?"

-- DoctorMO --

Yes to the first bit, no to the second bit. Most people are used to me doing 'odd' things, only my would mum look surprised if I announced I wanted to cook my own food. But then, she likes getting a few nasty comments in. Even dad didn't look surprised when I said I was going to try baking bread at some point.

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I've done that, it takes a few tries and you realy have to kney the doh well but it tasts realy nice, esp when it's warm. Tip, most of the recipies are to do with the bread machines, you can use them but I think it's best to put more white flour in and less water.

-- DoctorMO --

Well, I've made bread before as well, but it was back in primary school and we never ate it anyway. Gave it to our mothers for Mother's Day. And if I make bread I'm not getting a machine to do it for me.

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Good for you....

Although... self sufficiancy, which you are kind of touching on... Is perfectly feesable given enough land and the like. (aka "The Good Life") ... Oh, and kneeding bread is THE BEST EVER way of cleaning your hands! ... Honest! It get's out EVERYTHING! It's SO amazing... ...

Although to be honest, modern society seems to be encouraging people to "work harder" to earn more money... to do "less work"... If you think about it... we no longer as a nation "have" to farm to feed ourselves. Instead, we do other business, so that we can pay someone ELSE! to do it for us... All very Roman if you ask me... besides which it's all gone almost full circle... The contrasts between our suposedly "modern" society and their supposedly "backward" society are so few and far between, that I'm amazed people are so blind to it.

Hopefully before too long, we'll have another "Charles/John Wesley" kinda guy sent to sort us all out...

lol, doing things in a self growing and making way is almost imposable with current land areas (lets leave out the posability of other planets for now) so all I want to do is step in as my own secondry industry, I even make furnicher when I get a chance but bread is one of the most reliable food sources.

God forbid what would happen to most people is the world fell apart tomorow.

-- DoctorMO --

Perhaps you guys would like our eggs? We have two ducks and a chicken, you see, and so we get about three eggs a day. And we can't eat that amount, and can't sell them either. And because we can't sell them, people don't want them cos they might have salmonella...
As to the Good Life lifestyle... it's damn difficult. And all we've ever had is poultry and horses... and numerous rodents...

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You know the first thing that popped into my head when you said rodents was "I wounder if they eat thoughs too", but that brought me onto another thought, mainly all forbiden foods have some danger of killing you, need I mention the jews and there pork problem. If you think about it when there book was being writen, it must have seemed like a good idea to put in a little pice about not eating pigs because they might be infected with somthing. hehe.


-- DoctorMO --

You have a good point.
Perhaps if someone were writing a holy book in England a few hundred years ago they would have said "don't drink water"!

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Esp, if they lived up here in Widnes , although they would have to be a contiued time system in order for that to work, I hear the mearsy used to be a nice clean river with a water fall.

-- DoctorO --

Also especially if they lived in London... The Thames must have been clean at some point in the distant past.

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It's not pigs specifically, it's something to do with hooved animals... I can find out specifically if you like. And they weren't "writting a holy book"... They were recording law, and history... much as we do today. Although, theirs being slightly differant as it was God's Law... thus slightly more important...

Yeah, it "did" and still is past Reading and Oxford... after that, say by the time it gets to Henly onwards, it's a little smelly... I've got a friend, who's gran lives with her garden backing onto the thames near Sonning... It's a good place to launch boats from...

No matter what source, a holy book, is a holy book and most of the 'laws' are bassed in some moral and worldly danger. Although I'm not quite sure what point you were tring to get accross.

-- DoctorMO --