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

Why do your parents make you play a sport (is golf really a sport?) that you despise?

Let's have an international don't show up day! That would show them!!

I haven't read any posts here, I've just popped by to say that I am incredibly, insufferably and irretrievably grumpy. I do smile & laugh a lot but it's a charade.

Life sucks, the world is full of idiots, some of my colleagues say '0207' and renting a flat in London is far too expensive. My knob's not big enough, I've got ginger pubes and I haven't played a gig for 5 years. I can't afford to take enough charlie to get a habit, I hate motorists (even though I'm always grateful for a lift) and I'm a hypocrite. I'm a pedantic sod and irritated by fat women who stand chatting whilst blocking the pavement. MOVE TO ONE SIDE AND EAT LESS!

I am grumpy and I can't imagine myself any other way.

Roymondo, if it helps, it's width that counts. Not length.

Width? You're not helping!

Sorry, probably not a laughing matter.

If I wasn't so bleedin' grumpy I'd laugh. Actually it's not much of an issue. I'm a gay bottom (blimey, that seems so dodgy when it's typed!) and I'm told I've a nice rear, so can't really complain. But I have to complain 'cos I'm grumpy!

Great. Now I'm grumpy because I have to be grunpy about things I'm not actually grumpy about.

No wonder I'm grumpy.

Well, I guess that's alright for you then.

That's what P.U.D.D.I.N.G.'s for, complain away.
That's hard to type with all those dots!

I am getting ing off with hootoo telling me I can't post messages until I've signed in, when I have signed in. How is it that I'm in my PS under my own name and not 'Unkown Researcher'

Also, why is it that I've been able to post to 'P.U.D.D.I.N.G.' but I still can't post to the site I want to coz the ing maching keeps telling me that I need to sign in. Also, I've gone through the motions of signing in and still get the same ing message

Try emptying your cache and starting again.

Bought a pedometer last week for about £13. I've only used it twice and it fell of my belt whilst I was out walking today. Retraced my steps but didn't find it.

btw, TM How does one 'empty ones cache'?

Alsom, if ones cache is full, how can one access some convos and not others?

I think "cache" refers to one's cooky cache.
Right-click on Internet Explorer and choose Properties. Then you should see some options for emptying the Temporary Internet Files folder as well as deleting Cookies. Do both. Sometimes all this can get a tad full and hinder performance on your machine.

Did that, although nothing happened at first when I asked to delete cookies. I had to use a more long-winded procedure

Hope it helped.

"Roymondo, if it helps, it's width that counts. Not length."

Absolutely. If they had less width to 'em, they wouldn't block the whole pavement.

Also, I wouldn't be too keen on it dragging along the greound if it was too long.

A few weeks ago I wanted to label up some files, and what I needed was a hand-helde Dymo label maker. Off I trot to the local office supplier to ask for said machine. They looked at me in astonishment and said they hadn't been around for years. What they had instead was an electronic (battery operated device with all sorts of gizzmos such as 'language setting, graphic symbolstext storing facility, font styles, font size, underlining/boxing text... . This cost about £25 if I recall correctly. Anyway, since purchasing this device I've printed about 6 labels. Just went to use it this morning, and the labels were extremely faint. Had to search for the instructions which, for 'faint type' suggested either changing the batteries and/or vleaning the print head using the tool supplied. The latter made no discerniblee difference, so then changed the batteries. This did the trick. How can batteries go flat after 6 uses? Why can't we have a return to simple, non-battery operated devices?

OK, major grump coming up.

I suffer from (and with) MS, one effect of which is fatigue. I also suffer from a hubby who snores. I'm on tablets to counter the fatigue, but they're only effective if I get a good night's sleep. Guess who didn't get one last night 'cos of hubby's snoring!

And now there's roadworks outside. I can cope with that, but something they're doing just caused a power spike and my system reset itself, right in the middle of something I was doing.

So right now I'm tired, aching, lethargic, and apprehensive about doing anything on my PC in case it resets itself again.

I'm not grumpy at anything in particular right now. just life in general.

andit's the one on the left ya gotta worry about...