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

wherefromartthou?
mrcrow

Neil, this is your page, you can talk to the odd people who don't have space bars, methinks.

I do beg your pardon o fastidious one; my space bar has been crowded this week with earthlings, so don't go blaming me for everything. I'm sorry; I know you weren't doing that, but I have had everything on my mind recently. Not literally you understand, but only in a metaphorical sense, if you get my meaning.

If you don't, you should be reading more poetry.

Yours (*)ally,

MrCrow

I still maintain that poetry is a symptom of weirdness (or vice versa).
This obviously depends on your definitions, both of weirdness and of poetry.

sorry everyone- have been away at my grandparents' house. hence no time to reply to anyone, whether they use the space bar or not. in answer to your (slightly shakespearian yoda) question i come from coggeshall, which is in essex. however, i now spend about 30 weeks a year in cambridge, where i am studying medicine at gonville and caius college.
how about you mr crow?

Since they say that Shakespeare may not have written many (or all) of the plays attributed to him, do you think Yoda had a hand in it?

maybe charlie, maybe.
it is very weird though to come back from holidays and find lots of threads from my pennying page- glad to see ppl are logging onto it and taking it to heart.

Don't get too excited, count the number of different people actually posting.

(I am advertising for you by the way)

Well, you aked for it: briefly - Stevenage BoG Comp. to Caius via Entrance exam + (A level EngLit A, French D German E)-
1.5 years of boredom, then 1.5 years of fun turning into despair.
Then more depression and despair (whilst writing poetry of course) then a little more, and now only joy and poetry etc.
I left with a third, picked up the MA and now wonder why I was so worried about anything. Have recently spotted the BgavadGita As It Is. Good pictures!
I am 43, 6'2", skinny and can not only handle my drink, I can also handle others'. Any offers? I live in Stevenage.

Your maintenance grant is renewed.

Yodalayhehee!

As drinking games go it seems rather counterproductive that the pennied person has to accept the proffered drink before it is pennied. This would suggest that the person was going to drink it any way. Though the person is now required to chug it, an admirable condition of the pennying, it seems the game lacks a means of requiring people to drink what they had not previously intended to.

but since in any drinking game the particpants can, at any time, leave and thereby limit their own alcohol intake, no drinking game can really force anyone to drink when they don't want to. besides, it becomes very hard to resist wine when offered, especially since the slightest nodof the head or any positive movement can be considered an acceptance of the glass.
or you can do as some people do and just ignore the "permission to pour" rule and instead say that one cannot pour and penny, but no permission has to be granted to pour (see rules for Queens' in the college rules section)

"force" is the wrong word. Something meaning "strongly-encourage-under-penalty-of-vicious-wedgieing-and-humiliating-loss-of-face" would be a more accurate verb to describe the effect a good drinking game has on it not neccesarily willing participants. Ah peer pressure, how much we owe you.

It means that you drink a lot faster than you would normally, and usually drink more then you would otherwise have done during the course of the meal. And alcohol consumption decreases the power of resisting more alcohol. Especially if people go down to the bar and buy more wine...

cheap shot catwoman- i've already apologised and anyway it was more than made up for by the events of afterwards. and anyway it was as much dom's fault as mine.

cheap shot catwoman- i've already apologised and anyway it was more than made up for by the events of afterwards. and anyway it was as much dom's fault as mine.

...eep...I suppose peer pressure, air pressure too, can have some negative effects.

Events of RL do not affect anything here. It was just an observation that most colleges have bars that can be accessed with reasonable ease in between courses.

ok. if you say so. i just hinted at the events of RL *slightly* more obviously than you did. but anyway... back to the discussion-
yes xero, peer pressure plays a large part in "making people drink more", especially in pennying, where, as you quite rightly say, there is no system as such of penalising people for not drinking insanely huge quantities of wine- other than the diaproval of ones peers. which, in my opinion, is a truly terrible penalty. maybe that is why i am so susceptible to pennying