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

...but I have a mission for the next 36 hours: not to take this can of coke and tear it in half and grind the sharp end into my face...
Not to take my pocket knife run up the inside of my arm... not to take all those pretty little pills and have my second OD in as many months... not to fill the bath with water and let the pain and hurt hold me under!!!!


Beautiful
by Joydrop

If I was beautiful like you
Oh the things I would do
Those not so blessed would be crying out murder
And I'd just laugh and get away with it too
Like you do

If I was beautiful like you
I would never be at fault
I'd walk in the rain between the rain drops
Bringing traffic to a halt

But that would never be
Never, never be
Cause I'm not beautiful like you
I'm beautiful like me, I'm beautiful like me

If I was beautiful like you
I'd be quick to assume
They'd do anything to please me, why not
I see their reaction when you walk into the room

But that would never be
Never, never, never be
Cause I'm not beautiful like you
I'm beautiful like me, beautiful like me
Beautiful, beautiful like me
Like me, Like me...

If I was beautiful like you
I'd have so many friends
All fighting for my time to be next in line
So if I hurt one, I wouldn't have to make amends

But that would never be
Never, never, never be
Cause I'm not beautful like you
I'm not beautiful like you
I'm not beautiful like you
I'm beautiful like me
I'm Beautiful like me, beautiful like me
I'm beautiful like me, I'm beautiful like me!

Hi Stealth, I hope being here can help you accomplish your mission. It's been a couple of years not since I've suffered the kind of pain you seem to be suffering now. I've been fortunate, I know but I have been there. You can break your mission down, you know to getting thru the next hour with out harming yourself or even the next minute. I know how hard it is, but I know you can do it.

I'd withdrawn from my meds, because I forgot to ask my consultant for a prescription before he shoved me out of the door. I got some from GP today, because my mum came home and found me screaming, wailing and ...

I've finally got some sleep now, but I've missed my favourite comedies... oh well, never be minding. But still my sleep pattern is completely effed...

Don't really know how I'm feeling at the moment.

So what are your favourite comedies?

Well there was a prog about Father Ted which was/is a definate fav, there's this new thing with Rob Brydon's character from Marion and Geoff called the Keith Barrett Show, that could become a favourite. And Coupling has a been a favourite from the very start.

I missed the Father Ted thing - I'd have liked to have seen that (just a hunch, but the beeb will probably be repeating it, oo, within the next fortnight anyway ).

Keith Barrett - I thought it was very funny last week and it was almost as good this (Rob Brydon - definitely a bit of a genius)

Ah - Coupling. *Looks around nervously* I do like Coupling - but I don't quite know why and I'm a bit reluctant to admit that I do - if that makes any sense at all .

Mmm. The beeb have become quite repeat happy.

Oh yes, last week's was classic. Indeed...!

Do know if the gorgeous guy that played Jeff has left the series?

I think he has, I'm sorry to say. Owen Coyle, was it? He did some sort of supernatural drama thing on BBC1 that I never watched. I'm actually quite surprised Jack Davenport is still in it, what with 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - I'd have thought he'd be swanning around in Hollywood by now.

Weren't they going to do an American version of it? Davenport had a line in tonight's episode where he shouted 'This Is NOT an American sit-com', which I assumed was some sort of in-joke.

Maybe it went the way of the US version of 'The Office'

Oh gosh..

The Office....

A friend of ours had it imported or something, he had it anyway and lent it to us...

Hilarious stuff....

Ever seen Office Space? One of my fave funnah movies..

Sorry, I'll just butt in..I have to pop off inna mo and help eat chinese take away...

Stealth

~waves at the almighty Trin Badger Magnet~

'Help' eat Chinese, Vix?

I do love 'The Office', but I did wonder at the time whether, having won those Golden Globes and so on, the TV company in the US really needed to 're-make' it - especially as this apparently meant making the characters more 'likeable'

Mmm. It was supernatural drama, but just treated it as comedy, it was just so funny.
Never liked the office, though the guy who play the main character is hilarious in person.

They have to remake them I think because the series themselves are being shown on BBC America, some sort of legal thing I think.

Yeah, that makes sense (I suppose they asked the BBC if they could re-make them and the BBC - bless - thought "Oo, how much?" Fair enough )

lol...

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I don't get that, why they change stuff...I haven't seen the American version of The Office so I can't comment on that...

I noticed that when I first got here, all of G's fave cartoons and children's stuff that was British - all now have an American accent..

For example - Thomas the Tank, not Ringo Starr but an American

It was a real culture shock...*hehehe* they adopt an awful lot of show ideas too, such as Family Feud - Family Fortunes, and that show with Ann whatsherface, where she is harsh with the contenders..erm...Weakest Link..etc..but the Questioner is much nicer..

I can't think of anymore off the top of my head, but they do make me chuckle to myself when I see them.

All very odd....

Okay well the American skinny. Coupling was on for something like twelve episodes on I think ABC or some letter station like that. The american version was horrible, I like the one on BBCamerica best. The Office (the only version over here that I know of) is the UK version. I find it funny and so does my kind of mother-in-law. And originally Ringo Starr was one of the voices on Thomas the Tank Engine, and Ann whatever-her-name-is was the host of The Weakest link

What did they do to Coupling in the US version?
I saw a clip of the US version of One Foot In The Grave, I don't how anyone thought that One Foot In The Grave could work with a US market, but still to turn into something quite so DIRE as they did I don't know.

Anne Robinson is *not* funny! She is simply making rather pathetic rude comments, at least she does on the UK version, I only saw theStar Trek special of the US version and she wasn't quite so lame in that ep. The thing I don't like about The Weakest Link is that the questions are poorly researched and often phrased badly.

If the conversation on 'The Weakest Link' veers even a smidge from the exact phrasing on the car in front of her - poorly phrased though those are - it becomes all too clear that Anne actually knows less about pretty much *everything* than everyone else in the room.

The way her eyes glaze over and her hands start trembling when she doesn't recognise one of the words on the card in front of her (foreign words especially - even if you're guessing, your pronunciation has to be right *some* of the time, but oh no, not Anne)

And now she's presenting some substandard 'Don't People's Pets do the Funniest Things on Home Video?' show on BBC1 on Fridays: sort of 'Auntie's Bloopers' but without the intellectual edge.

In one corner: the BBC fighting for charter renewal. In the other corner: Anne Bl**dy Robinson does telecack. Michael Grade is going to need a miracle

Gah! Mozilla died just before I could hit 'post'.

I don't how I forgot to mention her painfully poor prounciation.
Another thing that I find awful about her and her Weakest Link is the trying to make a joke of recorded racist remarks about the Welsh.

Mmm, a look at the RadioTimes tells me Outtake TV is Anne finding something more up her intellectual street to host.
I rarely watch the Beeb's 'flagship' channel as there is rarely anything other than banal sh!te on.

Sad but true, just at the minute ...

Yes, all that 'Anne Robinson hates the Welsh business' made me wince. I mean, it's not as if the people of Wales needed their own special reason not to give a sh*t about Anne Robinson.

'Outtake TV' - that's the one. Oh and that 'Test Your IQ' stuff she did with Philip Schofield ... really. I just read the titles and I want to know where Chris Morris is hiding, because that has to be some sort of sick parody