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

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is that good or bad?

good for study, bad for self-esteem?

hmmmmm

don't I count?

btw I replied to your e-mail

Good for you all round, I say, your majestey. *curtseys politley*

I think being qveen links back to freedom, don't you? You don't have to do the things you don't like, and can in fact make them ill-eagle.

And you can have the persons whose bothering shortened by judicious use of the axeman!

All hail qveen Span!

H&K&C
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I am most definitely not the Queen, but I saw one of your albums in a record shop once.

Well, part of the problem is just that there isn't a critical mass of H2G2 addicts...some people actually have the gall to stay away for more than six hours at a time, and so conversations tend to dwindle.

And part of the problem is this dotty software that won't show more than ten conversations on the home page. They really need to let us adjust that number...I've had to rescue things that fell off to the continued pages...

Anyhow, a reply, hopefully it's good for your self-esteem to know that I read your page and fondly remember my own activist days.

Now go study

we are most amused
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i did go study, but now i'm back - actually i found all these replies really good to come home to. so thanks everyone. i am no longer the queen of no replies!
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(i really have to stop typing spam, due to the bandage on my finger, and then having to go back and change it, sigh)

What did you do to your finger, Spam? I mean, Span?

BTW, due to = caused by. You meant to say owing to, which = because of.

Sorry, thats the only piece of grammar I know, so I like to spread it about abit.

H&K
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Now you'll need a new title...perhaps Queen of the Accidental Message Thread Without a Point Yet?

I gather you're taking a law degree. Planning to right wrongs with it, or what?

fell down stairs hurrying out door to work and somehow managed to take a chunk out of my finger on a lightswitch as i fell - mind you it was a damn good excuse for being late - and boy can fingers bleed! sorry if that grosses anyone out - basically the chunk came out of the bit that makes contact with the keys when typing, so i had to put lots of sticking plaster on it so i could type pain-free

but wasn't it kind of caused by the bandage? the only bit of grammar i can remember is how to use apostrophies properly (the legacy of three years of school latin) which means that sign- and copy-writers who don't know how to use them leave me in a constant state of vague annoyance

nah, planning to make money

actually no i am planning to right wrongs, but i figure it's only a matter of time until i sellout to the man, get a hairbut, a real job and become a right wing loony like the rest of them. sob. it is my destiny apparently. either that or asking it people would like fries with that.

Well...I hate to say it but for most people selling out in some sense is inevitable. I think some of it ends up just being a byproduct of making time for oneself rather than The People or The Movement or whatever other anthropomorphized ideal one is working for at the moment. (Mind you, I'm only extrapolating from my own experience here).

Certainly there are people who were my friends ten years back who won't talk to me any more and see me as a sellout because I don't go to demonstrations and gatherings and such any more, and I've ended up in a corner of rural America minding my own business and have even made a decent living in some years. But underneath it all there are still some core values...like not hurting other people and trying to do small things to make the world better when I can do so without making my own life terribly much worse.

Don't know where I'm going with this musing, really. I do think it's really neat to see folks who still have the fire in their bellies even if it's mostly gone from mine and I might even look like a right-wing loonie on occasion.

At least it's not flipping burgers for a living!

hey what's the point of being young and idealistic if you can't be young and idealistic? that's what's wrong with young people these days - i reckon it's fine not to go on demos etc anymore - activism should be about lots of different levels for different people to access, right from petition signing and talking to others about the cause (whatever that is) to full-on militant revolution there's no point if people can't participate in a way that they feel comfortable with.

here endeth the rant

You know, I think we might be in complete agreement...not that that's much good for carrying on a conversation!

If more people would remember "If I can't dance I don't want to be in your revolution" the left would be a nicer place to hang out.

Don't lefty revolutionist dance then? Boring gits. I say we have a dance revolution, and hang the DJ!

No,wait, that was the '80s and I hated that too.

Hmm...

H&K
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some people get wayyyyy too serious about the whole thing - what's the point of revolting against the govt if you can't have fun doing it? personally i am rhythmically challenged and thus incapable of dancing, but i sure wouldn't have any problems with any one else dancing - unlike some of my socialist friends who can't dance and insist that those who can will be first against the wall (well after law student apparently) (i reckon they're just jealous)

apparently some lefty revolutionaries (mostly the ultra-greenies) have huge raves out in the forests. but i never get invited to those because i'm too "establishment" or something like that. besides some of those people are actually quite mad, and, i suspect, mostly in it for the drugs anyway

Well, being an old anarchist myself, I'm sympathetic to anyone else that the socialists want to put up against the wall. I always found most of the socialists I knew to be a dreary humourless lot. Fortunately there were just enough exceptions that I didn't write off the whole bunch of 'em. The Trotskyites, though...yuck. Buncha two-faced plotters (at least in the USA).

I'll be happy to sit at ringside and shoot the breeze with you while the others are off dancing; it's not quite my cup of tea either. But I'll sure defend my right to dance!

you're too establishment cause you're a law student? Or because you cut your finger?

What kind of laws are these people going to have after the revolution then? morons.

And how do they run these raves? with petrol generators, yesno? Not very green really. I can't see anything wrong with the drugs, theres just no need to join the movement and be odd at people. I never take ill-eagle drugs, but mostly only because motorcycling is the one of most expensive habits known to human kind, but the buzz lasts far longer.

H&K&happines
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oh i'm too establishment because of my notorious run as a super-dodgy student politician, or some such

excellent point about the electric generators. maybe they use those glowy light stick thingies, i think they're semi-environmentally friendly - no wait, i'll bet they just have a chat to the head glowworm and voila! yeah, that'll be it

going fast is all good
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