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

Becker, Gary S. "Altruism, Egoism, and Genetic Fitness: Economics and Socio-biology." Journal of Economic Literature, September 1976, 4:3, pp. 817-26. (Reprinted in Zamagni, 1995.)

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£2564.30 xfr from arista to rec on 19/07 being the balance held on arista. Transferred as interest rate is higher on rec.

£469.00 xfer from rec to reimburse office a/c on 29/08 as we'd paid £230 commencement fee, £30 med rep, £75 cp3 fee & £134 G Bond on our ledger.

£200.00 xfer from rec to arista to reimburse office again on 05/09 to reimburse us for paying scco's assess fee.

Additional £350 from special was used against the 12 chqs i've highlighted on my breakdown.

Can you shove this in a letter from nb and make it shiny

You could try to interpret your dream however that field of psycology is cobblers as it will probably come to the conclusion that your are gay.

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Reference Message 29:-

"P.O.V." wrote:

Dear BBC Community member,

Thank you for contributing to a BBC community site. Unfortunately we've had to remove your content below because it contravened one of the House Rules.

This decision has been made because it contains words or phrases in a non-English language. Non-English languages, codes, and text speak should not be included in your posting.

If you can rewrite your contribution to remove the problem, we'd be happy for you to post it again.

Reply:-

dear BBC Moderators

I will amend my posting suitably when the boards reopen tomorrow.

Bearing in mind the stricture against use of non-English words, when I am discussing the BBC-made Welsh-language programme P*b*l y C*m and the fictional village of Cymd*ri, I will take care to use the translated forms "People of the Valley" and the placename "Oakvale". This should be acceptible all round, even on a thread where a lot of Welsh terms and expressions have already been used, and the Welsh used in my posting below was simply repeating a courtesy - and I stress, a courtesy - already made by another poster.

With thanks

AP

Cleaned-up posting:

{Welsh phrase meaning "thanks very much to everyone}


Thanks to everyone who has posted here - my intention wasn't to be a professional Gog, ie dismissive of Welsh as it's spoken outside my own little corner of Flintshire and the NE, which would have been stupid and senseless (we're near enough to England to know how fragile it is). South-western accents may be strange to my ears and the Welsh I learnt might be as geographically far away as it's possible to get, but that's no reason to feel or assert superiority.

It's good to be part of a strong ongoing discussion!

{Welsh phrase meaning "Good Night} - this was originally posted at two minutes to ten last night, and was modded a little while later for containing "non-English words or phrases"

Does the BBC not have a commitment to UK languages? Don't they have a charter or something that says they have to support Welsh culture?

http://www.spandexguys.com/index.php

Which made it strange when the POV mods started yikesing posts on a Welsh-language TV show for using non-English words and expressions.... strictly speaking, even quoting the name of the programme, Pobol Y Cym, breaks messageboard rules as it isn't in English. But it's still a BBC-made programme, which means it can be debated on the BBC Television talkboards, so long as it's in English and nobody (seemingly) mentions the show's name... talk about Catch 22, hey?

A BBc messageboard mod was on Radio 4 last night explaining how moderation works (Jenni Murray "The Message" on Radio 4 at 8:00 - you could get it on Listen Again) and said they will generally not allow non--english postings, although they have some discretion if it's clearly relevant to the discussion or otherwise permissible.

They still yikesed my post on PyC, though....

If there is anything else you would like me to do to help please let me know.
I cannot afford to spend very much time on line due to my lack of resources and
some of the computers in the business centre, where I e-mail from have blocked my
yahoo messages.

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and then, of course, there is always this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A7840253

Data obtained during the test will be examined to determine if there are any localised areas with high CO levels indicating poor combustion from a single burner or group of burners. Differences between tests will be examined to determine if balancing windbox pressures has a significant effect.

(blimey this is a blast from the past)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/chewystrawberrycooki_87289.shtml

A woman was in town on a shopping trip. She began her day finding the most perfect shoes in the first shop and a beautiful dress on sale in the second. In the third everything had just been reduced to a fiver when her mobile phone rang. It was a female doctor notifying her that her husband had just been in a terrible accident and was in critical condition and in the ICU.

The woman told the doctor to inform her husband where she was and that she'd be there as soon as possible. As she hung up she realized she was leaving what was shaping up to be her best day ever in the shops. She decided to get in a couple of more shops before heading to the hospital. She ended up shopping the rest of the morning, finishing her trip with a cup of coffee and a beautiful coffee slice complimentary from the last shop. She was jubilant.

Then she remembered her husband. Feeling guilty, she dashed to the hospital. She saw the doctor in the corridor and asked about her Husband's condition. The lady doctor glared at her and shouted, 'You went ahead and finished your shopping trip didn't you? I hope you're proud of yourself! While you were out for the past four hours enjoying yourself in town, your husband has been languishing in the Intensive Care Unit! It's just as well you went ahead and finished, because it will be more than likely the last shopping trip you ever take! For the rest of his life he will require round the clock care. And you'll now be his full time carer!'

The woman was feeling so guilty she broke down and sobbed. The female doctor then chuckled and said, 'I'm just pulling your leg. He's dead. Whatcha buy?'

http://www.rovedaily.com.au/the-show.htm

(So that's what's there! I'm surprised, I tell you.)

Vicky

I like this thread. It's oold!

"Tiddlywinks is becoming rather popular as a post-modern, existential pastime for retired, bored and very ambivalent older footballers whom nevertheless attempt competitive tournaments inorder"


oops... Looks like I've been working sooo hard...

An excerpt from my blog, where I get onto talking about aspects of life t my old schools:-

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Other random thoughts. Going back to the old school again: it occured to me last night and again today while I was browsing the "Asterix" books that the foundation for all this languages stuff was embedded back in S-S, a school that took its languages seriously. Still does, if the website is any guide, but I notice it doesn't seem to do Latin/Greek, Spanish, or Russian any more.

Not only did the old school have a full run of Asterix books, in the original French, in the library (when it sold them on as "surplus to requirements" I bought most of them - I still have them). I have to admit that the very root and foundation for all this was dear old Madame Reckless - plain Sue Edwards, or Miss Edwards, when she first crossed my path. (culture shock for both of us...). If it wasn't for all the stuff she painstakingly knocked into my ungrateful numb skull at age eleven, and everything that oozed along at a snail's pace in so far as comprehension went, then I wouldn't be here now as I am....

More, I was sitting in front of the TV last night, watching Film Four, the usually delightful Isabelle Huppert in "La Pianiste", and thinking thoughts like:-

"That woman (the Huppert character in the film) has got serious personal ISSUES...."

2Hmm, she pronounces "une fille" as "une fiouwe", almost, with a wide "l". I wonder what French regional accent that is?"

"Hold on, that caption does NOT accurately translate what was said on screen...."

and generally being in a state where I could not only listen to the spoken French and get the sense of it without needing to refer to the subtitles all that often, I could also work in English at the same time... I suppose you'd call it functional bilinguality.

And it all began thirty-odd years ago in Sue Reckless's first classes at SS..... so, merci bien, Madame Reckless, even if I never appreciated it at the time, or like twenty-nine other guys in the class, I was more interested trying to sneak covert looks up your skirt. I even remember you threw me out of the class once for bad behaviour... did you realise that was at the tail-end of an extraordinarily shitty day, where I was seconds away from picking up my bag, walking out altogether, and facing that smug oily twerp Mr Taylor (head of junior school) for a royal rollocking the next morning...

Mr Taylor (while I have to accept that in all fairness he was doing the job the best way he could and there was no real actual evil in him) looked like the archetypical child molester, was a patronising git, and again, it's only ywears after leaving when you have the experience and the knowledge to work it out. Anyone who introduces himself to his new first years with a speech like "I am very good with young boys. I have an affinity with eleven and twelve year old boys and I understand them completely" isn't, doesn't and can't. If he really did, he wouldn't have needed to make that speech....

I'll post more on the teachers I remember from Stockport School, 1973-80, and my thoughts on them from this distance - most of the ones I thought were bastards and incompetents I can think more kindly about now, but I do maintain that one or two should never have been let anywhere near children under 16. I'm fairly sure some of the older ones are dead now so any thoughts I commit to screen will be epitaphs and obituaries. (I mean, damn it, four of my university tutors are now deceased, and that came later, and they were younger!) But for every bastard and humanity-numbed craphead, there was a good one, even a brilliant one, and this deserves at least equal weighting. (Take the PE masters: that bullying craphead Bowman has to be weighed against Johnny Walker. The one was unspeakable and if I were to meet him now as an adult, and not as an eleven year old boy, I'd spit in his face and dare him. But Johnny W deserved and got respect - a regret, a great shame, we encountered him at the end of his career.)

Non discuto le questioni tecniche, che da un punto di vista "fantascientifico" (inteso come possibile progressione scientifica futura) hanno una logica che mi pare perfetta, ma credo che non ci siano e non possano esserci le premesse.

Non ci sono le condizioni politico-sociali perché un governo si metta a investire così tanto denaro. Ci sono problemi che sono o vengono percepiti come più urgenti (inquinamento, fame, povertà etc...) e che di fatto impediscono che una amministrazione possa lavorare su questo senza essere travolta dalle critiche della parte che potremmo definire in maniera grossolana "la sinistra".

Allo stesso tempo non c'è un vantaggio economico tangibile. Dovrebbero scoprire del petrolio su Marte (per assurdo) perché i poteri economici possano avvallare la cosa. Le tensioni belliche e religiose fanno sì che "la destra" preferisca investire denaro nella difesa.

L'interesse e il valore scientifico sono sempre stati accessori e non motore della corsa allo spazio.

Ci vorrebbe una nazione molto "nazionalista" che si mette a investire nello spazio per prestigio fregandosene dell'opinione pubblica. Vengono in mente Cina e India, che però partirebbero da zero. Solo allora gli USA potrebbero mettersi a investire per mantenere il primato.

Oh-oh... Without a translation, that'd get pulled...Therefore...

Do not discuss the technical issues, which from the point of view of "science-fiction" (understood as a possible future scientific progression) have a logic that seems perfect, but I believe that these are not, and can not be the premises.

There are no conditions for a political government that makes investing so much money. There are problems that are or are perceived as more urgent (pollution, hunger, poverty etc ...) and that in fact prevent an administration that can work on this without being overwhelmed by criticism of the party might call coarsely "the left ".

At the same time there is a tangible economic benefit. They might discover oil on Mars (nonsense) because the economic powers can endorse it. The war and religious tensions mean that the "right" prefer to invest money in defence.

The interest and the scientific value have always been accessories and non-motor race to space.

It would take a very "nationalist" country which makes investing in space prestige care for the public. We think China and India, but they would be starting from scratch. Only then could the United States get to invest to maintain primacy.

Vicky