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

do you, like me, have a pre-conceived idea about what other researchers you have not met yet look like? i do it all the time, and get it wrong. for example, i used to listen to chris moyles on radio 1 and i got the image that he was a tall thin man with dark hair. turns out he's a fat git with brown hair!

anyway, tell me what you think who looks like. i will start with;

Reefgirl- about 5'6" with blondish hair and cuddly like.

I, and I know several others, had some rather preconceived ideas about what researcher Ekki (U130666) would look like. We were rather expecting a short nerdy looking bloke with long and rather greasy hair - all a bit unpleasant actually. What we got was a tall rather attractive, and extremely well spoken young man.

i am also thinking that pre-concieving someone elses appearance may have a connection to your own psychological condition of mind. i.e. preconcieve someone to be strong and athletic may mean that you are strong in mind and a hard thinker?

just a theory though

Possibly, but in this case it was the massive Monty Python reference in the name. The belief being that anyone who would give themselves that sort of a nickname on h2g2 must be a bit of an obsessive.

I'm happy to have been proved wrong

I don't look anything like what I imagnie myself to look like.

strangely enough i do!

2legs - i think, due to you always having pasta and sausages, that you are a bit chubby. possibly around 14-15stone, short blonde hair and chubby fingers. red cheeks and a jolly face. no tattoos?

I am 40 but very young looking (young looking face) 5ft, female with brown hair and eyes and petit built. Alot of researchers thought I was a man.


Kat

well, more like 16 stone... I'd reject the red/jolly face thing.... I haven't a single tatoo, though i do Have a pony tail

now i think you look like comic book guy from the simpsons!

creachy

He does!

Maybe not quite that fat, though.

B

and I've fairly slender fingers helps with playing guitar

You're 40? Blimey!

guess how old i am? in fact, no-one's tried to guess what i look like yet neither.

creachy

Last time this topic cropped up, a disturbing number of researchers imagined me as a man in a lab coat with a pint of beer in one hand.

B

whos 40? I'm 2.

You're very well-spoken for a toddler.

B

Fortylegs?

It really is Silly Monday on h2g2 today, isn't it?

I've only participated in one even vaguely sensible thread today, and that was about football.

B

B you obviously haven't found this weeks talking point - the cheerful topic of euthanasia - no wonder every one is in a silly mood...

by my standard this conversation constitutes the most sensible conversation I've had since I was talkinga bout talking fish