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

I went shopping today. I needed new jeans! Or... I didn't really need them, I love my old ones, but I thought it will be nice towards the people around me to introduce a new pair to my wardrobe So I spent 2 hours walking around shops and trying on jeans. And went home empty handed. It's an old problem of mine - the new jeans NEVER feel as comfortable as the old ones! They don't even LOOK as good! I guess jeans are my shopping problem. Do you ever have such persistent problems when buying certain stuff?

Not comfy, huh? Well I went looking for a denim jacket theother day and I couldn't even find one! I mean, WTF? I saw about 4 and they were all ripped to bits, in that annoying way they are.

And now I feel like I'm Jeremy bloody Clarkson, which is possibly worse than not finding the aforementioned jacket.

Aaah, feel better now.

Showin my age here but, when I first started buying jeans we had to sit in a bath of lukewarm water with the jeans on and shrink them to our shape, mind they were always comfy after that treatment!!!

Our legs were blue for weeks though.

not about jeans. does anyone know where i can buy a unicycle from in the west midland area (england)?

I have the opposite problem. I'll try some new jeans and think "God! What was I wearing them old jeans for?!"

Then I'll wear my new jeans constantly and have to be more new jeans It's a vicious cycle.

Yees, I can see that's a problem! And an expensive one too I am almost feeling releived - things can be worse

I am a simple soul, a creature of habit. A few years ago I realised I'd been abducted by aliens and transported to an alien planet, very similar to Earth but with some important differences...

I went to M&S in search of a simple item: white cotton boxer shorts. Not difficult, I thought. I've been buying said item in M&S for years.

No. they've stopped doing them. Boxer shorts in any variety of colours and patterns, but not white. WTF? Why not?

To add insult to injury, the picture on the front of the packets shows a typical muscular guy (they never choose guys with beer guts for these pictures!) wearing...you guessed it...*white* boxer shorts! So, you could buy a *picture* of white boxer shorts, but not the real thing!?

And M&S wondered why they kept losing money...

This story has a happy ending: a couple of years ago I was unabducted and returned to Earth (or possibly just a better ersatz Earth - who knows? ) where said item of apparel is again available from M&S. Quality seems t have deteriorated, though...

RF

Unicycles might best be purchased online unless you have a giant unicycle retail outlet in the West Midlands area such as "Unicycles-R-Us" or the more even more popular "Unicycle Depot"

http://brandscycle.com/site/showitem.cfm?page=120&searchtype=custom&Catalog=39&sort=Price

Where the hell can I get narrow leg or drainpipe jeans or trousers? All shops seem to stock the same boring cut. Went through the whole of the sixties hating bell-bottom jeans and I perked up a bit when punk came along, but it seems that voluminous trouser bottoms are back with a vengence. Why have so much material that you're actually walking on your own clothes?

ok thanks phred

Just curious - do you know how to unicycle? Every day when I bike to work I meet this guy with a unicycle. I am puffing and sweating on up the hill he just .. flies by! Whoosh and he is gone!
Kind of embracing I have to say Speaks highly of my biking abilities!

I'm guessing here, but presumably you just forget half of what you learned to ride a bicycle

the best uicyclists usually only have half a bum

Sooo... You mean.... Since I am not that good with the bike I am almost ready for the unicycle???

That will make me look sooo cool! Where was that shop again?

no i cant unicycle, but i want to. ive been told that the only real shop you can buy them from is, the amazing hedge puzzle, heres their adress;
the amazing hedge puzzle
symonds yat west
ross-on-wye
herefordshire
hr96da
thats all i know. you can buy them in the gift shop, you'll need to look around the place first buts it meant to be good.

'Where the hell can I get narrow leg or drainpipe jeans or trousers?'

Although they're not drainpipes, Wrangler 'Texas' are quite narrow. They're certainly a lot narrower than 501s. I have three pairs of identical black pairs of Wrangler Texas (don't ask!) and they have a pleasingly rakish cut, but don't cause you to wince whenever you sit down, which I always find is a tremendous advantage.

They also make them in blue, but I don't have any of these as they're not pale enough to be worn-looking and not dark enough to be new-looking. You could bleach them, I suppose, which would look rather good if you did it well, or you could wear them in, but I'm guessing it'd take a while.

I used to get mine from a local shop which has since closed down, but I now hear that Matalan are stocking them too, although the quality and cut are supposed to be slightly inferior. *Shrugs.* I don't know, 'cos I haven't tried yet.

There's a store in Bury St. Edmunds called Cycle King that stocks various shapes and sizes of unicycles and displays them in the front window.

I don't know, I just find it so strange that the more models, colours and shapes of jeans there are the harder it gets for me to find The Ones! It should be the other way around, don't you think? There are even these enegeniered jeans now-a-days - should siut all twisted tastes!

There was a bit on the Radio the other week about someone who has opened up a shop which sells exactly one type of any product in their range. They just make sure they test everything to make sure it is, in their opinion, the best of that type of thing.

It is, of course, marketted as a blokes shop.

Sounds like an idea to me!

I guess they are going to have a lot of customers! This way one not only saves time but also gets a kind of guarantee that the thing is actually good!

Well, won't be according to the taste of certain people. Like some electronics freaks that I know - always following the market and the "best in test" charts to compare one brand with another...

Yea.. On the other hand of course it's nice to have a choice when you shop. So you can also have the choice to shop from a "no choice" shop"

drainpipe jeans. i recently bought a pair from ..........TESCOS yes point and laugh, but theyre very comfy and cheap 4 pounds a pair!