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

As a cereal eater I resent the idea that bran tastes like card board. My high fiber diet is centered around whole grains and a good cereal is one way of getting enough.

Why on God's green earth would someone even buy such a thing unless one was willing, nay eager, to consume such. You must in be the donut and coffe crowd, I bet. High calories and no nutrition but wide awake.

I'm sorry to say that I easilyget up before dawn (without an alarm clock), and I'm on my way out the door eager to face whatever happens. Sometimes even without the "most important meal of the day"(?)

So at worst you could suffer horribly until luch time, wherbey you can find a lunchonette for pre-made sandwiches with lots of fat in them yuck. I'm guessing that you could probably lose a stone or two by missing this meal each day for awhile. since you dont seem to like it anyway what there to complain about?

I've had about enough of you. Just because you can't get your tiny mind around certain concepts such as irony or sarcasm, or the fact that someone may have an opinion which differs from yours, you constantly jump in at the deep end and try to insult me. Not just here, but in just about every other post I make, you come in with some kind of argument as to why I'm a lesser being than you because of my differing opinion.

Why the hell do you read my stuff if you obviously don't like it?
"Why on God's green earth would someone even buy such a thing unless one was willing, nay eager, to consume such" - do you see the irony here? Why read something if you're not prepared to accept a differing opinion to your own? Why do you even care so much about BLOODY CEREAL?!

Anyone with half a brain connected up to some kind of sense of humour will be able to tell at the slightest glance that this article is tongue in cheek, with a hint of sarcasm and a small smattering of irony. Most people may even manage a small grin, or- heaven forfend- a chuckle at its expense.

For the record, I also like, and regularly eat, cereal. Or else why the hell would I bother to write even a short article about them.
In case you can't get your head around the basic undertone of the article, it's about variety. Trying something new. The underlying, and if I do say so myself, /poetic/ message, nay, moral, of the story is try something new. Think something new, try out a new basic belief. See the world from someone else's eyes. Get out of your own backside once in a while, and take a look at someone else's (if you pardon the phrasing). These morals are present in just about every seemingly flippant and obtuse article on this website, but most people don't need them spelled out in words of less than one syllable.

You seem to blunder into conversations with no real idea of which metaphorical shoe you have on which similarly metaphorical foot.

Lighten up, get out more, and don't get so excited about cereal.

TK[1]

Calm down boys, there's no need for either of you to be so irate, especially in a discussion on a page that is essentialy humourous...

Dim26Trav, the tone you initially took in your posting was provocative, accusory and just a little below the belt. And likewise, I feel that Sir Bandit here may well be jumping at the throat a little too quickly.

I'm just trying to diffuse this situation in advance, because I can sense that it could get a bit lairy.

British humour has a tendance of saying what it doesn't mean, and us Brits as a whole are often found complaining. It's a national pasttime. Doesn't always mean we feel strongly about something and think that something should be done about it. From how I read it, this entry is in essence a guide to "interesting things to do with ordinary cereal", for when you don't really feel like cornflakes. It's not a dig at bran flakes, I'm not denying that anyone out there likes them, and I don't think Sir Bandit is, either. It's just a guide for, when bored, how one might make them more interesting.

So; constructive commenting please Things like: "adding a sliced bannana might make bran-flakes mroe interesting" would be appropriate. This is a friendly community, and we should be supportive of eachother. If arguing must happen, keep it clean and above the belt, okay?

Exist

Well said.

Apart from the bits that were directed at me .

I figure it's more humane to go straight for the throat, rather than starting at the toenails and working up, and it's not like this is the only thread where our friendly interloper has had a go at me over, frankly, pathetic little things which he doesn't understand. I think I've been quite restrained up to now . But personal attacks baseed on the poor understanding of a small, obviously less-than-serious article is going too far.

TK[1]

I am indeed in need of more excitement in my life recently and unfortunately yours was the target.

With the advent of the Hitchhikers Guide movie coming out(April 29th here in America)I am champing at the bit.

My own Internet chases have expanded recently and Hootoo has fallen by the wayside of late. My recent foray back into the dregs of it kinda burped, please forgive my lack of humour.