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

Greetings to you,!
As per instructions I am introducing myself to you and
declaring membership in the FFFF.
My chair - (provisional until approved by your good
selves) - is "Unnatural diplomacy" word him up an watch him go
on any or all issues of emotionally charged debate.
please drop in at mine any time and chat. I do live in
Australia so I might be a few hours getting back to you.
Thanks, seeya, Ado!

Hello

So you're in the FFFF too, eh? Nice.
Any out of the ordinary opinions on athiesm and the like that I should know about?
Me, my chair's called Wrathchild. You let me pick a fight with a christian, and watch the blood flow...

I'm going to Australia in three months time. Been there once before. Gonna be round Brisbane a lot, but with a week in Perth too

Hey, you ever need somebody to talk to, come to this thread. I -never- leave a conversation unfinished if I can help it

And Fair enough too Wrathchild!
I wil be unabe to hok up with you on your visit into Aust as I will be Exclusively in the south east. Howvere thanks for your ofer of conversation, it will be taken up on. Interesting Athiest theories, well, yes, more non-christian than Atheist per se, but then there you go really, will be a time when we'll all don black at midnight get off of our heads around a roaring fire and wonder what the 2000 years of fuss was all about really. Ado!

"Cause I'm a Wrathchild..."

I won't be online at all in Oz...can't wait to get back to five week'd backlog!

I tend to be athiest/agnostic, depending on my mood. If I'm feeling hyped up, or the hour is late, or I've had an argument then I'll tend to veer toawrds frightenliy athiest. Any other time I'm feeling more friendly, I may question an athiest's bloody-heartedness.

Must say, it is fun wondering where all the people who predicted an apocalypse are now!

Selling paste jewellry in Torquay, last I heard. Most of the folk they sold/gave their stuff to won't give it back, such a shame.
Ado!

Paste jewellery? Wassat?!

Little bits of plastic molded up to looke like big ole diamonds and rubies an stuff. Diamantes gear like that. - Ado!

Reminds me, I read this thing about Japanese guys making jewellery out of shit. Honestly, they did. Can't remember how they did it, but they were making stuff out of turds, if I remember rightly...

What's diamantes?

Fanatstic - Jewellry out of shit! Excellent, quite apart from being abhored it's the kind of thing that makes an Australian jealous as in "Bugger! why didn't we think of that first, damn solar car race is all very well and good but when you've got those clever Japanese making Jewellery out of about the only thing we produce that's renewable, well damn."

Diamantes, tiny bits of glass that you stick on shoes and clothes to make them sparkle. Usually molded to look like little diamonds. The kind of thing that you see on a late period Elvis costume jumpsuit.

- Ado!

I hear about all sorts of ideas that made teenage kids rich and I curse myself. Now just -why- didn't I become a Net junkie and spend all my spare time online, so I could get paid to be a loner sitting in his bedroom managing his multinational net empire?

Hey, I'm just so full of questions!

Sometimes the arcane is closed to us mere mortals. We were looking for sex with other people when young net nerds had posters of Bill Gates up so they could become rich and buy sex with other people/species/cultures en masse.

This of-course gives me an idea. Something akin to 'Beer Goggles'. It's a V.R. head set that makes ones net partner look like the designed fantasy partner when these folk meet in real life.

Oh Mike ..... We could be on a nice little earner here.
--- Ado!

So this headset, you put it on when meeting your virtual friend, an in case he/she is a complete munter it makes him/her look more...appealing.

Well, I'm meeting one of my h2g2 friends irl in two weeks so I'm not gonna tempt fate

LoL.

Sage words big guy! Contact me when your ready and I'll get the schematics over to you!

Seeyou soon have a good trip, I'll talk to you when I get out of hospital, Seeya Ado!

Schematics is a word I've heard a few times yet never questioned it's meaning. Now is the time to do it!
Whatsit mean?

What's you doing in hospital?

Schematics is the wiring diagram for a electrical thingy. It's a picture of lines and stuff. It won't show you the machine you're looking at but it will show you what wires are supposed to go into what thingys, you make up how it gets put together yorself.

You've probly seen them before - its a whole bunch of lines with circles and triangles and odd looking symbols on paper. I am in no position at all to even tell you what they mean or how they work as I was lying/joking from the outset. Myself and my family to the 6th generation apologise for this dishonour and are punnishing me even now in a leather kind of way.

I'm in hospital because I've got rheumatoid arthritis. (you know - manky old man bones)
What they've figured out is it's an auto immune disease. Your white blood cells start to attack you. They treat it with small doses of anti - cancer drugs chemo therapy, the idea is you turn off your immune system and the arthritis is stopped from trashing your joints.
(and bugger me it was starting to work too!)
A downside of this treatment is that while your immune system is in Jamaica learning samba and skulling rum, any old infection or disease can run rampant throgh your body.
I just recently caught a cold and a tummy bug. Not a big deal on their own. However with nothing to fight it with I've got a full on flu and severe gastro.

I just thank medical science for opiate drugs. mmmm better living through chemistry, ---- Ado!

Holy shit you sound bad! Well, I think I'll forgive you for lying to me, despite the fact it goes against my principles

You still seem to be perky, even after going through all that. Well done .
How long will you be in hospital for?
Hope you get better real soon

"I'm Back, Back in Black, I been away so long, it's good to be back!"


Well! after an interesting incident with a Maori orderly and six bags of Saline/antibiotics, I'm seriously back in the land of the living. Mike! Dearest What can I say but *|Hospital Take Home Pack!|*.

Every arthritic kiddies dream is my reality. Buble packs of analgesic bliss have opened a big can of whoop ass on the demon arthriti!

Truth is I'm not going to get better, bu for now that's inconsequential as Mr Chemist is truly 'in'.

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier, but I got sprung in the hospital logging on to h2g2 without actually asking if I was allowed, as such, they thought I was sending/viewing other patients records. Ah well, they weren't best pleased.
Gotta say though, a 3 am police interview while under the influence of some serious painkillers is definately an experience. Seeya --- Ado!

Great to hear you're better

My only experience with the police was with me helping them on an ID parade. And I intend to keep it that way. I got £10 from that, y'know

Oh yeah, me and my parents went in to report some guy who's beat me up, but they never caught him