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

so another thread about something that I'd like to talk about is invaded by the poster from the land of verbal diarrhoea and so I have to leave.

I am getting so sick of the pontificating it might force me to stay in my journal.

*The* poster? There's only one?

TRiG.

I know that feeling too well. I don't know which thread you're talking about, but that's probably best not be named.

Actually, there's been a few interesting subjects in Ask recently, that I've wanted to get involved in, but I haven't found the time. It's annoying.

TRiG.

Are your implying that I write too much?

the poster is Cass and this one was the post birth abortion one.

Every thread he goes in he just post reams and reams of boring crap and I'm sick of it. Occasionally he makes an interesting comment but I just can not be bothered to plough through it. Patronising pontificating carp.

A pontificating carp would be an interesting pet. I'd keep him in a big tank in the kitchen, and he could join in conversations. Of course we'd learn to ignore him if he got too definitive, and you should ignore such people too.

Tss, I knew you weren't referring to me (Long postings? )

Ah, I unsubscribed from that one fairly early on. Sorry you can't just ignore his posts.

It's struck me before that his posts are like playing six degrees of separation. Can you get from harmonicas to Queen Elizabeth I in six steps or fewer?

I think it was Macauley who said, when talking about the Corn Laws of 1832 whose origins can be traced back to the 'Commonweal'...

You do have a tendency to play that game yourself, Edward. I'm sure you've been told that a lot of what you say goes over people's heads.

Such things go way over my head





lil x

Yes, but I'm 'Special'.

Yes, but, at least when Ed says it and it goes over my head that's usually because he's talking about something I know nothing about (eg, films or books I've never heard of) AND it's usually relevant to the thread AND it's usually quite short.

Whereas I have two bl**dy history degrees (and have not forgotten all the content of them) and I've now given up even skim-reading Cass's posts. I just skip them. The rest of the conversation usually makes sense.

Mol

This thread is a bit boring, actually...

Start up a journal about it then.

'Boring me to death'

You mean mortar bored

I find it difficult to get over his posts because it's getting like a red rag to a bull.

Ed's long posts sometimes make me glaze over too, but I can skim them because I know that elsewhere, he's making shorter, interesting, relevant posts.

Anyway: end with a song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_uoc7wq7qA

That's funny, I never saw you as a bull