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

"The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest."

Yes, and if Honey BooBoo and her mother ever even make it there (we're still talking culture, after all), then they would probably get eaten first.

I was asked to fill out a form telling the nurses what they were allowed to tell and to whom

Also which persons would be allowed to see me - my silly sister was not on that list, I can tell you!

And the "joke" has backfired spectacularly: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20645838

If that is genuine, then that station and those "presenters" had better be bracing themselves.

Statement from the hospital live on BBC News now.

it's totally totally tragic. I can't imagine the stress she must have been under. She has children, too.

There must have been other stuff going on in her life for this to tip her over the edge enough to kill herself and leave kids behind, especially as the hospital says that it was helping and supporting her and there'd been no hint of criticism from the palace.

Either way, the presenters' actions were bang out of order and I have a feeling these two pillocks might find themselves looking over their shoulders for a while. Good thing for them they're almost as far away from the British population as it's possible to get without leaving the planet.

We don't have the background to that sad news, but depending where she was born and what her background is, she might well take things to heart far more than we would. It is possible also that it is a coincidence and there are other reasons for what happened.

Whatever that might be it is very sad and we cannot afford to lose good nurses for any reason.

I have never been a fan of practical jokes, they backfire so often, and I am pleased that the presenters are feeling the heat of our disapproval.


Websailor

What a tawdry, grubby little business this is all turning out to be.

oh dear