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

It seems that the vast majority of people in h2g2 are students this
make me feel
1 Old
2 Annoyed (I wish I was a student again)
3 worried that all the guide entries will have the student slant to them therefore not really appealing to the majority of people and h2g2 will never get the mass market appeal it deserves.

Nope. Not all of us. Although, to be fair, it's only the students (with free internet access) who can spend enough time here to get the real benefit. (don't all rush at once....... you know I'm trying to provoke).
I read your pub thing. Took me back to my days in Loughbrough, when a trip to Nottingham pubs (with my Mum, can you believe it) was a great night out. The Salutation. Great. Never liked the trip to Jerusalem though, all those yukky (probably fake) cobwebs. And one of the wine lodge places with a gallery around it: someone's false teeth fell onto our (joint) handbag. Gave us a good laugh, and we managed to ransom them for another pint each. And am I right in remembering that upstairs at the Sal was a greebo type thing? My Mum liked the music very much... or was that somewhere else?
Now I'm rambling. But I'm still not a student. And I'm older than you (here, for the first time in public, I'll admit to being th...th...th.. nope, can't do it: 29) And I live in Germany, so maybe I'll put something in the guide about that. And I'm a veggie. Erm... that's it.

Hi Sho

You're right the Sal used to be like that but has radically changed it now caters for the more profitable student trade, not that i've got anything against students, in fact I perfer the place now, at least I can get in without borrowing a leather jacket off of one of my biker mates.
Yates wine lodge had a clear out of all the winos a number of years ago and replaced them with trendies who are made to queue to get in, something which I can never understand, aren't there enough pubs around to go in without queuing.

Hi,

I can't understand why anyone would want to queue to get into a pub either. But then it's a help, isn't it? If you see a queue - avoid it. Shame about the Sal though, my Mum really liked it.

Nope I'm a 42 old married wage slave who, to my everlasting regret, was never a student.

Me too (only I'm 36 - but you get the drift) Did you want to study? I didn't really study the right A-levels for me (shouldn't have listened to the teachers) and then was soooooo sick of (boarding) school, and didn't want my parents to have another 3 or 4 years without holidays that I decided against it. And I hate it. Now I'm stuck in a job which is ok, but I won't get promotion because I don't have a degree and I have two (lovely but time-consuming) kids so I'm too knackered and broke for the OU. Oh well. It could be worse - and I still read stuff, and my brain still works, and I can complain about students evermore because I don't have any student-ish skeletons in my closet. I'm thinking about studying either Psychology or Philosophy. Or English. Or History.......... when I get the time - which will be when I'm getting my (miniscule or non-existant) pension
Phew, that sounds bitter. Basically I'm a happy person. But I still wish I was a happy person BA.

Me, I fell into that "everyone else is going out making money & having fun, why waste time on more school" trap, you know what I mean? Looking back I really should have taken A levels more seriously (I dropped out after one years study). I would really love to study history full time.If the lottery numbers ever come up that's plan A - give up work & take up study. Who knows, one day it might happen. "You've got to have a dream, if you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?"

Oh dear, I can't believe I've started quoting from "South Pacific". Maybe it would give more street cred if I pretended I was quoting "Captain Sensible" - or maybe not

I'd also love to study history full time, but wouldn't go to University, if I won the lottery, i'd actual go to the places i've been reading about in all my books. Travel, History and enough money never to work again, Heaven.

Until then drink more beer

Gedge

Oh, I've been away.
I too would love to study history. That or politics. I completely wasted my A levels (teachers didn't help by letting me do what I wanted instead of what I was really good at). I recently (actually, it's about 6 years ago now) did English A level. It was great, and even though I didn't read 2 of the books (the old me surfacing again) I got a B. So now I'm trying to decide if I want to do History or politics A level. (If I ever had the time). I don't know why I suddenly have an Alevel desire.... that's life I suppose.
If I win the lottery I'm going to have 15 kids......

15 kids, you mean with that kind of money you’ll buy 15. I’m afraid I was never any good at school, thrown out with 2 ‘O’ levels and told never to darken their doors again. I didn’t get my acted together until college, when studying suddenly more fun. But I would definitely go for history given a second chance, instead of my ad hoc random reading, or is that better, I don’t know.

Hope you’ve had fun away

Gedge

OK, well maybe another 2 to add to the 2 I already have. I like kids, but you need money to enjoy them (I don't actually like being a working mum, but I don't like being a stay at home mum either - if I had the money I would get a huge house, nanny, cleaner and do an OU degree or six)
O-levels were easy for me (I suppose I have a good memory) but when the A-levels came... firstly I did the wrong subjects. Then I hated my school (all girls, boarding, very old & traditional) Then... well it just goes on. I learn very fast and I want to know everything about everything (I too attend the uni. of ad hoc random reading) but I think I need a direction. James Burke (rember him?) did a great series of programmes (judging by the clothes in the 70s) called "The Day The Universe Changed". Brilliant. I was lucky enough to see them 2 years ago on the UK Horizons channel (whilst trying the stay at home mum bit - the only real highlight). The only trouble with history is that we tend look at it with 20th (sorry 21st) century eyes, morals etc. and can't ever fully comprehend the whys and wherefores. Still I want to do it though. I still would like a piece of paper to say that I have a brain though. In Germany you can't even apply for some jobs unless you have 25 certificates (you should see their CVs - certificates for being first in the queue for the loo in infant school).
I had a good time away, thanks. East Germany. Fascinating.