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

Some people imagine that they can see through you and understand exactly what you mean. Even when you hardly say anything.

And they expect you to have the same psychic ability.

Sadly this is not always the case. Neither of it.

It often turns out that they over-interpret. And misunderstand ...
But when you tell them they don't believe you ...

Does this ring a bell with you?

My mam once said to me - I can read you like a book!
I replied - mam! You can't get passed the "preface page"

I let "people" see what they want to see "in me"
I! Keep 95% back for MY usenot theirs

People will tend to overestimate their talents in some areas.

Ah yes, the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

That goes both ways actually. Friend of mine keeps telling me how stupid he is and why he never understands anything. He isn't, you know

The Dunning-Kruger Effect - and some uplifting news:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9R6jgE7SQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW9R6jgE7SQ

Yes, it goes both ways.

being as modest as I am I just let "everything" be beneath my dignity

That is probably the wisest decision in many cases

How many bodies can you bury beneath your dignity?

No one is greater than me and I'm not greater than anyone, but! that's what I let'em think
a few year ago, I put my real name in google and in 3.42 secs it came up with just over 4 million (of us)

Difference is:- there's only 1 "Animal" (prof animal chaos)

That's known as quality control. The Google approach is *quantity* control.

Are you saying our mutual friend here is professor of quality physics (as opposed to quantum physics), paulh?

The only thing I'm a 110% expert at - is stupidity etc

but alas! it ain't been a well paid job/vocation

Then again why change perfection

That's true, let's stick to what we're good at

Right now it's doing nothing - and I don't see that changing anytime soon

It's not the doing of the nothing that's important. Rather, it's the *way* we do the nothing: with great amounts of wit, topic drift, bird videos, nonsense verse that lacks perceptible meter, A weekly newspaper that features gorgeous artistic renderings of animals which last drew breath 25 million years ago, as well as living creatures that require a ticket to South Africa to see at first hand.

If God is a cat, then most contributors to the Post will get there easily.

If God likes bad puns and nonsense verse, another contingent of Hootooers will be received with open arms as well.

We are definitely not run of the ill, unless you are tlaking about a very strange mill....

I could not have worded that better myself

From events that happened in 1970/71 (while at a training college) I found my role in life!Do whatever it takes to bring and defeat frowns - I have never nor ever will do, waver from that from that quest!

I woke up this morning feeling sad for no apparent reason. Must have been something that spilled over from a dream that had already instantly been erased from my memory.

I tried to think back but there was no trace, no shadow, no echo I could follow.

And then it came to me: Why would I even want to remember a dream that had left me this sad?

The next thing that happened was

And a shiny new early summer morning

from my P/S err! yah gotta go there for the link

Something to bring a little sunshine to you if maybe you are having a cloudy day

Click here for the Llama(sound on)

Test for those still Brainy No.3
A Genius will work this one out, I can't No.7

That's 4 links. One takes you to the Llama Song, the 3 others only take you to commercials