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

There is a cherub on my user page. I didn't put it there. This begs the question "Well why is it there then?" I don't know the answer. Maybe you do.

H2G2 seems to have handed out random graphics for the holidays. I got a tree, myself...pretty silly as I don't especially celebrate xmas. I do hope they didn't actually put that little cherub on any Muslim Researcher pages, inasmuch as Islam forbids the display of depictions of angels.

"I do hope they didn't actually put that little cherub on any Muslim Researcher pages, inasmuch as Islam forbids the display of depictions of angels."
Murphies law of the internet says...

;^)#

Christmas & New Year celebrations strike at h2g2. We obviously can't be selective - we either put up graphics or don't. I apologise in advance if we offend anyone. They will all be gone again after Christmas...

Christmas & New Year celebrations strike at h2g2. We obviously can't be selective - we either put up graphics or don't. I apologise in advance if we offend anyone. They will all be gone again after Christmas...

Well, with the geographic distribution here, hopefully you'll get lucky and not offend anyone. I only know about this because my wife is Muslim and she pointed out that she'd have had to close down her page here (if she had one) and it got a cherub by accident. Maybe next year you can take a little more care to select exclusively secular emblems. A nuisance, I know, but this is getting to be a fairly diverse community.

While I don't disapprove of the graphics choices, I can see why they might offend some people. I just thought it was a bit odd for me to suddenly have a picture on my page that I wasn't responsible for.