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

well, I havent been to h2g2 for a while, and what do i see on my return? It's been ruined, it used to be a fun site to be on, but now it just looks like millions of other chat forums. What a dissapointment, where has the search option gone, where by you put in a keyword and it found a topic for the keyword, or more fun when it would bring up something completely different. I was looking forward to spending at least 1/2 hour on here but after this message i think i shall log off and possibly never revisit. What a let down, a once great site has been turned into this, pap, oh well, change is inevitable but you do hope it's for the better. If it ever gets better i hope someone will contact me, www.ki-user.com , Lee.

It's not exactly the DON'T PANIC! covered, flippant, wildly inaccurate, infurriatingly glib guide to the galaxy that we have come to know and love is it? I guess Infinidim Enterprises DID take over.

Well, the site is exactly the same, only they are more vigoursly applying the house rules as to what can and cannot go into the Guide. The search option is still here and working as well as ever. Take a few moments to look around, and you will see that it is still the same old Guide!

Oh well my fellow followers of the night, go forth now and find, thus perch and remores for the forever love H2G2



RIP

it never ends!!!

One last remark on the enevidable end which brings 'new bigginings?'...

The guide(galactic version) describes the universe as 'it don't exist. Being that space is so infinitly big it can not be messured and therefor, by law of physics, improbable." Well something like that. It also said the same about the inhabitants of the universe, as well as its age.

So, being non-existint or at least too big to fathom, I believe it can be safe to say that a guide to such an unlikly 'place?' would be impossible to accomplish, or at least improbable.

That being said, this whole message, even this forum upon your non-existant computer is just a product of a deranged and fractured non-existant mind.

I bid you all a panicless evening.

what the hell happened, I was a member on start upand then I find this. Why did Douglas Adams Sell out?, If Ford Prefect had been a researcher for this rubbish, we never would have heard from him!

Actually I heard from him just yesterday. A low bewitching moan which at first I thought was a slightly deflated tire groaning on the tarmac beneath me at 100mph... but then I realised I was sitting in front of my computer and my hard drive was going all soft on me.
Oh woe....

Er, hello. I am Skylark, cousin of Pandora on our Maturnal side.
Pandora felt she would NEVER fit into this 'new' h2g2...I'm afraid she'll not return. However, she did ask me to pass along this message: Okay, so Mr. Adams made himself some money. I say, good for him & his! I had a wonderful time on 'his' h2g2. I
think, with a bit of imagination...all you Hikers will be able to have a grand time. All my Dear old friends can always find me at the same old place:0 <------ that's a zero: [email protected]
I hope Sky can behave herself. I am not returning as I know I would be too much for the BBC to handle...perhaps one day 'they'
will join US and the World will be as one... Peace Out ~Pan
Well, that's all for now. I'll be going around to some of Pandora's old stomping grounds. I believe I may start with The Pub as I'm simpley parchted. ~Sky

Hi there, Skylark. Tell Pandora she must have turned into a wimp, because she should be here raising hell and seeing how much she could get away with. The "moderation" isn't as bad as it seems.

Also, I welcome you to h2g2, and ask that you put SOMETHING (anything will do) on your home page so that others might be able to drop you a line. But above all, have FUN!!

CHEERS!!

I can't help feeling you guys are missing the point. H2G2 has been rescued from oblivion by the BBC. Now I do appreciate that there are limitations to the strength of the language used - which isn't a bad thing as young kids can use the site. Some subject matter may be a little inflamatory for the Beeb to associate themselves with, and you can't of course post pictures now. BUT, the guide is essentially intact and the community getting bigger day by day.

The vast majority of the old faces are still here - go and check them out. I'm sure if you persevere for a while, you will realise it's really the same old friend in a new set of clothes. You're not going to tell me that you would ditch a good friend under these circumstances, are you. Don't you think that would be a bit shallow?


Bassman

Hey! Don't lump me in with these unappreciative miscreants!

I agree, this isn't the place for nastiness, there are lots of places on the net for that. H2G2 is alive and well and that's all that matters. Why are some people so threatened by a little moderation anyway? It's not like we own the place, we just get to use it - for FREE!!

Well said. I apologise.



Bassman

CHEERS!!

*Clink* CHEERS



Bassman

Geez.....I think you two ought to get a room!!!
Okay Cloughie...I'm BAAAAAAAACK - tatoos & all!

Cloughie,

I just swung past your space, I hear you like things that fly. Did I tell you I'm a Flight Simulator Maintenance Engineer? Thought you'd like that!!


Pandora,

Tell me about your tatoos. I had one done on my right shoulder, it's a picture of the headstock of my Fender Precision that I bought in 1982, right down to the serial number. It's a Bass player thing, I wanted something that nobody else had.



Bassman

"I wanted something that nobody else had." I was going to suggest foot n' mouth, but it seems you've been beaten to it

Yo Bassdude, just mooching about...

Yo, Bassman. I tried to post on your page & kept getting booted off...is this a trick? I don't think THIS is the place to tell you about my tatoos...or the band I was in. I have the last of the Fender 7's
they made them with 7 different woods. It still sounds as good as the day I got it...a loooooong time ago! Why don't you come over to my place/page & we'll have a chat?!? As Cloughie knows
I'm computerly challanged (I would love to see your tatoo!!)

I suscribed at the very begining (or so i thought, i must of been a couple of months after start up) and it was after an interview with Adam's on the now defunct Simon Mayo show on radio 1.
It was obvious though that at some stage the site would disapear up its own arse. It was poorly moderated, ill laid out, and was almost impossible to strike up, or contribute to conversations unless you were seen to be there all day and have no other life.
I drop by a year later, find out its been taken over by the BBC, and low and behold!!
Its exactley the same!! (joke, because i know some people need punchlines explaining to them, the take a joke as a direct personal insult to their birthright and issue the PC geek equivelant of a fatwa against you ((thats a joke as well as some people think that by explaining punchlines to them you are insulting their intelligence, and by making such a sweeping generalisation as "PC Geek" i am liable to find dog turds posted through my letterbox))

Hello. I would just like to take this moment in time to say for myself, as well as several others,"Bite me."
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