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

Do any of you ever wonder about them? Want to learn more? Suffer from one yourself? Wish that anyone who refers to the Guide for oral fixation information could find it? Review my article before submission, please. http://www.h2g2.com/P64333.


-Fenchurch

Is it that all people have an oral fixation? I mean there are other ways of nourishment (eg injecting vitamins) rather than the mouth. It would be so much better if we didn't have to bother eating, no dieting, food poisoning etc. EXCEPT somewhere it got to be fashionable to eat via the mouth and we developed taste buds and now we are addicted to the whole mouth thing and we can't give it up. What do you think?

Well...you do have a point. Many people DO find eating a faily enjoyable experience. However, I was thinking about Oral Fixations which extend BEYOND simply eating... for example, many people smoke, chew pencils or nails, etc. Now I know for a fact that pencils aren't exactly the best tasting things, however all of mine have massive amounts of bite marks... then again, it may be an absurdly rude joke/ploy against the people by those goddamned Pencil Companies...putting addicting substances into pencils, FORCING us to go back...I just...I just don't know. Excuse me, I need to go sit in the corner and think.

-Fenchurch

When biting your pencil do you like that crunchy noise it makes as your teeth pierce the wood? If you do you could have a sound fixation. Or possibly you/I are freaks which is another possibility. Mulder in the X Files is said to have an oral fixation as he is always putting sunflower seeds into his mouth.
PS If Monica Lewinsky has an oral fixation, where is Bill Clinton's fixation located? (cheeky smile from Steph)

Pencils. When I was a kid, our school calculated the amount of money lost in chewed pencils (the school issued them and they were not happy).
They purchased "nasty" tasting pencils. The kids could not resist and the fixation persisted. The "nasty" taste became addictive and we chewed even more pencils than before.
Now kids have to buy their own pencils so they just smoke and be damned. Now that's one oral fixation I miss.

Actually, I bite the metal part...hmmm...maybe I have an electric-shock fixation, you know, when you bite metal and your fillings feel all funny...I...I just don't know! I wasn't put on this Earth to ANALYSE fixations, just to write about them! What do you guys think, should my next fixation article be about 1) a fixation to the Oedipal/Electral complex or 2) an Audial Fixation (stimulation of the ear)?

Having read the above (entries, not the sky or anything mystic, I assume you can see the entries from the persons above, okay), anyhoo, I think I've developed a "fixation" fixation.

I now can't stop thinking about the things people get fixated (is that a real word?). Is word a real word, see I can't stop. Hang on - this isn't fixation at all is it? Obsessive-compulsive disorder shouldn't wonder, which wouldn't surprise me in the least. Smoking, drinking (in York? not me matron! oh no!), youth wasted in the clouds (now I *am* being a bit metaphorical/mystical, okay?).

I thank you.

Alas! Never fear, friend, I will soon enough save everyone from the fear of Fixations, I have decided to launch a book series, "The Wonder of Fixations", and you, YES, YOU Hitchhiker's guide readers will be the first to preveiw it. We will go IN DEPTH into the world of fixations. Whadaya think?

Fenchurch, I think that a book on fixations is a great idea as most people suffer from fixations!
Oh yes and fixated IS a word!

You know, I am getting a fixation for h2g2, it is a bad habit as my only access to The Guide is from work. I better get a fixation for work, otherwise I will fixing my life back together and look for another job.

I am also getting fixated on this site - except at least I am fixated from home!

I too am fixated on this site, as well as on dead Tube stations. Last night I was fixated on vodka. Last week it was contemporary fiction, this week it's 1930s detective stories. In the end I overdose on everything and end up feeling sick. I have been fixated on Pret a Manger double cheddar sandwiches for the last eight months. That's got to stop. I swear they laugh at me when I go in there now as I've been having exactly the same lunch every day for almost a year. And of course, there's my rapidly-fading CRM fixation which is probably the only thing I am fixated on in a professional capacity. And it makes me feel sick now too.

sounds like a typicaly British nihilistic appreciation for the finer things - there's something I like, I think I'll now consume it until I can wallow in my own (self) destruction. Yeeeee, haaaaa!

Either that, or you just like cheese, which is cool, but I can't recall ever 'cheesing' myself into oblivion..."hey, fellas, I got some reesty old cheddar in the shed, wanna come by and try some?"

Reesty, I don't know if that's a word or not, but I think it fits the 'nose' one gets from a good ole piece of 12 year old, furry, talks-three-languages, types, plays guitar, rides a Harley piece o' cheese.

Sorry, fixations.....

I don't think the cheese in the Pret sandwiches could ever be described as "reesty", in fact I think it could most fairly be described as "nondescript", which is of course a contradiction in terms.

I am only obsessed with cheese because I'm a vegetarian, and it seems to be the only thing I can eat that doesn't involve pulses or soya, both of which I am averse to on style grounds.

I am currently fixated on vacuuming as I have just bought a new vacuum cleaner having been without one for eight months. I know now what colour my carpets are and exactly how many fag burns there are in them. Hmm, good thing I'm moving house soon.

( I have to fix everything that breaks in our house, is that a fixation?)

Wow, this forum is still alive! Yes, that is a fixation, it's called a fixing, or repair, fixation. Were you fixed as a child?

That's a rather loaded question, isn't it?

'Nonnie