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Rat, who can't remember his way round this bloody thing. Started conversation May 4, 2005
So I watched the new H2G2 movie and what a load of crap.
How many yanks can you fit in Islington?
Isnt that old woman sat outside the cafe as the world blows up supposed to be Fenchurch?
How the hell were we supposed to beleive that was Marvin?
Since when was Ford a black american?
How the hell did Trillian suddenly turn yank?
In a nutshell, what the hell was that all about?
The yanks took over the entire world and they did it by stealth. A McDonalds opened. Then because they had a McDonalds, they needed a Starbucks. Because there was a whole building in the way, they needed another McDonalds next door on the other side of the Starbucks. Then when there was enough McDonalds and Starbucks, they decided to build military bases in FOREIGN countries to defend them.
We live in an american dictatorship. We cant do anything about it - if they say jump, we have to say how high - they have full military bases and muntions factories in the centre of our country...how can we not do as they say? There's three places in the world thats not true of. They stole our freedom, and now our literature.
What has the world come to? 
paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 4, 2005
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I think you've just hit on the reason why the Vogons blew up the planet, Rat. 
They didn't like the competition from the Americans. 
But seriously, the Americans also expropriated Douglas Adams, who moved to California so as to be closer to Hollywood. 
And, frankly, I thought the movie was dominated by A-list Brits like Helen Mirren, Stephen Fry, Bill Nighy, and Alan Rickman. 
In any event, I figure that, since a lot of Americans (and Chinese and Indians and Africans, etc.) would have perished in the Vogon demolition of the planet, at least *some* of these groups should have been represented among the survivors on the Heart of Gold. No?
Evangeline Posted May 5, 2005
Have you read the movie review by Jim Lynn(U6)?
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As for Mc Donald's and Starbucks, they are ruining the U.S. by putting one(or two) of each every fifty feet or so. And, it isn't just those two. Many other franchised businesses are doing the same.
Some days, blowing up Earth to start over doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
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