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

Hi. I like the lines in this drawing. I have just discovered papercuts due to terri pointing the way here ~~ I am working my way through them. I was going to comment in the end but had to stop here & now

Your lines here remind me of..... Al Hirschfield is it?
I have a commented about him in my journal just after he passed.

Keep up your good work!
I like the name "papercuts" too

Thank you Abbi. I must apologise: it doesn't normally take me this long to agree with someone saying nice things about me etchings. How rude of me.

It has nice resonances, the name Paper Cuts. shazz and I arrived at it and I'm especially fond of the fact that it's called that even though it's not on paper (well, the originals are, but you know what I mean). As an office worker I'm prone to paper cuts and other such industrial injuries. There is a special noise that people make when they inflict one upon themselves (just before the torrent of foul language): it's a sort of swooping, shushing noise like a snake talking backwards. What a great noise.

The name of Al Hirschfeld was only vaguely familiar to me, I must confess, but I've just found rather a good website (http://www.alhirschfeld.com). Nice work, I shall be looking more at that later, so thank you for introducing me to someone new.

Here's that link without the last bracket :
http://www.alhirschfeld.com

Thanks for the link!
I often type *slaps self* familiar habits stranger!

Oh Yes! That noise is the same for impatient people when they are in line, and one more delay happens. It's outward seething ,angrier than the inward seething.

The Slicing Zing Pain of papercuts is uniqueInteresting observation spimcoot ,the sound is universally specific and it is suddenly BOTHERING ME but I CANNOT stop doing it now

Thanks for the link on AL!

I often type *slaps self* familiar habits stranger!

Oh Yes! That noise is the same for impatient people when they are in line, and one more delay happens. It's outward seething ,angrier than the inward seething.

The Slicing Zing Pain of papercuts is uniqueInteresting observation spimcoot ,the sound is universally specific and it is suddenly BOTHERING ME but I CANNOT stop doing it now

*sleeeeech*
followed by:
*whiiiiiiirchtch*

I have an absolute phobia about paper cuts (the real ones, not the brill pics obviously!); if someone folds a piece of paper & tries to straighten it with their hands I go ballistic!

It was actually one of the (many) reasons I gave up teaching!

Terri.

That's a shame, Terri, because you can actually enjoy the sensation of slicing flesh before the incredible pain kicks in. There's a sort of ecstasy to it. This is why I'd rather be stabbed than beaten to death, given the choice. Maybe it's a penetration thing.

I'm also convinced that, in the short term, small trauma like shutting your finger in a door is worse than losing a limb. The body doesn't provide nearly enough pain relieving drugs, and as you're generally too faint to go out and procure some for yourself, the best you can do is totter round the kitchen then go and lie down for a bit. Perhaps this is as well: were the body to pump huge doses of pain relieving drugs into the system for such a trivial accident, everyone would be going around closing car boots on their hands.

Right?





Say, where did everybody go?

"shutting your finger in a door is worse than losing a limb"
How true! Temporarily.....
By George I think you've got the answer to your own question as to why!

I often get cardboard cuts

*also talks in circles, asks & answers own questions*

Yes, I've had cardboard cuts too but let's face it, they're not as subtle. Never had one off polystyrene though. Friend of mine (talking of strange noises as we once were) is practically alergic to the sound of polystyrene, as well as the feel of the stuff and the very sight of it. Can't even bear to watch someone else handling it. I lived with him once and I was forever having to rescue him when he'd find huge iceberg chunks of it in the bath. 'There it is, behind that spider'. It was something to do with childhood, I think: being beaten with it by his younger sister. Have you any idea how long it takes to beat someone with polystyrene? Why, you can be at it half an hour before they even realise you're there. This is why teachers stopped using it as a method of corporal punishment: there were kids being taken from class for a sound polystyrene thrashing and returned to the next class up. Played merry hell with the administration of the thing (not to mention chronic cases of thrasher's elbow for the masters).

But I digress.

Hello all

I once knew a kid who suddenly developed a major dislike of balls after having pestered his parents for hours about going in one of those ball-bin things at a local eatery. He launched himself in with gusto, heard them all squeaking and groaning and started screaming the place down. It took ages to get him out as he was petrified and rooted to the spot (well as much as you can be when you have millions of spherical objects squelching around you!)

Me? I'm just happy with that bubble-wrap stuff. Give me a few lengths and I'll be sat happily bursting away for hours - never suffered any injury from that passtime.

shazz

Ah, but are you a serial popper of single cells or a twist and scrunch mass popping kinda gal, shazz?

Both!!! It depends on my mood - and the amount of time available to me. If TM is about I tend to twist and scrunch in order to be the first to reduce it to a limp wreck. He's also a big fan of bubblewrap

shazz

My eyes are watering for TM.

He likes it I tell you - he does!

shazz

I had a history tutor in first year who once tried to tempt us to be vocal in tutorials by offering bubble-wrap for answers. A good point got you time to pop the bubble-wrap till the next person said something salient...

Now, if we're getting seriously into phobias here, how do you all feel about belly buttons?

Terri;

http://www.urban75.com/Mag/bubble.html pop bubble wrap!

Yet another way to waste hours doing something absolutely useless.

Thanks abbi

Belly buttons terri? Hmmmm. I don't really have any opinion on them although I probably spend far too much time contemplating mine.

shazz

Belly buttons--hmmm.
Reminds me ,where's a q-tip?