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

Yes, having grown up in Northern Ireland, it was something I took a very strong stance on - a ban on toy guns in the house.

And yes, the kids would fashion them out of lego, or borrow friends' ones.

But at least I raised the issue and made them think - they know my views, we've discussed my reasons why. And to me that's very important.

Right, sorry for the topic drift - where were we?

We were being embarrassed.

Perhaps not the most embarassing thing but the most recent -
I went to lift a saucepan off the hob (using handle of course) and the handle wasn't just hot it was virtually glowing.

Nursing my hand under the cold tap, with skin hanging from it like a glove, I vowed to my wife that "tomorrow we're going to buy some decent saucepans and btw, where did we get this cheap and nasty crap from anyway ?"

The person who answered me wasn't my wife as I expected, but my lovely mother-in-law - "They came from me - they were your wedding present."

mothers-in-law are sent to try us....

Don't get me started on that subject.

I may have to be polite to someone today.

OK, OK, I'll let sleeping mother-in-law's lie.

Oops!

.... yeah, preferably on a fault line in a remote continent.

I would say in the fast lane of a motorway, but our road system is already congested enough.

On a railway line is also not an option - don't want to give the train companies any more excuses.

First suggestion only has plus points.

Is she really that bad ?!

"IS" should read "WAS" and not for the reasons that would have tempted me to pay a stranger in a pub a lot of money for.

No the Poisonous Dwarf is still free to bite the shins of mortal folk.

They say getting divorced is a bad thing. Somehow, I see it more as the cup half full...

oh, you poor embarressed people!

In light of my own parents' divorce, I agree with you MuckersMate.

Everyone seems to have run away from this thread.
Therefore I'm going to dredge my memory quickly before back to college.

About a year ago my parents went out for the evening for my mam's birthday. The girlfriend and I stayed in, got really rather drunk, watched Tipping The Velvet (BBC production no less!) and ended up in bed.
So far so good....

However, our drunken state meant we were MUCH noisier than usual and when my parents got home we didn't notice. Next morning dad tells me that they went around the house going "LALALALALA SPEAK VERY LOUDLY!" Apparently it sounded as if we were making a cheap porno

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What else?

I once overdosed on caffeine....not very funny in itself but something that people always give me a strange look for when I mention it.

Kat

After lurking here for ages I've just realised that I *do* have a most embarrassing moment, it was Kat's which jogged my memory...

One day the then future Mrs D and I were sat on the sofa all snuggled together watching TV as time went on things got gradually more intimate and we threw our clothes off and started... well, you know... It was at this point we discovered that we'd left the door unlocked and a couple of friends had decided to visit. Cue screams of "No! Don't come in! Wait outside until we tell you to!"

Yup. It always goes back down to the basics.
I've been woken up by my brother and his girlfriend being horridly loud (they're 16, I was visiting my mum, so had to sleep in the next room). The more embarassing thing about this is that as his big sister, my mental image of him is of a little boy of around 6, not the best connotation at such times...

You wait till your son is 16 and doing it. Mind you, I'm lucky they don't make too much noise (not that I hear, anyway). And if he didn't have a girlfriend something would have to give - he's very red-blooded.

These sort of things don't embarrass me at all, certainly not as a mum. I still find it far worse when people give impossibly wrong answers on quiz programmes - or start rambling about the possible other answers and spouting a load of rubbish. Or expose their ignorance in any other way.

Yeah, I mean what could be more embarrassing than--

"what's the largest recognised number?" (or whatever)..

Googleplex...

"I still find it far worse when people give impossibly wrong answers on quiz programmes - or start rambling about the possible other answers and spouting a load of rubbish".

Yes, I find it embarrassing to watch progs. like University Challlenge, andf the contestants can quite easily answer esoteric questions to do with classical studies etc, but are unable to answer even the simplest questions on scientific themes - things like "What is the chemical symbol for mercury", or "which is the lightest chemical element". Indeed, it is very noticeable that the scientific questions are often extremely basic - not of the same philosophical calibre as other questions.

Always remember the English teacher at a priuvate school in which I taught saying that she hadn't understood chemistry at all when she was at school. She said it in such a way as though she was proud of it, and it was of no consequence I can't understand how such people get to be teachers in the first place .

*whispers*
I didn't understand Chemistry either but I'm very good at English...

googlplex... ive heard of that "number" before. was it in a book or something?

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