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

I mean, it would take you five minutes of research on the internet to realize that he's not a Socialist at all! Nobody's /that/ lazy. I'm forced to conclude that they're just looking for reasons to abuse him, and for what?! They think they'll manage to force him out of office by whining ignorant nonsense to ME?! It's even worse because they actually BELIEVE what they're saying. If they even knew what Socialism was they wouldn't believe it, which means they're just buying into internet rumor, which, as we all know, was started because of the elections. Why can't internet rumors die after elections? Why do they even have to use internet rumors anyway? Why?!

Having to feed my geckos food that runs away... it's also so annoying whn I have to cover them in vitamin/calcium powder before feeding them to the geckos... it's like I'm seasoning them... all the while, they're screaming and escaping and hopping around my living room...

People saying that the president of the United States is the most powerful man on Earth; the American governmental system has many checks to stop the president's wishes becoming its nation's actions.

People who don't understand that, by nature, weather forecasts must be generalised and should be interpreted as such.

Knowing I have to do quite a lot over mid term but not remembering the half of it, and while we're on that note, wishing I'd brought my Filofax down from college for writing down the things I couldn't remember...

Bah.

Floaters.

PP

Supermarket queue races.

I have two items the other contestant has a shopping trolly full. I quicken my pace towards a checkout so that I don't get stuck behind them. They quicken theirs. I quicken mine. Before long it looks like Dwain Chambers v Lewis Hamilton.

The main queue's are often faster around lunch time since so many people are there for a sandwich and haven't worked out that they are allowed to use whichever queue they want.

PP

That would almost qualify for my Edited Entry of many years ago ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A506404

Or its companion entry ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A536438

Don't you have checkouts for people with fewer items, or just a basket?

No, we do.

Locally we have "basket only", "9 items or less", "10 items or less", "about 10 items" and self service.

Shopping is so complicated!

Best left to women I reckon, because they either:-

1. Enjoy it,
2. Understand it,
3. Care about it,
4. Any combination of the above.

PP

I was looking for "Basket Only" today because my male sense of spacial awareness managed 25 items AND I didn't crush any soft items at the bottom.

Anyone got an issue with "10 items or less"?

5. Get lumbered with it.

Our supermarket only has self-service checkout for baskets and my PHof the day is the way the blasted things insist you put everything in the carefully weighed bagging area and stops working if you don't.

I have to THROW bags of crisps in order to make the damn thing believe that I've put them there. It's no use resting your hand there, since the checkout then shouts "unexpected item in the bagging area".

"Get lumbered with it"? Yeah right. You know you love it!

PP

Rugs that get a ridge accross the middle no matter what you do.

Sitting looking at one now.

PP

"my PHof the day is the way the blasted things insist you put everything in the carefully weighed bagging area and stops working if you don't."

I only use the self-service bit if I've only bought a handful of items as it invariably ends up being slower than using the manned/womaned checkouts due to barcode reading errors, alcohol age checks, etc.
If i don't want to use a bag or want to use my own I just sit the stuff in front of the bags, then carry them off when done.

Indeed, but I'd rather pack things directly into my buggy or put some things in a bag while I put others in the pram - you can say you have your own bag but then it gets snitty if you put anything on the bags. Most irritating.

Who changed R&B? What's called R&B today most definately isn't Rythym & Blues

Probably true of most music, really. Buddy Holly would have a hard job of it recognising modern 'rock', ditto Louis Armstong and 'jazz'.

Current petty hate: online ads for slimming products that claim incredible, and often unhealthy, amounts of weight loss. As far as I can tell, all these ads originate in the US, presumably because their advertising laws are more relaxed than ours.

One that really annoyed me claimed 43 pounds lost in 2 weeks. Short of surgery, starvation or serious illness there's no way you can lose that much that quickly. However it was achieved, it wouldn't be healthy or sustainable. Out of curiosity I followed the link. The claimed weight loss changed to a more believable, but still unhealthy, 25 pounds in 2 months.

I have popups blocked, but some websites have advertising on their pages, rather than using popups. The only way to avoid the ads is to avoid the offending sites.

Or use a combination of blocking them in Opera and blocking them through my firewall, as I do.