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

, thanks for that tip, I ordered it right away. (Bryson is always worth the sort of giggle that suddenly stops because he has vented your own feelings but is a much better writer.)

But it's still, like, English, 'cause we can still, like, talk to eachother and understand eachother. So it's not, like, a whole other thing yet, like, y'know? Granted, it might, like, become an entirely separate language in the future, but it's still, like, pretty much the same language right now. But "American English" is a good phrase to use if, like, you want to be annoyingly specific for some reason. Like, y'know, whatever.

luvya!

*runs after Mr X with a big axe*

Stopitt it's annoying!

People who have little question & answer sessions with themselves (especially in seminars or on TV);
eg. The design of this object had to be changed. Why? because the incresed environmental stress indicated that blah blah blah.
I discovered the best thing to do was to quickly interrupt their flow and answer their question

eg. The design of this object had to be changed. Why? because...
because you discovered the old version was total pants
no...
because you had nothing better to do
etc and ad nauseum

it's even more annoying in french.

Everything's more annoying in French.

Men who use the sit-down in a pub bog WITHOUT lifting the seat, leaving it soaking wet!!!!!!!!!!!!



GT

A sign in a men's restroom: 'We aim to please. You aim, too, please'

That one is that old that it has whiskers on it!!!




GT

Well, I'd never heard it. But then, when would I go to a men's loo? We ladies don't always want to know what goes on in there, mind you.

Neither do we. Men never go to the premises with a stranger and come back knowing everything about each other´s married being a moron.

Hi TC!!

When I was in the RAF I was on the Junior Ranks entertainments committee.

As part of my duties, on certain nights I was the keyholder for the Club.

I was responsible for Club security on these occasions, and had to make sure that the Club was completely empty before locking up for the night.

I had to make sure that toilets, (bothy male and female) were empty.


What staggered me most was the state of some of the toilets.........

NOT the male, but the FEMALE toilets.

Us chaps used some earthy language in the graffiti, but the females were blunt, and straight to the point!!!!!!!!!

Also, some did not seem to know where the opening in the toilet was, resulting in brown smears and wet floors!!

Not nice!!



GT

That, Gandalfstwin, was TMI to go with my afternoon and .

Getting dumped and told how nice you are, and how it's just in time for you to meet someone at "all those Christmas parties" ... Hmmm do you not think I'd have dumped you if I wanted to meet someone at Christmas parties?

Just dump people and don't try to assuage your own guilt by saying nice positive things ....

People who sit at traffic lights in the dark, with their foot on the brakes. Use your handbrake, otherwise your brake lights end up dazzling the driver behind you!

There's a driver behind you? Petty hate: back-seat drivers.

Petty hate: clothes manufacturers that will let you have shoulders or breasts, but not both

Can't say i've ever been dazzled by rear lights. They're designed not to dazzle, by way of being red. Front ones yes. There was a heated debate on here about this subject a while back. There were 2 opposing camps; one saying it's safer to use your foot break at lights- helps stops sleeping drivers behind you from not noticing you stopped. And the other saying to use hand-break at all times.

I use a bit of both. Hand-break obviously for hills, but I will use footbreak if I'm stopped just round a bend to give any approaching driver every chance of noticing i'm stationary.

"Can't say i've ever been dazzled by rear lights."

I went to the drive-in cinema a few weeks ago and it was rather irritating when the person in front had their lights on for a while. Not dazzled, but certainly annoying.