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

A friend of mine, soon after giving birth, realised the true purpose of the 'baby on board' sign. It's to alert other road users to the fact that the driver of this particular vehicle is sleep-deprived, nearly out of her mind and likely to be a bit erratic. It's nothing to do with the kid at all.

PH? Rain, for the first time in a while in the middle of an extended drought, on the very day when one is trying to move house. It's just another application of Murphy's Law, I suppose.

My parents have taught my 3 year old to shout "In-ger-land" clap clap clap every time he sees a car with a flag on it If he wasn't so cute doing it this would be a major rather than a petty hate...

...........give it a few days, kelli.......

give it a few days...............



GT

Teach the child to shout "Kim Jong il" instead...

........or Pak Do Ik...........(Memories of 1966)


GT

PH: that people still cling onto the memory of 1966 (sorrt GT). It was over 40 years ago, get over it! I mean, it's not like Germany even care.

PH: Typos.

Ok, I have modified the behaviour so that at least he now shouts "England" rather than In-ger-land.

Mr. D - I believe GT was referring to 1966 as the last time that North Korea took part in the World Cup (I'm now an expert on N Korea due to having drawn them in the office sweepstake)

PH: actually, the Gemans haven't forgotten 1966 - as well as every single time they have beaten us, especially on penalties. But in general they really really don't care as much as the English seem to

I guess it's like the West and Muslims regarding the Crusades. When Ridley Scott made Kingdom of Heaven, a US politician called it Bin Laden's version of history, or words to that effect. I have a book called The History of the Arab Peoples. The Crusades get mentioned two or three times. Each time it's just one sentence. The Muslims don't really care that much. Back then, they were constantly at war with some one or other.

PHoD: People who like to share their choice of music with the entire neighbourhood. It's been a lovely sunny day today, but my enjoyment of it has been spoiled by some who played music really loud. We live in the country and I prefer to hear bird song, not something with a pounding bass line. The only way I could escape was to go inside and sit in the coolest room in the house. I couldn't even have the windows open, because that let the noise in.

I think you'll have to wait until they put their washing out and then start a bonfire ... under the clothes line ...

For that to work I'd need to know exactly where they live, as I don't want to upset innocent neighbours. All I can say is they probably live on the same road as me, or the one parallel to it. Finding them would take more time than I'm willing to spend, and more energy than I have at the moment.

Movies that claim to be "based on a true story" when they are, in fact, pure fiction. Like this for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidalgo_(film)

Understand me, I still like the movie. But if they say it's "based on a true story" then audience members understandably assume that it's at least /partly/ accurate, when it's not. In point of fact, 300 is probably more accurate than Hidalgo is.

Worst example I know of is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Tale:_A_True_Story

PHs?

Two currently.

The mucky who dribbles on the floor in front of the loo at work, and never cleans up,

...and finishing the last mouthful of , only to end up with a crunch of limescale from the kettle that nobody other than me ever bothers to try to clean!

Another example of a film that claims to be based on fact but isn't, is Murder in the First starring Kevin Bacon, Christian Slater and Gary Oldman. As a piece of fiction it's good enough - good acting, good production. As a fact-based film there are so many accuracies that it doesn't deserve to have 'based on a true story'.

or... lilitis

Isn't that what "based on" a true story means? They have taken a true story as the seed, and gone off on a fictional or imaginary tangent. That's the whole difference between "this is a true story" and "this is *based on* a true story".