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

No decision has been arrived at, we are still undecided. it refers to .. well it refers to when a jury is out(tucked up in a hotel somewhere) to decide on a verdict.

Unnerstand?

Though at the moment i would say at least 11 of the 12 jurors in my head agree that female comics aren't funny.. but in the future i may change my mind and totally disagree with everything i've just said.

I always thought it meant that. The person I heard using it must have been missusing it. I can't remember the context, but it wasn't the undecided thing.

I suppose at a stretch it could also mean 'sitting on the fence' ie not decided one way or another- playing devils advocate, that sort of thing...

Oh what a strange thing is the language what we call English

Over confidence in the use of smileys. not pressing 'preview' to save time

I don't want to turn this into the dictionary thread, but what does it mean when someone says "he's got a case of the emperor's new clothes"? (As in the Sinead O Connor song)

Do you know the story of the Emperors new clothes? Basically the statement is a comment on peoples credulity and willingness to believe what they are told rather than what they actually know from their own experience...

Zantic

bar patrons who try to argue with the bartender (that would be me, actually) that really, I should give them a free beverage simply because they asked nicely. I'll give free drinks to someone I like, or someone who does something nice for me. I'm not giving you a drink for free just because you said please. I expect you to say please anyway. That's just common courtesy.

I wouldn't ask for a free drink because of that, but I don't know that many bar staff, so free drinks do not often come my way.

Things that people sell you dirt cheap, and then tell you, "Oh you need this to make it work, it'll cost about another squillion quid".

Motorists who stop at red traffic lights inside the cycle box, instead of behind their white line.

Cyclists who stop *after* the cycle box even when there isn't a motorist parked in it.

Cyclists who don't bother stopping at all.

Newspapers. Especially 'The Sun'.

Motorists who sit in the wrong lane at roundabouts ditto who reverse out of parking spaces at a zillion miles an hour without looking cyclists who toil three abreast up the hill I live on

people who use cell phones while driving...particularly down the freeways (i.e., autobahns)

Motorists who zoom past me when I'm on my bike. Motorists who occupy the cyclist box at traffic lights. Motorists who shout or throw things at you when you're cycling along. Pedestrians who walk on cyclepaths - not those ones that are shared, but the pavements with the line down them, one side for cycles, the other for pedestrians.

Agree on all of those, and I'm (mostly) a driver, not a cyclist. But I've experienced all those problems. I used to call cycling in York an 'extreme sport'

For me though, the worst is when some drivers (predominantly in German-manufactured cars) seem to think that they've got more right to be on the road than I have in my small but fully functional hatchback...

Pritt Stick. They've added a 'pleasant' scent to it. One whiff of Pritt Stick and I used to be 5 years old again playing with my toy box. Now they've bloomin' added scent to it. Grrrrrrr.

Really? You're kidding. GOD-DAMN Can't these ba*tards leave anything alone?
As soon as i read your posting, the smell of pritt came back to me- and you're telling me i will never smell that smell again?

In that case there is immediate action that must be taken. We must get all the pre- scent Pritt Stick and hoard it. And sell it on eBay (whilst keeping a few for oneself) to all those who wish to remember old Pritt Stick. And complain to the makers.

Sorry to be so dense...pritt stick?

A short stick of solvent- free solid glue.

glue thats packaged like lip stick

Right There's no time to lose- i'm off to start hoarding

p.s. Pritt stick also doubles as lip-stick to the crimimally insane-don't try it at home kids...