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

Apologies, being out of work is not a fun situation. Maybe I should explain. 50 per cent of the adults that live in the town where I live have never had a job. Ever. And yet they have better clothes, better cars and better gaming consoles.
I feel like I'm poor because I work.
If that is wrong, please tell me...

Well, we set the precedent with the head of state. Is that not what we're expected to aspire to and emulate?

And before anyone tells me about how they do a very important job for the good of the country, let me ask this. If all the prancing and attending state functions is a job, do they get fired if they decide not to do it? What are the disciplinary proceedings for non-attendance? For constant "sickness" on Monday and Friday?

Yep, let's make the welfare scroungers work. Starting with the ones who flaunt it in every newspaper.

With you KB! Work shy people appear to be one of my petty hates

Forgot to mention politicians...

The current monarch is probably the least wasteful and 'workshy' we've ever had.

That's setting her some tough competition!

She is also quite happy to pay tax! As long as the queen does, I will.<SMILEY TYPE="erm"/>

My PH for today: witnessing the poor putting down the poor. It smacks far too much of divide and conquer for my taste.

There are always people who exploit the system but most people out of work do genuinely want to work in my experience.

My petty hate of the day: other pedestrians who seem to expect me to get out of their way. Now, I'm the one dragging himself along with the aid of a walking stick so I really do think I have a better claim to proceed in a straight line (where possible) from A to B.

The worst offenders, incidentally, are women in professional attire. The next-worst offenders are teenagers - but they generally apologise, as they simply haven't seen the stick.

They do the same with wheelchairs

Dawdlers. Those people who walk diagonally through throngs of pedestrians trying to get to work. Yet these dawdlers throw sneers and snide remarks at you when you try and get past (accidently) treading on their toes.

The people who when there's a ten inch gap on one side of you and a ten foot gap on the other side decide to pass you using the ten inch gap.

Also people who insist on walking really close to the buildings in town including right across the doors, but of course it's always MY fault if they crash into me.

Seconded!

Sloppy journalism. Singers who can&#39;t really cut it live (because that&#39;s the real test). Paperwork. Friends who suddenly decide not to speak to you at all- I&#39;d love to know what I&#39;ve done. You may not like people who respond to emails, mate, but neither do I, esp when they&#39;re ones who won&#39;t talk to me AT ALL. Paperwork. Being unhappy because I want the one person I know I shall never, ever have (but if the Duchess of Cambridge can do it)... oh, and did I mention paperwork?

Chain letters/emails/texts.

I had a text yesterday which started with four flowery lines telling me what a wonderful and much loved friend I am, going on to advise that if I sent this on to five people I loved I would hear good news by the end of the day. It then went on to warn me that if I broke the chain I would be unhappy for the last seven months of the year.

Why would you send something like that to a friend? Why?

No, I didn't pass it on. Yes, I broke the chain. Bring it on.

Deb

Good for you, Deb

I always break the chain.

lil x

"Why would you send something like that to a friend? Why?"

Perhaps the answer lies in the post before ...

"Friends who suddenly decide not to speak to you at all- I'd love to know what I've done."

Recruitment agencies who can't seem to understand the phrase "No agencies please."

BBS- no. That s&*( never works anyway, we all know that.

PH: that I did not buy a ticket to Glastonbury this year when I heard U2 were headlining tonight; I&#39;m listening on BBC 2 and my god, what an experience it must be to be there. I need to go next year if the bands are good. I&#39;m looking forward to the Wombles, hahaha, I cannot wait to see how they go down!

Any kind of chain letter sets my teeth (false, of course) on edge. They are the scourge of emails.