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

"Fans" going mental going Sherlock spoilers. The canon was written a hundred or so years ago. If you read it, you know how it goes. They're modernising it. That's fine. Stop whining over spoilers; if Mark Gatiss (writes for said show with Steven Moffat) tweets something like "Amused by notion of spoilers for story written in 1893!", this is NOT "cruel" or "disrepectful", or spolery. It's Mr Gatiss quite amused by this notion, which makes me happy. This "fan" makes Raks look sane...

Ta for the replies on the old bog roll (t)issue. Much appreciated

Airscotia - fitba, eh? I was a fan till my mid twenties - 'til I unexpectedly 'grew out of it'

(Waiting for the massive & inevitable backlash from this, though in my defense, I'm just an old bird)

Oh dear, I'm dead, aren't I - the words 'devil's advocate' mean nothing where this subject is concerned

I'll get ma coat

Isa

I don't talk about Fitba, even in the fitba season, so we can play together

PH. Sports 'seasons' that have grown to cover 11 months and 3 weeks of the year, and during the 1 week closed season, having to listen to people moan about missing said sport.

Ahem.

As a football AND cricket fan, I will be quite happy to talk cricket from October through to March as England tout India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

PP

If they tour Pakistan it would make good tv!!

Watching cricket is like watching paint dry.

PP, we'll be watching on sky... That's Gasheads for you. They charge too damn much for the performance you get

PHotD? my boyfriend NEVER opens the curtains in the morning, I love the morning sunshine.

Petty Hate: When you're cutting your toe nails and a bit goes flying off and lands in the cup of tea you were really enjoying. I hate that.

Ok, this is a real petty hate. When double-ply toilet roll isn't properly perforated and you end up with two sheets that don't match.

That's not a perforation problem. It's the two 'plies' not being adequately bonded. One has become unwound further than the other. Unwind the layer that doesn't match up (should be easy to figure out which it is) and the perforations should match again.

No, it's a perforation problem. More specifically it's a problem that comes when flat paper is wound around an axis - and the more the diameter grows the worse the problem becomes.

Pi is probably involved.

Mmmm, Pi

That's what you get for buying cheap bog roll I do find that what's often happened is that a ply has become seperated and you're in effect unwinding the bottom layer from one sheet and the top layer from the next sheet. Unwinding one layer usually does solve it.

Or buy better loo roll

I buy perfectly good bog roll, but I also, on occasion, use public toilets.

...and choosing which toilet to use by the brand of toilet paper they use would just be weird.

PH: the office toilet paper. They have a normal-sized holder, but it's always empty and there's one of those industrial-sized rolls balanced on the edge of the sink instead, so one side is always damp

Pre-dampened toilet paper is a legitimate objection, I have to say.

Blokes who do a wee, then dry their hands without first washing them.

Logically their hands must've been wet for them to feel a need to dry them, but if they didn't wash their hands after weeing there's only one reason why their hands would be wet.

American recipes - more specifically, their obsession with brand names.

American recipes, , I like cooking and enjoy a good well presented cookery show but for all those that I have seen today, not an American one yet.
Alligator fritters have not taken off here yet.

I watched a programme last night (If Walls Could Talk) in which they said women hundreds of years ago used wee to get stains out of their washing. Apparently it's really effective.

Not gonna try it though

Deb