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

Then comes the dreaded room spinning, when the one leg out of bed does not help and what ever angle you put yourself in, your in for the ride.
I was in my 20s when that last happened and it can quite happily stay there

Hair of the dog that bit you. Breakfast Whisky.

Dr Anthea, Pit, Mala: Poland is cheaper than the UK, so in reality I have two or three times more money to mess with, it’s brilliant (more to spend on shoes, clothes, handbags...). I'm lucky in that I have my own room but chucking two totally and utterly incompatible students together to share a room baffles me.

PH: people that misuse “hear” and “here “. And text speak on the Internet. We don't have to pay money, you fools, use the space!

Being chucked together can be fun. I once shared a hospital room with Juri Gagarin´s old parachute trainer.

in drunken terms, Petty hate is eyes closed room spin, that happened the first time I got drunk, on my 18th birthday...I spent more time in the bathroom than bed that night.

Todays PH: dodgy seams on clothes, even when you spend a bit more money. (And the subsequent needle stabbings to fix that jumper you love.)

I agree Emily,

related PH: bad quality fabric that is used to make clothing

Bad quality fabric that wears out in the elbows of shirts, the crotch of trousers, and the pockets of everything.

Ah, pockets - even fairly expensive trousers

"expensive trousers" - two words mutually exclusive in my case.

PH: Women's clothing that doesn't have pockets, particularly skirts. Even some of my trousers don't have pockets.

Well, those particular trousers with leg/knee pockets too ... bought for a purpose (camera & dictaphone) - a plethora of pockets.
Both side ones gone.

PH: having to use the others & disappearing below shop counters while delving. Pah!

PH: forgetting which pocket i put my bank card in at checkouts....

Better to remember whose pocket you had taken it out of. Sometimes one needs to .

Pit: o rly?

PH, as usual is sleeping til all hours. Gah. But my email was replied to, yay! Doesn't mean it's a yes though...

I once had some cargo pants which had 10 pockets, you needed to be organised when you wore them and equally astute when putting them in the wash. I had them for 5 years or so before my waist line eventually out grew them .

PH; Trying to secure cloths to fit at a certain well known UK retailer, asking the assistants if they do them in XXL or XXXL dependant on the item required and them looking at you as if your odd just because you’re a bit on the large size.

Oh that's a hate of mine, sizing guides that bear no resemblance to anything.

Last year I treated myself to three new shirts from a certain high street retailer with H and M in their name. I saw one I quite liked, tried on the "large" and it fitted nicely. So, I picked up two other shirts, both large and bought them. Showed then to the wife that night, trying them on, one was too small, the other too large. I took then back to the shop saying they didn't fit, I'd like my money back. They didn't want to give me my money back as they were sale items. I promptly got the store manager (accompanied by security guard) and explained it to her. She restated the policy. When I then asked if it was policy for several items of varying sizes to all be labeled the same, it was explained that although each item bore the shops label, they were all made in different factories who had their own sizing charts.
Needless to say I pointed out that it was their responsibilty to ensure consistency from their supplies else they were in effect falsely advertising and misleading consumers, and as for their no returns breaking statutory rights... I got my refund

PH: standing on your own headphone lead and feeling it pull on your head.

Futhermore to the sizing. A UK 8 is NOT European 36. Christ.

A UK 8 in one store is not a UK 8 in another store is now replaced by a UK 8 in one range in one store is not a UK 8 in a different item in the *same* store.

Grr.

That made little sense, I think you need a comma in there somewhere- but no, a size 8 in one place isn't likewise in another, it differs from shop to shop and probably range to range, and why. does. it. do. this? I have a shirt from d2 that's actually a size 6!