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

Oh yes. Hangnails, my mother called them. The trick is to get a pair of pointy nail scissors, and barber them before the urge to pull strikes...

I inevitably cut too low .

I find nail clippers the perfect weapon against them

People who think "No Smoking" only applies to tobacco products!!!!!

What else (that's legal, and therefore that doesn't require you to be a fool to smoke it in public) can you smoke?

You think the mere fact that it's illegal stops people from smoking it in public? What planet are you on? I'm moving there!

As public as say, the high street. Where people are unafraid to light up, they may be a little dubious about lighting up a J.

Not in any place I've been to recently about 1 in 4 I see/smell in my hometown certainly ain't just 'baccy

Anyway - the point is, most smoking bans are in place primarily because of the FIRE RISK (Birmingham New Street train station had to be classified officially as an underground station so they could ban smoking after the King's Cross fire).

yeah, but there aint no "joint friendly" areas in London, like the smoking areas in offices.

Really dark lip liner surrounding lighter lipstick. Looks awful.

There used to be one. It was decriminalized there, as an experiment. Roaring success.

>>It was decriminalized there, as an experiment. Roaring success.<<

Wow, that's weird and interesting - it's still being vehemently argued here.

Jim's petty hate is people who say “dub dub dub” when giving URLs. (I disagree with him.) Another one for me is people who, when someone says “let's go”, say just another minute, and then it turns into 15!

Regarding the one about the dark lip liner: I absolutely agree. It's especially awful when they have the dark brown lip liner around dull brownish-red lipstick. It looks like dried blood, and I can't understand how makeup that gives one the impression of a vampire is supposed to make the person look good.

I adore the look, personally. Though ideally, the lipstick should be scarlet, bleeding into a black border.

All pink fluffy things with big eyes, on the other hand, need to be dropped into a vat of boiling tar for the sake of human sanity.

And quickly.

Also the description of anything that:

1) Is small
2) Has big eyes

as cute.

So all those Japanese animations that feature little girls with beating seven shades of hell out of some can't be called cute now?

People who try to communicate across the room and assume you can lip read. Just looks like a goldfish to me.

Also people who try to communicate something across the room by writing with their finger in the air. I find it impossible to make out any letters.

And bosses who think that yelling at the top of their lungs across a busy, noisy studio is an effective form of communication!

Effective /and/ polite.

Double

Fortunately I've not had to suffer it at my new place, unfortunately I'm near the end of my 6 month contract

The way time moves so fast when you're enjoying yourself, and so slow when you're not.