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

Depends on the source. If the pirate DVD was produced in, say, China, you can bet your bottom dollar that lives are at risk due to the working conditions the illegal factories have if nothing else.

The last 45 posts have given me a headache and re my mother, no, it's not OCD, or a variant thereof and yes, I know it can ruin lives. It's merely that insisting everything is sparkling when you have two grown kids, two cats, a dog and a messy husband... IT'S NOT GONNA WORK. This is why I love living alone.

PH: Hermits

I've lived with and without a dishwasher. I prefer having one - for me, it is better at the job than hand washing. And Dai can't abide dishes sitting on the draining board, even if they have been washed, so he'll insist on drying them with a tea towel so they can be put away. And I DETEST tea towel drying.

If you have the luxury of designing your own kitchen there are now many solutions to that old dead corner problem. In my house I have a unit called a "Le Mans" pull out shelf, cos it's based on the shape of the race track.

Petty Hate - O2.

>>If you have the luxury of designing your own kitchen there are now many solutions to that old dead corner problem.

What if you've already got a 'dead corner' cupboard, what solutions are there to that?

Necromancy?

Funny, my O2 service is good... :P

Apparently the O2 network's working again, although I haven't been affected at all. I'm speshul

My current PH though is O2 customers bitching about compensation for really lame reasons. It's sucky that O2 has had such a major blowout, but technology sadly isn't failsafe and it always pays to have a backup. As an ex employee of the company I know that they will have been working their socks off to sort the problem out, but I'm the first to admit their status page on their website isn't kept as up to date as it should be

PH:for reasons out of our control this service is not available

if it is'nt working, how do communication company's expect folkto read their message


Back up plan, supply folk with a pen, lots of paper, envelopes and some postage stamps.

Thats if folk can remember howto letters now n days. "Now how does it go, Yours Sincerely, or should it be Yours faithfully"

Printers.

We have a HP now. It's on our network. My two computers are not. I have tried to install the software but every time it asks for IP I type it in and the printer can't be found; it's switched on and the wireless works, yes. What am I doing wrong...?

Try asking in Ask. Believe it or not, h2g2 consists of more than one thread!

PH: humidity.

Go to the nearest fleamarket and buy a cheap typewiter. Less hassle.

Pit

I gave up on my oldHP printer, developed a problem that lots of folk likewise suffered from but HP had no solution to.

, I forgot, there was a solution, and maybe HP were expecting me to buy another new one.

Bought a Kodak hero 7.1, doesn’t work with my old computer, seems Kodak forgot to clearly state, this machines inability to converse with Windows XP, Oh and there’s no patches to resolve this issue too.

Soap dishes. I'm one of those luddites who infinitely prefers a bar of soap to liquid soap for sooo many reasons. However many people... OK women, seem to have an obsession with removing soap from its natural home; the receptacle at the side of the sink, to another receptacle placed upon this receptacle.

To date I have never found a design of soapdish that does not irritate the hell out of me. Soggy soap, floating soap, slipping dish into the sink, more mess, hard to pick up....

Try something like this - no joke, it´s worth every penny.

http://www.amazon.com/Suction-Holder-Magnet-Magnetic-Bottle/dp/B003F18RKQ/ref=pd_sim_hg_4

Ah yes. Soap dishes. And those odd octopus like sucky rubber soap sticking on the wall things.

pH: Rubber ducks, probably due to the fact I was never given one to play with in the bath when younger. Had to make my own entertianment like farting bubbles instead

PH No2: the smell of Sprouts lingering in the air whilst having a bath

My bath related PH: The soggy clump of hair, soap and other detritus that collects in the plug hole.

And mine: our hot water tank/boiler only holds enough hot water to fill half the bath, so while we have a bath, we can't use it as such.

that slightly woozy low blood pressure feeling when you've spent too long in the bath