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

Hollow Easter eggs, Petty it my be but it used to be when you opened an Easter egg, you got a selection of Milk Tray or Black Magic or whatever inside. Now you get a separate box of goodies, it's just not the same, and while I'm on, my Mars Easter egg came with a Twix bar a Snickers and a Mars Bar, which I think is a bit cheap to be honest. I didn't complain, because I'm a forbearing type of chap OK I ate it, in fact I gave one if the Twix fingers to my son in law just to show there was no hard feelings, but still, quite put me off my breakfast.

My first Easter Egg was one of the major disappointments of my young life. I expected it to be solid chocolate.

Chocolate Easter eggs don't taste as good as they did when I was a young child in Ashington in Northumberland and the Easter weather in the 60's was warmer and more sunnier.

PH Glass-topped dining tables. Who on earth wants to look at other people's feet while they're eating?

Eating without a table cloth.

PP.

Thinker come off it, it was never warm in Ashington at Easter, lucky if it got above freezing in August,and if you had a chocolate egg you must come from millionaire stock, in Gatesheed we were lucky if we got a paste egg! Looking back through Rose Tinted glasses I reckon, you'll be telling me you went to Newbiggin on holiday next!

Paste egg? Paste egg? Eee. You were lucky. When I were a lad we were lucky to have a picture of an egg!

PP.

You got pictures

All we had were undeveloped rolls of film in the camera



F S

When I say 'pictures', I mean a description of what a picture would look like......

PP.

Your point PP

You have out Po' Boy'ed me

I just wish they could describe pictures

F S

PP, you had descriptions? You were lucky. We never had words, we had to make do with prelinguistic forms of communication.

Petty Hate: people who go on about how much better (or worse) things were 'in their day'. Things weren't really better, they were just different. Things may well have been worse, but that doesn't justify criticising others, especially young people who will never have the same experiences.

Yes, I know the preceding posts were tongue-in-cheek, but my dad was a prime offender in the 'When I was young...' group.

True.

For a start, history was easier back then because there was less of it. There was also no such thing as the environment, homosexuals, pre-marital sex or Jeremy Vine.

And diets, there was no such thing as obesity till they invented diets, work that one out, I hate diets me.

people who use complicated words to sound more intellegent even where / when simpler words would have worked better. Yes it was in an academic paper but the choice of words is less important than the information you are trying to get across surely...

PH - I thought of one earlier & now can't remember what it was.

Automatic windscreen wipers that, for no apparent reason on a beautiful dry sunny day, decide to activate and drag their juddering way across the screen leaving a huge smear.

PH - 'Are we nearly there yet?'

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PH: people complaining something is broken, even though you've fixed it, and continuing to say it's broken rather than actually checking to see if it's fixed.

Teaswill, that has been a Petty Hate of mine for a long time. In fact there are two facets to my Petty Hate:

1. As Teaswill said, thinking of a Petty Hate and forgetting it by the time I get round to posting.
2. Wanting to look something up online and then forgetting what it was. This is bad enough when some time has elapsed between the idea and going online. But forgetting in the time it takes for the search engine to open...