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

3 years in a row, we've lost all our tomatoes to blight. But this isn't a PH, it's all part of the 'joy' of growing fruit and veg.

PH: I need a bigger brewery.

Motorists who rant about the inconvenience of events like yesterday's Sky Ride (where a city centre is closed to traffic for 4 hours to allow cyclists to enjoy a traffic-free route.) Motorists get to dominate the roads, endangering all around them, for 365 days and 20 hours a year, 366 days and 20 hours in leap years. Cyclists get 4 hours a year in which to enjoy cycling in a safe environment with their children. Who complains the most?

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Plants which push their roots through the bottom of their container and burrow into the actual ground.

>> Cyclists get 4 hours a year in which to enjoy cycling in a safe environment with their children. Who complains the most?

Many of us are both motorists and cyclists, so who do we represent when we complain?

Anyway, as cyclists, we have many, many miles of cycles lanes for pedestrians to clog up.

WS I think women in orchestras - even professionals - are told what to wear. As they are in choirs. Sometimes the concert is a jolly occasion and they are allowed to wear more casual or different coloured clothing. Anyway, the slow movements are the best bits!


What is more annoying is that some orchestras don't have any women at all. The last time I watched the Wiener Philharmonie I had trouble spying even one. There was a fleeting glimpse of one in the cellos, but it almost seemed as if the TV people were told to keep the cameras off them.

Especially if mobility is an issue, I often set pottrd plants on paving stones (or any old flat topped stone of adequate size, or scrap lumber shelves with a coat of deck paint set on cinder blocks to elevate the pots well above the ground*, or if I'm starting a batch of plants, I sometimes set them on old shipping pallets.

When they root in the ground despite everything, sometimes I simply cut the pot away and rock them in where they are. (It helps, if its a perennial, to position the pot near where its to go permanently.)



*Also gets a reduction in damage due to small rodents.

"Anyway, as cyclists, we have many, many miles of cycles lanes for pedestrians to clog up."

And many many more miles of pavements and pedestrianised areas to cycle along as if it's your right of way; something I see far more often than pedestrians on cycle lanes.

Yes, the cyclists should stay in the bike lane...


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PH: Auto-playing videos on news websites. You click on a story, watch the video at the top of the page and when the video ends, you scroll down the page reading the text. 10 seconds later a completely unrelated video starts playing and you have to scroll back up the page to hit pause.


Do they actually think anyone wants this? Find me a single person on Earth that likes having an unrelated video start playing after watching one. The only thing worse is videos that autoplay when you open a webpage, usually at max volume, and you're not sure where on the page it is.

Automated features generally, anything extraneous to search object that runs without a confirmation by user.

Today's PH: People who post without using sentences, or use very long paragraphs.

It's not that difficult to break up the posts, and it makes them far more readable.

Pastey, you'd hate the copies of The Thousand and One Nights that I own. One is a translation by Sir Richard Burton (explorer, not actor), the other by Mardrus & Mathers. So both are Victorian translations. Both have extremely long paragraphs, sometimes a page or more, and speech doesn't start on a new line. The stories are good, but the format makes them hard to read. Burton is worse than Mardrus & Mathers.

I appreciate that print formatting has changed over the years. Robinson Crusoe (18th century) is as bad, if not worse. But a good proof reader could sort it out without too much trouble.

Today's PH: cropped trousers and three quarter length sleeves that make you look like you've grown out of your clothes.

I can tolerate Capri... trousers (?, we call them Capri pants in the States but I know that is definitely not what you'd call them in the UK) on women, growing up as I did watching _The Dick van Dyke_ show and thinking Laura Petrie looked quite spiffy in them.

But on men, the lowest a man's shorts should fall is just below the knee, like a kilt. If they fall below the top of the calf they better keep going all the way down to the ankle.

A kilt should be knee length. Technically it should just brush the floor when the wearer kneels. If it's below knee level, it's too long. That's what I've been told, anyway.

That's right, a kilt 'bisects' the knee. And the waistband sits at bellybutton level. No, women of Facebook, I don't care how buff that gentleman is, he is wearing his kilt WRONG.

All of my shorts are mid-calf length.

PH - people who wear nice shoes with no socks.

PH: People who don't read emails.

Okay, so I was asked a while ago by a distributor if I could provide a couple of beers for a beer festival, which is good. I did however point out that I had no casks, and no transport to move casks as I currently bottle everything, and deliver by bike. No problem I was told, they'd drop off some empty casks, and pick up the full ones.
Great I said, in that case yes I'd love to supply beer.

Now, every single time I exchange emails with them I have to remind them (I'm sure they deliberately, conveniently, forget) that I don't have any transport.

It's getting beyond a joke, and I'm not sure I want to deal with them again

So... could you get a couple of kegs to my local pub... in Texas... by the weekend?

I'd love to see you roll up on a cargo bike.

Distribution to the US is something I'm looking at with the new expansion plans