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

Did they ever take it down from last year?

Oh yes - they put it right by the window so you'd notice if it was there year round.

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PH Having to have our cat inside for a few days with a cone around his neck. He's not used a litter tray in a decade (he goes outside), so who knows where in the house he'll be pooing (fingers crossed it's the litter tray), and he won't drink or eat anything. Very distressing for all concerned.

One mistake many people make with cats is placing their water dish right beside their food dish. While it makes sense to us humans to have food and water next to each other, for cats it goes against their instinct to drink water right next to their food, or their "kill". This instinct likely helps wild cats avoid contaminated sources of water.

Many indoor cats become dehydrated. I not only moved my cats water bowl away from his food, I also often leave some fresh water in a bowl by the sink. He was always jumping up on my counters anyway.

Our cat doesn't seem to mind water near food, she'll drink from the dish provided, although tap drips, bird bath etc are also used.

Good luck with the cone. I dread ever having to put one on our cat!

Thanks, Teaswill. That's an interesting point about the water BG, maybe that's why he's never interested in drinking water inside the house. He prefers a puddle in the garden.

The vet hadn't told us that they leave the wound open in order to allow the fluid to drain; cue blood everywhere and distressed children this morning, which they tell me was to be expected. Well, we certainly didn't expect it.

I dread that too. Haven't used a litter tray since mine was young

PH:massive irritating labels in clothes, particularly undergarments.
Bought some nice new ones with labels flapping like a flag.

PH '...massive labels...' ...especially at the nape of the neck or the base of the spine...

Far better a smaller and more discreet label made of a fabric softer than the garment, sewn down on all four sides, on the OUTSIDE of the waist band, or merely printed on the fabric.

SOME of the more competant garment makers do it that way.

I've got a couple of shirts with itchy tags sewn into the side seams. That's worse than the back of the neck.

Always bad over a bone.

Yeah, but it's not much better over my love handles.

...and other sensitive areas...

...potential for an IG Nobel award here...

Today's PH is a bit of a niche one...

There's a beer check-in app called Untappd. It's basically for showing off to your mates which beers you've drunk. But it also allows drinkers to rate the beers, which then gives the beer an overall rating, as well as giving the brewery an overall rating.

The app I actually quite like. However, some of its users are clueless eegits.

Recently two of my more unusual beers have had their overall ratings plummet (as well as affecting the brewery rating) because people order a beer and then, even though there's nothing wrong with it, mark it very low because they don't like the flavours.

That itself doesn't sound too bad, but if a beer is clearly marked as being flavoured with absinthe, don't buy it if you don't like absinthe. If a beer is flavoured with passion fruit and sage, don't buy it if you don't think either of these flavours should be in beer.
And further more, don't then go onto Untappd and whinge about how awful the beer is, especially if you then don't say "Nothing wrong with the beer, but being a clueless dipsh*t I didn't read the beer description and expected the bar staff of a busy city centre bar to take the time to talk me through each and every one of the twenty some beers available to make sure I got the one that was just right for me regardless of the queue building up behind me because I was too lazy to read the blackboard for more than the beer name."

/end rant.

That's not petty - that could jeopardise your existence.

I hate clothes labels too. Often they have a button attached as well. Trouble is, cut them off & you've lost the washing instructions.

Washing instructions???
I have a rule, If it doesn't survive going through the machine with all the other stuff, It's not worth having.

Really petty hate,
Brewers who claim they have added something to a brew, but try as hard as you can you can't taste it.
I always suggest that they waved a tea bag of the stuff over the fermenting vessel

Note
I can vouch that this definitely does not apply to Pasty's beers

Back to the clothes labels,
The Register have similar problem with them,

But as usual possibly NSFW
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/19/rfid_wants_to_track_my_todger

PH: People (ie my neighbour) who plays a radio in his garden. Not very loud, but I can hear it. They seem to spend too much time at the end of their garden, near our house instead of near their house which is at the end of our garden…. (rather odd shaped pieces of land)