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

There' s still glitter on the back seat of my car, 2 years since my granddaughter sat there. I don't really mind that as it's a pleasant reminder.
What's really dire is getting a bit if glitter in my eye with a contact lens

My sisters haven't spoken to each other for five years. Family, eh?

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Can I have one of the estranged ones please. No siblings and I've wanted one for 50 years.

PP.

I actually had a surprisingly pleasant chat with my brother on the phone yesterday. Often better without other people being around - perhaps subconsciously we're still squabbling siblings competing for attention.

My previous post should have said it's *not* an out-and-out hate. I don't like my sister much, we don't communicate at all and I'm fed up with being the one that tries to maintain the link that Mum wanted us to recreate.

this one isn't really petty: people telling me to "calm down"

If I think I'm calm that's going to set me off. If I'm not calm that is going to make it worse. As I said: nobody in the history of humankind has ever said, in the throes of a tantrum "oh yeah, right, I'll calm right down. good idea, thanks"

For Sho:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URWXkPDwG0g

Petty Hates: when they edit scenes out of films.
Unless it was ITV's child-friendly version of 'Robocop' - that was the funniest thing I've seen.

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A few years (decades) ago, ABC Family channel kept running inappropriate and highly edited and redubbed films like Caddyshack and Blazing Saddles. ABC is owned by Disney and their "family" channel was intensely bowdlerized. They even cut the cattle drive campfire bean eating scene out of Blazing Saddles... I mean seriously, what's more JUVENILE than that!? How can you deprive children of fart jokes!?

But with Caddyshack, they cut so much out of the film that even with extended commercial breaks they couldn't fill two hours without editing out some really dull and boring scenes from the Noonan household, like scenes of the many children arguing over the bathroom and discussing his college applications.

EDIT... they edited IN those scenes, scenes best left on the cutting room floor.

I've never seen any of the more florid scenes from "Blazing Saddles" people have cited in discussions of the film in any of the versions of the film I've seen: ergo, I've never seen and unexpurgated version of "Blazing Saddles"?

...for all of that, I can't help thinking of what Clark Gable called "Idiots Delight", the folly of treating anything in film as evidential.

"and" should have been 'an'.

Today's PH: laminated posters. They are not recyclable & often not necessary. Certainly indoors - what's wrong with paper print in a re-usable plastic sleeve? Even outdoors that will usually last long enough provided not put up too far in advance of the event.

I think it depends on the particular lamination used. Milk cartons have a waterproof lining which can be extracted after pulping. but Starbucks coffee cups have one which can't, and these need to be either burned or buried.

PH: "litter" (specifically things like disposable drink bottles).


Remember recycling bottles? Companies like Coca Cola ended their glass bottle recycling to lower production costs, switching to nonrecyclable plastic, then blamed their customers for the huge litter problem they created.

This clip starts a bit late in the story, but you get it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koqNm_TgOZk

But plastic bottles CAN be recycled! Even the recycling codes say so.

Right!?

in Germany plastic bottles all have a deposit. There are one-use bottles which are crushed and shredded and recycled into other things. Or there are multiple use bottles which are cleaned and re-used.

I never fail to be surprised and astounded at the resistance to recycling in the UK when I visit.

We have a basket in the kitchen that we put recyclable things into before taking it out to the recycling bin. Everything goes in there - paper, cans, plastic bottles, yogurt pots. Anything plastic with an appropriate symbol is recycled, not just thrown away. The basket regularly overflows.

I'd love to see more bins in public places that allow you to separate recyclable waste from non-recyclable waste.

In California the state charges a deposit on recyclables, by means of which the measure's authors cleverly created a 100% tax on the value of the recyclables.