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

Bah! Everton Mints!

I love humbugs. People keep giving me chocolate, and I don't like it.

The advert that annoys me at the moment is the one with the singing family and the kid with the stupid hair. The most annoying part is the end when he calls his dad a 'slaphead' and his dad reacts as though it's the most cutting putdown he has ever received. I dislike this negativity in adverts - why do they have to show pointscoring? In so many adverts you can tell the writers are trying a bit *too* hard to be funny.

" 'The' is a very common word and was not included in your search"

If I didn't want it included in my search I wouldn't have typed it!

Grrrrrr.

People who have known me my entire life giving me things that I would never want.
Or doing sod all by way of shopping despite having pots of money.

I currently live in France and don't watch TV, and thus am free from adverts of all sorts. That is, except a rather amusing one on a sandwichboard featuring a Jerry Garcia impersonator giving two fingers to the camera. It's one of these two-for-one on glasses deals, but two fingers = reminder of the Battle of Agincourt, from where the English habit of sticking two fingers up comes. It's not so much the patriot in me (who died a death a long time ago), and more the historian with a fine sense of irony in me.


I hate it when you have a hangover which is not severe enough to keep you in bed, but not light enough to enable you to go about your business as normal.

I hate it when I'm going through b'log, forget to refresh regularly and end up looking at the same thread twice

P*sser ain't it?

birthdays near christmas

Oooh, poor thing.
That sucks.

People who insist on joining you for a birthday/christnas drink which you end up paying for and then they scrounge cigarettes off you all night whilst whining on and on about their problems.

I thought it was very insensitive of the BBC to show a documentary about Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen decorating rooms in Boscastle (a flooded town in Cornwall) after a news report showing graphic images of the effects of the Indonesian disaster. People worrying about what colour their bedroom should be after seeing a disaster that killed 100,000 people.

I hate it when the media revel in a news story because it killed so many people. For them it is the story of the century, but you can actually see them trying not to look pleased about getting such a big news-worthy item. The same thing happened with 9-11. The way they showed the twin tower footage every 5 minutes and sensationalised the story was disgusting.

P.S. My dad worked for a local paper, and he was never happier than when there had been a murder, especially a mysterious one.

They had a news programme about the events yesterday and titled it "The Great Wave". Again sensationalising it like it's a disaster movie.

You would think you'd be used to the British media sensationalising things by now. On the other hand, re LLB re-decorating, what are the BBC to do - because something bad has happened, they should stop showing every nice feelgood programme and only show miserable ones. That doesn't make much sense either. I know Boscastle was flooded too, etc, but it's still only harmless feelgood tripe!

What I found very insensitive of the BBC was the BBCi news item quoting someone from Swiss re (one of the world's largest re-insurance companies) saying that it's not going to cost the insurance companies all that much because none of the people affected in Sri Lanka would have had insurance anyway. I mean, phew, thank goodness the multinational insurance companies won't be out of pocket! And it's not just the BBC. Virtually every newspaper this morning has stories about "counting the cost" of the tragedy. The cost is the number of human lives lost. Have we really already lost sight of that only three days later?

Slighty less important but has anyone seen the Marmite advert where the giant wave of black stuff chases people screaming through the streets?
Now that is distasteful, although unlikely to put me off Marmite.
I may be a mite oversensitive because my friends boyfriend was in Thailand over Christmas but Marmite is ace.

One of my petty hates: when you've got two doors next to each other that dont' close properly, and are impossible to both shut because when you shut one, the other one springs open.

Hate it when you get a set of double doors, one of which is locked, and you try to open the wrong one.

"the great wave?"





what was so great about it?

Well, it was very good at being a wave.


Sorry, that was tasteless...


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