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

Trains being so spectacularly ill-suited to holding bikes. I travel quite frequently between Liverpool and Manchester and normally take my bike. It is a big adults bike but it's not massive yet there is only one train an hour that I can comfortably get on without having to sit on a fold-down piece of upholstered crappy plastic and this train stops at every smegging stop, taking about 2 hours, when the other trains take about 45 minutes.

My current petty hate is that travel direct site.
It keeps telling me that the quickest way to go is by car.
If I had a car, i wouldn't be on this site trying to get to sodding Stratford. I would drive there.

You could... hitchhike!

Maroon 5

Electric 6

Blink 182

People staring at me when I'm jogging. Why do people stare at joggers?

I get stared at just when I'm walking down the street... I think it's the Doctor Who scarf that does it.

People who constantly pick me up on my accent (Its quite a thick Northern one, and I live in Cardiff.) Fair play, I aint from round here, but how much difficulty do u think I have with all the various Welsh accents, and I don't pick other people up on it!

People who refuse to beleive I'm Scottish just because I'm well spoken (as opposed to sounding like Rab C. Nesbitt on a bad day).

Being asked if I'm 'Mrs' or 'Miss' when whether I'm married or not is completely irrelevant.


Did the 70s never happen?
Are they trying to pick me up?
What are they asking and why?
Am I a chattel or a freewoman of the parish?
Do they just want to know what to put on the envelope?
Am I only defined by my relationship to a man, not by who I am myself?
What's going on?

Why don't men have that sh*t?:-
Heterosexual or gay?
Swing both ways?
Have you got a girlfriend yet?
Haven't you persuaded some dumb woman to marry you yet?
Are you a mummy's boy?
Do you prefer Airfix kits and/or computers to real human beings?

Is it fair? - No.
Does it really matter? - No.
Does it bug me? - Yes.
Why? - Not sure, but resent feeling it's my paranoia and wish they'd say what it is they want to know.

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Actually, I've had to put up with this kind of thing most of my life. Apart from the 'dumb woman' bit that is, nobody ever asked me when I was going to get married... not that it matters now, of course

It's often older relatives who are the worst offenders.

When are you getting married?
Have you got a girlfriend?
Do you want to get married?
When are you getting a nice car?
When are you getting a good job?
When are you having kids?
When are you gonna turn into an automaton and live your life like a robot?

Mrs. D and I plan to have kids one day, but luckily nobody's asked us yet. Even if they do the response will be "when we're bloody well ready."

What bugs me is smug married couples who after about 5 minutes of marriage already seem to have 2 kids and a nice semi on Suburban Road.

I hate the way the whole 'married with kids in suburbia' is presented as perfect. I wouldn't touch that lifestyle with a ten-foot bargepole. I like living in the inner-city, maybe when I'm older I'd want to move further out but it'd have to be somewhere with character, not some bland, pre-planned settlement.
Wife, kids? Not in this lifetime.
If it works for people (and I know a couple of couples who love this lifestyle) then great but it isn't perfect and I don't want it

Who would want to live in the countryside?
Miles from everything, no public transport

Thingites.

Signs on car windows that say "Stop means stop"

Well Derrrrr!

Not exactly a dictionary definition is it?

"Stop means cease, discontinue, or desist" I could live with.

People who repeat the word "is" unnecessarily. eg. "The problem is, is there isn't enough money..."

WHY the 2 ises?