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

"Without doubt the most beautiful thing in the sky"



You can still see concorde endlessly on BBC world, they don't seem to have filmed anything else for weeks *grumble*

I wish these thing weren't seen anymore.
Pokemon
Movies from the early eighties
The Chrysler PT Cruiser
The VW Beetle
Anything the color biege
infomercials
Jerry Springer
Any four cylinder car with no muffler (especially Hondas)
Mullets
And the list goes on...

Before cable/satellite TV, friends and I would occasionally reminisce about TV programmes from the 70s. Now we have the opportunity to see them constantly on the telly, how dull, slow, lacklustre and turgid many of them seem!

Some things I wish we didn't see:

Baseball caps and hooded tops
People whose entire wardrobe seems to consist of football strip
Yet another piece of land the size of a postage stamp being turned into 50 new houses and flats.

My list continued...
offroad vehicles lowered to the ground thus defeating the purpose of owning one
small loud dogs
vanilla coke
neon lights inside cars
bumper stickers
rap music (no offense intended to anyone who like the sound of someone talking with a very repetitive beat in the background)
fluffy steering wheel covers
a cell phone with an irritating tune for a ring

the adventure game - the text based one - "you are in a maze of windy passages, all the same"
old women telling teenagers that they should be in school - and the kids looking embarrassed
ex jukebox singles being sold at woolworths - and an extra 20p for the plastic bit to go in the middle
1/2p sweets

Malcolm Alison.

And any sheepskin-wearing football manager.

"I wish these thing weren't seen anymore.
Anything the color biege"

Actually, scientists have analysed all the light emitted in the universe and discovered that overall, the entire universe is beige. So I wouldn't wish too hard about that one.

Spangles

Whit dog poo

Red Phone Boxes

Mundane looking wrestlers

Tories who look likely to become PM

Cheap record players made out of brittle red plastic that you can load about 15 records on.

People who read the back log.

Welcome to the white dog poo thread.

I get plenty of white cat poo in my garden. I'd rather that was something I didn't see anymore.

Those huge plants in people's front gardens that look like giant grass.

Pampas?

Also coloured versions of it sold in shops.

Small video hire shops.

Art that doesn't make you think 'I could do that'.

Excellent call, very true.

Pampas grass is doing very well round this way.

You dont see bovril adds on the TV anymore.

I cant imagine that the market for meat flacoured drinks has shrunk? Maybe people have switched to drinking fancy coffee?

Those ring pulls on drinks cans that you had to pull all the way off.

Does anyone remember being able to make certain ones fly across the playground by breaking it in two and twanging the ring bit of it off the flat bit?

Yes.

Ow! You'll have someone's eye out with that you know

I sliced my knee open on one of those ing ring pulls on Margate beach when I was 8. I still have the scar. I'm glad they got rid of them, but my b/f doesn't like the ones we have now - he says that his moustache gets caught in the metal! ouch!