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

*Granny's keys to the broomstick being safely on the hook behind the privy door*

I think Jordan should go in. Do you want me to give an explanation why?

I'd like the whole show(if you can call it that!) go into thread 101, what a load of nonsense.
What could be fun is,
"i'm a celebrity lets burn you one by one."


One other thing i'd like to see go is talcum powder.Whats that about?
Is there a need for it? Does anyone use it?

Talcum powder is quite useful, especially when you are doing something that involves exercise, sweating and rubbing parts, like cycling. It's also quite handy for cleaning up babies and anything that makes that job easier is staying! About the "I'm not a celebrity" I agree lets dump the entire show but we have to make sure we get rid of Jordan

Hmmm, not so sure about dumping the entire IACGMOH show into Thread 101, cos last series they had Antony Worrall-Thompson, who's one of my favourite chefs! Plus, Toyah Wilcox was on it. So, no, the entire series stays out, I'm afraid.

Jordan is the reason why people watch IACGMOH. There was a proposal ealier (post 272) to chuck both Jordan and Peter Andre in. What do people want to do (best of three...and you can only vote once!)

Get shut of Jordan, she's irritating off the show as well. The show can stay, i can exercise my right to complain by switching off and I quite fancy Peter Andre so he can stay out

Jordan can stay out, just but her silicone transplants in thread 101,
I quite like watching what her and Pete are getting up to

Having not wathched the show, i will vote for Jordon to go into thead 101 just on the principle that it's rubbish.
i'm gona do some research on talc and will endeavour to fight for it to be banished into the thread! I mean what's it ever done for me.
squeeker, squeeker

Can we put in people who bring lunch to work and eat it at their desk? Nothing quite like the smell of salad dressing or stong sandwich filling to put you off your work .

Looks like Jordan's going in, then. Bye-bye, Jordan!







She won't go! She keeps floating back up! Too bouyant!



There, that's done it! (phew!)

Hooray! She's gone! Please keep talcum powder out, it's so ueful, I wouldn't have survived changing my little sister's nappies, or carrying a 65 liter rucksack around this summer without it. Please

Sorry for that terrible Americanism, I meant litre, it was a genuine typo

Well i've just done my investigation into talcum powder:


(magnesium silicate.)
It is resistance to heat, electricity and acids make it an ideal surface for lab counter tops and electrical switchboards. It is also an important filler material for paints, rubber and insecticides.

Even with all these uses, most people only know talc as the primary ingredient in talcum powder. Mineral specimens are not very common as it does not form very large crystals. However, it often replaces other minerals on an atom by atom basis and forms what are called pseudomorphs (false shape). The talc takes the form of the mineral it replaces. A specimen of what looks like milky quartz is quite a suprise when it not only has a soapy feel but can be scratched by a fingernail.

I'm quite impressed now, so i won't fight for it to go in.

I'd like to defend people who eat their lunch at their desks (that's me, that is). I don't think the food that I bring to work each day smells any worse than the bacon butties that two of my colleagues buy from the canteen at 9:30 every morning and then bring back to the office to eat.

Can we send scented talcum powder in? The useful stuff is fine, but the smelly stuff makes me sneeze.

Liz
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Talcum powder stays out. I don't think it's possible to separate the scented from the unscented, and, some of those weightlifters and gymnasts are girls, and might quite like their talc to be scented.

Talc is "magnesium silicate", think I've seen Talc described as 'packing' in tablets magnesium trisilicate is an antacid (with diarrheoea as a side effect. Also its no good for people with impared Kidney fuction).

But Talcum Powder is different. It's the stuff...

You get it at Christmas, part of a pack, you know the item, never to be used. When you do try it, it get all over the place, a complete mess. You've just had a shower to get clean, now decide to spread 'dust' over yourself - that makes sense.

There are 15 'cans' of the stuff in the cupboard as is, rusting away nicley. The cosmetic talcum powder is pointless, just something else to fret about, "will I get an eye full" as the 'fall-out' drifts accross the bathroom.

If you want to get dry use a . If your sweaty, wash!

As for 'baby talcum powder' I don't understand... Why use a powder to dry, only to mix it with baby oil to moisturise?

It's messy, it's hard to use, it's part of a con, you need it for protection against smelling bad. Yea maybe in 1904, but not 2004.

The only people with a use for it these days are drug dealers, to cut other noxious powders with. So by getting rid of it, not only would it be a move towards banning rubbish Christmas presents, it's also fighting crime.

Hmm looks at post before last. I thouht weightlifters and such used chalk powder for grip? But it's your choice.

I'd like to put Dr. Perper in 101...

It's like coke, without the fizz, flavour, thirst quenching quality. In fact it defies physics, a liquid with all the properties of a can of void. It's only purpose is to dispel thinking that diet *anything* ie. pepsi is the worse drink ever.

It *is* a vile liquid with no redeeming features. It's teetering on the brink - will anyone leap to its defence?

I'd like to put two green baize tables and a cage with two brown rats in, into Room 101