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

Also normally used for the Battersea Beer Festival

"Is this the world we created"?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31921098


Evidence, if it were needed, that Douglas Adams was right about the Golgafrinchans colonising the Earth.

I don´t know what the surveys say now, but the last time I read somethig about it, many british were going to vote UKIP.

I really hope people come to their senses and see how lunatics are these ukipers.
I also hope that people go in mass to vote the Green or any other similar party.

this is the last idiocy of ukip:
http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/news/home/article/3566/ukip-candidate-questioned-if-storms-were-lsquogodrsquos-replyrsquo-to-same-sex-marriage

UKIP candidate questioned if storms were ‘God’s reply’ to same-sex marriage

Do NOT look at Sun with remaining good eye...

Baid Bloke,
please, explain that, it sounds like an oracle.

Bald not baid,which I don´t know if it has any meaning

I think Bald Bloke was responding to Icy North's post.
But it *could* still be an oracle...

I was replying to Icy, It's an old "joke" which is posted in most Laser Labs.

check the urban dictionary

Anything that sucks, but is still "Better than AIDS". BAIDS is the natural counterpart to WAIDS, which is anything "Worse than AIDS.

"And as the eclipse is a relatively slow process, people might end up accidentally looking at the Sun for minutes."

I can imagine "accidentally" looking at the sun for a few milliseconds ...

Actually, the person who wrote that dire warning obviously doesn't use a phone camera. You line up your shot by looking at your image on screen, not by turning round and looking behind you.

It must have been written by a who thinks "selfie" is simply another word for "self portrait" and are imagining someone setting up a tripod with self timer or cable release.

logicus, I also checked the word and only found "a follower of Veda"

Here's how not to explain the solar eclipse in visual form.

http://i.imgur.com/gGCbGyB.jpg

After that, back to the serious stuff.

One Direction splits:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/31972435

Not sure I'm in favour...
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/20/douglas-adams-doctor-who-script-city-of-death-novel-james-goss

Maria
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=BAIDS

funny name that of Chupa, it means in spanish: it/she/ he sucks, literally.

HS2 may not be what Cameron and the band of billionaire contractors with their contributions all ready to pump into to Tory coffers cracked it up to be. Funny that!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/article-3009392/Six-Nations-runner-spot-England-unacceptable-blasts-Rugby-Football-Union-chief-executive-Ian-Ritchie.html And while I'm on, Ian Ritchie reckons four years runners op in the 6 nations ain't good enough, does he think England should win all the time? sometimes other teams beat you, that's the nature of sport, arrogant so and so illustrates all that's wrong with English Rugby.