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

I'd just like to point out that hydrogen airships actually had a really good safety record. Even at the Hindenburg crash, two thirds of the people onboard survived.

Or to put it another way, a third of the passengers died.

PP

Two thirds survived, and this was the worst airship crash. How many airplane crashes do you have where two thirds survive?

In terms of passenger miles per fatality, I have a suspicion that aeroplanes are way safer than hydrogen supported airships.

PP

quotes >>> "...Banksy puts his own work covertly into major galleries. How should a gallery respond to this?"

fluffyk >>> "with gratitude and humility"

Incidentally the potential danger of something like the Hindenburg crash had already begun a change from hydrogen to helium. Most zeppelins of the time were already using it, the Hindenburg being one of the few exceptions.

Thongs, never owned any or will, never wanted to see anyone wearing one, although I have and it wasn’t a pretty sight.

Silk boxer shorts, now that’s a different thing

Um. When I think about it, I can think of one or two people that I would quite like to see in a thong.

I don't have one though. That wouldn't be the best thing.

PP

Agreed on the thong thing... I don't find them in the least bit sexy and I've seen people in thongs who I really, really did not want to ever see in thongs.

As for spray cans, they are used for any application where a professional compressed air painting rig is just massively impractical due to either cost or storage space. I intend on using spray cans of nitrocellulose laquer to finish my planned guitar build, for example.

2Legs won't like that.

Mobile phones. Bane of our lives on many levels.

Brinylon.

Alice bands.

MMF

i agree

Alice bands on men are very overrated

Alice bands, had to look it up,so called men wear them, more like ’s if you ask me

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=kilroy+was+here&um=1&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1277&bih=644&tbm=isch&imgrefurl=http://www.kilroywashere.org/001-Pages/01-0KilroyLegends.html&tbnid=iW3g64EsrFlF8M&docid=JfRWnwNW10imdM&ved=0CBUQhRYoAA&ei=edO5T_H1BYrq9AT6icTUCg&dur=1270

Winternights, the 1950s called and would like their gender/sexuality attitudes back.

Without a doubt the worst thing ever invented is "Tights", closly followed by Red hair dye. I actually like genuine red heads but the dye that turns your hair piller box red is the work of the devil.
And why is it that half of Newcastle women seem to be putting this stuff on??

I think I'll have to agree with winternights.

ITIWBS posted a link:

http://www.kilroywashere.org/001-Pages/01-0KilroyLegends.html

To which I must add that Kilroy is likely much older.

There was an picture of a very similar graffiti image
in my grade school Latin text that was purportedly
from Rome in the second century. The scrawl beneath
the image said '(Latin name forgotten) was here'.

The name was not Kilroy but according to our Latin teacher
it would have been an equally obscure, quaint and unlikely name
among Romans - possibly some foreign mercenary serving with
the legions - but Latinised and supposedly genuine.

Curiously this does maintain the tradition of a military source
as are most of the examples in the link.


~jwf~

Perhaps, as well as being among the first on the Moon, Kilroy also traveled in time.

On the other hand the first in invasion forces on a Japanese held island during the WWII Pacific campaign finding that written on Japanese pill boxes, I'd think Kilroy must have been getting some help from the Japanese.

I hasten to add that graffiti in general is an ancient
phenomenon - there being a small low roofed room deep
inside the great pyramid where workers slept and ate
which is covered with names and dates from thousands
of years ago but lacking the characteristic image.

It is this same standard Kilroy image

which that struck me in the Roman example that is now
reinforced by the blog of travelling military examples.
That said, just because I saw it in a textbook doesn't
mean it was truly 2nd century Roman in origin.

~jwf~

Years ago they found some inscriptions inside a cave on the Holy Isle off Arran. Figuring they looked a bit Viking-ey, an expert came over from Norway to examine them. After much umming and aaahing, he pronounced that these weren't imbued with great wisdom and meaning as the local press were speculating. Instead they just said stuff like "Frodi was 'ere" and "Tjolnir has a tiny ". They belonged to an invading Viking army who paused in Lamlash Bay before heading to the Battle of Largs in 1263 where they got their heads kicked in by the Scots.

Soldiers never change - if you can't fight it, eat it or it, scrawl graffiti on it