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

its a random biological occurance, their made to swerve randomly and move into any nook or groove they can fit into , they dont actually grip till they get old and the roots from their branches dig into whatever they wrap around

plants are sentient but not cognative.

or conscious

Poor Douglas, he must be turning in his grave. He creates a real version of a mythical book, and you turn it into a forum for talking about killing plants, that only 3 other people will read.

I suspect he died from shame.

And Guide Entries on doorknobs. It's a surprise he didn't dig his own grave first.

y dont you take a hint and take off pal?
i know that ifnorence is bliss but man you enjoy it far too much

Let's take a few steps back, Astrotomato.

The Internet was created so that people in academia (scientists, for instance) could share what they had discovered. Oh, and there were some military applications, too.

In this thread, we seem to be sharing thoughts on what it takes to kill a houseplant. One of us has speculated about what causes the tendrils of a vine to grip an object. Perhaps someone else has a bit of information to add. I was going to add that I had simply forgotten to water a philodendron for over a year, and it expired. The information on smoking and use of kerosene near plants is all useful, whether you are interested in saving a plant or killing it. If you want to save it, just avoid doing all those harmful things.

Granted, the entries that are being written for the Guide cover material that other people have already written about--in encyclopedias, scholarly papers, etc. What might be different is the *way* that they are written; not in dry academic language, but rather in a form that someone might enjoy reading. The experience of putting together a guide entry could be a worthwhile one.

As for threads like this, maybe they look like aimless playing. Or maybe free-associations. This would help explain why there is so much topic drift, as one term leads to a related but somewhat different one. Your mind should be free to play occasionally; that is when some of your best creative ideas come to you.

Astro
I warned you about interlopers.

and ive already given you one verbal abuseing, want to make it two?

How to kill plants, huh?

I once injected superglue into a plant of mine. It came to a sticky end.

(I apologize for the pun)

when i really want to kill a plant i do it the funny way, water it the day before my mother sceduels a watering with twice the water she uses then she waters is the next day and in a week or 2 it dies from drowning, slow and painful is fun although horribly mean, hense i havent done it since i was a child, now i just yank it out of the ground and break off the roots and burn the tips of the roots so it cant grow

Day of Reckoning
I used to electrocute fish.
I feel guilty..

thats nothing, a friend of mine filled a love fish with a small amount of plastic explosive (he is under miliraty probation now cuz he isnt supposed to know how to make it) and set it with a radio controlled light so when he turned on the power BOOM all u saw was a codfish head smack an old man in his boat over the head and water flying everywhere scaring the holy heck out of a bunch of sea gulls

Bring it on Angelecon. Two's company.

and three is a crowd so since ur over sized ego counts as 2 just take it and leave, oh and make sure the door hits you on the way out

I love the way the leading lights of H2G2 have gone out of their way to find out way it's perceived as a redundant, unfriendly place. Such a welcoming atmosphere.

I wish, over the past 14 months, I'd kept a log of all the times H2G2ers had ganged up on new people and hounded them out.

You don't take criticism very well, you people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/U207003

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That would have been a useful bit of research. I wish you had done it, too.

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That's quite true. Criticism is hard to take, pretty much anywhere in the world. Especially if people are stressed out. Maybe we need some pointers in stress management. Have you come across anything that helps?

We take criticism as it is intended: a view. You have views. We have views. Those may be different views. All we know is, exploding fish are really funny!

we have a feeling of self and community, people coming here and insulting us is no different then someone walking up to you and looking you over, instantly calling you an ass or another such insult
if you come here looking to turn our heads the wrong way then you will pay the price, and i doubt if youve even spoken to the leading lights because i know for myself that i am nothing more then a psychologically inclined philosophically outspoken person who enjoys seeing arrogance like yours when you know nothing of the true h2g2 experience

And here's the pot calling the kettle random:

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Do you know what? This is my weblog you're reading, in My Space, so if you want to diss Star Wars you can jolly well sod off!
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Phew! That's yer lot for now. If you ignored the SPOILERS alert, and now wish you hadn't... well... you *were* warned.
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Art or Terrorism?
3 weeks ago
weblog 2003 / 11 / 15

Down the pub last night I had a very interesting conversation about art, which ended up with me being ganged up on by the other 3 people, who flatly refused to accept that I could seriously hold a certain viewpoint on art.
The Viking has just hung up on me because she's pissed off with me because I related this story, and my viewpoint on art, which she also found distasteful. She came up with the same arguments against me as the people down the pub.
For posterity's sake, it's probably worth recording that view.
We were discussing art. And mention was made of someone who spraypainted [something] on original pieces of art, as their own artistic statement.
I said I thought this was a valid artistic statement.
And this is what has got me in so much hot water.
So, yes, I do believe that going into the Louvre, taking out a spraycan, and spraypainting the Mona Lisa is valid art.
We didn't discuss what an artist might be trying to say by doing that - so long as the artist was doing this for an artistic reason, and could explain and justify their artistic vision, then I believe it's an acceptable artistic statement to add spraypaint to an original piece of art, no matter how long that original piece of art took to produce, or how long it's been in existence.
And if that means taking 5 seconds to add spraypaint to something that took five years to produce, then I think both are equally valid, and both have an equal right to exist. I don't think the original piece of art is destroyed, I view it from a different angle - that the original piece of art has increased in artistic value.
I'm happy to accept that other people don't hold this opinion, because an opinion is what it is, not an ineluctable fact about the universe.


Can anyone say "hypocrite"?

now that is garbadge, at lease here we make things up originally when we use them in topics, and we dont use outdated things like star wars unless its directly brought up and that leads to fun and zany arguements, usually with star trek