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

Your lucky you've got something else to do during the day, I just wake up, switch on the computer, boot up the internet connection and browse the net. Now I've got two monitors working on this 'ole thing though and one of them is constantly showing h2g2. I think I need to get out more.

It doesn't take much time... I need H2G2 to wake me up in the morning! I'd wake up early enough to anyway most days, alarm or no alarm.
Pastey don't worry about it... I can see this happening to me

Not a bad life

Almost as good as being a student by the sound of it

Should this be allowed???!!!!

Nope, but no-one seems to want to give me a job
So, I've nothing better to d

*sympathy*

Incidently, I'm t-total too.... I've also been told I am a control freak. The whole idea of being drunk is very scary to me - if it makes you act in a way that you normally wouldn't - I'd hate that. Especially when people have blackouts and can't remember what they did - if I couldn't remember what I'd done I'd be seriously scared - the way I behave and what I remember is me - if something like alcohol took that away from me, I'd feel as if it wasn't me anymore, and there's no way I want that!

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I always figured that knowing when to stop is a very good thing.... I've worried about blackouts etc, before, but I know that I don't drink anything like enough to cause them, so I don't worry. Drunk is scary... With the right people one or two can be fun.

I wonder is it right with the right people, or not right for people like me? I've come to the conclusion that it's not really right for me as it's not something I enjoy, so why should I spend my money on something I do not enjoy and don't really want to in order to make other people feel better?
And yet I still ask for alcohol in the Forum & Firkin, and I wonder why. Maybe because I invented the .
And if you're thinking that I'm hiding my t-totalness here by being a Venus, I'm not, everyone knows I'm me. I'm just being Venus to update jokes.

Since you admitted it in the F&F, I'd guess you've nothing to hide.
You are you, undoubtedly
But if you don't want to that is the right thing for you, and if you are not true to yourself there is very little point in trying to be true to anything else.
And I felt defensive too admitting that I enjoyed drinking in strict moderation... its a wierd topic, it does strange things to you, even if you never touch alcohol... in the F&F it doesn't matter, you still have control over your "drunken" ramblings... its not the same.

I've never come across any form of bitterness in H2G2 anyway. No-one I've come across has argued with me or put my side down or anything. The worst anyone can do is write "I hate you" etc. in a more insulting way. Perhaps it's easier to admit things on H2G2 as it is friendlier and we feel safer - I don't know. Telling some people who are "friends" of mine is very hard, especially as they efel tyhat they are right and I am wrong, and everyone *should* drink and it is a weakness not to. I don't understand why such a fuss is made over something that people just drink.

Because it is more than that. Its a drug. And those people who pressure you should drink are probably feeing guilty and insecure...
I never came across bitterness here either, although I've not been here so long.
Its much easier to say things here... I find myself posting things here that I never told anyone IRL, my poems being prime examples...

You've got poems???? Drats - I missed that - that's the problem, there are so many people here, it's impossible to keeop up with everyone. I'm sorry. And I too feel free here - I've even talked about my Epic Poem Arcadia - which is not something I talk to a lot opf people about. Not that anyone except me has read it - top secret until it's finished!

Four in two sets of two, linked from my page

Thanks - I'll see them now, then.

I never shared poetry 'till I saw Ossario T'an's Schoolboy poems... set me thinking...
http://www.h2g2.com/A250930 and
http://www.h2g2.com/A262351 if you ain't there yet...

I read them - I just do not know what to say.
There's nothing I know I can say on computers - it's hard to say. So, I am just saying I read, I enjoyed, but I don't know the right words to say them. At the end of the day, poems can be more about feelings than words.

They are, I guess... I'm glad you enjoyed them. Frustrating for me too, with my perenial lack of words, to be on the other side for a change. But did they make you feel?

They made me feel. I'm afraid I cannot describe what they made me feel, but they did make me feel.