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Off topic
Posted Nov 28, 2017
"Off topic posts will be removed from announcement threads from now on."
I welcome this decision wholeheartedly. I believe I once suggested the very same.
You may wonder why I say so, since I am one of the culprits who has numerous times taken announcement threads for a joy ride.
In my defense I was drunk at the t... NO, wait, that's not the problem (at least not all of it). The thing is quite simple that I didn't pay attention to the fact that it was an announcement thread. My fault, of course, and I take full responsibility - but honestly if they had been marked clearer ...
As this does not seem possible I welcome the decision. PLUS I promise to pay more attention in the future 
Our 
have enough on their plates as it is 
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Life (don't talk to me about it)
Posted Oct 2, 2017
This is the life that you were given
but all that you were waiting for
was so much more exciting
than what they now are offering
The party lights are all turned off
There are no more balloons
the booze is drunk the cake is dry
And people left before you came
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Latest reply: Oct 2, 2017
Hootoo solstice
Posted Jun 21, 2017
Solstice today. So fire up those bonfires! Only six months now till the days become longer again! 
Also today six years ago h2g2 was saved!
If this doesn't call for a proper celebration I don't know what does 
PS to all friends down under: The worst of your winter should now be behind you 
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Latest reply: Jun 21, 2017
Grandfather vers.2
Posted Apr 21, 2017
As of 8.25am of 21 April I am a grandfather vers. 2, this time of a boy of 51 cm and 3.750 g
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Latest reply: Apr 21, 2017
A must read
Posted Mar 22, 2017
"This ought to be fixed curriculum for all engaged in journalism, communication and politics" [Bo Lidegaard, columnist, former editor-in-chief of Politiken, one of Denmark's biggest dailys]
https://www.ft.com/content/eef2e2f8-0383-11e7-ace0-1ce02ef0def9
" ... smoking kills 480,000 Americans a year. This is more than 50 deaths an hour. Terrorists have rarely managed to kill that many Americans in an entire year. But the terrorists succeed in grabbing the headlines ... "
" ... watchers now worry that Trump may achieve the same effect. In the end, will people simply start to yawn at the spectacle? Jon Christensen, at UCLA, says: “I think it’s the most frightening prospect.”
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Latest reply: Mar 22, 2017
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