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

I was quite surprised myself, actually!

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nothing there but french speeking people that not even the french can understand

-- DoctorMO --

Have you asked the French that then?

¦M¦

yes. it is we who think they understand each other, but in fact they don't.

-- doctorMO --

Why are you on so late then??

And OK then.

¦M¦

Not sure, but I'm off work for a week so it should explain alot.

-- DoctorMO --

Oh, OK.
How is w*rk, by the way?

¦M¦

I think that was a Typing Error, ether that or you REALY don't like work.

I love work, wich I think is the best part, the money is an after thought but always helps
I must be one of the lucky few that can drop into a realy well suited job, or maby I just
like the fact that I do work and it gives me some pride in my self, (go figure)

I some times think that maby work gets in the way of my other work, like home programming and other
projects, but I think I just spend too much time watching TV anyway and plan to Cut it out 100% of
the time, although I'm going to keep the books.

You?

-- DoctorMO --

So long as you like your w*rk anyway...

Well, I don't actually have a job at the moment. Which is stupid, because I really need one. But when I do get one, I can see it being w*rking in a nursing home or something, and I'm really not going to enjoy that... it's the whole being a student thing... you can only really do weekend jobs when you do the subjects I do...

¦M¦

I'm guesing you realy don't, otherwise you wouldn't have don't it another two times.

I was at college when I got my job, it was suposed to be a part time afair, not bad pay ether, part time web desiner, full time College, but It kind of developed into a full time job scine as the experance at this job would atualy do my CV a better grace then the IT Qual'ification. what are you taking that is so important?

As Levels? HND? Degree?

-- DoctorMO --

Once I start enjoying w*rk then I'll replace the * with an 'o', but untill then it stays as a *.
I'm doing AS-levels... I'm doing Further Maths, Physics, Chemistry and RE. And maths is damn difficult... but then it ought to be.

¦M¦

I duno, Maths was always a good strong point on my part, a logical mind does that for you. only RE! what were you thinking? did they get you drunk on that fizzy pop they have at 6th Form or do you like that kind of thing, (it's not that I'm against RE persay, just the way they teach it, after all I'm a hopefull phillosipher that can't spell for the world)

I have the same remit with Art as well, and you know I do Graphics for the post.

-- DoctorMO --

Yes, maths has always been one of my strong points and continues to be so... it's just that Further Maths is difficult and I need to work at it. I'm doing RE because the college doesn't do a Philosophy course and half of RE is Philosophy, so it was the only way I could get some Philosophy in...
I never was good at Art...

¦M¦

You know I seem to remember somthing in the distant past about places were you could go and read books and were they had a great store of them, Oh I know a libary, no RE class can compair.

-- DoctorMO --

No. Philosophy lessons are better than libraries... but only a bit.
You can't make a nuisance of yourself by being right or awkward all the time in libraries, but then you can't read in Philosophy lessons...

¦M¦

now am I wrong in saying that you take RE lessons not Philo. onlt philo. is mixed in?

-- DoctorMO --

That is completely correct. Philosophy makes up half of the course, Ethics () makes up the other half. And I really, /really/ hate ethics.

¦M¦

Belive not what you have been told, if half of the course is that bad then why take the subject at all?

-- DoctorMO --

If I don't do RE then I don't get to do Philosophy at all...

¦M¦

And, sadly, philosophy isn't really the sort of subject you can learn in your own time. Philosophy in general, of course, is just part of life, but you can't study it as a /subject/ out of college.
I didn't do chemistry because of the biological side of it, but I can still learn the physical side of it, thankfully.
(Though have I yet done any of this research? No. )