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

hope you don't mind if I say hello. I'm new to the site and have been having a nosey around. I liked your name so I had a rifle through your conversation threads and discovered that we share a few opinions in commen. I too find myself utterly baffled by the moral majority (immoral minority in point of fact, there's not that many of them and I don't reckon they're all that moral - just pious and noisy - which is not the same thing).
I enjoyed the thread about Texas only promoting abstinence as a means of contraception. If you haven't already seen it, you may like a site called [URL removed by Moderator] - it's an entertaining little rant that points out that the highest divorce rates and highest juvenile prgancy rates are all the Southern, Red Republican states and that the lowest are conversely the blue Democratic States. Statistics prove that sex education leads not only to a reduction in teenage pregnancies, shot gun weddings and messy divorces but also to an increase in the average age at which kids loose their virginity. Like you said, there's something for them to compare the misinformation with. Plus, if it's less of a taboo, they're less likely to be that keen to do it. Teenage rebellion is probably the biggest aphrodisiac after teenage hormones.

Anyway, it's been along hello so I'll say a short ta ta.

regards
kim

Welcome aboard, Kim!

I checked out f**kthesouth. Wellll, that's someone who's quite an opinionater, eh? Hope s/he's realized by now that we aren't *all* mindless idiots. I live in Florida, one of the bluer sections of a red state. I kinda found the purple maps to be more telling than the simple red/blue ones. To me those red/blue maps are more a reflection of how the politicians have managed to stack the decks in the *way* votes are counted, rather than being about the 'values' of the local population. I dearly hope that'll be fixed before 2008.

h2 is a great place to vent some spleen, go off on rants, and learn something through the process. I tend to get a bit text-happy when fuelled by , but I'm mostly harmless. I think you'll have fun here. Don't be shy. Most of 'em don't bite, too hard.

ciao!

Don't worry - I didn't mean to imply that everyone south of the md line was a knuckle dragging reactionary - I've seen the representation of the US vote portrayed with the adjusted representations you're talking of, and it gives a clearer picture of how tight your election really was. Of course many of the red states are not densely populated so what looks like a lot of Republicans, is actually a lot of sheep and veggies - there's an opportunity for a joke there but I'll avoid the temptation.
Point of fact, I think if everybody who wanted to vote had and if everybody who did vote had their vote counted, El Presidente GWB might have been mr Kerry instead. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you will but I've been paying close attention to Bev Harris's site blackboxvoting.org and it seems like all is not as it should be.
I'm from Scotland, not the US but as our dear Leader Tony Blair has attached himself to wubbya's coat tails, we've been keeping a close eye on what your lot have been up to as it's the best way of getting an idea of what our lot will soon be up to!
For instance, the whole voting machine debacle...we don't have machines here - we vote anonymously, on pieces of paper which are counted by human beings not machines - but they are now trying to mobve us to postal elections - where they'll have a record of how you voted - and attempting to introduce machines etc - I don't like it. The counting costs are higher because you have to pay human beings but the wooden boxes with a padlock on that we keep our paper ballots in are a hell of a lot cheaper than anything diebold produces. I love technology but not for everything.

Peace and Love.
And Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters. Obviously.

Kim D

hello kim d how r u
luv rick w

I don't trust the electronic machines, either. Well, I just don't trust the whole processs, basically, nowadays. Perhaps it's no more corrupt than it ever was, but I'm much more *aware* of the corruption. If I didn't feel a need to stay in the tropics I'd probably leave this country. On the other hand, the more people give up on it, the worse it'll become in the long term. *sigh*

Anyway, back to working on some photos. Hi ho!

I'm cool and dandy. been getting myself into trouble with the thought police at peer review.

well it's been nice to make your aquaintance.

take care
kim

well i,m tickety boo & shipshape dont let the thought police slap the cuffs on otherwise i,ll have to rescue you
BIG GRIN

so mr rescuer, who are you then?
I'm new here and still learning - how did you come across little old me?

mmmmm...me i,m richard i,m from west yorkshire...i was looking through who,s online and i came across lil kim i said hi and thats it!!
my hobbies are music (tamla & northern soul) and the techno trio scooter..films,pubs,hols abroad my dog walkies!! and rescuing u from them pesky thought police
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