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

Heya FKA!!
If you want to change you name so it says something other than Researcher 170755, then you need to find (and click on) the Preferences button and change your name. It also helps if afterwards you press the 'Update Details' button...

I'm an ACE, which basically means I've volunteered for the 'official' job of meeting and greeting newcomers to the guide - a 'welcome mat' as someone said. I think they were being sarcastic when they did say it, but it's a fair description I guess. Except that not all of us are flat and hairy...
If you have any questions at all, then you can drop by my page (just click on my name) and ask, or go and ask all the ACEs at their homepage http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/Aces and they will do their utmost best to help you. Cos we're friendly people.
And just in case it is a while before you get back and read this don't worry, I'm going to sit here eating endless s and s until you return, so there's no hurry, I'm very fond of s. Please do feel free to have one (or more) as well!

Hope you enjoy h2g2!

|M|

Ah ha.

Well I'll change my name on here later so it says something other then Researcher 170755.

Ahhh so you're one of these Ace people that war was declared upon. Did you know about that? Probably. I only found out about it earlier and I'm wondering what it's all about. Care to shed any light on this situation for me?

OK then!

Yep, I know about the war... apparantly I'm the first PoW. But there you go.
OK, the site has recently been down for absolutely AGES while it was taken over by and transferred to the BBC. Since before it has gained much tighter rules, and has also aquired moderators to help enforce them. Understandably a lot of people have been upset about this. I believe what Caine and EGB had in mind was to attack all 'official' groups of h2g2 and end up with the moderators to put their opinion and point across. Other than that, no one really knows...
I think you made a good point as well. Pity the moderators don't seem to agree with it... but maybe it'll come back.

|M|

No. Moderators and people with positions of authority never agree with me. I think it has something to do with all these books I read but remember very little of in my early teens, all about how to rebel but in a sort of mature way. How to go about screwing the system without making an idiot of yourself and going about it in an educated way.

First prisoner of war? Free Ming! Free Ming! Free the prisoners of war! Teehee.

Oh, really? *thinks- ought to read some of those, maybe* What were they? Can you remember?

*grin* Thanks! But don't worry - I can escape any time I want. I can remove myself to somewhere else using a technique based on quantum mechanics that I discovered a while ago...

|M|

No sorry I can't remember what any of these books were called. I purposly tried to forget what they were called when I was younger because I thought that it was too geek-y and that no-one would like me if I told them that I read books. However, no-one liked me anyway which I didn't really realise too well until I had forgotton the names of all these books. *sigh* Quite sad really, isn't it?

Ah. Damn. Oh well...
Awwwww... bad kidhood as well? *sympathy* I'm sorry.

|M|

No no no no no, it's not your fault that I had a bad childhood. So you don't have to be sorry for it. I can't really put the blame on anybody, but if I had to put the blame on just one person I'd have to put it all on my shoulders for being too damned shy until I was 15 years old.

Yeesh! *exclamation* You're exactly like me! I didn't really find any confidence till I was 15...

¦M¦

Yes exactly like you, except I'm male and 17 years old and look like Fred Durst, but 'lankier' (apparantly, this is according to my brother anyway). While you are.... female and most probably don't look like Fred Durst.

Well, I'm neeeeeearly 17... (7 months to go... then I can start trying to terrorise the roads with my driving... *evil cackle*) Who's Fred Durst?

¦M¦

You don't know who Fred Durst is? He's only the frontman of the biggest band in the world today, Limp Bizkit! You must know who Fred Durst is!

Ahhhh... him. Nope, I don't think I look anything like him.

¦M¦

See you know him now! And that is most probably a good thing that you don't look like him. That would be scary if a female was to look like Mr. Durst.

Yep, I know who he is now. I've never been able to connect things like bands, songs, titles or band members to each other... that is, of course, if I know what the band members are called...
Yes, I would be scary... *wonders if now would be the best time to mention that there is a male person who looks like her... thinks maybe not*

¦M¦

There's a male that looks like you? How very scary. Do they look exactly like you, or just a bit similar?

Apparantly when he takes his hair out of his pony tail he looks like my brother. More so than my sisters look like my sisters. So, yes, it is quite scary...

¦M¦

How very very scary

Absolutely. *agrees*
There is someone else who looks like me, but luckily they're female. And I've only really met her twice...

¦M¦

Ahhhh. Why are we talking about this again? Somebody please refresh my memory.