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

Vicky I see you've unsubbed from the 'why am i on your friens list' Just to let you know I left a message there.

Okay thanks, I'll have a look....

Vicky

Hey Vicky, have sent you an important email.

Take care eh?

I'm trying desperately to get an early night tonight...

Okay, thanks I'll get on to it as soon as I have a moment...

Have a good night!

Vicky

Hope all is good with you.




Goodnight.

Good night Effers!

We've got one of those sunshine, rain and sunshine again days... What fun!

Vicky

Crikey Vicky, I just saw your post to royalcrompton, about his book, 'Temptation, Testing and Sin'. Man what a title..Are you really sure you should be reading such books?

(Oh and royalcrompton, if you read this, I'm not being disrespectful, just being a bit of a It's always an achievement to get any book actually published, and Vicky won't mind).

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It sounds really heavy! No heavier than physics, however... and that's really hard!



Vicky

Apropos other conversations here. I think we seem to like quite different things with regard film etc. I really don't quite understand this thing you have for sci/fi fantasy etc. *I* do like emotional and Romantic, (and no I *absolutely* don't mean effete romantasism). Life and death stuff. Romanticism with a capital R. Passion. But then I don't have a religion, so I maybe get that kind of thing from books and drama.

I do like sci fi and fantasy but it *must* have complexity of thought and emotion in it for me.

I'd be interested for you to explain more about this sci/fi fantasy thing you have and why.

Okay I'm off to my bed.

Take care.

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I really don't know! I think I am just following my parents' tastes. But also, it's because it all seems so much more meaningful, life or death, passionate - than mainstream!

Battlestar Galactica for instance, it has references to what's happening now in the USA, Guantanamo, etc, but because it's all so much more life-and-death, and because it's not about the present everyday world, they can get away with saying things any other TV show might be in trouble for.

My dislike of chick-flicks, rom-comes, is because they seem so trivial, and not passionate at all!

On the other hand, Dr Zhivago (the first film my sister and I saw in the cinema without our parents), that is the kind of emotional/Romanticism you might be talking about.

Have you heard of the TV series Crusade? (It's a spin-off from Babylon 5) and in it, Peter Woodward, son of Edward, playing Galen, talks about his love for a woman who died young (as the character of course) and it's so awesomely beautiful and *real* and glorious, and it's because of that, that he does something that would be impossible in anything not SF..

Vicky

Okay, I've ordered the Flesh + Blood film from the hire place. I'll probably get to watch it in a couple of days or so. I'll get back to you - with my honest opinions and thoughts. Yes my criticism and assessment will be ruthlessly honest I can assure you. (You wouldn't expect anything less of me I hope).

No seriously, I will watch it, with an open mind. I promise. But I won't beat about the bush, I don't exactly have high hopes. It's not something I'd normally go for. But I really like the sound of the sex and violence. However it doesn't seem like there's much of a complex story in it, which I like in films. It's gonna be all wam bam thankyou mam, I reckon. And lots of good versus evil stuff, that you lot like, I'll take it for what it is though, because it sounds like I've already made my mind up, doesn't it? I haven't. I always like new experiences of any sort. However they turn out.

But I may have to email my review to you though, if it's too savage... Remember I'm on probation.

I (almost) guarantee you'll enjoy it or your money back! Actually, from what I remember the story is more complex than it sounds... so I think you will like it...

You will like J J L's character, she's certainly more complex than she seems!

I look forward to your review, no matter how blistering it is...

Vicky

Hey Vicky thank you so much for that vote of affirmation of me on, 'A great surprise' thread.

I know I said on that thread I wanted no more indirect opinions of me expressed; but you can carry on expressing opinions like that, 'til the cows come home

(And I think the message of me being a woman, is abundantly clear now )

Yes, it's important he (and others) know you're a woman! It rarks me up to see peoples' genders mistaken...

I was a bit nervous about saying anything, but I wanted to make it clear to him, that we're friends, and for him to stop being patronising!

Vicky

Yes Vicky, for sure we are friends.

You maybe amused to read about my story of the fanatical Marc, who tried to boss me all around French Guiana, in town and in the rain forest. It's my last two posts on that Lion Joke thread with Toy Box. Actually it's so good to be writing stuff about that whole thing that happened to me there. The good and the bad. It's quite painful at times though to re-live some stuff, like the last two posts of mine. But I think it's been good for me to finally write about that experience. I never have before. I was just too unhappy most of the time I was there. I'm going to carry on posting on that thread, until I've said everything I need to say. Then I'm going to print it out, and do something with it. I can't believe how crystal clear my memory is, of it all still.

Yes, you and I don't like fence sitters. But I think extremists/fanatics are actually worse.

Yes, that thread with Toy Box is so interesting!

Thanks for letting me read it...

You're right about fanatical extremists - thankfully, they're very thin on the ground here in NZ, a place that contains mostly the apathetic, politically and in other ways. Sometimes I just want give them all a boot up the collective backsides!

Vicky

Yes I know what you mean. My fantasy is to pick up such people and shake them. Your way is good to. Basically both techniques might provoke some sort of active response, that forces them off the fence.

But I loathe extremism just as much, more really, as we've experienced it first hand from the Nazis. (That seems a common trait in British culure. We can't stand liberals but neither will we tolerate extremists. We ignore the minority of fence sitting liberals here as an irrelevance but will happily *fight* the extremists, as that's the only language they understand.

In some ways the worst aspect of Christianity for me is this 'cheek turning thing' (actually worse than believing in the resurrection. I can kind of respect that). What I can't respect is cheek turning. It just doesn't work against some people. Sometimes you have to fight.

PS I'm being a bit *playful* here with my remarks. Nothing like wanting any conflict with you like on the threads form hell

Actually you may notice I've posted this appalling piece of pacifism on the bible verse thread..

And thinking about it I'm pleased to say, you are not always such an exemplary shining example of this piece of Scripture.

OK goodnight. I'm trying for an earlyish night to night. Hope you are having fun in your office.