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

autist, I have been wondering where you had got to lately... I've just come to your space and read it, now I know..

Just saw you on the Americans thread... Welcome back! Prague -you lucky beggar! NZ is too fat to get to go anywhere interesting without spending mega$$$!

Ooops - that should be 'NZ is too far, not fat' (Actually, it's a very skinny country)

Na... i don't believe you! Have to accept the first answer i'm afraid, Freudian slips show that Kiwi types are so overwieght their aircraft are now unable to leave terra firma...

We went to a pharmacy and got on one of those scales that measures height and weight, and spits out a little paper thingy, with one's BMI (Body Mass Index). Jimmy's is 17.6 (he's 15, and I'm told 15 year olds are often underweight and not to worry.)

Mine's 26.3, in other words, I *am* overweight!

The last time I weighed myself (back in 1983) I was underweight, as I was when I had Jimmy in 1987. (I distinguish between weighing myself voluntarily, and nurses doing it.)

Yeah, I'm fat, but not very - also, I'm only 154cm tall, so it's allowed.

I suspect that you are actually underweight still, not too much - just an attractive amount, you sound it to me (i can tell by the way you type).

But i also suspect from the data you provide you may be seriously undertall. Not such a serious problem either culturally or medically. So no worries on either score there.

Yes, like Garfield the cat (one of my role models) I am under-tall. I'll try to do better in my next life!

Seriously though, i've been neglecting h2g2 for awhile, which is probibly healthy in terms of my phone bill, but is a shame because i enjoy it here. However i've gotten so incredibly pissed off with being moderated every second time i join a conversation. Not that i'm thinking of leaving in any kind of grand gesture, just that it's made me enjoy joining in less. I don't say things here to shock, offend or draw attention to myself, and i don't appreciate being censored as though i am. Most things i say are well considered and if you actually read them they're well within the rules. And if i say something unconsidered or offensive, then i either mean it or i'll appologise, and i'm quite capable of doing that. It just seems that in too many cases the moderators may as well be machines.

It's this thing about condoning illegal acts that really gets me - you're not telling me that all the moderators are high court judges now!

But now i've put my toe back in the water i may be back more regularly.

I hear you! One of my sons was made to feel so inhuman and unwelcome on a thread, that he hasn't been back to it. He's actually quite sensitive, which most people don't realise, and he was jumped on with hobnail boots - I knew what he meant, how come the others misinterpreted him? (Unless wilfully).

Welcome back, it's good to hear your acerbic comments again..

Where (and how) have i been?

Well i've been at home reading Francis Wheen...

No, i now live in a house with no land line, so i don't have the old internet connection. I used occasionally at work, but didn't really get the time because i was always so busy.

So i've been working, and living in a little market town, which suits me very well. I have a new lady friend, who isn't a regular H2G2 user either as she lives with me and therefore also doesn't have a pooter.

I'm in the process of leaving work at the moment, and that's an unpleasant and acrimonious process. I cared at first, but don't any more.

Unfortunately i've spent the last six months 'letting work get to me', which has put a lot of strain on my health - stress = blood pressure = more knackered kidneys. But I've done no damage and i can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I'm just hoping it's not the light of an oncomming train!

I'm just about to go to university now to do my MA -> pHD which is daunting and exiting in equal measure.

In short, i feel liberated, with a nice house, wonderful partner, and a new positive direction with challenges and rewards aplenty.

You're in a house with no landline? Do you miss it?
I am pleased that you have a wonderful relationship - I am sorry to hear you're having problems with your job - and the study stress must be quite awful! My son's started his Bachelor's Degree this year - and he's molto stressed! (Partly, that's him, he's what psychologists call 'high anxious'..

I hope things continue to go well for you.