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

Of course, US drinking age is 21, so if they were going to bars or clubs or the like it's understandable.

Whereas as I have never had any such problem. I first drank in a US abr at the same age as in a US bar- 15. It sometimes worries me that if I looked 21 at 15, what the Hell am I going to look like when I'm 30?

Oh well.

PS- H, you've met me. In fact, you've even laughed at my passport photo.

Well, when I was 18 I looked about 30, so never had an y trouble with ID etc, but when I went to the US at christmas, aged 21 and still looking about 30 (it's the full beard that does the "looking like 30" business, y'know), I was asked for ID first bar I went in. C'est la vie.

If I ever develop a full beard I'll have more to worry about than how old I look

This morning I was standing in line to buy some breakfast, and the woman in front of me had a little wispy beard.

That's re-assuring- are you trying to tell me something?

Oh, merely that female beards do exist, so watch it! *nods sagely*

I can now officially confirm that a double standard is being applied and that Tango is one of those chosen few who can do as they please without fear of having to take any responsibility.

The Editors have put me on an Official Warning. If I continue to request an apology from Tango, I shall be banned from the site. I *could* use the yikes button - but I would OFFICIALLY be wasting my time, as, and I quote directly from their email to me - "any complaint made would not be upheld".

I therefore withdraw my request for an apology from Tango, and shall henceforth regard him with the same deep respect I hold for spook.

H.

(PS - for full text of the warning email, see my space)

Ceellllllllllllllllllllleeeeeebrate Good Times, Come On!!!

After scrutinising this tumultuous backlog I feel that it is only correct for me at this point in the thread to state that gloating could be misconstrued as a sign of insecurity

Just my 2d/6p

Caper Plip

PS. Oh, I actually found my English Lit. exam quite delightful. I was in possession of a wobbly desk and insects persisted in crawling up the legs and all over my question paper, which was rather entertaining.

And a good time was had by all! Well, by me, in any case...

so long, so boring, so was the literature exam. A question on Tracks 2 poems, a question on Telling Tales stories, and a question on Inspector Calls. i don't know if i'd have survived without my water.

spook

Well, I had Nineteen Eighty-Four as my 20th Century Prose, and I can safely vouch that probably the majority, if not all of us who were studying said book did exactly the same question, if not to collapse in shock, horror and narcoleptic homages if they chose to do the other one that was given

I love the Love and Loss poems, but them I'm an old softy who still believes blotting paper should be made standard issue to students. My jumper is covered with blue blotches where I tried to blot my pen through two years of essay-writing

And as a homage to the pedantry at the start of this conversation:

'them' should be 'then'

Silly mistake, but then 'm' and 'n' are very close to each other on a keyboard...

Caper Plip

hi Caper,

Agree that gloating is often a sign of insecurity. Anyhow, there is nothing to gloat about as the debate was not 'won' - it was only that Hoo was told by the powers that be to knock it off and he seems to have quite graciously done so.

Like, he had a choice?

bye!
az

oops, had previously said I wasn't going to post on this thread anymore.

Guess I LIED!

so sue me

az

And as there is nothing to gloat about after the backing-away, I daresay that there should be no gloating subsequent to that

And now, might I suggest we observe the exquisitely white plumage upon this rather quaint bird?



Or perhaps we all need a nice cup of ...

Caper Plip

Time to uncloak.

Had Hoovooloo actually said that he was objecting the particular charge leveled against him, and not to the general idea that he is capable of lying about someone other than himself, I actually would have found myself supporting his position.

He didn't, so I managed to avoid that particular discomfort.

U180337

As a little epilogue, in case anyone is feeling smug about the result of all this, a few quotations from the Peer Review thread on Spook's entry on Nothing: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F102786?thread=220179&skip=100&show=20 post 105 Tango to Spook 'I'd like to think I started of being nice, but when you are talking to a brick wall it is very difficult to stay nice.' post 107 Spook to Tango: 'either make a fair critiscism and suggest how the entry could be improved, or just shut up, because i've had enough of your unhelpful, hurtful posts.' post 109 Tango to Spook (about another reviewer) 'He was expressing an opinion, just like every other tom dick and harry in this godforsaken place. Grow up!' and in the same post 'So you don't value being nice? How do you expect people to be nice to you if you are not nice to them? No-one started of being un-nice, they just critisised your entry, which is what they are meant to do, it is you that has not been nice.' To me, this seems a teenie weenie bit inconsistent with Tango's position in this thread. I may of course have misunderstood him, but my interpretation at the time of that PR thread was that Tango considered Spook to be behaving in an immature and unconstructive way Azara Azara