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

I know we already have a conversation, but I thought I would make one to introduce myself better.

I think I may be part Irish, but since I'm adopted, I'm not really positive. I live in America.

I also have semi-strange tastes in music. I actually don't listen to a whole lot of music (which is strange in itself), but I play both the piano and the violin and love to play classical music.

I also love detective shows and books. I read almost all of the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boy books before I turned ten. Hardy Boys are better.
Soaps in America are just weird. Once a guy shot his best friend for accusing him of dying his eyebrows. Tell me that's not weird.

My church is Baptist, but it seems similar to yours. We're not strict at all.

I'm also questioning the existance of ghosts. I'm definatly leaning towards believing.

I also love anime, manga, and video games. (Further evidence of my geekiness...lol)

That American soap story sounds very very weird. Don't think we could get away with that over here. Though they do kill someone off occasionally to boost the ratings.

Don't worry - I've weird music tastes (as you've probably noticed). I like far to much stuff that's 20 years (at least) older than me. If that's not weird, I don't know what is.

Haha, I play video games from back in...hmmm...I think it was 1986. Not the re-made versions either...lol

In America, they usually kill people off because they don't re-new thier contracts. Yeah, it is stupid, but if people watch them....I saw that one in a doctor's office. By the way, just some random information, but did you know that they're called "Soap Operas" because only bored housewives would watch them, so they put on alot of soap commercials? Yeah, totally random

Yeah, think I heard that random fact somewhere. So what'd they call them now do you think?

It's really sad that they have to kill people off to save renewing their contract and to boost ratings. Shows though that people are getting bored with the usual plot lines.

I really don't like it when they kill off all of the best actors just for ratings. I think that pretty much kills the whole show. I don't like watching people die, even if it is just acting!

Know what you mean. Think kiloling off people in soaps, esp if it's murder, isn't right. That sort of thing's for dramas and films.

Yeah...especially for something as stupid as eyebrow color...

yes. That's a really stupid reason.

Actually, American dramas are probably more like your soaps. I mean, yours seem alot less stupid....

Well ours can be pretty stupid. We have stories where people get maried, have an affair, get divorced and then a couple of years later get back together with their first partner and on the wedding day can't decide between them and their secret lover.

Like that happens every day.

I guess it could, but yeah, its definitly stupid. Though probably not as stupid as American ones. Ours are known and highly teased for having the stupidest stuff in them... Like daughters getting pregnant, hiding mit from thier mother, having an affair with thier doctor, using a dead persons files to store her own data so the mother won't find out, and the doctor letting the mother go through the file, and everything being found out.

Interesting. Though have to say pregnancy's a bit hard to hide after a while.

I've seen a few story lines recently where a girl gets pregnant with the bad guy's child, and then gets involved with the nice guy and hides it for a whuiloe, then telling the nice guy that it's his. Think it'd look a bit suss when a healthy big baby's born two or thre months "early".

Except a baby two months early is usually very sickly and often near death... but why would a naive boyfriend know?

Who knows. Well I suppose there are people who'd believe anything. Though the bloke in the soap was a doctor, who kinda would know a bit aboutr babies and pregnancy and stuff.

Ahhhh, that complicates it.

But hey, even he never seemed to twig. So daft.

I just saw one where a guy went skydiving on his wedding day because he though he'd never have any fun when he was married!

What?!?!? And what would happen if he got killed? What would his new wife say?

Well, he didn't get killed, but he got stuck in a tree. Before he jumped, he made the pilot promise to marry his future wife if he died.

WHAT?!?!?!??!

How daft. Wonder if the pilot would've fulfilled his promise.