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

The A team

only team i know can go into a empty barn and make a armourd car wih machine guns and rocket launchers

BBC2 seemed to be doing that yesterday. I mostly ignored the first(?) because I hadn't noticed in time, got seriously involved in the corniness of the second and largely missed the third because someone telephoned me.

In the A Team I think every one drove around with a ram on the side of there car, cos every time there was a car crash you would see one of the car go up in the air and flip over a few times before it landed

I did not see much of the TV yesterday, I was either at w**k or in the pub

manda

i know large explosions and no one dies they always dives

Can you imagine an army made up of people like the a team, they go in with all there guns blazing and there tanks blasting away, no one is hurt but the other side *Still* surrenders

manda

It *is* very implausible and yet somehow regarded as suitable viewing for children. I pointed out at the time they started showing them that it could well give children/teens the idea it was safe to shoot people with guns and blow things up because no-one would get hurt if they did.

That is very true SEF, I think it is the same sort of argument that cartoons (like Tom and Jerry) would give the young the idea that it is ok to hit animals and people over the head with chairs or plates etc; and it would not hurt anyone,
and although I hate to admit it, I can see their point

manda

When I was young I used to refuse to watch Tom and Jerry because I deemed it unsuitable viewing in portraying violence and the consequences of violence in an unrealistic way. I would take myself out of the room when my father insisted on watching it on TV in the main living room.

These days if I'm with children who are watching that sort of thing I try to make sure they understand it isn't acceptable to behave that way and the true consequences would be very different. The main child for whom I have some partial responsibility always gets rave reviews from school for her caring attitude. So I think that approach works.

I don't remember much of my child hood, (long story )
But I realized I had gone a little to far with my son when he came in one day crying saying some of his friends were killing maggots

manda

I think I can understand getting upset about the maggots. The manner in which they were killed might have made a difference. How does he deal with your fishing hobby?

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I think it was the manner in which they was killed that was the problem as they was just stapping on them

He is ok with fishing, he is like me there, I will treat the fish as gently as I can so I don't do them any harm, but I don't mind killing them If I am going to eat them

manda

Ahhh poor A-team geting blamed for all the problems in the world

You cant beat geting back to nature running frolikin naked inthe field`s
oppps did i say that

Now I think that sounds better than fishing

manda

Which one blameing the a team for the fact its the age a nuclea war on natureisum

Well i don't think the A Team sound better that thanfishing

manda

hiya manda hun

only just got ur msg been busy at work so haven't been online much so wot have u been upto then hun?

chat soon

andy xx

Hi andy

Well I had a nice long holiday in the USA and when I got back I found that they had changed all the login things to something call SSO
and the digibox users could not get on here

but a few of the clever people had started to work it out and now it don't seem to bad

You been upto much

manda

hiya manda i've been really busy in work as i work in a care home so my days are really long as i start at 8.00 in the morning & finish about 7.30 at night but it's a great job and i love working there. i'm hoping 2 go to canada as i've always wanted 2 go as the scenery is amazing and it's a once in a lifetime thing due 2 the cost, whereabouts in the states did u go then? i had probs logging back in as i had 2 change my password which didn't impress me that much but that's life.


chat soon

andy

We went to Utah, Nevada and California, the scenery was breathtaking

I used to live in Canada
But I was only a yound child at the time so I can't help you much on that, but from what I have been tople about it, you should realy enjoy it there

I wanted to go there but Mrs manda thinks its cold there all the time (and she don't like the cold )

manda