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

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Could you explain the word "accidentals"? I'm Norwegian, so I'm not really into English idioms, let alone Scottish...

well u know how on an instrument like a piano an accidental is simply a name for a flat or a sharp note... i didnt know this word could apply to drums!(ps- i still dont understand how it applies to drums! ... i'll ask my dad!)

Claire
xxxxxx

I see...
I suppose there is some way of playing an accidental on a drum, but you quit doing that really fast, once you get the technique...
Anyway... A friend of mine used Sybil Wane as a nick for a while, who's that? Someone out of a book, perhaps?

im gonna ask my dad tomorrow about this accidental thing!

Sybil Vane did u mean? Sybil Vane is Dorian Gray's first true love(1, 2, 3 awwww!lol) in Oscar Wilde's only full-length novel "The Picture Of Dorian Gray".xxx

Allright, Sybil Vane, then, sorry...

awwww tis okay! you're only a wee baby anyway!xxxlolxxx just kidding!xxx

We'll see who's "wee" here...
Im one of the norwegian giants, remember...
(Naw, you wouldn't, I haven't told you...)

pfft... im the one who's wee! me and my 5"2"ness!lolxxx

Well, all's relative...
I've just been to a family gathering, and my family's full of tall guys, I'm "only" 188cm, which is quite tall on most occasions, but in my family, it's tiny... Even my cousin, who is 15, is taller than me... So, when I return from a family gathering, i usually have a contemporary whip-lash (dunno if that's how you spell it)...

i88cm? whats that in feet? hmmmm well im sure u'r just a nice height! tall people can be very intimidating... xxx

Intimidating???
I'm sorry...
Didn't mean to offend you or anything...

lol!... yeah thats the thing about wee people u find... quite defensive i must say!xxx

When you mention it, I guess you're right...
Hahahaha Oh well, it's all about the "weak points" that every person has...

Oh, and one thing, when I post to this conversation, you've added a banner at the top of the "post to a conversation" in what I assume to be GuideML. How did you do that, what tag is it, and what is the syntax?

arrrrgh! i dunno how it was done cuz Serj did it for me... u could ask him(but he's a bit fed up of h2g2 these days the poor soul) or i could give u my login name and password and u could go into my "Edit Page" and take the formula from there if u like? tis up to u sweets.xxx

naw, I'll just forget about it until I stumble across an opportunity to read it somewhere... We drummers are lazy and unorganized by nature, you know. And giving you my e-mail adress, so you can mail me the password, so I can log out of my usual account, log into your acoount, look at your space, edit it, copy the syntax, log out, log into my account again (and i fervently forget my login-name and password) paste the syntax into mine, change the code for the message header so it doesn't say "I'm the Glam-Rock-Glitter-Princess you wish you were so nah-nah...", remove the pink background, change the picture etc.

Well, it just happens to be too much of an effort for a lazy drummer...

Now, I experienced something rather strange today... I can't quite figure out what actually happened, but it's worth telling anyhow.

I was in town (Drammen) today with a friend of mine, Kristian. We went into a bookstore, bought a couple of books (can't live without a fresh supply of reading material) and went into a CD-shop. Now, in that CD shop were two teenage girls, probably around 14-15 years. They were what we in Norwegian call "berter" (meaning teenage girls obsessed with fashion, with a huge and complicated social life involving loads of schemes against various "friends", they usually have a total lack of intellect and personality). Well, my friend went over to the CD rack and pointed out a CD he found totally pathetic ("The sound of snow"), and the girls immediately started giggling. That was not unexpected, at least I expected that because I'm a "weird" guy in their eyes. But what happened next was _very_ unexpected. Those two girls followed us around for 20 minutes, always a couple of steps behind us, thinking we wouldn't notice. They followed us into five shops, some of which we went into just to see if they were really following us (two teenage girls in a shop selling computer games is _very_ unusual). They watched us the whole time, always snooping in on our conversations... Lastly, we went into a kiosk to buy some ice cream, Kristian was getting paranoid by now, but they seemed to have left us at last, because they didn't come into the kiosk. But when we came out, they were waiting for us outside the kiosk, with a camera. They photographed us, and then they ran off. We didn't see them again, and I really don't know what they were up to...
It's about the strangest thing I've experienced in some years. And I've seen a lot of weird things. So I'm wondering, what do you think, do you have any plausible explanations for this odd behaviour? Remember that people in question are "berter", so they don't usually act this strangely, they are usually the most predictable people in this world. A rather creepy conspiracy theory is that the "berter" are organizing, and becoming a more dangerous group than ever before... Oh well the experience is good for a laugh anyway...

Oh well, do you have any thoughts?

And I just remebered that I could just use the testuserpage thingy to find out what the tag was...

It's .


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EDIT: hey that was a smiley!

wow!... well... the "berter" i like that! Note To Self:Must tell Lulah... ahem... anywayz... i dunno if the "berter" are what we call "neds" in scotland... i imagine so... can "berter" apply to guys too?

any hoo... well that is bloody strange my sweetie!... perhaps they fancied u and Kristian? ... i cant understand why any1 would take a photo of people without asking! i certainly wouldnt thats for sure!... does either u or Kristian have a unique haircut or dress sense? maybe they wanted to show other "berter" your fabulousness and individuality? i dunno!xxxx

No, "berter" only applies to girls... I'wouldn't know about "neds", I've never heard the expression before. We have a more general expression, "fjortiser" which is really just a negative slang for fourteen-year-olds ("fjorten-åringer").

Hmmm, I can't think that they were attracted to any of us (If that were the case, I'd panic!!!), but I wouldn't know. Neither me nor Kristian had a very peculiar dress-sense, but Kristian has long, curly hair, making him look like some huge intellect (Einstein is probably a good comparison, though he doesn't have the curls). I honestly don't thing that "berter" would value any sense of individuality, especially when it's manifested through a total lack of interest in fashion...
The photographing kinda shocked me too, but I think you'll find that Norwegians are quite rude compared to scots . I have actually photographed someone like that myself, but that was a celebrity, so I have an excuse (but some of my friends have picked on me afterwards anyway).

Anyhow, who's Lulah???

hmmmm well neds are basically a name given to guys and/or girls who: wear lots of gold jewellery, have no career prospects, wear tracksuits, hang around on street corners drinking ALL DAY!lol, get involved in petty crime etc...... NED stands for Non-Educated Delinquent.

norwegians are ruder than scots?! is that possible?!lol...

oh your friends hair sounds fabby i must say! i lurrve guys who have long hair... i didnt think the "berter" would like your style i just thought maybe they would find it funny and dislike ne 1 who wasnt like them?...

Oh Lulah is my friendy on here but she's not on 2nite!xxxxx

Ahh.. We have a name for "neds" here too, but I can't remember it...
You really don't have any names for "berter" or "fjortiser"???
It would be an expression only related to teenagers, not neccesarily VERY negative... just a bit... The expression is usually related to teenagers getting really drunk because they think it's cool...

As for the rudeness... It's not that we mean to be, but we tend to be more direct than other people... i.e. we ask questions that are very straight and to the point, without bothering with loads of unneccesary politeness... Scots do not lack this gift completely either, as they tend to practice this feat against Englishmen... But, well, my mother studied in Scotland, and she had a lot of problems, especially with her teachers because she was a lot more direct than many of her fellow students, even the scots.

Now, that explanation seems more likely... That they might think we were just intolerably weird. People tend to get _very_ provoked when they see someone doing what they've always wanted to do, but have never been able to allow themselves because of social codes. The only thing is that they broke a helllishly large amount of social codes in following us for 20 minutes, and then fotographing us without asking.
That behaviour is in total conflict with the whole concept of berter... Which means that either times are changing, or something is terribly wrong with the world... arrrrrrrgh!!! (nothing like a good conspiracy-theory to entertain someone !) Another thought is that seeing us helped them break out of social codes, they followed our example and attempted to behave in an unconstrained manner for the first time in their life by photographing their saviors... (this must _not_ be interpreted as arrogance, only humour)

You like guys with long hair? Then you'd better start liking me...