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

Quick post from a pay internet kiosk, $3.50 US per 10 minutes. More to add later but Vegas is still a bloated corpse of capitalism with 1/3 scale models of internation edifices to take pictures in front of instead of travelling to the real thing. Strippers on street corners handing out pamphlets to strip shows, dry desert heat and dust.

On a lighter note, I'm here for the National Association of Broadcaster's convention, the biggest in the world. The Beeb is well represented here, a huge booth selling everything from media organisation software to web site design. Very impressive. The two biggest booths? Sony and Apple I guess, with lots of new stuff like a home HDTV camera for only $16,000 (available next year). Scary stuff for a regular type cameraman like me.

Back later.



(Beer is amazingly cheap here and there is a free-for-Canadians bar every night....)
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Hey. Get me some stripper pamphlets dammit. Or some panties. Either way.



'Scuse me. I just came from the Popbitch site. Hence the rudeness.

$3.50 for 10 minutes?

Well, your dollar is worth about the same as ours, and most places down here are $4 an hour or so (depending on where you go...)

...still, I like the idea of free beer...have a few for me (even though I'm not Canadian) !

An inetnet phonebox. in this country is about £1 for 10 minutes. cybercafes are often a little cheaper.

*rushghes off to find currency conversion- so that's US$ you're talking, I presume, zoomer, rather than translatiung the US into Can$ before telling us.

...too much maths...too early in the morning...

US$1=A$1.36 or Ca$1.35 or £0.56

A$1= US$0.73 or Ca$0.99 or £0.41

Can$1= US$0.74 or A$1.01 or £0.41

£1= US$1.78 or A$2.43 or Can$2.41

Now, does anyone need it in €?

No, but if you could convert it into jelly beans, or , it might make more sense to me...

|We id discuss the extortoinate price of VB in the UK some time back, if you remember. I actually had quite a bit of the old VB on Eatser weekend- it's what happens when I spend the weekend in a town with an Aussie theme bar. Watch the cricket, ahev a VB, eat a kangaroo steak, and suddenly everything's AOK with the world...

Yes, and that's why everyone down here is so happy all the time !

I cansee that now. A friedn of mine is planning to spend six months or a year in OZ sometime soon. Lucxky bastard.

That's just what we need...another bl**dy pom...

I mean, I like it down here, but I suppose I'm biased, seeing as I've lived her my whole life and have never been overseas in my life......

yeah, you see, that's the problem with you *actual* Aussies- you're complacent- it's normnal to you. it's people who, after accepteing this godforesaken island as normality who then get to go down there. they're the one's I'm jealous of.

Well the most common observation by outsiders seems to be that we say "no worries" a lot...which I assuming means that, compared to most other people, we don't worry so much

I have also been influenced by cricketers Merv Hughes and David Boon to believe that the majority of your menfolk have silly moustaches.

You know, one of those two (I forget which one) holds the world record for cans of beer drunk on a flight between Australia and the UK, with over 40.

Well if you can gather that from just two men (and cricketers no less ) I will not even get into what I've learnt about English men

I'd heard that too, buggered if I know which one it was...although beer drinking impresses me much more that cricket skills...is that wrong ??

hell, 40 cans in one flight is more impressive than what either oft hose moustachioed freaks did as cricketers.

oh, and a bit of googling suggests it's Boon as Merv the swerve answered a question about "Who holds the beer drinking record on the trips from Australia to England?" with

"I really can't say. All I can honestly say is that it was never me, and it was never going to be me. It would be someone looks a little bit similar but is about two feet shorter than me, and is from Tasmania. But I don't want to mention any names!"

Sorry zoomer, we seem to be slightly off-topic

Aha- Boon's record is 54. England rugby player Mike Tindall came close with "nearly fifty" on the way back from last year's Rugby World Cup.

http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/catinthehat/135.html

ooh. This website-http://www.australianbeers.com/pubs/tassie/pubpaddock.htm gives the record as 52 375ml stubbies rather than 54 cans- "Australian Cricketer David Boon - who drank 52 full strength, 375ml stubbies on a flight from Australia to England on a cricket tour."

Man...for some reason I really feel like a beer now...