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

Has this Brit centric, originally BBC based site become an even stronger parody of the xenophobic old school, British site of full on blinder academia that not only ignores experience but focuses exclusively on written reference to a seemingly distant reality?

Are we becoming irrelevant to anyone who doesn't know about walks and pubs in the Lake District or academic reference at arms length?

Are you all nothing more than words, somewhat less than personal experience outside of each little world? Does your experience with an individual person or a month long vacation to where they live make you an expert about their country or culture?

Of course not.

Shame.

You go zoomer.

At least no-one but me visits Peckham...

I am a Brit...but a bit sus, being mentally ill and dangerous

Well, Jaysus - when was this place ever relevant?

No but it used to be more fun. Now that is relevent and far less one dimensional...and bigger...more variety.

But at least its pushed me from my lazy furrow and I'm branching out.

I get zoomer's point entirely.

I think everyone knows how I feel . . . .





but, I like academic references.



As long as they're not pseudo-academic rubbish, which is what seems to dominate here now.

I think it was Macauley, talking about the Corn Laws, which were first introduced in Britain in 1804, when the landowners, who dominated Parliament, sought to protect their profits by imposing a duty on imported corn, who said,

'I agree'

And, there was a time when a half-dozen or so Canadians would fairly regularly post comments, questions, links to news stories, etc. of a particularly Canadian sort. Now it sort of feels like the *whole site* is that kind of thing for a half-dozen or so Anglophiles, some of them British.

sorry. I left out a `phrase:


And, there was a time when a half-dozen or so Canadians would fairly regularly post comments, questions, links to news stories, etc. of a particularly Canadian sort *on a certain thread*. Now it sort of feels like the *whole site* is that kind of thing for a half-dozen or so Anglophiles, some of them British.

Two scotch and two beers, was that.


But I still agree in the cold, hard light of day. This place is becoming rubbish. HHGG, the story was Brit centric, sure- but does that mean that _everything_ here has to be British academic centric?

I want an entry on Madagascar beer or fish cooked in banana leaves or Indonesian poetry by someone who lived it, not someone who read about it or experienced it on a holiday.

And make it a bit funny.

Eff

and you other two.

>>And make it a bit funny.

Yup. That's disappeared. I'll take Funny over accurate - or even lived - any day.

That said...I can hardly bitch'n'moan. I've not written anything for ages, and there's not a lot of comedy in German Anti-Nazis or The Cultural Revolution.

I'm trying-
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But I still haven't found the time to polish it up to peer review standards.

I have however managed to slip in lots of references that will require most European readers to look things up. But still have a laugh or two.

I spent three days there twenty five (Jaysus! How did that happen?) years ago. Maybe I could write it.

Mind you - I don't know how I'd fit The Corn Laws in.

*Maybe I could write it.*

Fill yer boots!

http://www.chilliwackcorn.com/

>I'll take Funny over accurate - or even lived - any day.<


I'll take funny and accurate and lived...and people from all over the shop...jostling around feeling like they can actually breathe and play a bit. It's about *variety* in threads and lots of people joining in.

So often debate in some thread gets narrower and narrower and narrower..It's dull and sterile.

(zoomer I'm just watching the British film, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I have to say its superb. But it is horrifying as a portryal of an intensly esentially very masculine British organisation decaying in the case the British Secret Service in the latter part of the Cold War.

I do recommend.)