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

Life IS unfair.
I would have surely lost my mind if I'd expected a fair world.

Don't start counting scars and near-death events contest-I'd win.

Gosh, I don't know, Abbi. Maybe I haven't been unkind, just ignorant is what I've been, or whatever.

Anyways, you're right about a fair world of course.

Like how fair is it when somebody else's reality is more real than yours? Or how fair is it when you're expected to live in somebody else's imperfect world but they won't even try a little to live in yours? When just doing the right thing occasionally, giving back a little, makes them think it's maybe assuming the blame and they don't want to go there?

Maybe dealing with that makes me crazy already?

Then again maybe I'm no crazier than anybody else?

So if somebody says they don't have agree with me, I can say the reciprocal thing and then what? We sort of knew that already didn't we? How I can't force my imperfect world on anybody but they can sure force their imperfect world on me.

Because if we're all not just alike, we'll lock horns, bad bad.

Okay then, my horns are sharp and I'm spoiling for a fight because it won't be no different no matter what I do or don't do. Besides, after all his travails, Hamish doesn't want to lose his rung on the ladder of success. That's sort of understandable ain't it?

Oh but I could be included. I don't have to stay outside right? I could just accommodate myself to the imperfect world that's so perfectly real that we should never oppose it. It's what's best for all of us because it's the best WE can do. You'll see. NOT!!!

Why not? Because there ain't no WE. There's us and them. And we are inclined to cooperate with them if we think there's a WE that they should control. That's how it is.

But there's more than one way of imperfectly doing stuff and, like Rita says, I won't be participating in their way, consuming the entire world. You can you want. It's always been a matter of choice even when they kill you or starve you or whatever.

No need to be outside in any case.

Sure there is. It's gets stifling inside this time of year.

Aw look! I've just about had enough of this really. All I was saying was that there is no need to call the whole world crap just because there are elements of it that aren't perfect. That's it in a nutshell, no more, no less. If you wish to spend your time running everything down in the name of being opinionated, so be it.

MH
(Me and my monkeys live in the real, everyday world!)

Your world must be pretty small, Hamish, for little old me to be able to rundown all of it. Maybe you should get out more?

You know not of which you speak! I don't know you and I can say with certainty that you wish to keep argueing with me regardless of my comments. You may be right, there maybe something crappy in this world, over opinionated, ignorant, arrogant mouthy broads who don't know when to shut up and agree to disagree with someone. Have respect for others opinions and maybe they'll show you some for yours.

MH
(Me thinks your glass is a house of cards!)

Sorry, whiteboy, must have forgot my place for a minute. We all know you ain't opinionated so it's got to be me right?

So here's something I just found that'll probably piss you off even more although I don't know why it would. But then I don't know why you're so pissed off already do I? Unless you just got a visceral reaction to mouthy broads who don't know when to quite your honor. Or something like that.

A tourist wanders into a back-alley antique shop in San
Francisco's Chinatown. Picking through the objects on
display he discovers a detailed, life-sized bronze
sculpture of a rat. The sculpture is so interesting and
unique that he picks it up and asks the shop owner what it
costs.

"Twelve dollars for the rat, sir," says the shop owner,
"and a thousand dollars more for the story behind it."

"You can keep the story, old man," he replies, "but I'll
take the rat." The transaction complete, the tourist
leaves the store with the bronze rat under his arm.

As he crosses the street in front of the store, two live
rats emerge from a sewer drain and fall into step behind
him. Nervously looking over his shoulder, he begins to
walk faster, but every time he passes another sewer drain,
more rats come out and follow him.

By the time he's walked two blocks, at least a hundred
rats are at his heels, and people begin to point and
shout. He walks even faster, and soon breaks into a trot
as multitudes of rats swarm from sewers, basements, vacant
lots, and abandoned cars. Rats by the thousands are at his
heels, and as he sees the waterfront at the bottom of the
hill, he panics and starts to run full tilt. No matter how
fast he runs, the rats keep up, squealing hideously, now
not just thousands but millions, so that by the time he
comes rushing up to the water's edge a trail of rats
twelve city blocks long is behind him.

Making a mighty leap, he jumps up onto a light post,
grasping it with one arm while he hurls the bronze rat
into San Francisco Bay with the other, as far as he can
heave it. Pulling his legs up and clinging to the light
post, he watches in amazement as the seething tide of rats
surges over the breakwater into the sea, where they drown.

Shaken and mumbling, he makes his way back to the antique
shop. "Ah, so you've come back for the rest of the story,"
says the owner.

"No," says the tourist, "I was wondering if you have a
bronze attorney."

I may be opinionated, but at least I respect and listen to others as well!
MH
(Hearing is a dying art, while talking is a growth industry!)

Well, thanks for listening, Tex. See ya on the flipside maybe. Does this mean we ain't going steady? Do you want the ring back?

Nah, you can keep it, it was a cheap trinket anyway!

MH

Oh yeah, before I forget, just because I dispute with you doesn't mean I ain't listening to you. If fact the opposite would be true. If I wasn't listening I wouldn't have nothing to dispute would I?

Radical concept ain't it?

Cheap trinket huh? No wonder my finger turned green. Oh well..

Don't go away mad Hamish.

Now I get it!! Doh!!

Listening is irrelevant if you then tell poeple that they are completely wrong, and this is how you started (and continued).
I guess we have a different definition of listening.
Anyway, if I was miffed, I just would add a short tirade followd by a looong silence! Off to live in the RW.

MH
(Listen but not hearing, or is that hearing but not listening)

.. or whatever..

now for some more fun if i was the boss of lets say A.I.C and i wanted to test run new emergency plans for defending country anyone see where i,m going nextwhats one way to get everyone why not black out all electric power plants we can test all are new plans ectnot really,also will enable mock ups for neutreliseing invasion techniches
as it has happened now we know why ,we also know how to do it

I am not sure I caught all of that.
Are you saying it was like a mock-run or drill?

now would i say that stranger things have happened look at threats made by canada several years age to do just that relations between us - canada never good it is not within realms of possibilties progress was not halted for clandestine reasons bet you several agencies are busy running studie's on traffic blackspots ect

They'd wanna be sure of themselves before doing a test run that exposes the underbelly of the US infrastructure to the world. Anyway, the whole area took a serious hit to the wallet over all of this, billions of dollars were lost across the US. Seems like an slap happy way of doing it! Bob,I support your right to peddle conspiracy theories, but this one was too large and too damaging to be a set up, in my opinion anyway!

MH
(If I were a terrorist, I know where I'd be looking now!)
(I'm not by the way......a terrorist that is!)

I do not think it was outsiders. The US needs some serious Nation Building of it's own infrastructure. All the bridges and damns and many public untilities need help.

We need to do some serious work and employement in the areas of infrastructure and housing. Huge amounts of public work projects were done here after the first and second WW
Those work corps accomplished a lot and are needed now!