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

It appears so. My tutor said that my name had been missed off the list of students, which was why I didn't have a tutor for a while.

Mind you there are times when it's useful to be missing from lists....

Obviously not for important things like exams, but at other times....

Congratulations Unc !

I got given a voting, poll card thingy once. When I was 16 . Bit of an administrative mix up there.

There was a Labour party member spending over 10 minutes trying to get me to vote Labour when I was 17.

Socialist people always try to get me to vote for them, which doesn't work either. And I get pulled aside and asked about my tax, on the assumption that I'm 18.

Works well for obtaining though.

I'm just waiting to get my hands on my ballot paper in June and show the EU just what I think of it

I'm still puzzled at my housemates for not knowing what the Hutton report was.

How can you not know that?

University. It can be like living in a bubble, a little world all of its own.

I bet. Are you at a campus uni?

There are four campuses but one big main one and I rarely have lectures in the others. Living off campus gives some sort of hint that there's actually such a thing as the 'real world' at least.

Yeah I thought as much .

Ah well there's not much to know about the Hutton report. "Whitewash" pretty much covers it.

I always make an effort to follow the news after a geology lecture in my first semester where the lecturer said something along the lines of 'the recent earthquake in Italy is an example of this.' The reaction of most the class was 'what earthquake?'

I agree with you there.

I always try to make my philosophy relevant with current affairs examples, but that doesn't work so well.

Saw a spoof paper online, that said that the Bush administration was ordering its own whitewash from Lord Hutton .

It's very easy to make them relevant to my 'communicating science' module, as that's the whole point of it.

The front page of 'Private Eye' was a picture of Hutton with the caption 'in conclusion I find Dr. Shipman innocent of all charges'.

Lucky you. I have a hell of a time trying to keep philosophy relevant.

One of the benefits of environmental science is that just about everything is relevant some how.

Oh, philosophy is almost never relevant. Except for political philosophy. Which I don't do.

Did quite a bit on the philosophy of science last year, that was good fun.

Oh yeah, Kuhnian paradigms. I don't know a whole lot about philosophy of science, I think I'll do that and philosophy of politics at uni. They seem to be relevant and interesting.

Ay carumba I'm tired.