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

That's because in Wollof, "mew" (pronounced "miaow") means "milk" - they're just telling you what they want, but being obscure about it, as cats do.

typical cat behaviour

: if you want to understand me adapt to me - don't expect me to adapt to you

There are quite a few humans who do that, too... Though they will make a slight effort by speaking more loudly.

not the females i have come across

In an act of liberation, I threw away all the paper stuff I never had the time to sort through, and which won't be important any more anyway (special offers, new companies etc).

That must have felt good. In the weeks before I left my last job I made sure I set aside a few moments every day for taking some of my stock of Important Official Instructions and other corporate twaddle and feeding it all through the shredder.

oh i am so looking forward to doing that. i already planned to open up another guest wing where i store my 23 years of paper now

Sadly, I can relate about the paper storage.
(BTW regarding the previous, my snores.)

I think I can finally throw my school homework away, at least

I was tidying out my loft on Sunday - I found a school book I'd written in 1977, when I was 5 years old!

My handwriting hasn't improved much...

mine is rapidly deteriorating as i hardly use anything else than a keyboard

I think I would seriously regret throwing away my school books. I remember once being able to help one of my sons out when he asked about Elizabeth I's Poor Laws - there it all was, in my neat 14-year-old handwriting (mine has greatly deteriorated since then, MH)

And all those recipes in our domestic science books. I've even check out stuff in my physics exercise books, but unfortunately I seem to have mislaid my biology books.

Sorry B'El - we really have de-railed your journal.

How's the job-hunting going?

I haven't started yet.

And I'm not ignoring anybody, it just takes me at least five minutes for each step (1. loading page to read 2. loading reply box 3 updating 4. looking for latest post)

really? it w*rks like a charm here. sorry to hear you have such problems

It is very frustrating.

actually i just had to restart my cpu, but i'm almost sure this was for other reasons

It's fine now. It's usually OK later.

living where you are their could be quite some traffic on the net, but i have no idea how this all w*rks so it's probably just a lame theory

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