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

"Why is it that everyone says I won't admit to being wrong?"


"I admit to arguing until my pov is understood,"
...understood, filleted, kebabbed, roasted and served back to you

"but that doesn't mean it has to be agreed with (especially as I've already changed my mind)."
The trick is to /admit/ that you've changed your mind though...

"In fact, it's getting to be so rare for me to be right about anything that my specialist subject could be Faulty Judgement"
You might be wrong about that.

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But ...

Hic...

So that the single hic doesn't feel too alone ..

Ta...

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Are you in the stronger drink zone for a reason?

By way of double checking, BtJ had a belly laugh at my question and said he didn't think he'd ever known me to admit I was wrong. He went on to say that I usually acknowledge I was wrong in a roundabout way (I think that explains the 'Ah ... oh ... oops ... ') and then added that I shouldn't bother getting too paranoid about any of it

Have another:



Just tried to do my online banking. The site's down, 'please try again in an hour'. They must be joking, my body clock is telling me that it's after half past one and time to hit the horizontal. Pah!

Good grief, trying to get anything to load on this site is like queueing to see the hanging gardens of Babylon.

So I'm going to neither try again nor care, but head for a peaceful night

G'nite!

Well, there is one reason: the return of the son of the ghost of The Nabber...so no mash this week either...

G'night!

I'd call the return of the spawn of the spirit of The Nabber good grounds for hitting the bottle ... ttfn, will be back as soon as non-horizontal is a comfortable option.

Sorry to hear you're not having a good time...

G'night!

I'm up. I've even managed to bend down and pick up something I'd dropped. This is a huge improvement

Good, onward and upward eh?

Literally. I need to go out to buy a replacement support collar

This is odd enough to share: I've been aching as if I've been crushed in an enormous bearhug. This goes away when I wear a support collar

Almost all of this is the fault of the damned therapy putty.



What is this 'reactance' stuff? My dictionaries say that this is of a chemical or electrical reaction (ok, fair cop, they date back to the second half of the 20th century).

What's the context?

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It's been extensively used in the Scarcity chapter, in Influence, and in the context of Brehm's theory - pre-google, I'd have understood that it meant a non-physical - emotional or psychological - human response.

Whilst I can now understand that it's been adopted into the jargon of psychology, without google I'd have been left to my own quasi-definition. Unless I had something more than a passing interest in the subject.

Some may call it jargon, others could say it's a new American word ... the sort Sarah Palin might use

Thank goodness for google, eh?

Google, it's making so many people appear better educated and informed than could possibly be the case innit ... don't worry, that spotlight is not shining on you (it's dazzling me, are you still there?)

Oh I use it and dictionary.com a lot, mainly to double check what I think I know, but sometimes when I don't know stuff too.

G'night!