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

Yes, that's them. They're the ones who are dead keen to go to the pub, and then get hauled out of the pub by their disapproving partners.

You know what I love? Going to the pub with my brother and all his mates…they’re all so tough and cool. When they get to the dancefloor the boys make a circle and take it in turns to dance with my brother (his fiancée watching from the side)…it really is a sight to behold.

I have no qualms with blokey blokes, or girly girls, or their hybrids. What I have a problem with is when they pretend to be something they’re not . The Boy has a pair of pink pants. Nothing extraordinary about them. They’re just pants that happen to be pink. I can’t believe the cr@p the poor kid gets for them. From boys that are all front and no balls.

Oh look, I’ve gone on my little “people who judge people are s” rant again.

One day I’ll realise that judging people because they judge people makes me as bad as them

It's a good rant to have, regardless.

The evil ex-boss has just been hanging around here. It seems nobody else wants to talk to him. Can't think why...

Wouldn't it be strange to realise that people can't be nice to you unless they're getting paid for it ?

He's looking a bit lost and forlorn. It suits him, actually.

Why is he there ?

Why is he there anyway ?

Well, as far as I can tell the office he's supposed to move into upstairs hasn't yet been vacated - and his office here has been occupied by someone else while he was at lunch. He's without a home, and his new underlings are already being bolshie.

We now have a new (acting) boss, and it's someone we can all cope with, so that's a relief. Some of the other candidates would have been nothing but trouble, and at least two of them would have been thoroughly ineffectual.

We still don't know what we're supposed to be doing, though. I wonder if it matters much in the final analysis.

It's telling about the state of affairs when the best candidate is the one that "everyone can cope with", isn't it ?

well it's the last week of school holidays here, so there's four people on my side of th floor...unfortunately one of them happens to be my Team leader

Anyway...

It's the first week of school holidays here. The Woden shops could double as one of the circles of hell... Much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

But on the plus side, the buses aren't so fully of ratty teenagers .

Yes, I've noticed that about the holidays...transport is a bit easier to deal with, but avoid anything like a City if you want to live

I just want to know why the current crop of teenagers looks so dirty all the time. Untidy I can cope with; eccentricity is endearing; but so many of them look like they need soap.

I know what you mean

My baby brother has always looked immaculate...even when I dressed him up as "Billy the Punk" for his primary school book parade he still looked like an angel. He and The Boy are the only ones I will trust when I have to go clothes shopping.

But it does seem bizarre that the majority of the young ones I see around these days look like trollies or mud-tumblers...

They can't all be apprentice mechanics or mud-brick makers, can they?

As for the half-mast trousers... well, that defies all explanation.

Surely not, but then a lot of kids are taking apprenticeships these days...

I've never understood the crotch to the knee business...they'll always look like Humphrey B Bear to me!

It makes the pants look full, for a start. I wonder if they realise they're providing a paedophile's holiday...

Maybe they're desperately hoping that they'll grow into them?

It's so nice when that happens - skinny people becoming enormous soon after puberty...

Well I was a fat kid so I found in many of those cases it was a case of good old karma coming back to bite the s on the