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Trash Rant
Posted Mar 21, 2004
Hi! If you don't already do so, sometimes, just sometimes, take a plastic bag with you next time you go walkies.
Honour the local spirits, and pick up the rubbish left in their domain.
You can also choose to be more scientific about it and think of the potential problems it could cause, if the trash is eventually washed into waterways like streams, rivers, and oceans.
Or you can be "helping the archaeologists of the future" - not by leaving it there so they can "map the migration patterns of the human species" (That would be what the ROAD is for) - but by locating it to the nearest rubbish facility.
Shoot, even if the idea of picking up other people's eyesores is a bit unpalatable, as long as you don't leave yours, then good for you.
Seriously, what possesses some folk to think that the magic "can-collecting fairy" will appear (ESPECIALLY along countryside roads) to remove their discarded bottles, cans, and chippie packets?
Oh wait. That fairy must be me.
I travelled halfway across the world and felt compelled to pick up rubbish on my walks through remoter areas of foreign countries.
It also happens in my own country too. I'm a goody twoshoes perhaps, but I will pick up rubbish at most of the beaches I visit, if I come across it.
This isn't to say that I pick up everything, but if it's plastic or metallic, I probably will, if I see it.
It's really not all that difficult!
Now, if I could just open a temporal hole to "under the bedsheets" of the beds of miscreants, I would cheerfully send their trash back to them.
Alas, I suspect the members of h2g2, being Douglas Adams fans, will already harbour such thoughts (he being somewhat environmentally conscious), so this rant may be wasted here!
I saw some offending trash today 
- forgive me. 
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Latest reply: Mar 21, 2004
Sapphire and Steel
Posted Mar 14, 2004
Bring them Back!
I am a fan of Sapphire and Steel. (Filmed on the soundstage next to the Muppet Show one, apparently!)
Two of my favourite shows from my youth.
Now if Sooty and Sweep were filmed on another nearby soundstage, I believe that would be perfection with a crispy crust...
Sapphire and Steel... now there's a show that deserves to be looked at again. If only someone would make a really good movie with those characters - I even believe they could still use Joannna Lumley and David McCallum! (Last I knew, the series ended with them stuck in a time loop, and the next season never eventuated, so bring them out of the box, I say!)
It was the X-files of its time, and was responsible for giving me an irrational fear of spots of light and deep-freezes, until I turned 12, and saw some re-runs where all was made clear!
Lordy knows how old I was when I first watched it. 6? 7?
Great show. Great use of minimal effects - something that should be retained.
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Latest reply: Mar 14, 2004
tellyrambling
Posted Mar 14, 2004
Their ship was a Bauhaus Lemon Squeezer. (Those who know of what I speak, will know of what I speak!) 
I am a fan of Sapphire and Steel, which was filmed on the soundstage next to the Muppet Show one, apparantly!
My two favourite shows from my youth.
Now if Sooty and Sweep were filmed on another nearby soundstage, I believe that would be perfection with a crispy crust...
Sapphire and Steel... now there's a show that deserves to be looked at again. If only someone would make a really good movie with those characters - I even believe they could still use Joannna Lumley and David McCallum! (Last I knew, the series ended with them stuck in a time loop, and the next season never eventuated, so bring them out of the box, I say!)
It was the X-files of its time, and was responsible for giving me an irrational fear of spots of light and deep-freezes, until I turned 12, and saw some re-runs where all was made clear!
Lordy knows how old I was when I first watched it. 6? 7?
Great show. Great use of minimal effects - something that should be retained.
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Latest reply: Mar 14, 2004
O tricksies!
Posted Mar 14, 2004
To find out that a message dangling like a little fishie's lure had been used before, on other victims!
Thou art weaselly, and bite I not upon thy site, Avon of Kerr! 
The ship was a Bauhaus lemon squeezer.
*You will respond*
*you will respond*
Fight it, I dare you...
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Latest reply: Mar 14, 2004
27 hour days.
Posted Mar 13, 2004
I could use some.
Oh, I know it is likely to screw-up the planet's precarious ecological nature. But if, hypothetically speaking, it didn't, what would really happen?
Well, I figure we'd all die younger, and probably the economy would make it so that we worked longer hours, which would defeat the purpose really.
But it certainly would be nice to be able to have more of that precious invisible commodity of time. This, to do things outside of work, for myself, AND get enough sleep so that I can function the next day.
Not to mention that my sleep/wake schedule (hooray for working slightly flexible times!) seems to run on a 27 hour cycle, replenished by sleep on Sunday.
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Latest reply: Mar 13, 2004
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