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

Hi again:

See, there you go hijacking the other conversation!

Seriously, the conversation has pretty much run its course elsewhere. FM has some personal problems with which the likes of me cannot help him. He doesn't like being faced with his personal failings or attitude problems, and isn't likely to change.

He does, however, have a very healthy seeming ego; unless that is also over-compensation.

Anyway, the real conversation was attached to my PR entry on the Ultimate Question. I'm getting a sense that the editors are just about through with their review and decision.

Anyway, Thanks for offering to join in!

If Mina had not objected, I'd have been perfectly content to continue there and have you participate.

I've really no idea how convo's pop up in my listings So if I do blunder in somewhere then do ask me to leave. I have a look at the latest posting on a general page and pop in if I see someone I know or something interests me. Thanks for being so understanding

I've added you to my "friends" list. Hope that's ok
I do find you an intelligent and well reasoned conversationalist, I respect and find those attributes entertaining
I can delete you, if you would prefer. I'm terrible forr blundering in places. Hijacker? I lock people up for that sort of thing

Not a problem! Any protestations, on my part, were tongue-in-cheek. I don't appreciate anything so much as I enjoy humour.

It's FM I'd be worried about. A lot of... issues there.

Welcome!

I rather gathered you were intelligent enough to see the fun and reason Good to have you around friend

BTW I'm sure we can apply enough pro-social modelling on FM between us? do it all the time at work, coupled with the fact I have a sad habit of playing mind games with some on here. Stops me becoming complacent and too blinkered.

PPS Since everyone else has the had the chance to laugh - this is me, rude to miss you

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Pro-social modeling ?! Sounds partially smart and partially medieval!

I'll have to look that up to see how it works

I presume you use it mostly on the unaware?

Hmmmm, I must think on that further Part smart and part medieval, you've got me now . That's quite easy to do at my age

I suppose one could describe it as manipulation of the thought processes from the undesirable and amplifying the desirable, aka feathering. Doesn't work on everyone, especially if they understand the tactics, so 'unaware' in part . Socratics is the buzz word of the moment. It does employ a degree of emotional and moral blackmail, which I regard as a crude tool at best and easily out manouvered. Being a sociopath has it's advantages, I can't be blackmailed , though I am running out of places to hide the bodies

Your age! Interesting! Have you met AlsoRan80?

I know how you feel, though. I was just reminiscing, with a younger colleague, about the way they used to serve box lunches on passenger flights (airplanes, not dirigibles), and even passed out free cigarettes!

Those were the days!

I can see where being a sociopath can lend one a certain armour, but so can being a fatalist/pragmatist.

Cripes friend you rise as early a I do Mine is not by choice Perhaps yours is merely a matter of time difference?
It took me a while and a serie of blunders on here before I fully encompassed the idea that Hootoo is international and become house trained.


I have encountered AlsoRan80, sweet hearted and sincere, but unable to fully understand my fatalist/pragmatist outlook on life and death.

Robyn is one of the few to penetrate my carapace, with relative ease, thus commands my respect on all quarters.

How the mores of society change, even in our life span It is difficult to remind my sense of humour that it is no longer 1973 and Gene Hunt is an anachronism of a past age.

And, they only know "Keeley Hawes" as the video game voice of Lara Croft!

How many, I wonder, remember William Hartnell as Dr. Who?

I do.

Cor, Keeley Hawes, now your talking Did you see her in the Boots Mascara advert? Mrs Norti couldn't get any sense out of me for nearly an hour afterwards, nothing unusual there then

I was heart broken when Mrs Norti insisted Lara Croft was only a cartoon It's when you kill her, and then ressurect her and she says so "Don't ever do that to me again!".

You must remember Dark Star circa 1974. My favourite all time movie It's the intransigence of Bomb No20 cracks me up

Yes, absolutely stunning!

Dark Star isn't so clear, but the Avengers character, Dr. Keel, played by Ian Hendry was pretty cool. I did think that it was eventually a great vehicle for Patrick McNee, but the original was also special.

Undoubtably for Dame Diana Rigg in her black leather catsuit Very influencial on my developemental years

I have to admit, her daughter, in a more recent series has inhiereted her mothers stunning looks.

In the latter series of the Avengers, there were six vehicles of the type available to "John Steed", Patrick Magee. All of which had V12 engines

Shame you didn't see Dark Star, it was a 'B' movie that became a cult classic. Starred Dan O'bannon, as Sgt Pinback, who went on tto direct the 'Alien' series. Dark Star was ediited by John Carpenter.

I'm not a movie however I naturally take an interest in what amuses me.

I have always had a special place in my cinematic heat for Diana, in particular her appearance in a movie where she played the daughter of Vincent Price!

And, let's not forget when she and Judi Dench appeared together in Midsummers Nights Dream! Still one of my favorite video tapes. That Young, pre-Dame, Judi was mesmerizing.

Of course, Honor Blackman preceded Diana on Avengers, and was pretty easy on the eyes, too!

Nowadays, you may have a point mentioning the motorcars. A couple of those have me drooling!

Now I wonder if you are currently UK based, though obviously have been You side stepped the question before, perhaps I was being too obscure

I think you may have noticed on here before, I have long standing affection for 2 stage super charged Merlins. It's just the glorious noise they make in a steep climb as the carburetter struggles under gravity or, for that matter the sound of a V8 with two sets of quad dellorto's sucking air in through K&N filters, like a series of mortors going off at tick over

You just don't get the thrill of the double declutch instant power with computers and fuel injection these days I was brought up with venerable Land Rovers

Never owned a TF, but that's the one I'd like to get my hands on!

So, which is your favourite? The 572? 632?

Ever hear one with the HMD (Holley Marine Dominator carb)?!

The engine pushes a lot of water in seacraft!

Think your referring to a pump jet propulser? (UK centric) and anything else is still secret I believe???? Better we don't go there.

How could anything match the Dodge Charger on the original Vanishing Point. A lot of people didn't realise the film title actually came from the ending if you think about it Perhaps it's just me Mind you fro sheer American grunt, I would love a Dodge Viper, and the cash to fuel it with. No doubt my insurance company would want me to ring them everytime I started it

Among the American muscle cars, there was one that I thought was particularly cool looking. It was based on the Pontiact GTO ('67, I think).

There were three or four made, all extended frames, all white 'rag-tops', and each had a gold guitar on the door!

They weren't stock, and made some impressive runs at 'drag races'. Of course, they also had parachute packs for slowing down at the end of the races.

Perhaps you'd heard of them?