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

My feet are 'oorible-looking because of all the football I play. Both my ankles have wicked scars, and when I was really seriously playing footy, I lost three toenails at various points.

They regrew, of course, but there's nothing nastier than having to pull your own toenail out after bursting a blood-blister underneath it.

Anyone feeling ill yet?

so thats how to be a playa, is it? missing a trick, i am...

i have to say i prefer healed court shoes to sandals. sense over style is my watchword, baby.

skating as in 'woah, gnarly dude' skating or 'i say that is a wonderful triple inversion flib. doenst sheook lovely wearing all those rhinesstones. so tasteful. dahlink.' skating?

Why do you think I always wear trainers when I can get away with it?

Skating as in would be 'isn't that a lovely triple lutz!', only I can only do a single lutz. Or any other jump. Badly, at that. Nah, I mostly dance these days: you know, the ballroom-dancing-type thingy they have on at 3 in the morning.

My toenails fall out all the time too, though mostly because of D of E expeditions and general clumsiness. I have two effectively separate toenails growing out of my left little toe now...

Nice

i like D of E expeditions...although i've only ever done 2...i never finished my bronze
i prefer expeditions where there are no etachers to etll you what to doand wheer togo...
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I finished my bronze - I just never claimed it. Don't like the D of E anyway - bigoted scumbag.

the D of E is the biggest comedy genius currently known to man. he is having a laugh at the expense of the tabloids rather than actually being a git. my theory

D of E expedition is a joke. i did (was forced to do) the whole of bronze. i never got it cos they wanted me to write a diary of how i went litter picking. 6 months after the event they told me to do this. how did they expect me to remember. watse of time..

'Comedy genius'? I don't know about anyone else, but I think being referred to as an ethnic group as 'slitty-eyed natives' counts as pretty gittish.

fair dos, i suppose...not being a member of an ethnic minority i cant really judge my reaction

It's just absurd, really

At the beginning of sixth form, I threw myself into a lot of extra curriculars, basically to make new friends and occupy time. One of them was the D of E gold award. WHAT was I thinking? Well, I just told you what I was thinking, and for the most part i have achieved my aims, but the cost... I'm not a physical person, really. I'm quite a lazy bugger, in fact. I'm fit enough not to have to roll from place to place. Being of below average fitness, I didn't cope well initially. I threw up on the first practice expedition, I just wasn't used to that kind of pain. I then climbed 400m of literally the roughest terrain I'd crossed in my life (a relative achievement) only to be met by a ten minute hailstorm at the top.

So why am I still doing it? Put simply, I'm the type of person who can gain satisfaction from pointless achievement. I've endured it, and it has payed off. I'm lucky to be in a group with a pack of jokers, we keep each other sane and motivated by generally goofing around a lot. We've even managed to have some good times, believe it or not, in pursuit of the great outdoors, even though we're all totally city at heart.

So, all in all, minus the pain, the worst thing about the D of E for me is its patron. (*wears his 'ethnic' badge, so people in netland know*)

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so there we go. foolish boy!

*giggles*

*sighs*

*hurts*
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Oh dear

*wanders off to get some paracetamol*
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What've you done, lass?

dabling with dangerous nuclear isotopes again?