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

Well, I've finished my essay. Sort of.
It's one of the worst essays I've ever written, but that's okay I don't care. It's only a 1500 word essay anyway, and what did I really expect for two hours' work?
Perhaps I'll print out a second copy and go through it again tonight, just to see if I can polish it again before tomorrow. Pity I don't even know if it's due in at 9am or 4pm.

I just found out that I hadn't yet added Logicus, Job, or Blackberry to my friends list! I thought I'd added them ages ago! I vaguely wondered why they never seemed to add a journal entry... Never mind, problem solved now.

I seemed to have a few hours of impotent rage this morning; a couple of posts in particular seemed particularly vohemient, even to me. I hope nobody's taken offence at all. The problem is that the stronger I feel about a subject the less lucid I seem to become, and when the subject is war... well, say no more.
I still think there should be a stronger smiley than . Perhaps would do the trick...

That's alright I never write journals anyway.

Don't get me started on war. I have been worrying myself (quite litterally) sick about it. The only conclusion I can get out of it is that I don't want to be part of a society that has wars. I mean can't we just learn to get along and can't we not worry about what the country next door is doing.

I agree entirely on the war thing...I don't think we can claim to be a civilised, enlightened people, and still have to resort to killing innocent people, and putting our friends abd fanily in danger...just to get our way.

well.. i agree with everyone on the whole war thing. i do wish we could all get allong.


i'm sure the essay is fine jerms. dont worry about it too much.

for all!!!! just because.... but i cant have any yet because i was jsut at the dentists and my cheek feels like its totally out there to there *indicates a space as far as her arms car strech apart*.. and my toung is so numb that i cant even sing wihout biting it...

Aursztid !

If it's any consolation the last time I went to the dentist was to get my wisdom tooth removed

The time before that was to get two fillings, I was so pumped full of anaesthetic it felt like my face was melting

And to make it worse, after a while I regained enough feeling to be able to speak, but I sounded like a cross between Cartman from "South Park" and Sylvester from the old Warner Brothers cartoons

about the extra "U" Arisztid, I haven't had my yet and as a result am not quite human yet...

...not that I'm very human to begin with

If /you/ want peace, and /you/ want peace, and /you/ also want peace... *points, points and points*... then why do wars happen?
I don't want to hurt you all, because I /know/ you, and I like you.
It's because I've taken the time to talk to you, and you to me.
If people don't do that then they can happily(?) hurt the other person, or at the very least have lost the chance to have a conversation with someone interesting... I hope people learn to talk.

I'm glad I've never had any horrible dentist experiences... Last time I went to the dentist was about the worst that I've had, and that was just coming home with a toothache I didn't arrive with... Pity that was about two weeks before my jaw was broken and my teeth shattered anyway; I could have saved myself the bill.

The essay's due in in a couple of hours... I should probably be polishing the last of it, but you guys are all too addictive...

I think a lot of it is that we tend to label people based on how they are different to us...like "Arabs", "Jews", "Americans", whatever....we stop thinking of the guy we went to school with as "the guy we went to school with" and start thinking of him as "other".

I think if we all stopped and realised that people are *people* and therefore like us...we wouldn't be so happy to start killing them off...

I've never had a *bad* experience at the dentist. More embarrassing than anything else...when I went in for my extraction it took 20 minutes for the painkillers to kick in...and about a minute for the dentist to yank the tooth

And as for speaking like ridiculous cartoon characters...I think that speaks for itself

(You've got an hour to do your essay...I'm going to lunch )

"I think if we all stopped and realised that people are *people* and therefore like us....we wouldn't be so happy to start killing them off..." Absolutely! /That's/ what I've been trying to get out of my mouth!

Hopefully the embarrasment didn't go any further than the dentist... Hmm... I wonder if dentists ever have hidden cameras, just to be able to laugh at people afterwards...
...they probably have parties where they compare the patients' voices for comedy value...

(No, I have two hours... you're GMT-11, remember! )

(no, you had one hour...and it's up now, I've just gotten back from lunch )

I know I'm a big screaming hippie and a cockeyed optimist and all that stuff...and maybe I'm over-simplifying it...but I don't know why we can't just get over it and be friends...

Oh, when I was talking like a moron everyone got a taste of the action...my brothers and sister were there with me (I couldn't say "frankincense"...it sounded like "fwankinshensh" )...and I had someone living with me at the time...so he got to poke fun at me for hours until it wore off

I don't know if the dentist though it was funny though...especially the last time...20 minutes and 3 injections to numb me up...I think he was getting a little impatient about it all, actually...

(Good thing I've dropped off the essay then! )

I wish I could have been there! Sounds like exactly my kind of comedy... ("Say 'Ship'?" )

Well I'm glad you can derive pleasure from my pain and misery Jerms

Not that I didn't get enough of that as it was

Your pain and misery are NOT required for my amusement... just your inability to form reasonable phonemes...

I'd be laughing just as hard if you were to inhale copious amounts of helium, or some such.

See, I wouldn't even need that from you...you already have an accent

Unfortunately there's not a whole lot that effects my speech (or is it affects? I always get them confused......), having half of my mouth numbed will usually do the trick though

I don't have an accent!

Well, okay I do, but nowhere near as tickly as an aussie drawl!
...at least I don't say feesh and cheeps.

'Affects' is the verb you're after. Effects is the noun.

Does drinking numb your mouth at all?

Everyone thinks I'm because I like the Kiwi accent.

Actually, I think it's more a case of everyone thinking I'm ...my love of the Kiwi accent is almost inconsequential .

But I have an accent. No one knows where it came from...but I have an accent. Aussies always ask me where I'm from...and are overcome wiht confusion when I say "here"...have I ever been overseas, they ask? Well no...I've been to Tasmania...and that's the closest I've come to "overseas"

Most of the kids I went to school with, and half my family, thought I was a snob...now I tend to go from snob to trashtalker, depending on how much I've had to drink...

..but no, has never numberd my mouth so much I couldn't talk properly...it actually works the opposite way...the more I drink, the more verbose I become...mostly because I try not to use big words in general conversation, because people think I'm a snob

You're right, liking the Kiwi accent is .
Funny thing is, though, I don't even know what anybody else thinks about our accent... not because I don't know what it sounds like (people usually never hear their own accent, but I do 'coz I'm a linguistics student and I've travelled a bit) but because our accent is so different in different parts of the country, and I don't know which parts other people think are stereotypical.

If it's any consolation, people keep asking me where I'm from too... some of them seem to think I have a bit of an accent (I just try to actually /pronounce/ my 'r's...) and others just see a tall, blond, blue-eyed guy and assume I'm from Switzerland or something!


...So I'm not going to challenge you to a drinking competition so I can hear you talk funny, then?

I like the Kiwi and South African accents...they're my favourites...after the Germans, maybe...I don't know, I guess I'm just ...

I would've thought people hated the Aussie accent...as a general rule, I always thought it sounded a little dopey...

...having said that, I've always had a special place in my heart for really Aussie people

I know what you mean, everyone asks me if I'm from England or NZ for some reason when they hear me talk...before that everyone thinks I'm Greek or Italian (my dad's white, my mum's black...I'm somewhere in the middle )

You can have my kiwi accent if you want; I'm finished with it...
Personally I'm a sucker for a rich 'Oirish' accent.

"...the Aussie accent...as a general rule, I always thought it sounded a little dopey..." You can thank Ernie Dingo and Steve Irwin for that!

"I've always had a special place in my heart for really Aussie people "; Me too, more because of the type of people aussies tend to be, more than anything. Can always trust an aussie.

Somewhere in the middle's a good place to be.

I used to go all gooey at the sound of an Irish accent...but I've been going to an Irish pub for nearly 7 years now...it's lost it's novelty value...a Scottish accent, on the other hand....

(I don't know why, I just prefer accents that sound a little "hard" )

Yeah, my dad's really Aussie, and I think he's the best ...I prefer roughnuts anyway, arrogance and judgement don't wash with me...

I agree with you...somewhere in the middle's pretty cool...it's just trickier finding people to identify with