Your Letters
16:14 UK time, Tuesday, 29 May 2007
Re 10 things we didn't know..., the UK has the most post offices in Europe. This may be true (though disputed in Letters yesterday), but in many other countries, you can "post" a letter by leaving it out for the postman to collect. Things become more complicated when you have to travel to the nearest post office/post box to send mail. I've never understood why we can't use this system in the UK!
Rikki, Essex, UK
Re Greg's letter about who is who in the story. It's all part of the 大象传媒 caption vs jpeg name conspiracy - hold the mouse cursor over the picture itself and a different story reveals itself. See, especially, the picture at the top of .
Owain Williams, Munich
Re Monday's mini-quiz. You can add to over-recliners, seat-grabbers as a terror of air travel. Can anyone explain the need to grab the back of seats on a plane as you walk along the aisle? When flying in bad weather it is maybe permissible, you don鈥檛 want to spill your G鈥檔鈥橳 on the way back from the galley, but standing on the runway during boarding? Simple rule of thumb, not just for planes but for all of life, if it irritates you then it will surely annoy the hell out of others!
William Norman-Walker, Woking
Thank you for the warning about not endangering ourselves or taking unnecessary risks in taking photos symbolising 48 hours of rain. I suppose the main risk would have been hypothermia.
Michael Hall, Croydon, UK
The Polish radio listeners who, in , 鈥減ointed out that Winnie the Pooh had only male friends鈥 haven鈥檛 been paying attention. I鈥檓 fairly certain that Kanga is female, what with her having a pouch and Roo calling her "Mum" and everything.
MJ Simpson, Leicester, UK
In our regional newspaper this morning (La Provence) there was an article on a new French satellite which was "aussi grand qu'un bus Londonien". Alas they didn't mention how many "piscines" that made but it is nice to see imperial (empirical?) measures fighting back.
John Murphy, Lauris, France
Finally, to all our measurement conversion problems! Unfortunately, it doesn't yet cover Olympic Swimming Pools, double-Decker busses or phone boxes, but it can tell you that the Great Wall of China is equivalent to 2,964,335 Shaquille O'Neals. Useful, I'm sure you'll agree.
Shaede, Kingston, Surrey
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