Your Letters
15:32 UK time, Thursday, 13 September 2007
The stats around distort the facts. The fact is, people were already spending that much time goofing off on the internet each day while at work. Now they are just spending that time in one measurable place.
Ray Abruzzi, Brooklyn, NY, US
I'm a bit concerned about the headline . I hadn't realised that it was a competition.
Pauline, Scotland
I see from the headline that at last the secret ingredient in the fountain of youth has been discovered.
Kat Murphy, Coventry
That was my first though too. My second thought was "they really need to conduct more tests because the Rolling Stones are hardly the Peter Pans of rock".
Adam, London
I went on holiday during the school term because my parents could not get annual leave for any time in the summer holidays (Wednesday letters). At the time, my mum was in a team of eight and all had school-aged children. Company policy stated a maximum of two people could be on annual leave at the same time. Based on a six-week school holiday and parents going a fortnight each, this meant two workers couldn't go away during the school holidays.
Helen, Leicester
Here's a new, entirely non-competitive, game we might enjoy playing: I call it, "It begs the question...". I pose a question and your task is not to answer it, but to identify the headline that made me ask it. For example, yesterday's question might have been:
When did they become so suicidal?
The story that made me ask this question was: .
So, today's question is:
Where can I get some?
Ray Lashley, Colchester, UK
Rory (Wednesday letters) asks what proportion of the beer-lovers surveyed were old enough to have experienced pubs in the 1970s in order to say they prefer today's boozers. Given that the survey was carried out by the Campaign for Real Ale, my guess is the majority of the respondents would be old enough to have legally drunk in pubs in the 1940s let alone the 1970s.
Ian, Winchester, UK
How very disappointing to see that Paper Monitor is in watching Heroes like the rest of us. I'd been imagining he/she as a party animal, out every night with Big Brother contestants.
Emma, London
So 23% of dads wake up when their new baby is crying. If you want mothers to breast-feed don't whine if the father - probably back at work - sleeps through the night. He's not much help in the circumstances. My healthy hunk of 22 was bottle-fed and I got up during the night more than my wife 'till he slept through
Andrew, London
I note that the random stat no longer says it's a beta feature. Amazingly fast to full production considering most of Google's offerings are still labelled beta years later.
Malcolm Owen, Swansea, UK
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