Your Letters
15:21 UK time, Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Has the iPod turned us all into anti-social people? No, society did that. Especially the way that we're all packed like sardines onto poorly-maintained public transport, no wonder our primal urge is to grab any opportunity for some hint of personal space and privacy.
Duncan Corps
Has the iPod turned us all into anti-social people? Ner, I've always been antisocial. I've never needed headphones to do it either.
Ian Oliver
If they have not taught the poor thing to converse in 50 years perhaps it deserves a break! Oh, that was ConSERVation, sorry.
Susan, Newcastle
The newborn gorilla story is lovely, but what age other than a 'baby' gorilla would be born?
Simon, Cranfield, UK
In the interests of transatlantic comparable measurement (Tuesday's Letters): 1 Washington Monument = 3 Nelson's Column. (I'm sure the grammarians out there will tell me if it should have been "3 Nelson's Columns")
Ray Lashley (Guardian of Monitor Weights and Measures since 2005), Colchester, UK
Is it officially "Quirky Unit of Measurement Month"? So far, the Washington Monument has been used as a unit of measurement (Tuesday's Letters) and the weight of steel used in the Westfield Shopping Centre has been calculated to be the equivalent of . Now, surely the ultimate. According to the weight of a 21ft chocolate bar equates to 51 Arnold Schwarzeneggers. Sigh! Surely one is quite enough?
Fi, Gloucestershire, UK
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