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This is a trend I’ve noticed, mostly whilst working in the Library.

I’ve seen people talking on a mobile phone, and actually move the phone away from their ear and in front of their mouths when they speak.  I don’t quite understand what the point of this is – and it kinda spits in the face of telecoms engineers that made the GSM system full-duplex.  They are intentionally limiting their phones to half-duplex (i.e. you can either talk or listen, not both at the same time).  Also, mobile phones are designed such that the microphone is in the right place to pick up your speech at a sensible level when the phone is held to your ear.  Putting it right up against your lips just makes your voice overly loud and makes the signal clip – even when you’re speaking quietly.  Phones have compressers and limiters in them such that your voice is intelligible, regardless of how loudly you’re speaking. 

The other odd thing is that I’ve only ever seen black people doing this.  Not once have I seen any other ethnicity doing this – which in itself is disturbing (just describing it makes me sound racist). 

Most perplexing.

As I was walking home from campus today, the playlist from shuffle mode went like this:

• One – Aimee Man – A song about being lonely
• Alone In Kyoto – Air
• Radio #1 – Air
• Move Along – All American Rejects – I’m not even sure why I have this song
• Northern Birds – Amateur Transplants – an extremely derogatory song about girls from up North.

Just what I needed after a taxing Monday at uni.

I’m watching Countryfile with some pancakes and Colombian coffee (the normal sort of thing you do on a Sunday morning).  They were showing the release of the rare Hazel Doormouse back into the Yorkshire Downs.  They took their mouse and popped it into a little wooden box that they bolted to a Hazel tree.

It occurred to me – surely that’s giving the mouse some confused messages.  Imagine what it’d be like following the mouses children when they go to make their own nests.

“Here we see the young doormouse venturing into the wild to establish his own nest.  After picking a suitable tree with plenty of nuts to eat, he pops off to Homebase to get a sheet of 5 mil ply, a bottle of PVA wood glue and some 20 mil wood screws and raw plugs to build his home – and in the process earning himself 37 Nectar points – which will provide welcome discounts over the cold winter.  ”

Just, no.

NOTE: This is a really.  Really.  Really bad idea.  I drank a pint of water in the process of this, over the course of 3 minutes.

Charlie the Unicorn Drinking Game: get a drink, watch a Charlie the Unicorn video, and take a sip every time the name “Charlie” is spoken.  Down your drink at the end.  Collapse and go into a coma.