Your Letters
16:14 UK time, Wednesday, 30 May 2007
I wonder how many of the fly abroad twice or more a year?
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK
Re - this is indeed correct, I think "Nimby" is more accurate.
Owain Williams, Munich
tells us the man is question is a vegetarian. Shouldn't that be was?
Adam, London, UK
Re , about lecturers refusing to take part in McCarthy style witch hunts. Professor Anthony Glees claims that the evidence that British universities are causing extremism is "overwhelming" because in the fertiliser bomb terror trial, "five of the people who got life sentences had been students at British universities". It's amazing how often people trot out logic this bad. By the same process it can be seen that, because no fewer than 100% of all convicted terrorists have breathed oxygen in the weeks before their crimes, oxygen causes more extremism than British universities.
Jim, London
Apparently, Microsoft's new "surface" computer allows users to "instead use their fingers to operate the computer". What on earth have people been using until now? Am I doing something fundamentally wrong when I type and click?
Rob, Birmingham, UK
After reading about the look-alikes in Paper Monitor, and not having easy access to newspapers in my office, I went looking for pictures in the Daily Express website. Once I'd run a search, to no avail, it gave me suggestions of what I may like to search for instead. I'll give you three guesses what their "e.g." was...
Tom Webb, Epsom, UK
As a former Southerner now living in Scotland, today's was easy. I feel it needs clarifying that these aren't just normal trainers we are talking about, but rather the lightweight, usually black, slip-ons favoured in primary school PE lessons.
James, Edinburgh
In , you say that "in Leeds, trainers are called pumps". Nope, plimsolls (of the black or white sort we used to wear for gym) are pumps. Trainers are, in fact, called trainers.
Joanne, Leeds
I've just come across a website that may help those who feel the need to understand quantities in terms of something tangible (Tuesday letters). allows you to accurately convert weights into something more comprehensible than pounds and kilos - the weight of a blue whale's testicle, for example.
Bransby, London
My French isn't what it used to be, but I assume "aussi grand qu'un bus Londonien" (Tuesday letters) is about Shane Warne catching the 10.43 to Clapham?
Edward Green, London, UK
It has a four-line caption and image tag text (Tuesday letters), but can anyone tell me what the second picture in actually shows?
QJ, Stafford, UK
of Doctor Who photo alert.
Basil Long, Newark Notts
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