Your Letters
17:20 UK time, Monday, 2 July 2007
Could the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ please stop giving free advertising to the new iPhone (recent stories , , , , and ). Just like the iPod, the iPhone will be more about fashion than performance and reliability, so could you please at least force the advertising department at apple to do their job without using taxpayers’ money to do it for them.
Andrew Rowntree, Newcastle upon Tyne
I have to agree with Nicky Stu in Saturday's letters about the Monitor getting a tad too upset about the smoking ban. And today we have another story, about the 'new social outcasts'. They're not new. Ireland, Scotland and Wales have had them a long time. We don't all live in Islington, and this is a bit tiresome when we've got on with it fine up here for over a year.
K, Edinburgh
In response to Rob H's complaint about the request for pictures of people smoking, seeing as alcohol is probably more dangerous, it's the pub part you should be complaining about and not the smoking. And Nicky Stu, I'm sure you'll be delighted to discover just exactly what people who drink in pubs actually smell like. Not pleasant, hence Scottish pubs have introduced air fresheners.
Silas, London, UK
Rob H asks whether the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ would ask for pictures of people throwing themselves off cliffs or walking in front of buses - if they habitually fell off cliffs and walked in front of buses and were going to do so regardless of the presence of a camera, then why not let them take pictures?
Ian, Marseille, France
According to 10 things, "domestic cats can trace their descent to the middle east". Oh really? My cat can just about find her way up and down our street - I doubt whether she, or indeed any of our local and generally vacant moggies, could undertake what sounds like a programme of research into feline molecular evolution.
Steve, London
Re , I take it that means the vouchers I have just bought for my dad's birthday are now useless. He's gonna love me!
Hannah , Leamington Spa
Re Aine's query about why the cat was pictures with a credit card - maybe the credit card was a Goldfish one?
Tim McMahon, Pennar/Wales
Boo! If I was pedantic enough, I would complain that this week's 10 Things photo does not show 10 things, but a thing with 10. (I wonder how many other readers peered closely to see what the items numbering ten were?) And of course there is the consideration that I would appear as other sad individuals who have nothing better to do than pick holes in others' earnest efforts at entertainment. Hmmm, a quandary indeed. Maybe just publish this pour encourager les autres?
Tall Tone, Snowless Essex
This has been bugging me for years now. Can anyone explain why the zero at 10 Downing Street is offset and crooked. It's been like that for years. Go on take a close look.
Richard K Leah, Chesterfield England
Re the . Does that make it a fromage homage?
Spike, Canberra, Australia
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