Your Letters
15:52 UK time, Tuesday, 25 May 2010
The current top story is surely contributing to the problem of lost work time.
Rebecca, Bristol
The supposed $120 million in lost productivity is a ridiculous statement to make. Firstly it assumes that every single user accessing Google a day is doing it as part of their occupation and that they're "on the clock". I imagine the reality is only be a fraction of the number. Secondly it assumes people are paid £17.50 an hour - we should be so lucky to have to have that as a world average wage.
Graham, Swansea
No way. I've been made redundant and hate having no money because I was used to earning a decent salary... I kind of wish I didn't know. But, I'm not expecting to be unemployed forever.
Drew Gibson
I most certainly do not remember Eurotrash (Paper Monitor). Nor do I remember sneakily watching it at a friends house as a tweenager, unsure whether to giggle or oggle.
Nope. No sir-ee.
Si, Leeds
Facebook are ? I guess that's why when I checked my account today I was offered even more prompts to make my account public by linking to pages that have been created for every item in my profile. When will Mark Zuckerberg learn that not everyone on Facebook wants to be visible and most people would like some sort of control on what others see. Unfortunately, 31 May is too far away for me and my partner, and we have just deleted our accounts.
Ant, Nottingham, UK
Am I the only person who wanted to understand precisely what the Mexican supporters were shouting every time the England keeper took a goal kick? Probably not, but I wonder if anyone else ended up finding the surprisingly detailed Wikipedia article entitled "Spanish Profanity"?
Oh well, at least I know now.
Neil Franklin, Chandlers Ford, UK
Re overuse of BREAKING NEWS (Monday letters), I'm pretty sure 1997 is when this started. It was after Lady Diana was killed, and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 24 started. Everything was breaking news/newflash. You think "Oh God... what's happened", when low and behold, some footballer has been transferred, or a politician has left his teddy-bear on the train. It's akin to the boy who cried wolf, so now when I hear of breaking news, I don't even give a second glance.
Iain F MacMillan
Kevin (Monday letters), Over the Rainbow did not "run for the proscribed number of weeks", since "proscribed" means condemned, prohibited or outlawed. Maybe this was where the "Breaking News" was?
Julian, London
Hardly Quote of the Day, considering the original story was published in July 2007... Come on Monitor, pull it together.
Phil, Oxford
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