Archive for December, 2009

For all you Apple evengelists out there who enjoy nothing more that trying to get me off my Blackberry and onto an iPhone.  Although, I’m sure you’ve probably got one of your apps to stop anti iphone messages from displaying on your scratched little screen …

Believe me, go to a small market town like Farnham in Surrey and most of the people have life very easy.  However, get caught up in a school gate chat, and you’ve be led to believe that the bored and very comfortable people have the weight of the world on their shoulders.  So little is going on in their lives that they snipe, gossip and get worked up about Strictly and extensions.

No time to read a book for book club?  Of course not, you’re probably all too busy working out how we regain the public’s trust in our elected politicians – I know I am.

Well, it’s a shame you won’t get time to read the charming I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti but, in amongst all the words and waffle – here’s the nub of it:

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It took me 25 minutes to get a coffee this morning. I’d be cool with that if there were hundreds of people in the queue – but there weren’t. There were four.

Coffee shops like Starbucks have simply offered too much choice to people who can’t deal with it.

I could smell the fear in the short queue as the poor people in front of me had to move the X Factor result to one side of their brain to focus on some challenging questions. In or out, wet or not, milk or soy … large, larger or bucket. Not one of them could cope with the choice. And the choice of names, surely, is provocative. I didn’t see anyone skinny ordering a skinny latte – but I guess someone in head office though asking people to request an ‘I want to be skinny’ latte was a little cruel?

It led me to the graph below – I’m convinced you were over-indulged as a child if your coffee order takes you over a minute:

We also have a guess graph today from a lecturer at an esteemed UK university. So driven to act was James (found here on Twitter) by our Facebook graph here that he not only penned one of his own – but made it considerably more pertinent that The Plooptionary had!