Yep, a cheapish but nice Seiko automatic. Back in the days of dumbphones, I didn't wear a watch for years - I just used my phone. But I realised a year or two back that with a smartphone, I get it out of my pocket to see what time it is, then check Facebook, then check Twitter, have a look how things are going on eBay, take a look at the weather forecast, read my email, check Facebook again and put my phone back in my pocket probably still not knowing what time it is. So now, in the face of all the modernity, I use a clunky old mechanical watch to tell me what time it is.

Paper books. My wife has a Kindle, which I use when I'm reading something I only have as an e-book, but given the choice I'll take a paperback every time.

The common cold, wasps, scraping ice off windscreens, slow internet, dishwashers that don't, shopping trolleys with wobbly wheels, cold coffee, warm beer, flat tyres, blunt knives, traffic jams, inaccurate weather forecasts, pens that stop writing mid-sentence despite having plenty of ink, spam, zits, and the music of Coldplay. Life is pain.

It's rude to choose texting over face-to-face talking when you're out with friends

Now that's the thing I have a problem with. Actually, even an occasional text I don't mind so much, but I DO lose it when I'm trying to talk to someone and they're obviously far more interested in checking if they've got any new likes on frigging tumblr (or something equally banal). I have been known to walk away mid sentence for this very reason.

I'd suggest you read "David Copperfield". From birth to death, with nothing left out.

(Seriously, if you haven't read it, it's awesome - if a little ... umm ... challenging to get through. Typical Dickens.)

I can understand wanting to own a piece of music history but ... $2.4 million? Pretty sure I could find a better use for that money.

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." ~ Paul Sweeney

Not just in the USA, sadly. Cameron and his cronies seem to have given up all pretence of caring about the ordinary people of the country.

Nice idea, I hope they do well. Can't help thinking it'd need to be an awful lot bigger (and cheaper) to be really practical as a food source, though.

I wish I could pretend to be surprised.

Heh... I don't use Reddit much since I started posting on here, but I must be on my third or fourth account there - every now and again I just find the place so utterly irritating that I delete my account and swear never to go back...

I'm very happy that we got your dedicated "socialising" account here on Snapzu! #;-)

Sure, we can give it a go. Why not?

If you saw a picture of me, it would make perfect sense. My usual (non-winking) smiley has round glasses as well as hair, which makes it an accurate enough likeness to use on a passport. #8-)