Your Letters
15:34 UK time, Friday, 19 January 2007
Can we have a new version of where Z-list celebrities are locked up with no cameras at all, and each week we get to vote for the z-lister we'd like to ban from our screens for the next few months. Now that would be public service non-broadcasting... but who to nominate first?
Jessica, London
Rebecca, Cambridge, on being abused for having red hair (Thursday鈥檚 Letters) - I couldn't agree more. There is somewhat less of a social conscience attached to making fun of people who are ginger - but nonetheless those who do it are making fun of somebody for being "different" to them, which is as morally wrong as racism. However, it usually lessens once you leave the classroom. Anyone who does it in the street in my opinion deserves to be put back there... including morons in vans who yell it as they drive past (you know who you are)!
Chris Stephen, Dingwall, Scotland
Rebecca, I feel your pain. Here in the US, redheads are much less common than in the UK. My elementary school principal teased me about being a redhead ("All redheads are troublemakers," etc.) for my first five years in schooling (age 5-10). He thought it would make me tougher in the long run. It may have, but I cannot imagine anyone tolerating that sort of abuse from an authority figure for a racial or religious difference.
Dragon, San Francisco, California, US
Should the head of the RMT Union really be using "We have reached the end of the road"?
Michael Hall, Croydon, UK
The photos of the look like nature's revenge on machines, what with all the shots of trees crushing cars!
Sarah, Edinburgh
One of the reader鈥檚 pictures of the storm damage shows a tree in the road with a Police - Slow sign in front. () Surely "Stop" might be better advice?
Rich T, Herts
Two observations from your 'storm in pictures' feature:
Walnut Tree Close () appears to be the most inappropriately named street, with not a single walnut tree in sight, nor does the industrial building give it a 'close' feel.
is now even more dangerous, what with the risk of being showered with glass. Print that on the packet.
And, in - no birthday question? Maybe no celebrity birthdays this week - it is January after all, nothing exciting happens in January.
Basil Long, Newark, Notts
I am horrified and disgusted that the Magazine has chosen to degrade itself by featuring pictures of a young tennis-playing lady鈥檚 .
Please print other, similar images in the near future, so that I can keep my level of disgust constant and topped up.
Disgusted of West London
Re the story about the : Thank you for the perfectly worded finale: "Mr Sal Lou said the family was now watching her closely after she took her clothes off..." I nearly choked on my lunch.
Chris Kenny, Southampton, England
Re: The identity of Magazine Monitor. (Fran, Thursday鈥檚 Letters) They鈥檙e DEFINITELY American. Some months ago, he/she "took the fifth" a reference to the 5th amendment to the US Constitution which relates to self-incrimination. I meant to write in at the time, but I must have been doing actual work that day.
Heather Simmons, Macomb, Michigan, USA
Fran - PM isn't American, just young and hip (unlike me apparently, as I've used the word "hip").
Robin, Edinburgh
To Steve Elsworth on songs stuck in your head. (Thursday鈥檚 Letters) I hate you now... stupid song.
Darren McCormac, London
Thank you Sarah, I now also have La Cucaracha stuck in my head, at least no one has said 鈥淗ey Micky鈥.
Lee McCutcheon, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Humming the theme from "The Pink Panther" is guaranteed to remove even the most stubborn song from one's head.
Robert Stanton, Kenilworth
There must be flexicon entry for infecting someone else with an annoying tune?
Robin, Edinburgh
I could not get Tom Jones singing Delilah out of my head so I saw my doctor. He said it鈥檚 not unusual.
Suntrecker, Hatfield
Here's a good game to play in the office: Insert the title or a well known line from a song into a conversation (it has to be in context). The aim is to get that song stuck in the target鈥檚 head for the rest of the day.
Amelia, Aberdeen
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