The Logic Off Topic list

--- In logic-ot@y..., Dennis Gunn <dennisg@a...> wrote:
> Hendrik Jan Veenstra  grumbles:
> 
> >"hi, it's me... no, me, John!... yes, I'm in the train right now...
> >huh?  yeah, in the TRAIN...  I'm at Utrecht Central now...  no,
> >Utrecht...  yes, will be home in about 10 minutes...  hm? ...  no,
> >TEN minutes...  yeah, see ya".  Combine this with the 
incessant "tsk
> >tsk tsk tsk" from a bunch of walkmans, and there's really no fun
> >anymore to travelling by train...
> >(and then such an idiot asks you to close the window because it 
makes
> >too much noise so he can't understand what the other person is
> >saying...  arghhh... &^%$#)
> >
> >Ah!  Got the solution: if we freeze all the morons with cell-phones
> >and walkmans, then... :-)
> 
> And they call *me* a grump.
> 
> I don't use a phone or a walkman on trains but it does not bother 
me 
> in the least to see people doing something with the time they are 
> incarcerated in the tube that they feel better about than staring 
> straight on with the expression of  wet gerbils.

ROFL. I'm seeing the image of a wet gerbil vividly, :-).

 What *does* bother 
> me are the incessant recorded exhortations to cease and desist 
> issuing at earbleed levels from the overhead speakers.

True, very annoying. Louder than needed. AS IF WE ARE NOT MUSICIANS. 
I needed to get that out of my system, :-).
Maybe if I'm over 60, I'll need that more often.
Yoonchi.