In the "Things That Make You Go 'Hmmm...'" Dep't (especially at the moment)

[dianeduane]

I mean, we've had a fair number of cellphones in and out of the house over the last few years.

But who buys six hundred of them in a matter of months? And why?

 

 

(Edit: more info here, here and here.)

Comments

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Don't light fixtures and toilets rely on there being an infrastructure? At least, your common or garden IED (OK, common or roadside) IED is a standalone item.

Here's hoping you'll never encounter one, by the way.

(I'm reading a history book at the moment. It's about the Assassins, with their context in Islam. My, have the Shi'ites and Sunnis really been at each other's throats for well over a millennium?)

[megabitch.livejournal.com]

For the last several years every time someone says "sunni and shia" want to guess what my brain parses it as? Go on :)

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Oh, they fought too.

[wishwords.livejournal.com]

Yes, they have. Why we think we want to be referees, I'll never know.

Not much chance of me running into an IED. Don't even really have to worry about mortors or rockets. The biggest hazzard is bad drivers in really, really big vehicles... and monotony.

[phoebesmum.livejournal.com]

Hope it stays that way! Monotony = better than some possible alternatives. ("But Mummy, I don't want to live in Interesting Times!")

[naienko.livejournal.com]

Only if it's written by Terry Pratchett.