Occasional Scribbles: Second fiddle to sheep and phones

Thursday, November 1, 2012

There are more sheep and mobile phones in Ireland than people. Indeed, there are more mobile phones in the world than there are people.

Anonymous said...: A friend who is a teacher has just started working with a new group of students and reports the following:

'I do have to collect their mobiles in the beginning of each class, otherwise they just spend the whole lesson checking their facebook updates. Each student has at least one i-phone, one Blackberry, and at least one other phone. Today I collected 36 phones from a group of 14; and I knew that had I combed the territory properly, there would have been at least 10 more to collect (I am not even mentioning i-pads).'; November 01, 2012

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