50 things that are being killed by the internet

"50 things being killed by the internet"

5) Punctuality
Before mobile phones, people actually had to keep their appointments
and turn up to the pub on time. Texting friends to warn them of your
tardiness five minutes before you are due to meet has become one of
throwaway rudenesses of the connected age.

"Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please."


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I'm sorry... I couldn't read any further than this:

Deserve? A hearing? Radiohead?

Definitely groan worthy!! Radiohead deserve hearing!

If the internet could possibly see its way to killing off Coldplay and every other guitar-pop band on the planet, too, then I'd be terribly grateful.

In fact, I don't suppose the internet could do something about the entire 'indie-rock' movement, could it? I know it's a slippery kind of fish, but if it starts with Morissey and works its way from there, I'm sure it can't go far wrong...

Oh, I think so.

hear⋅ing [heer-ing] –noun

A preliminary examination of the basic evidence and charges
by a magistrate to determine whether criminal procedures, a
trial, etc., are justified.
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Now that's the kind of pedantry up with which I am fully prepared to put!

You can stick your biased views right up your indie-rock hating @rse

It's an idiotic article.

Here are two more entries that show the writer doesn't know the difference between a phone and the Internet:

In defence of the author, if he hadn't written that article, I'd never have discovered this.

I don't actually know who Chuck Norris is (apart from being an actor of some sort), but it's a mildly amusing read, all the same.

That Coldplay comment still bothers me, though...

chuck norris

Blimey. Have you been on a desert island for the last ten years?

As Wiki says, it's "widespread in popular culture".

I despise Coldplay.

Radiohead rocks!