Lip reading mobile promises end to noisy phone calls

This should help stop all those people on the train, bus and tube in the mornings who seem to think it perfectly acceptable to wax lyrical about the curry they had with their lover the evening before or the unbridled sex they had with their neighbour's husband or wife.

It will be great to still see those mouths opening and closing but not to have to endure any of this claptrap that comes out. It's so annoying to have to listen to some people who clearly have no sense of propriety or shame in telling everyone, complete strangers all, about their personal lives!!

Come on!! We actually would prefer not to know and listen to your drivel no matter how much you are prepared to spice it up for our apparent benefit!! Get a life will you!!

Switzerland referendum on providing lawyers for animals

While I agree that animals are not always treated all that well either by their masters or other members of the family, I do think this is somewhat of a step too far when animals are given their own lawyers? WTF?

When so many people in the world are disenfranchised and don't even have access to a good lawyer or even enough food and water to drink, can any country really justify spending all that money on protecting the so-called rights of a furry animal no matter how cute and innocent it is?

This is yet another sign that the world is completely out of sync and that capitalism gone mad results in this uneven distribution of wealth! This is clearly a sign where a country has too much of a resource, in this case money, and is distributing it in a bizarre and haphazard way!

I mean, what good has ever come out of Switzerland? Cuckoo clocks, chocolate, cheese, cantons, Swiss bank accounts, and Natzi blood money! Someone should tell them to give that money to people who need it rather than spending it on such frivolous activities!

Not such merry men?