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Styluses are well, well out of fashion

There’s a chap sat next to me. Really annoying the hell out of me.

He’s got a Windows Mobile device. One of those thick ones with the slide out keyboard. I forget the name. HTC something or other. I can’t be bothered to look it up, I’m that annoyed.

He has been sat next to me in the hotel lounge/lobby for the last 30 minutes arsing about with his device. My big issue is that he’s using a stylus.

There is something inherently wrong with a large chap holding a device in one palm and using a piss-poor small dinky little stylus to the device. Like he’s trying to continually thread a needle.

If you’ve ever gone into UK warehouse store, Argos, you’ll know what I mean. Argos require you to specify your purchases, defined by their unique seven digit number, on a bit of paper, before handing it to the till. In order that you can complete the form, you need to use one of their stupidly undersized pens. I feel a total plonker using a teeny weeny pen.

Bring on a big fat Mont Blanc.

Anyway back to this stylus issue. You just look stupid using them — bent over, focusing on a tiny screen with the mini stylus in hand. Women = ok. Men = no.

I managed to sneak a picture thanks to the Apple Photobooth function.

stylus NO NO

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