Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Toothy grin

Toothing?

“I’ve always loved the idea of random sexual encounters, but have never felt brave enough to go to (sex) parties”…”The train journey in the morning and evening is slow, tiresome and packed full of miserable people halfheartedly prodding at shiny new tech. You recognize faces within your tiny half-hour community, but you never talk to them.”

No mention of the christmas tree

“The i-Duck from Japan’s Solid Alliance, starting at $50, plugs into a USB port…comes in a range of colors and lights up, has been selling out constantly”


Categories: Memories.

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  1. mr_flay

    I can think of nothing more sordid, depressing and potentially dangerous than toothing. Am I turning into a miserable, puritanical old curmudgeon?

    Whereas the duck is just daft.

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      • mr_flay

        Puzzling: when I caught the tube to work, I found it depressing enough without having a sexual encounter that would leave me in an emotional vacuum for the rest of the day. What a world we live in…

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          • mr_flay

            My point exactly. I can think of nothing that would leave me feeling more depressed, empty, dirty, and generally worthless than fucking someone for something to do on the way to work. I still see sex as a potentially beautiful encounter between two people who have found in each other something beyond the physical that appeals. This is the absolute antithesis of that. It’s like speed-dating without the romance (of which, I scarcely need to point out, there is none)…

            No wonder I get pissed off with goths more and more often…

          • neilh

            Its like ‘Crash’, on public transport. Still, might keep me entertained on the flight to Helsinki next week…

            (as if…)

          • meryc

            Givent the emoshonal point fo this to be trew its the practicality that worries me.

            I try not to spend any more time than I have to on publick transport and 30 minits to work including chages is not rally enuf time…. to do any thing….. even read the metro. Not so much cheep as stright forward impractial….. alos if this take off then your going to be sitting on a tube with a bunch of people playing with there phones, the lights will go out and then…. well lets just say it dose not bare thinking about…..

  2. neilh

    And how, exactly, do I explain that to the customs officer?

    “Yes, officer, I work for an embedded electronics company…”

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  3. neilh

    I suppose it depends a little on what you intend to do with it as carry-on….(uh-oh, we’ve just collided with the toothing thread…)

    Sure, its legal, but they’re the one thing they always refer to as ‘the’ rather than ‘your’, aren’t they?

    Maybe I can get a private room by claiming ‘commercially sensitive’ material…?

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