Why Video Calling Is a Wasted Feature In the UK

An anonymous reader writes "Technology affects the way we live but sociocultural influences also dictate what technology we absorb into our day-to-day lives. Take video calling on the iPhone 4 for example; it was pitched as an impressive feature, but will people adopt it? According to one British writer, the UK is unlikely to start making lots of video calls because it's awkward and, well, not very British. 'It's not the way we look when we say them, but the way we say them in order to inject the most bile into a negative statement. Or, on our more enthusiastic days, finding the most wryly witty way to say something while indicating that you couldn't really care less about it. This is the reason we've taken so well to Twitter and are better at watching than creating YouTube videos, to put it in sweepingly generic Internet terms.'"

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Re:British Teeth

[Philip K Dickhead]

It's not the teeth.

What an unattractive lot. The average Briton of Anglo/European extraction is a creature of unfortunate appearance. There is nothing quite like walking down a street in Warwick, Birmingham or Manchester, in producing a disappointment for the eyes. Just short of being actually ugly, the bulk of our folk are merely unpleasant. This too, is probably because extremes are un-British.

One out of a thousand is a real swan - if you go for the pale-skin thing.

London is where it is at for beauty. We have the world's finest imports, casually, at nearly every turn. The beautiful people that England - in particular- has attracted through the virtue of colonial heritage? They are what turns the head, on a West London street. Hello, Leona Lewis!