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British Pizza Chain To Install Cones of Silence
itwbennett writes "British pizza chain Pizza Express is installing iPod docks and soundproof domes in booths of their new iPizzeria stores. 'The idea is that you can plug in your iPod and play whatever music you like without disturbing other diners,' says blogger Peter Smith. 'But I'm sure it'd work for talking about government secrets and other spy stuff, too.'"
*looks at wife*
If you really care about what music you listen too while you eat your pizza, why wouldn't you just take it back to your place and eat it there?
What?
rewriting history since 2109
Exactly.
Why a chickens?
Why a horses?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
Because then it would no longer be hip now would it? Now, do you want your frappuccino now or after your meal while you read poetry from your iPad?
Life is not for the lazy.
Actually, at that altitude, it doesn't make a OW! OW! STOP IT!
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
A device that allowed you to listen to music without disturbing others. Some kind of very small speakers that you can put very close to your eardrums. Oh well, we'll have to do with freaking cones of silence.
The old micro-sized-speakers-in-close-proximity-to-the-eardrums ploy. That's the third time I've fallen for that this month!
This way, some other bugger does the washing up.