Tour de France 2009

Quite like how we got so dependent on mobile phone, before mobile phone were readily available for the public, you'd simply organised almost a day ahead to meet your friends by the post office, or just go home after 10 minutes of waiting.
Now we're so dependent on mobile phone, it reach to the point that we find it hopeless to meet friends and such without a mobile phone, or 'handy' as the german said.

Yes, quite. I still don't understand where the utility of mobiles is supposed to lie--all I have been able to see is people getting progressively more disorganised the more 'tools' become available to offset the increasing lack of organisation. I've been perfectly fine without a mobile and I still don't sense that there's any need for me to get one.

And if there's one word I hate with a vengeance, it's "Handy", or, rather, as the Germans tend to pronounce it, "Hendy", which makes it sound even more stupid (no offence intended to London's Transport Commissioner, as I'm talking about how the word comes across in German--one of the worst loan words ever).