Living in a world where everybody hears but nobody's listening

            One of the contradictions of living in today's frenetically paced, socially connected world is that there are so many effective means to make yourself heard and so many millions of potential people to hear it that it's hard to believe your profound statements regarding your dinner or the customer service department of whatever business you're dealing with won't be the talk of the nation. But they won't. Unless you're a celebrity however, then the opposite holds true and any crumb of information, no matter how trivial, is devoured like manna from heaven and shared around other eager acolytes. But you're never going to reach those heady heights.

Instead, you will be resolutely ignored. Which is why I thought the humble house cat was a good graphical representation of this. It can surely hear you (unless it's deaf) but will pay scant attention unless there's an offer of food on the table. Quite what i'm trying to say here is not entirely clear, even to me, but I'll leave it all in your capable hands to decipher...

As an aside we really took this one next level as we didn't even put it on the tube ourselves. This was deposited by one of our street team. You know you've made it when you don't even have to do it yourself. Cheers Leander!

Cheers

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Taken on: July 14, 2014

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