webofevil | Dec. 15th, 2008

Ladies biting their lower lip is recognised, lazy shorthand for “I am irresistibly attracted to whatever is in front of me right now and I fully intend to be engaged in unspecified filth with it within the next 20 minutes”. I am not sure if this behaviour has ever actually been observed in the wild, but actresses in print and TV adverts display it quite often. However, I gather you’re meant to bite it gently, not fall on it ravenously as if it’s the first thing you’ve eaten all day. My only hope is that this Debenhams model is chowing down on some kind of Haribo prosthetic.

This is a sobering warning to encounter when you’re midway through removing components from your computer. If, when I’m virtually knee-deep in my machine’s innards, I encounter “liquid” that can’t be accounted for by a recent tea or coffee accident, I can guarantee I will not be hanging around long enough to unplug the machine and consult anything. I fully expect my emergency procedure to consist of the phrase “Holy shit” and an impressive turn of speed. It’s reassuring to know that Apple seem to expect this to happen at some point.