So I was out this evening and me and one of my house-mates ended up watching a film at a friend's house. All is well, but then we get home and find the front of our house in a terrible mess.

We live in a terraced house with a small front garden to our house which we use only to keep a rubbish bin and recycling stuff. Bristol city council being what it is, we get a garbage pickup once every 2 weeks, which just isn't a sustainable regularity for a house of 6. Thus we often have to leave rubbish bags next to our big black bin™. One of these bags was now in the middle of the pavement with its contents strewn everywhere.

My first reaction was that it was probably a fox, a cat or a squirrel on steroids (it would have taken quite some force to move the bag as far as it had gone). But then we saw something that convinced me that if this was the work of an animal, it would have been a particularly well connected animal. For next to our remaining bin bags was a mobile phone.

I was willing to entertain the possibility of it being a large coincidence, but for the fact that to drop the phone, the person would have had to have been in the middle of our garden, literally right outside our door.

The phone was off, but we tried to turn it on and managed to get it working just long enough to ascertain that it didn't belong to anyone we knew (from the address book). Then another house-mate came back and it emerged that he had a similar phone and that his charger would probably work on it. It was set to charge and has been left like that. We got the joy of 3am garden cleaning, and we decided to leave the matter for the night.

The dilemma here is that the person who has subsequently lost their phone (on what would appear to be a drunken night out) is also the same person who trashed our yard. Obviously there is a desire for vengeance, which might be unfair. The question is...what would you do?

(In an unrelated matter, does anyone know whether or not Dentworth is still among us? Trying to look at her stuff gives the this person has cancelled page, but I can still see her display picture and hometown on annotations, which isn't true of the other account deletions that I've seen)

I've been having a running debate with one of my housemates about whether it would be better to be moderately taller than average or moderately shorter than average. We've recently begun incorporating Google into the argument, and I figured that it might be interesting to get your takes on the question.

So far, we've run through the following arguments:

For Being Tall-
Stand out in a crowd
The tall, dark and handsome cliche
The extra reach is an advantage in a fight
Respect is subconsciously given to someone you physically look up to
Shorter legs so walk slower/use less effort walking

For Being Short-
Hiding is easier
Door frames and low ceilings aren't a problem
Presuming you take shelter when it's raining, you're wet for a slightly smaller amount of time
It's easier to make clothes shorter than longer
When you fall over, it isn't as far to the ground so it doesn't hurt as much
(personal favourite) candy bars are proportionately bigger

Opinions?

As I mentioned here, I was looking for something completely pointless to do, and since 'dye my hair' was one of the  only ideas that wouldn't be expensive or encroach on whatever pitiful amount of free time I still have, I figured I'd go for it.

And since I'm doing something fairly stupid, I figured why not make it more so and let a group, filled with people I've never met, make the choice for me. I'm not promising to listen to the majority, I'm already leaning towards either white or blue, but I'm interested in your opinions on the subject.

(Just for any reference, my hair is currently brown, check profile picture for further illustration)

Oh, and the deadline is when I wake up Wednesday morning/early afternoon GMT.