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Your fingers are too fat. That's what Homer Simpson was once told when using the phone. Sounds harsh to me, he seems such a happy fella.



But if you follow this link, it would appear that typing errors are now called 'fat finger syndrome,' a strange name in today's PC world. So this means that the reason a Japanese company lost £128 million yesterday was because the administrator's digits were on the chubby side.

Are we now going to see a world where secretaries have to undergo fitness tests during their interviews? Or even scarier, a world where the Simpsons adventures are a vision for the future? Beware the invasion of the dolphins....