They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.

Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.

Say goodbye to long waits at the airport with our new preboarding service.

I think he could do it if he really wanted to.