I love golf but I’m not competitive. What other sport should I take up?
Fishing.
Sunil Bajaria, Bromley, UK
• Cribbage.
Philip Stigger, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
• Walking. As Mark Twain is reputed to have declared: “Golf is a good walk spoiled”.
Bryan Furnass, Canberra, Australia
• Couch rugby.
Jennifer Rathbone, Toronto, Canada
• Darts.
Edward Black, Church Point, NSW, Australia
• Poohsticks.
Joan Dawson, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Tiddlywinks. It’s cheaper and quicker, there are no membership fees, and there’s a reasonable chance of getting a hole-in-one.
David Turner, Bellevue Heights, South Australia
• You can take your pick between the hula hoop, the yo-yo and solo synchronised swimming.
David Isaacs, Sydney, Australia
They used to say it in clay
Is there such a thing as a paperless office?
There was going to be such a thing, before the advent of the desktop printer.
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
• Cuneiform archives found in buildings in Sumerian Mesopotamia prove the existence of the paperless office 5,000 years ago.
David Tucker, Halle, Germany
• Any business that doesn’t leave a paper trail.
Richard Orlando, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
• Yes, but it’s easily remedied by a trip to the stationery stockroom.
R Seely, Montreal, Canada
• The entirely paperless office is as much of a myth as the eggless omelette. The realistic aim is to be a paper-light office, keeping printouts and photocopies to a minimum.
Ursula Nixon, Bodalla, NSW, Australia
• Not in my house.
Gillian Shenfield, Sydney, Australia
• Minister without portfolio, I should think.
Alan Williams-Key, Madrid, Spain
It’s a kind of liquid torture
What trivial behaviour irritates you the most?
The teenager next door bashing on his drum kit late at night, blasting us out.
Jenefer Warwick James, Paddington, NSW, Australia
• Incessant sniffling. It’s an acoustic torture on a par with that inflicted by a dripping tap. How did these individuals grow up without being taught the rules of proper etiquette in nose-related matters?
Terence Rowell, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Comfortable clothes are key
We all know what’s wrong with the world. What’s right with the world?
Clothes are getting more comfortable. No more garter belts! And someone had the brilliant idea to add 2% Lycra to my blue jeans.
Jeannie Rosenberg, Huntingdon, Quebec, Canada
• A few wild places far from roads, houses and power lines.
Brad Berger, Pioneertown, California, US
• Like, the use of “like” every third word, like.
Charles Simpson, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Any answers?
Why are dimples seen as attractive?
R M Fransson, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, US
What fairytale offers the best lesson, and why?
Richard Orlando, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
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