>>>I use the touchpad--but only on airplanes :-)
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>>This one gets me every time... in my language, you are IN an airplane if you're traveling. You get ON a plane only to repair it, or a pull a James Bond like stunt. I just imagined someone on a wing trying to type while the screen keeps flapping down and the mouse dangles wildly.
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>So I guess you get IN a train too?... IN a ferry?
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>My guess is that we all get ON a merry-go-round.

Not me, I'm afraid of merry-go-rounds!