As The Generational Divide Deepens, It Makes Sense For The Older Generations To Stake Their Claim Now,

As the generational divide deepens, it makes sense for the older generations to stake their claim now, while they have the power of the state on their side. Aside from handing out more than 10,000 Asbos (Antisocial Behaviour Orders, a cross between a human parking ticket and the sort of condemned notice you sometimes see on the walls of derelict buildings), the petty misanthropy that bans hoodie-wearing teenagers from shopping malls, forces parenting classes on failing single mums, and allows 79 percent of police forces to impose curfews on children, comes easily to a nation that thought up the idea that its young should be seen and not heard. But never before have we put them under this degree of surveillance while simultaneously turning a blind eye to our adult responsibilities. Satellites track their phones, marketeers groom them on cyberspace, police add the DNA from 600 innocent children a week to a 50,000-sample database, while libraries fingerprint them to borrow books – all linked by rafts of new childhood databases joining the dots. In an age of hyper-individualism we are recoiling from the very children we have created. Monitoring is not enough, we must be protected from them.

Are you someone who holds a camera up in a concert and then wonder why everyone hates you? I'll tell you why.

It's because you're an asshole. No no no no, don't shake your head and tell me some excuse about how you give money to charity and blah blah blah. You are.

You blocked the view of someone who paid a lot of money to get there and experience the awesome experience of live music by a musician that they love by sticking your piece of shit camera in their fucking view and then you were incredibly perplexed, annoyed or you laughed at them for getting rightfully fucking angry because you are an asshole who ruined their experience by failing to realise that the other people there were just as deserving of an amazing time as you. In fact, you probably justified your actions by some pathetic and weak ass excuse. 

Don't justify it. You're an asshole. Now get the hell out of my way!

sydneytown:

is michael collings the new susan boyle?

skip to 2:00

the song is Fast Car by Tracy Chapman

I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a soft, weepy girl. 

I have ended up in tears every single time I've watched this video. 'Fast Car' by Tracy Chapman is the anthem for anyone who's ever escaped from a former life.

It's one of my most favourite songs ever and he covers it beautifully. 

Sure, he may have tried to destroy the planet and enslave the human race on Transformers 3: Dark Side of the Moon. But according to Transformers 1, his sleeping robotic body allowed scientists to create a multitude of appliances, like microwaves and cell phones.

Holy shit! I fucking love microwaves and cell phones!

Whenever I drunkenly heat up a frozen pie in a microwave or send a dirty picture from my cell phone, I thank Megatron for making it possible.

THANK YOU MEGATRON!

Sometimes it's possible to take a look at pop culture and weep at what humans have inflicted on themselves.

WHY, DAMMIT??

If you’re a “nice guy” to a girl up until you realize she doesn’t want to date you, then go on about how she’s a cold shrew that friendzoned you and how no girls date nice guys, like, nah mate, girls do date nice guys. You just aren’t a nice guy. You’re a passive aggressive beta with internalized misogyny and a serious victim complex.

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