Permanently Bewildered06 Jun 2008 12:06 pm
By Nelson
Thanks to Sarah.
i think that the youth of today has a very big influence from the games and films avalible to them such as grand theft auto and other games and films with high crime inclusion level encourage the youth of today to carry knifes and guns the camaign itslef is a good idea but it could also have the faults of no effect as people still think that wont happen to me i know how to handle these situations when they dont.
anouska, brentwood
There’s something really touching about the lonely full stop, right at the end.
32 Responses to “Youth Of Today”
How many credits do I win for ramming some punctuation and grammer lessons down her throat, before cutting her head off with a chain saw and running her over?
If only the youth of today played Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing in their spare time.
*go’s off to lern “grammer”*
Time to wheel out the classic quote re: the influence of computer games on “yoof culcha”-
“If Pacman had affected us as kids we’d be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.”
Arf arf arf.
It’s obviously removed her ability to use full stops and commas, maybe we should hold her up as an example of the effect these things have on kids.
Maybe she’s self-consciously referencing the final chapter of Joyce’s Ulysses, in which Molly Bloom’s unpunctuated monologue represents her stream of consciousness.
That, or she’s an idiot.
“grammer”
oh fucksticks, i’ll get my coat!
That’s amazing. I can’t actually read it. It just doesn’t make any sense. The words blur together and I get a headache and start to feel sick.
Could just be my hangover.
Is Anouska saying at the end that she is an expert in knife combat?
I think Anouska is inferring that she is head honcho blade specialist of the Brentwood massif.
Where did you people learn to read? This is quite obviously a polemic about the undue sway that today’s youth has on popular culture. It’s combined with an exhortation for adults to use games and films to encourage young people to carry weapons, presumably in the hopes that they’ll kill each other off.
“I think that the youth of today has a very big influence. From the games and films avalible to them (such as grand theft auto and other games and films with high crime-inclusion level), encourage the youth of today to carry knifes and guns!
The camaign itslef is a good idea but it could also have the faults of no effect, as people still think.
That wont happen to me.
I know how to handle these situations when they dont…”
Sinister stuff, indeed.
I’ve got a question. If you can get a machine like the Twat-O-Tron to take the punctuation and vague shred of rationality out of a post, why can’t you get a Persiflage-O-Tron to put it back in?
Everything I know about punctuation, I learned from videogames. When I’m not out rampaging gated communities with my sawn-off, or knifecriming YOUR children, I’m dropping commas and semicolons all over the shop. Like the baddest muthafuckin’ grammar pimp in the hood. Oh yes.
When I was living in London, I was lucky enough to meet a rather splendid gentlemen who was one of the original members of the Red Berets. At the age of 83 he still carried two very sharp, very pointy and very lethal knives which he carried (always ready) hidden in his suit coat arms nestling the handle in his palm and hands hidden from sight. He had no problem in defending himself against would-be assailants. I blame him for all knife crime, and not video games – him and his WWII and killing Germans, all his fault.
83 year old knife crime. Not just the news, but indeed the violent video game I’ve been waiting for.
I have to say that while Anoushka generally doesn’t manage to use her comma or her full stop very often, she does manage to get an afwul lot of mileage out of her colon.
Unrelated, but I’d just like to point out that one of my comments is on the front page of HYS just now. Take that (And Party)!
Once more, the only sensible reply is:-
Iam ? you my bes mate yes yo are ?
I was playing grand theft auto at the weekend and i have to say i really don’t feel like knifing or shooting anyone.
If i did all i have to do is join the army and i’d get trained and paid to do it rather than get put in prison for doing it.
this so called war on terror certainly has its uses.
The only advantage from playing loads of video games is I can now wank myself stupid with my feet.
or you can just shove your g-force joystick up your arse and get shot a lot. quite pleasureable so i’m told. doesn’t make me want to knife anyone, although usually ends in me shooting.
I agree. There’s a direct correlation between the invention of popular culture and the invention of murder, both of which sprung to life in the early 80s.
It’s a wonder us 30-somethings aren’t all hopping across motorway traffic one lane at a time.
Did someone do the Pacman joke yet. Shit.
Incidentally, I wonder what Topsy Turvy has to say on the subject:
When will poor diction finally carry a prison sentence?
More to the point Alex, who is this “Toady” whose kids Topsy Turvy seems so keen to demonise?
@ Graham, I believe he lives on Ramsay Street, Erinsborough, Melbourne. This would explain the list of Australian characteristics given in TT’s post.
“Good” to see that little has changed since I escaped Brentwood.
Same here shaun.
This would of course be well known-18-rated-not-actually-available-to-kids, Grand Theft Auto right?
Before yesterday I was a Grade A student with a place at Oxford this October. But I have just played GTA4 for 16 hours straight, my mum just asked me if I oughtn’t go to bed. So I busted a cap in the bitch’s ass with my best friend, Mr Nine Millimetre for not giving the proper respect due to a true gang-banging gangsta. Looks like it’ll be death row and not Balliol for me. Shit, motherfucker, I’m fried chicked now.
But society is to blame, mostly.
I believe I was the creator of this subject matter.
What site page was it from? Does anyone have a link to it where I posted originally because I cant remember it?
I have no idea why it said all that brentford rubbish on there.
I am Sarah