What the hell has happened to the teenage brain…?
In the last few years boys hair styles have turned into an outlandish homage to stupidity. They look as if they’ve just come out of a wind test tunnel or a fight with Henry the Hoover, or an hour’s session trying to get their hip hop boddy popping street dance credibility tokens spinning around on their heads in one direction. And the thing (hair?) on their heads, all twisty directional silliness aside is just so BIG. It’s like some hairy Venusian alien creature has invaded the earth and has quietly camouflaged itself by sitting on boys heads while feeding on their copious greases and earwax!
Word Up.
I don't know why I'm smiling there's a rare Marsupial curled up on my head and it's just about to shit in my ear, get it off, get it off!
What the hell? Who told them that this was a good idea?
I know I know, I’m 43 years of age and what do I know, it was the same in my Grandfather’s day, he couldn’t understand why any self-respecting human would want to look like a Beatle or have a big bushy beard in the late 1960s; maybe I’m just suffering from irascible old bastards disease. But surely this has gone too far, surely things have just got a little bit too silly here?
I wouldn’t mind the hair if it wasn’t for the muffled effect it has on teenage boys voices.
Almost every time I speak to one of these mop top toting chaps most of what I get back is sub sonic muffled murmurings. I often ask myself ‘is there someone in there’, ‘does it have a personality’, ‘will it stake a claim’, ‘attach itself to any political ideals’, or is it destined to spend its life mumbling ‘whatever’ and ‘like’ to an encore of totally apathy.
Whatever – the Teen art of communication
To my mind the haircuts are another expression of something I see daily, teens hiding under hoodies, behind long floppy fringes all seem to be hiding their wonderful light away from the world; is it embarrassment, or are they so bullied by the world that they’ll not associate themselves with anything for fear of looking uncool to their peers? God only knows. They’re not communicating and this is something all teens in previous generations at least, regardless of hair style, did do. They were interested in politics, culture, art, and they would nail their colours to the post. In fact it was often cool to do so, I don’t see that happening nearly as much anymore.
Mobile Phones, communication breakdown
In this modern age of communication where we can be plugged into the information super highway 24 hours a day worldwide exchanging information and conversation at the speed of light it is remarkable to me how little REAL communication is actually going on, and Mobile phones to my mind are one of the worst causes of lack of communication. And of course as communication avoiders, today’s teens are heavy mobile addicts. No need to have a face to face conversation that may take a certain level of real emotional connection whn u cn tlk abt stuff by txt.
People and not just hirsute teenagers spend so much of their time buried in their phone’s pissy little screens watching pointless crap that they never seem to stop, look up, and talk to that person sitting opposite them, the interesting African guy, or the old lady, or the bald 43-year-old that doesn’t have a phone and can’t wait to get home and rant about how awful so much of his world is…
I like teenagers and I miss them.
Hands Free, nice....
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