cNutgroist

i think i've figured out why teenagers act up so much. when you see a group of them out in public and they're bouncing around like a bunch on escaped lab monkeys, turning this way and that and making gestures to no-one in particular, talking in funny accents and generally spasming around  -  it's because they think they're on tv.
Watch them - they're like a whole saturday morning channel of kids' shows, completely out of control and fully conscious of their expectation to 'entertain'. And who can blame them? I turned on the tv last night and there they were, acting up on one of those 'aren't British teenagers terrible?' shows (Yes, they are). So in a very real sense, tv IS to blame.

There's an odd man in every small town, who walks around zig-zaggedly and shifts along with feet in one direction and eyes in another. He's normally cuts his own hair, if at all, and avoids whole food groups for superstitious reasons. You might know him. You might be him. You might eve read his blog. Well he's the guy who thinks he's on a hidden camera show, at least potentially, so he's hyper-vigilant and has even been known to pull at the beards of supposed Beadle and Funt-like figures. Teenagers (or more properly, developmentally arrested kids) share his viewpoint but are more comfortable with it. In fact they love it.

And so do I

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