You mean to tell me that those kids were texting that the national sacred ground? For fuck's sakes, is it so bad to turn off your damned phone, or at least pocket it, for less than an hour.
Remembrance Day (I guess that would be Veteran's day down in the States) is coming up, and this year I'm a tad more involved than before. I'm preparing the visual presentation for the Remembrance Day assembly, and teaching my Drama class some basic drill to supplement their Tableaus. I'm going to be at a cadet thing for that so it's how I got off, and as a result of all this my faith in the future of Democracy is thoroughly shaken. In what seems to be direct spite of the efforts to keep the memory alive, todays youth (I am one of today's youth, sorry liberals, you just lost a line of attack) are completely indifferent to the cost of producing the society that they live in. It may not be perfect, but at least you won't get Birkenau'd for saying that you don't like the government (cookie for knowing what I mean). I even know some kids who are planning to skip the remembrance day stuff because they find it boring, I get that you have the freedom too do so and not get caned but it really is no skin off your fucking nose for for attending an assembly and shutting the fuck up for a couple of minutes when the clock strikes 11. I guess it's because my generation has never come under threat or had to safrifice anything for something as basic as freedom of speech, but I still find it insulting the attitude most kids have towards it.
Sorry, just pissed off about that whole Arlington thing, reminds me of what I'm surrounded by.
Anyway, yeah turn off your fucking phones, remember when kid's lives were taken over by things like sports or learning or Dungeons and Dragons? Now it's cellulars of all things, what the fuck is with that?
