Twatty government minister are prone to saying that we are facing new types of [something dangerous/annoying] in society that needs legislating against to protect the public, or actually to appease Daily Mail readers. Hoodies are a classic example but Professor Robert Bartlett has done research and found that gangs of lawless binge drinking hooded yoofs were widely perceived as a problem
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Geeklawyer is in the doghouse with valued contributor Ruthie.
She recently posted an item which referenced a ‘yoof’ on myspace.com styling himself as an mc. Geeklawyer deleted it. Now, if Geeklawyer were any more hip he’d have to have surgery to remove the excess bone. That is, he is a byword among his younger friends for effortless style and coolness. The point of this self praise being to pre-empt accusations of old, or young, fogeyism.
As for myspace.com; this travesty of a web site appears to be a repository for the product of mindless ‘yoofs’ hitting their keyboards at random. It is inflicted on the world by a man who has made an empire by filling the media of the world with the products of journalists also apparently hitting their keyboards at random. Myspace is therefore a place of horrors to be visited as frequently as one would Baghdad whilst wearing a union jack t-shirt with ‘Islam sucks’ written on the back.
Ruthie, for reasons unfathomable to Geeklawyer, found this yoofs trite rapping about 9/11 to be a compelling treatment of … something or other. Nonetheless she was wrong; to maintain the character of this blog Geeklawyer felt reluctantly compelled to flick its rudder with the lightest of touches and bring it back on course.
Ruthie may seek the vox populi but the virtue of tyranny is that it enables those with a greater vision to remain undeflected in its pursuit by the earnestly incorrect.
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