Has anyone seen Skins? I was watching it the other day, I can’t get anough of it. Series 3 should be coming out soon, so no doubt I’m gonna be sat by my computer downloading each episode when it comes out...sorry, I mean I’ll be sat at my TV watching every week and then will buy the DVD like a good boy…
My only problem with it is that everyone looks down on the stuff that happens in it. The kids in it do all sorts of crazy stuff and the message is clear. “Don’t do all this stuff, look how fucked up you’ll get!” But in the very last episode, someone gets an abortion, and I think if the mindset of the viewers is that everything else these kids do is bad, then abortions must be as well.
I’m not trying to be some anti-Catholic preacher, nor am I trying to convince everyone to have an abortion, that’s up to you to decide. But it kind of upset me in the fact that the girl who had one on Skins seemed pretty capable of raising a child, even if she were quite young. Why is it the sensible ones take the sensible option, and the idiots go around doing things willy-nilly?
I saw one woman on the train yesterday, she must’ve been around 21-22, and she already had two daughters. These little girls were adorable, don’t get me wrong, but the mother had no idea what she was doing. She couldn’t control them at all; one of the daughters kept picking sweets up off the floor and eating them, and all he mother could do was threaten to smack her. Another daughter kept squealing, and instead of trying any peaceful methods of discipline, the mother just shouted at the daughter to keep quiet (much louder than the squealing daughter, might I add) and threatened to smack her. Seriously, she obviously hasn’t heard of staying calm nor peaceful resistance. Every two minutes she kept shoutng “stop that or I’ll smack you” or “if you don’t quit it I’ll batter you” etc etc. I’m no parent myself, but I could see she was perhaps going about parenting the wrong way. I mean, sure, she looked like she’d taken a few knocks lately herself (nobody can be that ugly naturally, surely?), but teaching children violence is the solution to problems isn’t really going to work. I can imagine when her kids are older, if one of them is caught wielding a knife on the streets, she’d probably say “if I catch you on the streets with a knife again, I’ll stab you” or something equally as moronic.
Yet the funniest thing I saw about all this was that she was telling her daughters that making noise was bad manners when right in front of her she had her phone out playing some three-noted pilled-up dance track on loudspeaker.
Which is where I get my inspiration for today’s moan (even though I’ve moaned enough already). Why is it that it’s always the people with a really bad taste in music that haven’t heard of headphones? Whenever I see someone on the train or in the street with headphones in, they’re always listening to rock or metal or indie, real music played with real instruments, rather than melodies stolen from other songs and played using a computer by some lanky sewer rat with his over-sized headphones round his neck and his under-sized hands beating the air.
No, this type of music is reserved for the cretins that bypass the easier option of putting headphones in and letting your hands fall limp at your sides, instead opting to hold their phone up to their ears for hours at a time. while they shove past people in the street. The same people who wear tracksuits all year long. The same people who tuck their pants into their socks without realising it makes them look like Gipetto. The same people who’s imagination of things to do with their friends stretches to standing on a street corner all night every night, shouting abuse at minicabs.
Do they not realise something’s amiss when they reach their destination, turn off their music and wonder why their arm is tired? Do they not notice when the radio’s on that the songs they like sound better when played through proper speakers? Or do they just wonder why the radio edit has removed the crackling, fuzzy part of the song that’s in their version?
And on another note, don’t all phones now come with free headphones? Perhaps if phone companies disabled the ability to play music through the loudspeaker, or pointed out in very clear letters what the headphones are for, more people would begin to see how stupid they look, less people would be gritting their teeth on trains, trying to avoid screaming at whoever is playing their phone to shut up, and I wouldn’t be trying to go back in time and convince a whole generation of people to have abortions. Just a thought.
Until next time, my little nose-miners x
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