Matt T

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The possibilities are endless

I've already ordered a few of these 'anti-teenager' devices for my own use - very handy in any pub or on a bus/train. But there seems a whole gamut of ways in which it could be used for the national good, e.g. one placed on the England goalkeeper during a World Cup game should ensure an attacking team (although it might end up with Michael Owen defending).

I don't know if beats the old method of stopping youths gathering - playing classical music. They do this at Kensal Green tube station, and it always gives me the fear that there's about to be a cinematic slow-motion massacre as a leave the station. I noticed they were doing it at West Hampstad tube station the other day, so maybe it is catching on.

Labels: kids

Monday, February 04, 2008

Winston Churchill didn't exist?

So say a fifth of British teenagers. Neville Chamberlain steered the country through the war, presumably. Actually a fifth isn't that many, I suppose. I remember I was very confused about which party Churchill was a member of, but I think that's excusable given so was he half the time.

Labels: Churchill, kids

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

12yr old boy accused of throwing a sausage

... in court, makes amusing copy though obviously the detail is rather more complex. But it was this that caught my eye from his mother:

"It had quite a bit of an effect on him. He couldn't sleep. He takes sleeping tablets anyway - but they didn't work."

Labels: England, kids