{"id":2886,"date":"2010-03-08T20:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T20:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2010-03-09T00:29:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T00:29:07","slug":"telling-it-like-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=2886","title":{"rendered":"Telling it like it is"},"content":{"rendered":"

There may be swearing in this. If you don’t like that you can f-f-f-fade away…<\/em><\/p>\n

Lunchtime today I dropped in to one of the public libraries in this county.<\/p>\n

I browsed around and, after a while, found an interesting-looking book which I took off to a less-busy – indeed *quiet* – corner of the library.<\/p>\n

I’d been reading for about 20 minutes when two late-teenagers (a boy and a girl) came in to the area to use the two public-access internet terminals near where I sat.<\/p>\n

They talked to each other across the intervening gap (about 1m80) and they talked to each other across the gap *loudly*.<\/p>\n

They had no consideration for me, or anyone else in the vicinity.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t just the loudness of their childishly meaningless, inane and mostly monosyllabic chatter that annoyed the hell out of me (and why, for Heaven’s sake would they even think that anyone within 5 nautical miles would be remotely interested in them verbally relaying to each other what they’d just said on their Facebook chat sessions to their ‘friends’?).<\/p>\n

It was their complete and utter disregard, their unthinking attitude, the total absence of consideration for anyone else.<\/p>\n

That’s what I’m absolutely bloody furious about.<\/p>\n

Because the noise they made went beyond ‘talking loudly’.<\/p>\n

There was the wheeling over to each other’s terminal, the slapping, the pinching…<\/p>\n

And the swearing. The constant litany of ‘fucking’ this and ‘cunting’ that, that came from the pair of them.<\/p>\n

Yet less than 3m away was – get this! – the children’s area!<\/p>\n

Did the close proximity of the children’s area stop our two future Jeremy Kyle stars from swearing at loud volume?<\/p>\n

No, of course it didn’t.<\/p>\n

Don’t they know how to behave in a library?<\/p>\n

I mean, how old are these two?<\/p>\n

Well actually I know the answer to that question.<\/p>\n

The girl – Sileas Campbell – is 17 (going on a mental age of 9). I don’t know how old the boy is (but I fully expect that if you combined their IQs, the total score would still be in double digit territory).<\/p>\n

How do I know her name?<\/p>\n

Because she left her internet terminal to ‘play’ with her friend and she left her Facebook homepage in full, public view.<\/p>\n

So Miss Sileas Campbell, not too bright are you?<\/p>\n

In fact, you display the same awareness of physical<\/em> computer security as you show awareness of the needs of anyone else in the library.<\/p>\n

If I knew the name of the guy who was with Miss Sileas Campbell I’d name and shame him too.<\/p>\n

Whoever he is, he displays the same emotional and mental immaturity, the same total disregard for anyone else and the same lack of knowledge for the correct way to behave in a library.<\/p>\n

Their parents must be really proud of them both.<\/p>\n

I, however, am not proud to be a member of the same species as this selfish little cunt.<\/p>\n

Sileas Campbell on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

Sileas Campbell on myYearbook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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