
I’m having my daughter to stay with me this week for half term. Don’t see her as often as I’d like as she’s in Southampton and I’m in Bristol.
She’s 13 and is doing fine at school by the sound of it. She always gets good reports and does her homework diligently. So what’s the problem you may ask? The problem is that she knows Jack shit about fuck all!
Now don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t expect her general knowledge to be anywhere near the level of mine but she couldn’t tell you which city the Eiffel tower is in, who the Russian president is or which river runs through London. You know, £100 type questions on Who wants to be a millionaire.
God knows what they teach them at school these days although you’ll be unsurprised to hear that she seems to know all about slavery. I’m trying to keep her amused and busy this week but any spare time she has is spent staring at her smartphone or tablet playing online games with her friends.
Some of you may be familiar with the Einstein quote;
“I fear the day when technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots”
Don’t know how Einstein managed to predict that happening 100 years ago. Apparently he was quite a clever bloke!
One could argue that general knowledge is a waste of time these days as any fact can be found in about 30 seconds flat with the smartphone in your pocket. You could also argue that there is no need to know where the Eiffel tower is. Personally I would argue that that’s bollocks.
These morons are going to be running the country in 20-25 years time. Be scared! Mind you, they probably couldn’t do a much worse job than Boris and his bunch of that’s!
Nominated by: Cupid Stunt



