America - you have a lot to answer for.
The British stereotype is annoying. The bowler hats, The "Oh I say" mannerisms, the tea drinking.. like any stereotype, it's completely wrong. In movies, British kids are always posh, intelligent types with shiny cheeks and perfect manners. The bad kids are the same, they just scowl a lot. From Mary Poppins to Harry Potter, this hasn't changed.
I would PREFER that stereotype in place of what British children and teenagers are turning into nowadays, after being brainwashed by the hip-hop dominated MTV and being submerged by American culture.
Don't get me wrong, American culture is great. I'm not taking a pop at America by any stretch of the imagination (can you imagine popular culture without it? No Prince. No Marvel or DC. No Simpsons. No.. Jeez, I could go on forever) but the creatively vapid, vulgar rap genre that has our kids looking and acting like the image above. Monkey see, monkey do and there are no bigger monkeys than the idiotic kids who are tying to look and sound like 50 Cent etc.
I had a brain-numbing net "conversation" a couple of weeks ago with a sixteen year old boy from Leeds who considered himself a "Hustla". And when I mocked this I was called a "Faggot-ass beyotch." And I just wish I was making this up.
If you go into any of these "My Space" domains you'll see British kids doing West Side hand gestures, absolutely oblivious to how stupid they look. Of course, the character of Ali G was a spot-on piss-take of these fools, and even though he was popular it hasn't made the slightest bit of difference. I saw a kids magazine giving away a plastic necklace with the words "Free Bling" on the front.
And then, of course, there's Tim Westwood. For those that don't know, Westwood is a British, 47 year old DJ who, oblivious to irony, stands in pictures with his arms folded next to expensive cars. His catchphrases (thank you, Wikipedia) include..
* "Damn that's the way it's going down ..."
* "Feelin' that!"
* "MMMmmm..."
* "Nothing but Big Things!!"
* "Drop the bomb!!"
* "Fall Back"
* "UNDERSTAND THAT!"
* "That's Mad Gangsta"
* "Bow down and kiss the ring!"
* "That's a big look out there!!"
* "King Pin of the car game!!"
* "We out - one!" (at the end of his show)
Honestly, besides the latest rap cretin from Detroit, who TALKS like that? Sadly - about fifty percent of people under 20 in Britain, and it's going to get worse. Go into any chatroom in the UK and you'll see them, talking about ho's and droppin' beats and God alone knows what else.
So the message from The Fortress is this - DO NOT accept it. If you see or hear any stupid kids talking like this, correct them, make them realise how moronic they sound. Stamp this virus out forever. Now, I'm off for a nice pot of tea. Pip pip.
5 comments:
Ah, see, REAL "Gangsta's" I have no problem with (especially if they ever asked me), it's these Follow-The-Leader type idiots who do and say everything they hear on television.
I once had a lengthy debate with a (white) girl who called her (white) friends "nigger." Apparantly "it didn't mean anything." So I said "yeah, just go up to someone who's a little darker in the old skin section and try saying that."
Idiots.
So is it true you tell people they've got real purty mouths?
Oh I have still got it....
I imagine 'twas the love of a good women that brought him to Finland.
Much as Eminem loves to rap about every aspect of his homelife, why did he never rap about ALF (check the shirt).
"Yo ALF, I saw that show where you was the star. We all like to eat pussy but you go too far."
It's got number one written all over it. Or perhaps more a whiff of a number two..
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