My lovely, lovely, lovely horse...

[venta]

If the papers are to be believed, the under-18s of this country are unregenerated ASBO-winning delinquents. This has never worried me particularly. Eve told Adam that the kids were not all right and would soon be turning to murder, thus setting a pattern for all eternity. History does not contain a single era where teenagers have been held up as a shining example. However, of late I've become worried. I now have incontrovertible evidence that it's time we started to panic.

Look:



If that's not shocking evidence of moral degeneracy in today's youth, I don't know what is.

This picture was taken on a rainy residential street in Reading. In the last week, I've seen the same scene (only sunnier) in Greenwich and in North London. Conkers just lying about on the ground.

This did not happen in my day. We were down in the park, throwing sticks up into the horse chestnut trees to get the conkers down. In August.

Which yes, wasn't a great idea, because the conkers were all pale and squashy and, come Autumn, there were none left to ripen. The odd rogue which had managed to stay on the tree and fall naturally to the pavement would have been snatched up the instant it was spotted.

What is going on ? Are all the kids at home playing Wii Conkas® or something ? Where will it all end ?

Comments

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

Several possible reasons:-

a) Conkers are dangerous these days.
b) Conkers might take someone's eye out
c) Some children might be allergic to conkers
d) Some children might mistake conkers for a tube of smarties.

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

e) playing conkers might be subversive
f) Playing conkers might encourage anti-social behaviour
g) Playing conkers might be racially offensive
h) Playing conkers might require imagination (imagination leads to subversiveness)
i) Conkers might encourage premature clicking of the post comment button

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

j) Conkers is a competitive and confrontational game which might encourage violence and subversion
k) Conkers isn't educational enough, fun is not allowed