Next time I hear some curmudgeonly old git ...

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

... banging on and on about how awful the kids are these days and how they're
all violent thugs who wear hoodies and carry knives and how it makes them too
scared to walk down the street when they see a bunch of teenagers hanging out
in a big group, I'm going to tell them ...

  "No, kids haven't suddenly become violent and dangerous over the past few
years, it's just that you are a craven yellow-bellied spineless gutless
coward[*], and here's my proof:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6281910.stm

"    Students worried by cows rescued

A full-scale rescue operation was launched after seven college students on a
night-time orienteering trek became worried by a herd of cows.

Emergency services were called out on Monday night after the teenagers became
stuck on a hill near Swanage, Dorset.

 [ .... ]

They contacted the centre when they came across the field of cows and
coastguard, police and ambulance crews were sent to the scene, a Hertfordshire
County Council spokeswoman said.

 [ .... ]

"They got to the field and realised they needed to be on the other side of it
and did not want to go through it," she explained.

 [ .... ]

None of the girls were injured but one teenager who complained of feeling cold
was taken to hospital to be checked over [ .... ] "




    cheers,
      DaveK

[*]  - I guess if they're gutless *and* spineless, that makes them some kind
of primitive lower invertebrate[*], perhaps a sponge or cnidarian ...
 
[**] - Depending on whether having no spine is the same thing as having no
backbone, meaning they could perhaps still be some kind of invertebrate
chordate ....
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