And so we're a generation of MSN created morons...lovely. Dole checks all round! No don't worry, it's on me. You know, the smart guy that can type, including all letters in each word.

I'm sorry, let me slow down.

You're only capable of reading things like Azn and rox and 'r' and other such things that a certain editor will elaborate upon.

The problem occurs when you realise that this generation and all that come after us will have to not only live with global warming and soylent greens, but a world where things are abbreviated.
I seem to be rambling and I guess I am. But what is rambling today? Something that should take a small amount of time stretched out unbearably long? It probably is.
But we are also a generation that looks for the easy answer, which is invariably the fast answer. Why do we try and make a rocket car now, and not 250 years ago? Proves my point exactly.
But in this search for the easy answer, riddled with such questions as, "Where's the beef?" and "What you talkin' 'bout Willis?" we find ourselves becoming lazy.

For you see it is this reason that I feel that MSN is responsible for most of this laziness. In our rush for the answers to what our friends are doing, we seem to type rush the question.
"Wat r u doing 2day?"

Add some more spelling mistakes, and you may as well be reading Swahili.

But being as brilliant as I am, I can read Swahili, so this isn't a problem. The problem occurs when you realise that it is just as easy to type out the whole thing, than type one letter and seem like an idiot.
And don't say for a second that it is more efficient. It's like making a gun with no trigger, or Spaghetti with no meatballs. A pair of underpants with no front in them, or a pimp hat with no feather.

After all, to spell 'are' instead of 'r' you only need to press two extra keys! And the 'a' key is slightly to the left and below the r key, and the 'e' key is next to the 'r' key.
If you can't manage that, then you're not worth the soylent greens you're made of.

In fact, most of the internet is not worth anything.

The 80's provided us with a generation of poorly dressed teens, and the new millenium, will provide everyone with a new generation of teens who can't type probably and look at porn all day.

For that, I place the blame squarly on Mr. MSN. Except the porn remark was based mainly on the internet in general, but I still blame MSN.

And so ends another chapter of my big book of complaints.

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