Showing posts with label By Gerard Flynn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label By Gerard Flynn. Show all posts

Sunday, 4 March 2012

Pretty Vacant

It’s hard to sit in a classroom filled with young Irish people and not have to fight back the urge to slap each and every single one of them in the face.

As an outsider looking in it’s hard to determine if the vapid stares and shifting eye sets are out of embarrassment, fear or the early stages of Asperger’s syndrome. God help anyone who’s given the difficult task to actually speak to a group of 18-25 year olds these days as unintelligible grunts, chair shuffling and sparse eye contact are the only social cues that are offered with any degree of vigour.