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[labellementeuse]

I got a text from my brother Rewi this morning.

It says "Hey Tui this is Rewi i got a cellphone but you're not to tell mum or dad okay? I let Hedley and Freya use it. Hedley uses it to text his girlfriends but all freya wants to do is take it 2 school so she can look cool! When are you coming back up to Wellington?"

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I may soon have to go into mourning for the premature death of my brother: Killed by parents because he's too dumb to live.

I love him, and I've been missing him (which was why it was really cool to get a text, actually) and that's also why I DON'T WANT HIM TO DIE. Man.

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Re: Hmmmmmmm

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MORE EASY SOUNDS COOLER (also is easier even a word? *kills* And, haha, I just got these awesome emails from Meg in which she spells "feel" "feal" so, you know, I promise it's not irony, she just can't spell. She's pretty good at irony, really.)

And, look, I don't think cellphones are bad things. But maybe if you did have kids of your own, or were a kid, and saw the way my sister, for example, treats a cellphone, you'd be a little more, umm, cautious about them. I guess if you can afford them they're fine, and they're certainly not inherently bad... I just do not think a twelve year old should have one, or not the way Freya would use one if she had it.

6th form, by the by, is year twelve- you just add six to the number of forms- but generally you'll be understood, most people still say seventh form. :P

You're also not wrong about antibiotics et al (and screw you, I will be creative with my as any time I please. ;) ) but, I don't know, I feel that antibiotics and gene therapy and thingummy, you know, something cell testing (just to show you that I'm not anti-progress), they are things that are inherently useful, whereas a cellphone just might be, and I don't think they encourage people to be careful, basically. Also I don't think they keep people safe; everyone I know has a cellphone and that hasn't stopped them being raped or abused or lost or too drunk to see straight, and it hasn't helped them to get out of those situations either. So. You know.

And I'm sure J is a great parent, especially if she has a sixth form son who can cook. Mum should get tips, she'd LOVE it if Rewi could cook. :P

And I really don't think it is a different world, actually. Rates of crime, including violent crime, have dropped- certainly over the past ten years, although I suppose I don't know about since your time. :P Certainly we are more aware of crime, and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing either... Yes, there are ways I could get into trouble, or Rewi, or Freya. But put it this way, if Freya gets into trouble a cellphone wouldn't help her anyway- you think the big bad pervert's going to stop and let her phone home? No way. :-/