Who to have interesting conversations with...

They (as in people in general, most likely those who write into the newspapers) say that you can’t have a decent conversation with young people today. I say this is balderdash. Where i would normally use a swear word (because i like them, no other reason) to describe such sentiment i have been really, really trying to not. Apparently you only use swear words if your grasp of the English language is poor. It shows a lack of a proper education. I don’t agree with that all. I am one of the smartest people i know and i LOVE a good swear word. I like to think of it as plain speaking. As in, if something is shit why not just say “it is shit”?

Now, back to what i wanted to say. Some of the most scintillating and indeed interesting conversations have taken place with my niece, Maree (ages 11 ½). I started out about fishing. As so many great stories do. Yes. I am being sarcastic. Sorta. Anyway. She wanted to go to this fish spawning thing (i don’t care enough to ask anything about it or expand the explanation to what she told me about it. Live with it). What she didn’t want to do is kill the fish once it was caught. I did eventually tell her that her dad would do the killing but i said that at the end of the conversation (when we got to school).

BTW if this reads a bit disjointed there is a jolly good reason for that. I am downloading some mcshep fic stuff and am writing between each batch. I know it is not a good reason but i need to multi-task like other people need to breath. I would say sorry but i wouldn’t really mean it. It would just be lip service. OK. *small sigh*. Sorry.

After i had discovered about the not wanting to kill the fish (which i am ok with...i never liked killing the fish when i fished) i went on and on about kids needing to know EXACTLY where there food comes from. Probably a bit ranty to tell the truth. I know i went to far because when she started to say she was never eating any animal that could cry again i may have said “you do realise the vegetables scream too?”. No she didn’t believe me. lucky for me huh? *grin*
Then i talked about the food chain and that humans were at the top so we get to eat everything. I also said “you know, big fish eat little fish”. She replied that “we are not fish”. She had me there so then i had to talk about everything eating everything. We are agreed that sharks beat us (but only when we go into the ocean). Also, dinosaurs trump all...if there were really dinosaurs.

The BEST but was when we talked about monkeys. If they were better than us. Eventually it cam down to humans having the best weapons. Apart from the whole maybe the monkeys could put poison in the bananas thing (which went on for far, far too long and involved talk about how exactly monkeys would make the poison and distribute it). Maree’s final argument for the monkey case was pure Douglas Adams. That the monkey is better because he hasn’t invented so many killing things.

So if you ever find yourself with no one of note and/or common sense to talk to find someone like Maree. If can really cheer your day.

Hey. My downloads are done! Now i better upload this and be going on with the stuff i downloaded!

[ps...hope you’re feeling better Bear]