Cowboy Caleb the liberal arts, grown-up stuff & random mischief

Wash your mouth with soap, den only ya know

some kids I found on Flickr

I was talking to mrbrown the other day. The dude’s got a new 3G phone. Can IM me from the Satay Club you know? To paraphrase mb - coolness! I gotta get me one of those phones as well.

Turns out that we’ve both realized that there are teenagers reading our blogs!

That’s right. We hold the fragile balance of their minds in our hands. We could choose to nurture their delicate minds and guide them towards the light side of the force (perhaps a career in the civil service) or on the other hand we might irresponsibily be a force of corruption and despoil their youth (like perhaps joining the civil service). Ah what a great feeling it is to hold a freshly bloomed flower in our claws fists.

Actually what we spoke about was self-censorship.

Should I tone down the language and content on my blog, just in case some kid happens to learn about sex from me and gets his birgin ass laid, thereby damning his immortal soul to an eternity of hellfire and brimstone? In less extreme cases, kids could also pick up nasty habits like smoking, drinking, bed-hopping etc from me. That would really place me, Cowboy Caleb Esq. on the top of many a parent’s shitlist.

I thought about it and then decided- No. What for? These are the cowboy calebs, littlemissdrinkalots, mrmiyagis, bubblemunches, ngaders, anekis, mandrakes etc of the future. What a terribly boring place the blogosphere would be if the younger generation didn’t learn the tricks of the trade from us.

Don’t overprotect the kids - they not stupid.

> We hold the fragile balance of their minds in our hands. … Ah what a great feeling it is to hold a freshly bloomed flower in our fists.

Now you know what it’s like to be a teacher :)

Yah, no need to censor yourself. After all, who ask them come and read your blog?

Sooner or later they will be corrupted. It’s just a matter of time.

You think too much dude.. Probably they are more sophisticated than you are.

Like Caleb, my thought processes also went through the same cycle. Oh no, got young peoples reading my site, how?

Then I realised that nobody died and made me a role model. And I never pretended to be one.

mr brown is not responsible for your children, you are.

I’m gonna put Net-Nanny or something on L’s computer until he’s 21 harharhar

wa- riew! you make my name sound like some bad word. hee!

Well said Caleb, well said…. Though for their sake, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the kids won’t grow up to be like Bubblemunche….

As a teenage at the age of 18, I despise smokers. I hate drinkers. I cannot understand why people would even gamble and risk losing. I look at the school buaya and I condemn him for not behaving chastely and for romancing Sooo mannny school belle. In less than a decade, I have totally switched to the dark side. Oh, how my 18-yr old self would hate the now-me, but he’s young and with lack of spending power, still hasn’t discovered the true hedonistic pleasures of life. The point is… I have switched sides way before I read any blog. So what difference does it make if the youth get influenced by us? They will change anyway, if they haven’t, we are just speeding up the process so they can have a few extra years of real fun.

Even if they don’t read your blog, they can still access Fleshbot what…

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