to be angry about the vacuous interviews given in Sunday supplement magazines?

[SmugColditz]

An interview with some 19 year old starlet left me fuming. The interviewer was asking her all sorts of questions, about global economy, and she clearly didn't really understand them, and it left me thinking "I don't really care what you think, you're a fucking child!"

WHY? WHY are we giving 19 year old girls and boys a voice beyond the student union?

I KNOW they aren't all idiots - but let's face it, many are.

And yes, there are loads of 19 year olds and younger here, but you are all parents and therefore exempt from the normal laws of teenaged idiocy.

indeed, my whole point is that she was so amazingly not vacuous (I was thrusting it at dh too, saying "Have you read this" and he said somewhat sniffily (while deep in the Style section, I ask you - except that that has Sally Brampton in it who is my other Goddess of Non-Vacuity) "I was about to but you grabbed it")