Ages ago there was a news item about an invention to dissuade troublesome youths from hanging about outside shops scaring people and (literally) lowering the tone. Apparently a machine has been invented that emits a tone that is really irritating to people below the age of twenty or so, but cannot be heard by people older than that. So oiks decide not to hang about outside the local shops and instead go and smash up a phone box in a secluded spot - and very possibly the local residents don’t get their copy of the Daily Mail or The Sun delivered as the paper boy’s ears bleed every time he tries to go into the local newsagents to pick up the papers to deliver.
Anyway, having been invented as a power for good, the high pitched tone has now been used as a tool to assist feral youth. It seems that you can now get the high pitched tone as a ring tone on your mobile. If pupils are in class and want to sneakily keep their mobile on they can have this ring tone and the teacher won’t hear it because the tone is not in the adult hearing range. Although if they answer a phone call, unless they have learned to actually speak in the high pitched tone, I suspect most teachers would probably notice.
So, lets get this clear... a tone is invented that is so repugnant to youths that they are instantly repelled by it. It is so effective that it is… now being used as a mobile ring tone by the very people that it is meant to repel. Mind you if they are the oiks they are meant to be they are unlikely to be in school anyway, so the ring tone is just going to protect the hearing of old fogies such as myself. Now if someone could invent something that means that I can’t hear people playing the radio on mobile phones at full volume on the tube that *would* be a good invention.
5 comments:
It is my observation that "Yoof" today don't actually use their mobile phones to speak to each other, only to text. In this way the "mosquito" ringtone would actually be quite effective...
Just an observation, like...
Are you undermining my brilliantly insightful piece of writing? Some people…
It is still kind of odd though that something that was originally designed to deal with anti-social behaviour is within a very short space of time being used to their advantage.
You’re probably right about the texting thing, but don’t even get me started on the yoof of today being unable to spell words correctly because all they know how to do is write in abbreviated text speak.
*Gets out pen to write in manuscript form to the Daily Mail*
What you really need is a device to stop all scrubbers from leaving their homes..
Soz for the generalisations, I've had a bad day in Social Housing hell.
Me thinks, that maybe a stun gun would be the answer.
30-something - what you need is a nice bike ride to Paris to clear the cobwebs out. I think you should do one next week (hope it goes well by the way).
TF - (see, not more letters to type!) I'll keep the stun gun option in mind, it might come in handy. But based on recent evidence they'd end up finding some way to make that a power for evil as well.
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