Shooting Gazette

Of tweeds and texts

They say only two things are certain in life: death and taxes. But it’s time to add to that list: hearing one person complaining about how another one uses their mobile phone. Will we ever hear the end of older generations, concerned about the developing squareness of young retinas, complaining to youngsters that “you’re always on that thing”? Or equally, millennials, seemingly born with touchscreen in hand, asking those older generations “What’s the point of you having one if you don’t answer it?”

It isn’t just limited to intergenerational conflict, however.

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