I was sat in Media Law this afternoon, as I am on most Fridays. Key phrase - most. Not many people bother to turn up, let alone listen, after the first couple of lectures. Our lecturer repeats himself and all the stories, anecdotes and "unique whips" that come with it. So much so that a Facebook group has actually been set up to showcase all of his top-rated and favourite quotes and sayings. Seems boring? Yeahpppp. That's how we get our kicks.
There was one piece of useless and inappropriate information that did catch my attention though. My lecturer's random question of the day that seems to crop up completely from left field was this: What is the most commonly used word on the internet? Law-related very valid question, I know. Typical answers such as "A" and "The" were assumed by most, so we all pressed Apple + Tab and carried on slagging him off on Facebook.
His answer. The answer to the most commonly used word on the internet - Sex.
Sorry what?
At the mention of this word, every student's head (typically) shot up from the shorthand exercises we were given earlier. A reference to sex in a Media Law lecture was like Christmas in Israel- it just never happened. Especially from a man you wouldn't blame for forgetting what sex actually was at his age. Facebook lost half it's online population in that split second.
Because apparently, 70% of the internet is entirely made up of porn. Rubbish, tacky, occasionally excellent, porn. Man's greatest invention, a complex system more powerful than any other imaginable to the human being, is actually filled up with cock-sucking, boob-wanking, bukaki-drenched S & M hot action. A waste of human resources? Perhaps. Catholics certainly wouldn't agree, as we see in the educational documentary "Monty Python - Every sperm is sacred" sketch, still to this day played in primary school classrooms to avoid "the banana lesson".
What does this say about us then? Does it say that we are still "driven to pursue the continuance of the human race" and the only way we can safely do this is to keep the pipes clean? Points for effort, but no. What 70% of the internet being made up of sex actually shows is one basic fact - that we are all f*cking perverts. Including my law lecturer, who will most likely sue me for "defamation" after this. Do I know what the consequences of this are? Hell yes I do, say it with me now. Two years imprisonment, unlimited faaane. He can't sue me for it being the truth because it's not. The 70% fact is wrong. After this blog, its 71 actually.
There was one piece of useless and inappropriate information that did catch my attention though. My lecturer's random question of the day that seems to crop up completely from left field was this: What is the most commonly used word on the internet? Law-related very valid question, I know. Typical answers such as "A" and "The" were assumed by most, so we all pressed Apple + Tab and carried on slagging him off on Facebook.
His answer. The answer to the most commonly used word on the internet - Sex.
Sorry what?
At the mention of this word, every student's head (typically) shot up from the shorthand exercises we were given earlier. A reference to sex in a Media Law lecture was like Christmas in Israel- it just never happened. Especially from a man you wouldn't blame for forgetting what sex actually was at his age. Facebook lost half it's online population in that split second.
Because apparently, 70% of the internet is entirely made up of porn. Rubbish, tacky, occasionally excellent, porn. Man's greatest invention, a complex system more powerful than any other imaginable to the human being, is actually filled up with cock-sucking, boob-wanking, bukaki-drenched S & M hot action. A waste of human resources? Perhaps. Catholics certainly wouldn't agree, as we see in the educational documentary "Monty Python - Every sperm is sacred" sketch, still to this day played in primary school classrooms to avoid "the banana lesson".
What does this say about us then? Does it say that we are still "driven to pursue the continuance of the human race" and the only way we can safely do this is to keep the pipes clean? Points for effort, but no. What 70% of the internet being made up of sex actually shows is one basic fact - that we are all f*cking perverts. Including my law lecturer, who will most likely sue me for "defamation" after this. Do I know what the consequences of this are? Hell yes I do, say it with me now. Two years imprisonment, unlimited faaane. He can't sue me for it being the truth because it's not. The 70% fact is wrong. After this blog, its 71 actually.
