Is it my imagination, or are our young folk getting stupider?

Once upon a time there was a female (allegedly) scientist who was part of the team (though to hear her psyco-fants tell it, she did it herself) which developed the first soft frozen ice cream. The process involved "doubling the amount of air in ice cream, which allowed manufacturers to use less of the actual ingredients, thereby reducing costs," according to Wikipedia. That, of course, means that even before she was screwing us financially as a politician, Maggie (the female member of the team) was helping screw us as a scientist.

But our kids haven't learnt the lesson that less can be more (ie less real, relatively healthy ingredients = more money for the fat cats).

I say this because now, it seems, at least one cosmetics company has decided to pull the wool over the faces of our ignorant, beauty at the cost of all else kids by introducing a new skin "care" product filled with 15% oxygen. For oxygen read "air". Are our kids so bloody stupid they don't see that they're now going to be paying the same amount for a product which is 15% less product than it was before, or worse yet will be paying more for the product because it's now full of a new, "beneficial" ingredient.

ARGH!

And that's not all. Kids (to me at age 61 anyone under 35 is a kid) are now shelling out good money to barbers, hairdressers and hair product companies for hair cuts, hair "styles", hair "care" products that help them have that just got out of bed look. Are the kids so thick they don't know that all they have to do to achieve that look is toget the hell out of  bed and don't touch their hair?

And even that's not all. We can surely all remember when there was only one "flavour" of Cheerios and that was oats. They were made from oats and the O at the end of Cheerios stood for oats. Then over the years came a multiplicity of Cheerios flavours, multi-grain, and others I don't recall since I didn't buy them. Now, Nestle (which produced and markets Cheerios on this side of the pond) is advertising (falsely, fraudulently, if I do say so myself) a "new cheerios, now with Oats and only Oats". Er, guys, there ain't nothing new about oat Cheerios, they were invented with only Oats.

It's really getting to the point where I most assuredly want to cry out "Stop the World, I wanna get off"