“Laughing at the clueless mouthfarts of cute twenty somethings who spent their high-school years with vocal coaches or plastic surgeons is another variation on the theme "Are we getting dumber?"”

—  Laura Penny

Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter six, More is Less, p. 184

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