Hello Citizens!

The New Judge Dredd

So, yesterday, I entered a new phase of my life. I became a better Catholic, by the express and traditional role of beginning to enter martyrdom.

There was a “fun”fair, you see, at the nearest town centre to us, and the kids had received vouchers from the school for it, you see, and the wife guilted me into it you see, so, like a good Catholic, I put on my hair shirt, and then prepared myself for several hours of being surrounded by screaming children (on top of my own) hopped up on sugar, running riot among pickpockets and gypises, while stroboscopic lights try to induce epilepsy even in the mentally strong. All while eardrum shattering thump-thump “music” blares from speakers throughout the entire field of lies, conmanship and daylight robbery that is the hallmark of these “fun” fairs all around the world.

On a side note, I realised why there is ear-shattering “music” at these things. If you were to remove it, what you would hear would be a good approximation of one of Dante’s lower circles of Hell.

The unbridled screams of a thousand children, some —supposedly— due to joy, many due to tears, terror, rage and frustration at their parents, siblings, the cheap rides, or the scary things in, on and running the rides. Plus, the shouts, screams and tears of the parents of these children, for much the same reasons, with the exception that none of them —except perhaps those driven mad by it all— are due to joy.

In any event, on the way to the fair, as we have too many children to fit into one car along wit the pram, I was in my sporty two seater mercedes with my son, the Young Viking.

He let out a silent one that required both windows to be instantly opened, much to his delight, and he LOVES open windows on cars, so he stretched the seat-belt until it was lose enough, grabbed onto the open window frame, stuck his head out, and as soon as there was a couple walking on the pavement, screamed to them at the top of his lungs:

Immediately followed by a somewhat menacing:

I have NO IDEA where he even heard the word citizens. And I am fairly sure he has no idea who judge Dredd is, as it was a comic book (and later film) before his time, but given his temperament, literalness, sense of justice, love of guns, and so on, I can definitely see him being a judge in a post-apocalyptic Earth.