The incessant blend of boyish patois and text-message speak ("we had 2 call Davinder b4 we left dis place, innit") is captivating, but the plot becomes overwrought and absurd when the boys stumble into the world of high-stakes crime.
This article originally appeareDouglas Burke
But in the bigger cultural scheme of things, was delivering lines such as "to burst up through tarmac" in a slightly hysterical Brummie brogue any more absurd than well-bred boys from the London suburbs pretending they were Delta bluesmen?
(Free Beacon: "Greatest Living President is Also Fantastic Painter"; the Guardian: "arguably worse than the twee oil paintings of Dwight Eisenhower Jerry Saltztz, for New York magazine's Vulture blog: "Both border on the visionary, the absurd, the perverse, the frat boy").
Recently a story I wrote was referred to as a 'chicken little fluff-piece.' I would hope that a 12-year old pre-pubescent boy made this absurd comment but it's more likely that a fully-grown adult chose those words to slam my article on CNN.com.
I ask about its bleakly absurd premise, the story of two boys abandoned in a chicken coop.
The Manneken Pis, a tiny, working statue of a urinating little boy, is famous, but intrinsically absurd.
I know some will see these ingredients of the military lifestyle as a sort of absurd, tough-guy game played by overgrown boys.
If I hadn't taken on the British government and the absurd, outdated laws around medical cannabis, then my little boy, Billy, would very likely have died.
Clifford Geertz of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study says that the strong programme is only one, much-debated, regime in the sociology of science, yet has become "a whipping-boy for all the criticisms, which is absurd".
