Of course, these hysterically over-hopped and violently flavoured beers are designed to be attractive to people who have been weaned on energy drinks and Sunny Delight, and who knock back Jägermeister as if it were an actual drink rather than something for hangovers that smells like pine lavatory cleaner (and probably doesn't taste much different either).
It's the same with their hearing - the music has to be loud, they're indifferent to sound quality and they all shout, because they've damaged the cells in their inner ears by listening to in-ear bud speakers at max volume from an early age.
AND their sense of smell - the universal popularity of 'fabric conditioners' that smell like they were originally developed at Porton Down, fruit scented (??!!) cleaning products, toilet ducks, blocks and gels mean that they've been surrounded by such an all-pervading haze of
pungent industrial byproducts, for so long, that the only smells that register are at max volume too.
Hence the popularity of Lynx-type deodorants that smell like tear gas or urinal blocks, and which actually make your eyes water and your nose smart if your sense of smell works normally.
The Aum Shinrikyo cult's 1995 Tokyo subway atrocity was a grim precedent for the experience of travelling on public transport anywhere today when there's a young man on board.
Or in a lift.
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