My dad has an argument he throws out about nuclear power whenever the panicky sort go on about how dangerous it is: "Hell, more people were killed at Chappaquiddick than Three Mile Island."

I shall update it for the Brits: "Hell, more people are killed at football matches than video games."

And yet you rarely see editorials commenting about how dangerous soccer--er . . . football matches are, and how they should be regulated and controlled. That's because people seem to innately understand in that context that IDIOTS cannot be controlled, and yet, with video games they can? LOGIC=FAIL

They hate games and France. Who said they were rational?

greggman:
What does this have to do with conservatives? The stereo type is conservatives like guns and violence. It's liberals that want to ban video games. Tipper Gore, Hillary Clinton...

US politics =/= world politics.

LisaB1138:
"Hell, more people are killed at football matches than video games."

Mmm, it's like how any discussion of the dangers of nuclear power plants fails to mention the many many coal-industry-related deaths every year.

Hating france is entirely rational. Game hate-is not. Killing someone in a game won't make a kid a psycho, but it may trigger a psychosis is a child who already had problems.

I suspect a great many of children who do commit videogame-related crimes were actually abused, and the parents managed to conceal it from the investigators.

Fondant:
Hating france is entirely rational. Game hate-is not.

...are you serious?

Fondant:
Hating france is entirely rational. Game hate-is not. Killing someone in a game won't make a kid a psycho, but it may trigger a psychosis is a child who already had problems.

I suspect a great many of children who do commit videogame-related crimes were actually abused, and the parents managed to conceal it from the investigators.

I agree totally with that as most kids blame the video game but really there was something deep in there brain willing to commit an atrocity already and anything can influence them to finally kill and decide to go on a massacre and that abused thing could be right, all of the reasons the kid could of done such an act is psychological

Fondant:
Hating france is entirely rational. Game hate-is not. Killing someone in a game won't make a kid a psycho, but it may trigger a psychosis is a child who already had problems.

Living in France won't make you a surrender or a fan of socialism.

I suspect a great many of children who do commit videogame-related crimes were actually abused, and the parents managed to conceal it from the investigators.

Considering that for these cases, the same game played by a hundred of thousand other people won't generate psychos, it's rather obvious that part of the problem would mainly be about the subject.

Fraser.J.A:

Fondant:
Hating france is entirely rational. Game hate-is not.

...are you serious?

We hate France in the same way Americans hate Canadians and vice versa. You live next to someone different for a long time and it builds up.

That being said, anyone apart from us touches France and we'll kill them. :)

What hacks me off is it's the same papers that'll back British soldiers to go into foreign countries to murder, rape and steal in the name of 'freedom' and 'democracy'.

Damn I hate my country.

The_root_of_all_evil:

Fraser.J.A:

Fondant:
Hating france is entirely rational. Game hate-is not.

...are you serious?

We hate France in the same way Americans hate Canadians and vice versa. You live next to someone different for a long time and it builds up.

That being said, anyone apart from us touches France and we'll kill them. :)

Wait..what? Americans don't hate Canadians, unless you count the tiny minority of extreme racists that live here.

TomNook:

The_root_of_all_evil:

Fraser.J.A:

Fondant:
Hating france is entirely rational. Game hate-is not.

...are you serious?

We hate France in the same way Americans hate Canadians and vice versa. You live next to someone different for a long time and it builds up.

That being said, anyone apart from us touches France and we'll kill them. :)

Wait..what? Americans don't hate Canadians, unless you count the tiny minority of extreme racists that live here.

I think what is meant is that we don't "hate" each other. I'm Scottish and though there are friendly rivalries towards England it's only the bigots that actually really hate them. I'm sure this is what was meant with France as well.

Bingo Strafe. England 'hates' France, Scotland/Wales/Ireland 'hates' England, I think the French 'hate' Belgium or the Parisians. It's all a kind of sibling thing.

We produce bland food. They eat horses. We drink beer. They drink wine..etc.

British Papers make the National Enquirer look honest though.

The_root_of_all_evil:

Fraser.J.A:

Fondant:
Hating france is entirely rational. Game hate-is not.

...are you serious?

We hate France in the same way Americans hate Canadians and vice versa.

You do know the probably all English people are have French genes right? Absolutely no one can trace their ancestry to Anglo-Saxons who of course were the true English.

I don't hate the French and I'm English. I don't subscribe to the lowbrow English tabloids who encourage hate with their stupid right wing views.

You do know the probably all English people are have French genes right?

Yep, my great-great-grandfather was French, and I have a Anglicised French surname.

But then we all came from Africa originally.