Jo "Supernanny" Frost has decided to join Noel Gallagher in using last week's nationwide UK riots to blame those evil, evil videogames. Using the ever-disingenuous phrase, "research shows," the savior of shitty parents everywhere has proven without a doubt that VIDEOGAMES DID THE RIOTS!
"I felt for a moment as if we had stumbled into a real-life violent video game of the kind that so many of those involved are addicted to," she writes in her staggeringly arrogant column. "These horrific games where points are given for burning, shooting and killing, where the graphics are so realistic you believe that they're real scenes of carnage, where those who play fantasise they have the power of life and death, are so brutal they completely desensitise anyone taking part.
"Research shows that within 15 minutes of playing one of these games young men become highly aggressive and lack empathy in normal situations. It is not too fanciful to suggest it's a short step from being immersed in this war-like world to taking that nightmare mindset on to the streets with all the consequences of anarchy and violence we saw rip apart cities."
Disturbingly, Frost suggests games should be "subject to censorship" (shudder) in order to save the nation's kids. She also said that shopkeepers who sell violent games to kids should be fined, exposing just how ignorant she is of the subject ... since UK shopkeepers already are fined for that. So yeah, she's a bit of a f*cking idiot who should probably stick to exploitative reality TV shows, rather than columns where she uses the word "Toxic" three times in order to make herself sound dramatic.
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2:30 PM on 08.17.2011 | 
Superwhatjiggamawignow?
I'm pretty sure the riots started because police shot a man dead at a protest over the growing cost of higher education.
How come the people who get all the attention are ignorant sows?
it was scary as shit, I'm glad i stopped.
Stupid whore.
Someone needs to correct you- I don't know where you got that from. You're not from England are you? The guy the Police shot was definitely not protesting against the spiralling cost of education.
Hate the player not the game baby.
Whats funny about all this to me is that the UK has 1 thing that's synonymous with causing a riot and has been for a while now: Football (Soccer for us Yanks). Why aren't they blaming hooligans and Manchester United for the riots? They have caused far more violence and unrest in that country over the years then video games ever have. Hell even here in the states people riot because their team won or lost and no ones bothering to blame violence on real life, often highly violent, competitive sports that parents often not only condone but openly share with their kids on both sides of the ocean.
She knows about as much about videogames as she does self control. The fucking hag gets fatter and fatter everytime she's on tv yet clearly she can preach about self control to the masses.
Sorry. I'm mad.
But goddamn is she hot. I love a woman with curves.
Get the facts, you're as bad as Supernanny.
I always have a hard time discerning whether the things I'm shooting in the face are on my TV or if they happen to be flat, about 16" tall, and constrained to this one wall in my house. I guess I'll find out the hard way some day when I get robbed and try to defend myself with my controller.
Good lord what a dumb twat.
It's either one or the other, lady. And these kids wouldn't even be PLAYING these "toxic" games if the parents were doing their job. Or the parents would at least be there to play the games with them in order to place the fake violence in its proper context.
What are you talking about? That's not what happened, this is what triggered it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Mark_Duggan
PS: That came across as far more haughty than I intended, just genuinely curious as to where you got that idea from.
Sounds like she gets her research from the same place Jim does.
also watch out Jim.
"Points for killing", "Mistaken for real", "Desensitizing", "Short step from gaming to real violence", she's a goldmine!
Pretty much. Parents can be the blame for some cases though. Depends on the age of who's committing these violent acts.