I posted a while back about a fairly idiotic piece written by Anne Diamond in the Daily Mail, where she "reviewed" a bunch of videogames, condemned their violent content, but claimed Halo 3 wasn't so bad as her son - who is below the age of the BBFC certification displayed on the box - plays it, and isn't a psychopath.
Well, there appears to be a sequel. I'll sum up in case you don't feel like reading more of Rosie Millard's typically awful bleating :
Rosie Millard caves in to "sustained pressure" from her four kids, and buys them a Nintendo DS from Hong Kong. Rosie Millard has supposedly read the Byron report, and likes the sound of all these brain training games. Unsurprisingly (at least to anyone who remembers being a child) the kids can't bring themselves to share the DS, and to restore the middle class tranquility of a life filled with "reading, playing the violin, walking the dog, occasionally fighting, cooking and making things", she donates the DS to a charity shop.
Rosie Millard.
First off - I don't buy the charity shop donation. It's just too neat an ending. Also, most charity shops still can't accept donations of electrical goods of any kind (due to both WEEE and Health & Safety regs). The Cancer Research site claims some of their shops can accept goods like this, but I just don't believe her, I'm afraid. Why don't I believe her? Read on.
In the article, she says :
"When the pale blue, £150 Nintendo finally arrived last November, fresh from Hong Kong (I had bought it on the net), crammed with a 'bundle' of 20 games including Brain Trainer, Fifa 08, and Nintendogs..."
"In the end, last week, I walked into my local branch of Cancer Research UK and gave it away. 'Would you like this Nintendo?' I said. 'In perfect condition, with a bundle of 20 games. Plus charger.'"
A "bundle of 20 games"? And the DS was bought "on the net" from Hong Kong? I think it's safe to say the "bundle" was in fact a pirate 20-in-1 cart, or even something like an R4 (essentially an empty DS cart that takes an SD card, allowing you to play ROM images of games from it) with 20 games preloaded.
So Rosie Millard thinks she can occupy the moral high-ground, showing near-Victorian levels of parental disdain when her children dare to shatter the tranquillity of their idyllic pastoral lifestyle, after she succumbed to supposed pressure and bought an illegal knock-off cartridge from the internet to shut them up? What an appalling human being.
Rosie fvcking Millard.
Fvck.
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