It explains everything
Posted on | November 11, 2009 | 69 Comments
If you ever wondered why the people of Ireland seemingly ‘put up’ with crooked politicians, abusive clergy and all the other gobshitery that surrounds us on a daily basis then listening to Liveline will give you the answers you need. It’s because they are cretins.
Today’s ‘Video games are evil and should be banned because they are evil because I say so and not based on any evidence’ show was an extravaganza of ill-informed, half-witted, moronic fuckwittery of the highest order. Some of the people they had on were just so ridiculously ignorant of anything resembling a fact it’s frightening. It was all about Modern Warfare 2, a game in which you go around shooting people. Like many other video games since video games were invented. Apparently they’re worse now though because graphics are better and we can more realistically portray blood (but am I right in remembering a cheat code for Mortal Kombat which made it more bloody?).
Inevitably somebody mentioned the Columbine killers playing violent video games. A media led myth that has not even a shred of truth to it. If anyone thinks those boys killed those people because they played Doom then they are just wrong. The same way they didn’t kill all those people because of Marilyn Manson or because they wore long trenchcoats. Yet Liveline with that bastard cunt Joe Duffy is the perfect platform for these people to disgorge at clueless length about stuff they only think they know about. Typical conversation:
“My boy was playing a game and it had someone stabbing a person in the neck and there was blood everywhere”.
“And what did you do?”
“I took the game away”.
“And how did that go down”.
“Oh, it was terrible. There were arguments and all kind”.
“Was there violence? Did you have violence at home because of it?”
What a cunt. Another guy rings in:
“I’ve got Modern Warfare Joe and I played it last night and I’m not about to go out and start shooting people”.
“Well, I hope not”.
Fuck me. Generally the only people Duffy had on defending video games were young enough, some of them not really eloquent enough to get their point across but when the student from IT Tallaght came on to talk about how the Director of Film Classification came to the college and gave a lecture about how there was no evidence to link violent films with real life violence he was ignored.
Honestly, these people are idiots who clearly have nothing better to do with their time. And these idiots are representative of much of Ireland because people hear the idiots on the radio and agree with the idiots and soon the idiots point of view becomes conventional wisdom and on we go.
I have watched lots of films which have violence in them. I have not once carried out an act of violence similar to the ones I have witnessed. I have played video games with violence in them, yet I have not carjacked anyone, driven up the pavements knocking people down like skittles before stealing a helicopter and making my escape. The closest I’ve come to emulating a video game is trying to a Cruyff turn when playing football and I nearly slipped a disc doing that.
Today’s Liveline was maddening, it really was. Forget about banning video games. I call for Joe Duffy to be banned before he incites someone to carry out acts of sickening violence … on him.
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November 11th, 2009 @ 2:56 pm
I heard them, scaremongering away as usual.
It used to be rock n roll was the biggest evil, then heavy metal, then punk, then def metal, now video games.
What a load of horseshit!!
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:02 pm
Ah,and now we have random “Its time for the censorship bord to step in”
Bernard was his name,because his son had a personality change playing these games (that Bernard probably paid for)-now Bernard is out of work,he has time to take an interest in his sons past-times,but instead of being a parent and actually telling his son that he cant play the games,it should be up to a Govt body to to his parenting for him..the dozy cunt..
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:13 pm
Love that word ‘gobshitery’.
This is a bit like the ‘cannabis gives you psychosis’ arguments that Blighty have had over the last few years. Nothing to do with the fact that such people were already prone to this sort of shit in the first place. Same with games – if you’re going to go out and slaughter people, the video game is only the symptom, not the cause.
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:27 pm
“It’s someone else’s fault!”
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:30 pm
Stalin played video games.
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:31 pm
Pol Pot invented Tetris.
Fair enough he used dried up skulls and femurs but still …
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:34 pm
Thank God there were no Video games in the 1930s or the German people might have turned into monsters.
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:36 pm
Thank God there were no Video games in the 1930s or the German people might have turned into monsters.
haha. Nice.
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:40 pm
”I call for Joe Duffy to be banned before he incites someone to carry out acts of sickening violence … on him.”
This sounds like a job for Pat Kenny’s shouty bloke.
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:43 pm
And Pac-Man’s awful example was obviously responsible for all that child obesity during the eighties.
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:48 pm
Joe Duffy contributors cannot be representative of society as a whole, Mr 20, it’s just too depressing. It’s best just to switch off and ignore it; it’s terrible drivel. Good material for blogs, though….
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:52 pm
They are el cuno, they are. That’s why people went to church and put money in collection plates after the reports earlier this year.
Pac Man made me take Ecstasy.
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:56 pm
I wish someone would reverse into him again.
November 11th, 2009 @ 3:56 pm
People with guns kill people, not people with video games.
Imagine the guilt the guy who reversed into Joe Duffy and only broke his leg is now feeling.
He could have put an end to Joe, instead he only broke the Cunts leg.
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:00 pm
He could have put an end to Joe, instead he only broke the Cunts leg.
Should have reversed over him,collected the cash,hijacked a police car and pissed it down Pearse Street on the wrong side of the road playing a hit from the 80′s obnoxiously loud on the stereo (Drive by the Cars perhaps) Think of the bonus points he would have got…
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:15 pm
What the fuck would they put in video games except violence?
“Shelf Stacking 4 – now with ultra realistic bean tins”
“Posting christmas cards – yuletime success”
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:21 pm
Election 2007 – Rated 18 for excessive anal rape scenes
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:22 pm
Wasn’t there a fishing game for the Dreamcast? No wonder nobody bought that thing.
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:25 pm
There would have been thousands of people willing to perjure themselves to give him an alibi.
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:26 pm
Dreamcast was a great console,true shite like the fishing game but it has Soul Calibre -best fighting game ever and had Quake 3 -one of the best online shooters ever too.. way ahead of its time and Sony simply had an infinite marketing budget..
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:30 pm
“Team Meeting VI for the PC – now with Times New Roman for the minutes”
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:30 pm
“Soft as Shite 3″ – rated PG
Control a metrosexual european clerk as he stamps forms approving or denying grants for accounting audits in a small belgian town.
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:34 pm
Get to Fuck 2 – 18 for Language
You stand in a crowded Bar on Friday night,the table you’ve been eyeing up for the past 40mins is about to come free,when you spot 2 shade wearing cunts making a bee-line for the same table… Its a simulation game.
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
Kris Kindle Mania (xBox only) – control “the office cunt” as he distributes near-worthless presents to his colleagues. Who will get “the funny calendar”?
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:45 pm
Morten Wombat – You control A-ha singer Morten Harkett as he searches the vastness of the Australian outback – in real time!!! – for wombats.
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:47 pm
Grandad Turismo – all the thrills and spills of driving around town at no more than 20mph. See who can cause the biggest traffic jam before you scrape the side off a brand new Mercedes when you park beside it in the supermarket.
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
Pac Mum – You try to navigate facebook without dodgy posts from your parents
http://failblog.org/2009/11/08/mom-fail/
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:50 pm
Bananamonger II. Control the raucous yelling of a Mary Street fruit vendor. “Bananassixfurfiftee”.
Twin pack with “Vuitton Behemoth”. See how many knock-off handbags you can sell before the gardai nab you. Rated 16 for language: “fuck yis cops yis cunts yis”.
November 11th, 2009 @ 4:53 pm
StreetSweeper 4 – Control Ken Masters as he cleans the streets of America using his “dragon punch” sweeping brush.
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:07 pm
Wolfenstein 3D – Where you eat your dinner really fast.
Doom 2009 – All about NAMA.
Carmageddon M50 – Driving takes it toll.
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:11 pm
Sleepfighter 2 Turbo – Fight to stay awake after watching several days of Open University footage which has been slightly sped up.
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:27 pm
Super Mario Waiters
How fast can you server mediocre Italian slop in a chain restaurant packed with bland families and cheap dates?
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:30 pm
Grand Theft Anto
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:37 pm
Call of Doodie – Shout at Dog Walkers to pick up after their animals.
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:41 pm
Mental Gear Rapid: Sons of the Liberties
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:44 pm
Sonic the Sloth
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:46 pm
Splinter Sell – You own a splinter shop, how many can you shift in one regular 9-5 day (including 1 hour off for lunch)
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:50 pm
Splinter Sell – ex mutant ninja turtle teacher displays his mercantile skills
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:51 pm
Resident Anvil: Try and evict your inanimate tenant legally, without ending up in court.
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:51 pm
Sphincter Sell – Phoenix Park
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:53 pm
Sphincter Sell – Phoenix Park
It’ll give you a virus…
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:54 pm
Need for Speed – You have a midnight deadline for an Ad campaign proposal,its9am and nothings done.How much can you get done without resorting to shovelling weak speed into ye..(Incl 4 hours for lunch)
November 11th, 2009 @ 5:58 pm
Halo 4 – can you be God’s best angel and win the ultimate prize?
November 11th, 2009 @ 6:07 pm
Granny Theft Auto – drive around in high powered cars stealing grannies and then viciously raping them. Very realistic granny screams as grannys are rodgered sensless.
Psycho the Hedgehog – control a Psycho mutant 2 foot long hedgehog as he travels around Ireland eating the heads of farmers. Brilliant graphics – realistic blood, guts, brains and little cute hedgehog ears.
FIFA 2009 – Control a member of the Fedup Irish Farmers Association as they travel around to football grounds killing footballers and fans because there fed up milking cows and have nothing better to do. Game is over when you rip of Drogbas head and force feed it to John Tery while simultaneously buggering him with a nail studded baseball bat. Fabulous sound and graphics allow you to see every detail of drogbas eyeballs popping out as terry munches into his face and also hear the sound of the rusty nails ripping through Terrys anus.
Oh wait there now, are these supposed to be without violence?
November 11th, 2009 @ 6:28 pm
Fuck me and die a cripple We’ve had to listen to Stephen fucking Nolan on fivelive for the past couple of years. Jesus, Mary and Joseph he reminds me of an old chicken caught up in a hedge. What a fuckwit.
November 11th, 2009 @ 6:37 pm
Milla Jovovich
November 11th, 2009 @ 6:59 pm
Stephen fucking Nolan. Now there’s a self important little fuckwit. Imagine the conversations over the back garden fence if him and Joe Duffy were neighbors? they’d be like Les Dawson housewives, only without the humour.
What the fuck are you listening to Joe Duffy for anyway Twenty? You know it brings out the psychotic in you?!
November 11th, 2009 @ 7:02 pm
I listened to Liveline today and the ignorance of some of the callers was quite staggering. Joe himself was so patronising to the callers who were defending games. It made me quite angry. Videogames have never made me angry or violent. Go figure.
November 11th, 2009 @ 7:04 pm
A few moments of weakness, Idle. It was very depressing listening to it.
Dave, I think you’ve summed up the feelings of anyone who heard it who wasn’t a brain dead yokel cunt.
November 11th, 2009 @ 7:13 pm
This is things SHOULD be!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8354663.stm
November 11th, 2009 @ 7:38 pm
Bad, but I suspect I can top that one for awfulness. A few years ago, I was flicking throgh radio stations randomly. I came across FM104 and Adrian Kennedy’s show in the evening. They were hosting a phone-in asking why there were so many problems within gypsy communities in Ireland. The “debate, if you could call it that, involved retards of the very worst kind threating once every 30 seconds to beat up the other callers. I’ve never heard anything so fucking stupid.
Is this Adrian Kennedy still around, and if so, is he still as much of a cunt as he was on that show?
November 11th, 2009 @ 7:40 pm
No idea, haven’t listened. I’m pretty sure the phone show is still on FM104.
The ‘secret’, such as it is, is that many of the controversial callers are stooges to get people riled up and to call in.
I know this because I stooged a few times. I think it was for the Chris Barry back then though.
November 11th, 2009 @ 7:45 pm
I remember those. There was one on FM104 and another on 98FM and they just tried to outdo each other with the class of scumbag on them.
A few of us used to try and make up the worst story possible over a few beers and ring then up and try and get on the air.
Every time they ‘lost’ a caller, that was them hanging up because it was too scumbaggy or someone was taking the piss out of them.
I don’t know if they’re still around. If there’s any justice their presenters would have an act of violence carried out on their person before Joe Duffy. (A controversial thought I know).
November 11th, 2009 @ 8:43 pm
Peader have you been playing violent video games again. I think you need to go out for air!
And Joe Duffy is right!
Only last night I went on a rampage killing dozens of little green aliens that were magically suspended in the air above me.
Funnily enough Liveline makes me want to kill real people, maybe it should come with a warning!
November 11th, 2009 @ 11:19 pm
Half Life IV
Navigate your way through your everyday life after a stroke paralyses your entire left side and the speech centres of your brain.
November 11th, 2009 @ 11:25 pm
I caught my young lad playing one of those games the other day so I stabbed him in the neck
November 11th, 2009 @ 11:32 pm
haha
November 12th, 2009 @ 1:03 am
Even the old tame ones cause people to do crazy things.
November 12th, 2009 @ 1:09 am
sorry, f’d up trying to embed link in last post
http://www.youtube.com/v/pIrvpn3k9A4
also
http://www.youtube.com/v/MytfhzcSF-Y
November 12th, 2009 @ 3:34 am
fantastic
November 12th, 2009 @ 9:09 am
All this shite about the link between music and video games causing violence is crap… what did Hitler listen to?
November 12th, 2009 @ 9:22 am
Wagner! Apocalypse Now stylee…
November 12th, 2009 @ 9:40 am
“My boy was playing a game and it had someone stabbing a person in the neck and there was blood everywhere”
manhunt, fucking great game.
November 12th, 2009 @ 10:21 am
Twenty your wrong, i am addicted to mario kart on the Wii. I am out every night in wild wing killing people with deadly turtles and mushrooms.
I have found dressing up as “drybones” to be the most effective way of killing the maximum amount of people with the least amount of effort
November 12th, 2009 @ 1:20 pm
At least in the UK, there’s lads like Tom Watson with a lick of sense – http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/11/vaz_v_watson_modern_warfare_2.html
November 12th, 2009 @ 2:44 pm
Ah the bansterbaters eh, don’t you just love em? I’ve never ever (well that’s my story and I’m sticking to it) played video games so, ergo, they should be banned. I thank god that I live in a sensible country (UK) where we leave such things up to the parents who use parental control and need no interferance from the state…It is time for my meds and will try and come back to read the comments section here…if I’m allowed.
Has the world gone mad? Or is it just me???
November 12th, 2009 @ 5:02 pm
Nintendo Wee – where you control a cartoon character by pissing all over the screen.
November 12th, 2009 @ 5:21 pm
Womb Raider II – Dressed as a sexy pervert, perform backstreet abortions in increasingly perilous inner-city locations.
November 14th, 2009 @ 3:50 am
That’s nothing. He spent a whole day castigating the bloke who wrote that Dublin was basically a shitehouse. Why ? I thought that in this day and age, and given the political and economic ballsup facing the irish people, that a dose of the truth would be welcomed… but oh, no; Duffy has to defend the indefencible !