“If you thought you heard it all when it came to the PS3 launch think again. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino plans to bill Sony for PS3 riots.”
Oh goody. When all else fails, let’s blame Sony.
I know there are people out there who agree with Mayor Menino’s notion, and I think the majority of those people should be dragged out into the street and beaten mercilessly for committing the crime of “unbridled stupidity”.
Listen:
It’s not Sony’s fault that people get all whipped into a froth over a video game console. It’s a Toy! Not only that, but from what I’m told, it’s a pretty sub-par toy. I know this sounds rhetorical, but how far have we plunged culturally as a nation when things like this happen? I realize it’s been going on since the advent of the “Cabbage Patch Kids”, but each year it seems to get worse. There have been beatings and shootings over this stupid thing.
I’d love to know how the mayor intends to enforce this brilliant idea of his. Sony has committed no crime other than capitalism. I’ll admit there are some people out there who view capitalism as a crime, but, they are strange and sad people, who will forever be lamenting things that really have no bearing on their lives. I try my best to stay as far away from them as possible.
If I were Sony, I would write a simple letter to Mayor Menino, saying:
“Dear Sir,
While we understand your plight, we at Sony do not claim responsibility for the actions of your Citizenry, regardless of whether or not they are our customers. Just because they like to play Donkey Kong, that does not make Sony responsible for them becoming feces-throwing apes. Take your ‘bills’ and stick them where the sun don’t shine.
Kiss our collective asses, and have a Merry Christmas.
Your friends at Sony.”
Seems fair to me.
I’m serious. What happened to the old days when kids didn’t get absolutely everything they wanted for Christmas? I was lucky in the sense that I got almost everything I wanted, but, I’ll tell you what:
I had to ask for years and years before I got a Big Trak, and my mother is all a tizzy about her Grandkids maybe not getting a Nintendo Wii this year. That thing is $250, and they just got a Playstation 2 less than two years ago. The kids are 9 and 5 years old, and my mother spoils them absolutely rotten. Don’t get me wrong. I like to see the kids happy, but, they’re going to have to learn about disappointment sometime. More than that, I hate to see what it does to my mother. The Christmas season turns her into a lunatic. She tried to recruit me to buy a Wii fir the kids if I saw one. I jokingly told her that if I found one I was keeping it.
As you may have guessed, that didn’t go over so well.
It may sound like I’m bitter, but I’m not. My point is this:
If you’re one of those people who stands out in the cold for two days just to buy a video game console, in my view, you deserve what you get. You really should forgo the toy and spend the $250 (or $600) on something more useful to you.
…Like couch time.
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Donkey Kong is a Nintendo game….not Playstation. 8-) Even *I* know that.
leave it to a woman to miss the point. :)
Leave it to a man to get the facts wrong. 8-)
Leave it to you to bring out my repressed desire to strangle you. :)
What do you mean you’re not bitter? Of course you’re bitter I’m bitter too. Both my parents will get anything I tell them my kids want. I, as a child, had to BEG these same people for everything I wanted and only on a few occasions did i get it. I ‘m jealous of my own kids!! Add to that the fact that the toys they have to choose from are SO COOL, the stuff I had is absolute crap by comparison. I’m in the shameful position of getting my son cool stuff so i can play with it. I need help but since I can’t afford a therapist I’m just going to drink.
On the other hand, I’m shocked at the crappy quality of the majority of these cool toys. As Smokehouse has very succinctly remarked to me recently, I’m a new father, and I’ve wondered at all the broken toys my new stepson has. At first I thought he was just a rambunctious kid breaking everything, but then I’ve come to find out that most of these toys break through normal wear and tear. One of the biggest offenders is Matchbox and HotWheels cars - these things used to be nigh-indestructable when I was a kid. He plays with them for five minutes and the axels are all bent and broken on them. Shameful!
This is the Same mayor Meneen-YO who thinks a Hip - Hop round table is the answer to gang violence… Two police chiefs ago Boston had a chief who’s answer to gang violence was jailing repeat offenders. and the always Brilliant Big Head Ted claimed the fall in youth killings was a direct result of the draconian Massive chew shits ” gun laws. then they had a gal who fled to Ireland.
Now there is a May-yo Who thinks the answer is suing Sony because Massivechewshits parents can’t raise Kids???
The sad part of it is , as long as the unions keep endorsing this MORON and the brain dead rank and file never question, this , (and Devoid Patrick) is what the voting machine manipulators, (did I say that???*) will get in the peoples’ Republic of Massachusetts.
*anyone who pushes the button or pulls the leever in a voting machine COULD be cosidered a voting machine manipulator. But thanks to two hopeless candidates… the term will forever equate to stolen elections… Much like the election that gave us the Liberal Saint JFK Does anyone remember the supposedly totally corrupt Nixon complaining Like Kerry and Gore did??? That HAS to say something for moral Fiber…