Mon, May 26, 2008 | 11:19 BST
Cummer banned from Xbox Live
This is going to run and run. Not content with banning the word “gay” in GamerTags, Microsoft has stopped a Mr Cummer from using his name on Xbox Live.
With all due respect, this is beyond parody.
“I wasn’t offended,” Cummer, a Canadian, told The Globe and Mail. “I understand the reasoning. I wasn’t trying to be offensive, but there are people more sensitive and much younger than I who are on Xbox Live. I think it’s reasonable.”
Nothing we can say would make any of this more ridiculous. It’s the modern age applying a 1984 filter to entertainment one sex-related surname at a time.
13 comments
#1
Mugwum
24/05/08, 11:01 pm
“Scunthorpe”
A banned word on a certain online network, or so I hear.
#2
patlike
24/05/08, 11:09 pm
All true.
Are you watching Eurovision? It’s like WWIII with shit music.
#3
DUFFKING
24/05/08, 11:18 pm
Interesting how all this is er, coming out at once.
#4
morriss
24/05/08, 11:19 pm
These names all make me chuckle.
/is 12 years old
#5
Shawk
25/05/08, 9:59 am
Is the guy posting this crap a sony fanboi or something?
There is a reason for these things.. stop making it like we should all get up and riot against this.
People have been getting their names banned for years, 1 guy makes a piss about it and the rest after him start letting everyone know about it.
This crap aint news, make news and stfu.
#6
morriss
25/05/08, 4:54 pm
Wow, someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning!
#7
Mugwum
25/05/08, 7:13 pm
“someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning!”
Is that a gay joke?
#8
morriss
25/05/08, 7:18 pm
It’s whatever you want it to be, my love.
#9
morriss
25/05/08, 7:28 pm
Ah! Just sussed it! “Got OUT of the wrong side of bed!”
Damn you pedants and your mocking.
#10
Mugwum
25/05/08, 7:37 pm
The real issue here is what’s going to happen when Bertie, Chris and I take our Rock Band group on Xbox Live, given that we’re called Benderama?
#11
morriss
25/05/08, 7:53 pm
Pat will most likely never talk to you again. I’ve tried to get him involved but he just thinks I’m a cnut.
#12
patlike
25/05/08, 10:18 pm
The concept of a “Rock Band group” makes me want to eat my own liver.
#13
morriss
25/05/08, 11:19 pm
I’ll let you sing?