Wed, Nov 11, 2009 | 08:38 GMT
Scottish hotel bans videogames for Christmas
Now Modern Warfare 2′s out of the way, we’re back to the real deal: some hotel in Scotland’s decided games aren’t conducive to promoting “traditional family values” and has banned them over the Christmas period.
Managing director Stephen Leckie, said children should not be “glued” to game consoles during the holiday,
“As a father-of-four, I’m well aware of the role that computer games play in youngsters’ lives and they undoubtedly have a place,” he said.
“However with Christmas holidays being the ideal opportunity to spend quality time with our families, we’re asking our younger guests to set their consoles and games aside for just a few days of the year and, instead, sample some new activities which they may never have tried before.”
Sounds positively sinister. More on the BBC, should you be bored enough.
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Posted in: Scotland, Stuff, UK
Tags: shit weather, stupid sweaters, tedium
11 comments
#1
Syrok
11/11/09, 8:51 am
Do people take their consoles with them on holidays?
#2
Blerk
11/11/09, 9:08 am
“Quality time with families” is the reason God invented video games!
#3
Psychotext
11/11/09, 9:36 am
It’ll be a Rock Band xmas for my family… but then I wont be staying at a hotel.
#4
satsugai
11/11/09, 9:46 am
Family? Oh, wait you mean the awkward people we’re related to? No thanks.
#5
fear_itself
11/11/09, 9:52 am
Christ have you seen the place? It’s enormous. One of those hotels where you see drunken Scots stumbling around the corridors at 2 in the morning looking for their rooms.
Doesn’t sound like much of a family Christmas to me.
Hang on, no, it sounds exactly like a normal family Christmas.
#6
rainer
11/11/09, 10:08 am
Must be a UK thing, people still call them “computer games”.
#7
BillyBatts
11/11/09, 10:59 am
This guy’s probably just stopped calling them, “games for the television.”
#8
Freek
11/11/09, 11:59 am
And you are going to be checking this how exactly? Monitoring what people do in their hotel rooms? Seems slightly illegal to me.
#9
messy
11/11/09, 12:01 pm
wooo time for some domestic.
#10
scuz
11/11/09, 2:40 pm
lol! so watching tv together is okay? bunch of meddling CUNTS
#11
DarkElfa
11/11/09, 6:07 pm
Hey, if that backwards motherfucker wants to ban games for his own family, it his choice but he needs to keep his nose out of other people’s rights to run their family their own way.