British Newspaper Blames Videogames for Rise in Rickets

[Katherine Kerensky]

I live in/next to Southampton.
I don't have rickets. Neither do any of my friends. Or anyone I went to school with, who played video games.
I have never seen anyone in Southampton with rickets.
Then again, it is The Sun. Bullshit is to be expected.
At least on the blaming rickets on video games part.
If there are children with rickets, they must be kept locked away somewhere. The amount of places that sell milkshakes in Southampton as well, I'd be surprised that anyone would have rickets.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Who gives a shit what the sun says?

Exactly. As a rule, I take whatever tabloids say and run in completely the opposite direction with it.

Unless of course, the one in 15 quadrillion chance happens and they happen to say something I actually agree with (has never happened to date).

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I live in/next to Southampton.
I don't have rickets. Neither do any of my friends. Or anyone I went to school with, who played video games.
I have never seen anyone in Southampton with rickets.

It's unlikely you would have. The average age of a child with rickets is 20 months.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

I hate the British media. Not just The Sun; all of them are lying bastards.

That's a little harsh. We do have Charlie Brooker and... Jeremy Paxman... and... David Mitchell... and a few other semi-truthful people.

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

I am Scouse (from Liverpool if you didn't know) so contact with the Sun newspaper burns my skin.

For you escapists who are not British, the Sun is well known for exaduration and well just plain lying.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

-All Hail Britannia Snip-
It's unlikely you would have. The average age of a child with rickets is 20 months.

Eh, that would make more sense, but show me a baby under 20 months who has rickets and plays videogames comparable to the amount that gamers do.
The Sun still spins bullshit >.>
I know you didn't mention The Sun, but if what you said is how it is, then that just throws their crap out the window ¬.¬

 

[CoL0sS]

Exposure to Sun produces Vitamin D in our skin... kinda ironic

 

[teh_Canape]

may I say:

soon, video games will start being blamed for the extinction of Dinosaurs

MARK.MY.WORDS

 

[BloodRed Pixel]

so at the same time children are supposed to PLAY outside, there is a consistent decrease of playgrounds /fairgrounds and halfway safe places to play at. From open "public" spaces like parks they are driven away by the authorities because they walk on the grass.
And esp. the NEIGBOURS are complaining if the kids are a tad to loud, outside.

 

[DTWolfwood]

this is what happens when the news' constant fear mongering about the sun giving you skin cancer. People are just afraid to get a little bit of sun or expose their kids to it! Mind you i believe only a 10 min exposure to the sun a day is enough to keep you Rickets free.

fucking news!

p.s. who the hell ever takes the tabloids seriously anyways?

 

[messy]

The Sun isn't a real newspaper. Anyone who writes for it is a joke of a journalist. It's a paper that lives and breaths off ignorance and yob culture. It has as much merit as those papers that claim stupid stuff like "Bigfoot spoted in WalMart parking lot" and "ET is running the white house".

The paper made its name showing women topless. So you can see how much merit it warrents.

That being said it is the biggest selling paper in Britain. So we can't treat it too lightly.

 

[The_Emperor]

They should all be jailed for writing stuff like that yes jailed, they need to learn it's not okay to make up the news and spew ignorant bullshit and promote racism I'm sick of it, it's so depressing.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Rickets...correct me if I'm wrong, as if I had to invite anyone to do that on this site, but isn't that from a calcium or vitamin D deficiency?

Also, The Sun once did a topless shoot for a fat 18 year old off X Factor. Their credibility should be akin to that of a drunk 65 year old translating a dog's barking.

 

[TheWwwizard]

that kind of makes me sad, and also makes me think some people shouldn't be allowed to post their opinion in a public newspaper. News should contain news not ridiculous fallacies like this or whatever happens to be on fox.

 

[Vault101]

Key word here "tabloid"= crap

 

[Firefly131]

I think this post should be renamed. The Sun....isn't a newspaper! Just like ITV isn't a tv channel....Gather round children...sometimes Newspapers lie to us, why? Because they have political ideals and often need to make people feel better by blaming someone else.

 

[Jesus Phish]

The Sun isn't a real newspaper. Anyone who writes for it is a joke of a journalist. It's a paper that lives and breaths off ignorance and yob culture. It has as much merit as those papers that claim stupid stuff like "Bigfoot spoted in WalMart parking lot" and "ET is running the white house".

The paper made its name showing women topless. So you can see how much merit it warrents.

That being said it is the biggest selling paper in Britain. So we can't treat it too lightly.

I doubt many of its readers visit more than
1) Page 3,
2) The Sports pages,
3) The Gossip pages.

Not to offend any readers of the paper with that.

 

[etherlance]

I take the same viewpoint on what newspapers say as Russell Howard, their all the same.

 

[messy]

The Sun isn't a real newspaper. Anyone who writes for it is a joke of a journalist. It's a paper that lives and breaths off ignorance and yob culture. It has as much merit as those papers that claim stupid stuff like "Bigfoot spoted in WalMart parking lot" and "ET is running the white house".

The paper made its name showing women topless. So you can see how much merit it warrents.

That being said it is the biggest selling paper in Britain. So we can't treat it too lightly.

I doubt many of its readers visit more than
1) Page 3,
2) The Sports pages,
3) The Gossip pages.

Not to offend any readers of the paper with that.

Oh yeah most likely but the fact its there in such volume is bound to have some effect.