Time limit should be installed on consoles
Last Updated on Monday, 08 August 2011 10:00 Monday, 08 August 2011 09:15
The award for dumbest brain fart of the day goes to an Irish Senator, Fidelma Healy Eames, who has called for a time limit to be installed on all consoles to prevent gamers from gaming for too long. Eames, who cites the case of a 20 year old UK citizen who died from Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) as a result of excessive use of the Xbox, calls for "some class of a microchip to be installed that shuts the game down after two hours, and that it cannot be restarted for another period of time."
Eames continued the cringe fest saying, “We are soon to be putting images on cigarette boxes to prevent smoking because of the impact on health and its addictive quality. This is not far behind in respect of lasting damage." Worryingly, the Irish government is bankrupt and its health service is in a shambles and causing deaths on a daily basis. But the Senator choose consoles as meat for the press release. Even more worryingly, her party are the ones in power.
Perhaps the Senator also wants any or all of the following:
- Time limit on flights to prevent DVT. After 6 hours of flying, a microchip could shut down the plane.
- A microchip installed in televisions to prevent prolonged viewing.
- Microchips installed on cars to prevent long hours of driving.
- Microchips installed on shoes to prevent too many hours of walking.
- Microchips installed on Big Macs to prevent over eating.
- Microchips installed on citizens so if they get too close to the water's edge or the road, it will warn them of the danger. This could be extended to include reminders to close cupboard doors after opening them to stop head injuries and any number of other dangerous tasks citizens carry out every day. It could be called the 'Eames Danger Chip.'
Our suggestion is for a microchip on all politicians, particularly ones with dumb ideas like this. Maybe it could zap them and stop them from drooling their verbal shit on the rest of us.
