So I was browsing Digg yesterday and came across this which gave me a minor case of the lulz.
The long and short if it is: Mum buys Scrabble game for kid to improve vocabulary, game has naughty words in it, mum gets outraged.
Now, first thing that strikes me is this: What kind of mother buys their kid a fucking video game to improve their vocabulary? Jesus H. Christ, buy him a goddamn book!
Now, I agree that a game rated 3+ by the PEGI should not contain swears and the “junior” option the game contains which removes the bad words should probably have been better advertised. However, I think the mother’s apeshit reaction is a little much. I mean, stopping her son from playing the game altogether and complaining to Nintendo? Hey, while we’re at it, why not stop her son from reading the dictionary?
I know the kid’s only eight years old, so it’s not very appropriate to subject him to that sort of language, but one would imagine, that in the society we live in, he most likely already knew the obscenities cropping up in the game (and wouldn’t surprise me if he even had a vague idea of what they meant). And if he didn’t know of them already, he’s going to eventually. And if his mother is a good parent, she’ll make sure to tell him not to use the words.
I was listening to music, playing games and watching films full of swears when I was his age, but my mum wasn’t bothered, because I wasn’t going around spouting them off all the time.
In my opinion, if this kid’s mother is so worried about her son being subjected to these words, then she needs to take a better look at her parenting, rather than trying to blame a video game.
Also, reading about the game using “fuckers”, getting a triple word score and winning the game made me lol so much. 
Of course, this could all be bullshit, since the game give you the ability to import words into the game. Chav mum + custom game dictionary + Tabloid newspaper = WIN!
