BBC wording of XBOX and Playstation outage made me lol

I don't know why I found this funny, but it really gave me a giggle, poor little sod.

Ros Bruce, from Essex, said her 10-year-old son got an Xbox One for Christmas, he had spent most of the day in tears, and called for Xbox to provide compensation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30602609

Well emotions swelling over for the simplest things is the trademark and the awesomeness of being a kid. Bringing it up as an cyberattack crisis is just clickhunting.

@rethla: It was not the article that made me laugh, it was just the image of the kid getting an XBOX ONE and then spending the day crying because of disappointment, that's how I interpreted that sentence.

Pretty standard reaction to getting an Xbox One for Christmas I'd imagine.

"But my child my child my child my child my child"

- The UK, paraphrased

@whizzedoutwoz: Yeh i understand that. We have all been there, running around crazy dissapointed and parents panicking and not knowing what to do. I remember Patrick telling a story of these sort about when he got his first Playstation at Christmas but his dad had missed the appropiate cables for hooking it up to their TV.

...why would you think that?

O Xbox! I demand compensation from thee!!!

Well you as far as I know the Xbones won!t work untill you connect the console to the internet for the first time. I am an adult so I would be mildly upet if I got one for christmas and could not use it, and I understand that a kid would cry over this because it is pretty shitty. I don't really think it warrants compensation but hey, if you buy shit - shit should work!

Downloading everything would of taken all day anyway.

back in my day when we hooked up a console we could play games on it immediately.

kids these days don't know how good they got--oh wait.

Always online is the future! Deal with it!

I just find it funny how hard the ol' beeb has to reach to find someone, anyone effected by any small story. It reminds of that old Mitchell and Webb sketch: "have you been affected by any of our news stories? Do you know someone who has? Even if you haven't, can you imagine what it might be like? And, even if you can't do that I bet you reckon something. Why not tell us what you reckon by going to bbc.co.uk/whatireckon and mashing the keyboard with your hands or face."

Christmas is slow news week unless somebody dies.

I loled

This, just about. Let's not kid ourselves, shit like this is an outlier, used by desperate news outlets to generate clicks at the slowest time of the year. At least the US sites had "The Interview" screenings to fill up their "meaningless Christmas post" quota.