Noppeid tema pühapäevasest veerust The Times's (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/jeremy_clarkson/article5488548.ece). Teemaks on lastega lauamängude mängimine.
Board games, then, do not bring a family closer together. They rip out its heart in a seething cauldron of rage, hysteria, accusations and hate. And I fear they have a similar effect on world peace.
Look at Hitler. He could have played Risk but because it can only ever be won by the person charged with the task of conquering Australia and North America, he decided to make up his own rules and play them out for real.
We can therefore conclude that Pong and other games of its ilk ended the cold war because, for the first time in history, leaders had something better to do than rush about threatening to bash one another’s heads in.
In fact, playing any game with children is hopeless. Charades, for example. They sulk when you give them “The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B” or “Versailles: The View from Sweden” and you, in turn, get cheesed off when they endlessly mime their way through a film which has two words and sounds like Carry Hotter.
I’m writing this at our seaside cottage where there is no PlayStation and no Wifi. As a result the children get up in the morning, play something old-fashioned and then bicker about it till bedtime. Tomorrow we will be back at home which is full of gruesome, vicious, bloodthirsty electronic games. Peace, contrary to the teachings of those in tweed, will be restored.
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