Gerry Harvey would ban all “leisure computers” if he could, claims youth are “screwed up”
By Tim Colwill on February 6, 2013 at 1:51 pm
Gerry Harvey has a bit of a reputation for being a lumbering retail dinosaur in a fast moving digital world, but in an interview last night with Channel Ten’s Late News he went on an unexpected rant against video games and “leisure computers” (presumably by this he means consoles) and how they’re messing up the youth of today.
You know, video games — like the kind he sells from his stores. And makes millions of dollars from every year.
“I think one of the great tragedies with youth is that they spend so much time playing games and crap on computers and they’re not outside. You’re not healthy and it’s a big problem in our society,” said Harvey. “If I could get rid of computers, all leisure computers for all of Australia I probably would. They can have them at school, but leisure time — no.”
“We’re talking about kids playing games mostly online and wasting their life away basically playing games online because they’re not getting any physical activity and their minds are screwed up on these games.”
There you have it, folks. Gerry Harvey wants your business, and he’s more than happy to look down on you and think you’re wasting your life by giving it to him.
Source: Kotaku AU (thanks, PalZer0)
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I can’t wait to get down to Harvey Norman and check out the newly rebranded “GAMES AND CRAP LEISURE COMPUTER” section.
Mind you, maybe this explains everything – the awful prices, the awful service – it’s all a strategy to save teh kidz from teh leisure computerz. One trip to Harvey Norman and they’ll think that gaming is for suckers.
Also, I suggest your headline be revised to “Cantankerous Old Man Wants to Control How Other People Spend Their Free Time”.
Just when you think he couldn’t make a stupider statement than his last ,he goes ahead and proves you wrong……
if he feels so strongly you think he’d stop selling them…..Nah pretty sure the obscene overpricing and the millions he rakes in overrides any feelings of morality!!
Yeah that’s right old timer, let’s BAN ALL LEISURE COMPUTERS! We can’t have those young whipper snappers playing all those games and crap. And they can STAY OFF MY LAWN TOO! *shakes walking cane*
They said the same thing about Rock’N'Roll all those decades ago.
Yet another thing to add to my list of why not to shop at Harvey Norman…..
Can “leisure computer” please be a meme now
i assume hes against the internet aswell..
stanna,
I’m pretty sure he’s said at least once that no-one has ever made money from the Internet. Clearly Google, Facebook, Twitter and the myriad of others don’t exist and definitely don’t make any money… I’m honestly surprised that his business is able to stay afloat with him in charge. It doesn’t seem possible.
to be fair, my nephew has his head stuck in minecraft all damn day. would be good if he pulled his head out. then again he plays it off his mum’s phone. anything for peace and quiet she’d say… not my kid so i cant complain, if it was i’d get him a ps3 and make him cut the fooking grass before playing. yeah.
Holy shit.
To be fair, Gerry *is* crazy.
Oh, goddammit Gerry.
He’s actually fairly clever in terms of business. Horrible in terms of getting his head around technology. He’s also increasingly bad at getting his point across. But this is just silly. I can see his point (kinda) but he’s just delivered it in the worst possible way by going to the utmost extreme. Maybe a little less time spent on computers ‘is’ a good thing. Ripping them away and throwing them in a fire while handing kids a cricket bat and football and roaring ‘GO PLAY’ is not.
What’s that Gerry? I can’t hear you over the sound of my leisure computer.
Brb Gerry, just going to buy a new gtx 680 for my leisure computer FROM UMART.
Clearly Gerry never saw “The Last Starfighter”"
What’s Harvey Norman? I haven’t been to a store in 10 years.
It’s a place where overpriced novelty items go to quietly die, while an army of enslaved workers guard the tomb with their underpaid lives. (while also keeping the dead ones clean and dusted ready for the next reincarnation)
mearehear,
So it’s not as good as Skyrim? Fuck it then.
In related news, Old Man Shakes Rake At Rowdy Children