Daily Mail concerned about Wiis in P.E. Comments by Robert Purchese
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The "Campaign for Real Education"? Another rent-a-quote pillock to add to the list then, along with John Bayer from MediaWatchUK, Stephen Green from Christian Voice and Andrew Green (no relation, presumably) from MigrationWatch. All nasty, lurid types who play fast and loose with the facts and represent bodies with impressive names but, apparently, nothing else going on upstairs - and in the case of Green, at least, he seems to be the sole member of his! And yet the Mail and its poisonous ilk manage to trot them out at least once a week to comment on anything and everything, regardless of whether they actually have the faintest clue about it...
Welcome to a fine, fine group, Nick Seaton! Pull up a pew and ready your finest ignorance! "Real Education", indeed... |
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Eighthours
28/01/08 @ 10:50
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But not everyone sees the benefit. The Mail claims a recent study proved playing a game on Wii only expends 2 per cent more energy than playing on traditional consoles.
Clearly bollocks. |
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can't stand the dailymail ...
the express is worse - i've been keeping an eye on that one for a while. of the last week's headlines, five were xenophobic (today's in particular elicited a "fucking hell" when i saw it), one was about an "outrage", and the other one was about the weather. a lot of the time it just comes off as a parody of the mail.
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the express is worse - i've been keeping an eye on that one for a while. of the last week's headlines, five were xenophobic, one was about an "outrage", and the other one was about the weather. a lot of the time it just comes off as a parody of the mail.
Surely one must have been about Diana or Madeline? The Express and Mail are reprehensible shite. All you have to do is replace 'immigrant' with 'Jew' or 'Black' and it reads like a piece by the Nazis. Not surprising, really, given that the Mails' founder was a massive fan of Hitler & Mussolini up to and during World War 2. Albiet playing Wii isn't excercise and PE should be footie or something. Not that this makes the Mail right - we all know their interest is in neo-luddite scaremongering and yearning for a return for the sexist, racist, msyogenistic return of the empire and probably slavery.
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"The Mail claims a recent study proved playing a game on Wii only expends 2 per cent more energy than playing on traditional consoles."
That does sound like nonsense to me. In this study I suspect that these people were playing games whilst sitting down and moving a minimal amount. The amount of energy you expend when playing on the Wii varies a great deal from person to person (from what I have noticed). Although overall, I agree that this is not a substitute for sport. However, I think you could easily get as good a workout from a Wii console as you could from an aerobics video or summin similar... which mean you *could* get enough exercise to be healthy from playing your Wii, if it is done correctly :) |
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As it happens, studies HAVE been performed using the Wii. But I don't know where this 2% the Daily Hatemail is coming from.
First this one appeared in the British Journal of Medicine recently: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/... - in summary, Wii sports uses 2 to 3 times the amount of energy that sitting playing with a joypad uses. And that study references this one: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cg... which says that in comparison with sitting down games, Eyetoy and DDR both use approximately twice as much energy. I still think it's surprising how little energy overall is used though. And with regards to the comment someone made that playing Wii made someone sweat, it doesn't take much to get an unfit bloke sweating - after I had to do nothing for six months last year I can attest to that when I was starting to do stuff again!! |
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The_Inquisitor
28/01/08 @ 14:40
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1 in 5 obese, cool, more people to point and laugh at. :)
I think the idea of attractive kids to get active with Wii sports is a good idea, but not as a substitute for the real thing. They should be out side, getting sweaty. But by all means let them use it to warm down afterwards and test their fitness, it could be used to encourage them to try harder during the lesson so as to gain a better result afterwards with something they can easily relate to. |
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nufcfan123
28/01/08 @ 14:49
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tbh i don't want to see the wii being used in PE
if i went into a PE lesson whist i was at school and instead of havin for example Football we had an hour of Wii Boxing i'd be pissed. |
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SpigleyMcCheese
28/01/08 @ 15:45
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I can see what they're saying. I play Wii Sports with a flick of the wrist, and find it has much the same effect as going through the rigmarole of emulating the actual action.
That said, I despise the daily Mail and will happily change my beliefs in order to contradict theirs. Wii Sports is the pinnacle of fitness training. |
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