SKY COQ posted:

I'm absolutely not defending GTA here - the series has always had massive problems with depictions of women. But. This particular 'feature' has been in the series since GTA3 came out in 2001. This is a really weird moral panic campaign that's inexplicably only targeted a single retailer.

SKY COQ posted:

This is a really weird moral panic campaign that's inexplicably only targeted a single retailer.

quote:

Target Australia has pulled video game Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) off shelves over controversy about the game's depiction of violence against women.

Murodese posted:

This is how our esteemed speaker feels about the last few pages of the thread:

Murodese posted:

Actually, it took about a year.

Those On My Left posted:

There is some killer lightning in Melbourne at the moment, I loving love it

Haters Objector posted:

Better play it safe and ban all video games

SKY COQ posted:

Did someone order a moral panic?



I'm absolutely not defending GTA here - the series has always had massive problems with depictions of women. But. This particular 'feature' has been in the series since GTA3 came out in 2001. This is a really weird moral panic campaign that's inexplicably only targeted a single retailer.

Laserface posted:

Yeah but dickhead shop clerks don't give a gently caress and sell it. I saw one try to not sell it to a minor (kid literally handed to his father at the counter and said "buy me this one") and they said they couldn't sell it to anyone supplying to a minor, and the father just says "oh it's for me. I love GTAs"

Sale made.

Mithranderp posted:

Well, that's lovely parenting, not the shop clerk's fault.

SKY COQ posted:

Did someone order a moral panic?



I'm absolutely not defending GTA here - the series has always had massive problems with depictions of women. But. This particular 'feature' has been in the series since GTA3 came out in 2001. This is a really weird moral panic campaign that's inexplicably only targeted a single retailer.

Laserface posted:

It's still up to the store and the clerk to not sell it. Same as booze.

quote:

A person may be asked for proof of their age before purchasing, hiring or viewing R18+ films and computer games at a retail store or cinema.

Gough Suppressant posted:

Yeah, having worked in two bottleshops I would say the most common reason for checking ID is because the clerk can't afford to risk a $5k fine or whatever it is now.

If you give them plausible deniability, most people will sell you booze because they don't give a gently caress. If you walk in with your mum and show her which flavour of passion pop you want then it's not going to happen.

I'm probably the strictest at my current work but that's due more to misanthropy than anything else, if I can stop any one from enjoying themselves I consider it a good shift.

Gough Suppressant posted:

Yeah, having worked in two bottleshops I would say the most common reason for checking ID is because the clerk can't afford to risk a $5k fine or whatever it is now.

If you give them plausible deniability, most people will sell you booze because they don't give a gently caress. If you walk in with your mum and show her which flavour of passion pop you want then it's not going to happen.

I'm probably the strictest at my current work but that's due more to misanthropy than anything else, if I can stop any one from enjoying themselves I consider it a good shift.

Murodese posted:

This is how our esteemed speaker feels about the last few pages of the thread:

Splode posted:

What happened to you to make you this way? Did your parents get murdered by schoolies when you were a kid?

quote:

On Friday 21st November 2008 I was in the Glenhuntly Safeway Liquor with my 18 year old daughter. We had collected some grocery items and moved into the liquor department to purchase a bottle of Vodka before paying for the groceries. We selected a one litre bottle that was on special and proceeded to the checkout. The sales assistant, M, asked my 18 year old daughter for ID and I explained that I was purchasing the Vodka, not my daughter, who had no money or ID with her at that time. I offered my ID but M the sales assistant didn’t want to see my ID and told me that she couldn’t sell me the bottle because she thought I was purchasing it for my daughter.
Obviously some something is very wrong with Safeway Liquor training if sales assistants think that everyone that buys something in Safeway Liquor stores is going to sell it to a minor, which my daughter is not.
I have never in my 47 years ever been refused service at a shop and was insulted that this happened.
I asked for the store manager and when G, the manager arrived, I explained the situation to him. He obviously has never been trained in “the customer is always right”. G supported M in refusing to sell me the Vodka because M felt that I was going to sell it to a minor.
I am a licensed security guard with a certificate in the Responsible Service of Alcohol and my daughter also has the same certificate from working in the hospitality industry. We went to Coles Liquorland in Elsternwick to purchase the Vodka when we left Safeway Liquor and had no problem there in purchasing a bottle of Vodka. When I told the staff at Liquorland what had happened at Safeway Liquor, they said that “they are bloody morons at Safeway Liquor”. I couldn’t agree more.
I wrote a letter of complaint the following day to the Safeway area management and haven't received a reply.

Gough Suppressant posted:

This is the kind of idiocy people working in bottleshops have to deal with.

Splode posted:

That really doesn't seem that hard to deal with, to be honest. Especially for retail.

Gorilla Salad posted:

Gorilla Salad posted:

Adnar posted:

Well they're definitely his kids:

Shanakin posted:

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katlington posted:

I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

Those On My Left posted:

thread favourite karl stefanovic this morning admonished christopher pyne, telling him to "man up"