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| posted by Beer Boy 100 days ago |
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Originally posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant
Wow BB. Interesting stuff. There's a huge disparity there. So I reckon by that chart HK would have to have contributed > US$250m for Bus Aunty's stat to have any credence whatsover.
Hmm...
hmmm.... talking out of her arse again??? yep, was thinking the same
Apologies in advance for my poor sentence structure, but a retard is at the keyboard!
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| posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant 100 days ago |
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Sorry Lolo, but that article is mixing up sums donated and not spent, and sums pledged but not delivered, as though they are one and the same. In fact, it just looks like lazy journalism to me and as a result I can have no confidence in any of its figures.
Watchu talkin' about Willis?
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| posted by Beer Boy 100 days ago |
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Originally posted by Lola
Interesting article (slightly old, but still relevant) on tsunami aid and also proving the point made by some posters that of the vast amounts of $$ donated, sometimes only a fraction actually materialises, never mind reaches the actual victims of the disasters:
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Half_Of_Tsunami_Donations_Still_Unused_999.html
I guess I turned off on these huge $$$ drives around about 1986-7 when it was obvious that the vast amounts of cash raised by Live Aid were still earning interest in banks due to whatever reason
Apologies in advance for my poor sentence structure, but a retard is at the keyboard!
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| posted by Lola 100 days ago |
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Can't comment on the stats in that link I posted, G-man, but still makes the point, I think.
Dancing robustly sideways
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| posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant 100 days ago (edited 100 days ago) |
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Well as an ex-journo type person you can surely recognise that the writer is mixing up his numbers. As soon as that happens any point he's trying to make is lost.
Watchu talkin' about Willis?
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| posted by Paps of Jura 100 days ago |
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Jeeeesuws that's one hell of a link
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| posted by Beer Boy 100 days ago |
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jesus, could that link be any longer???
Apologies in advance for my poor sentence structure, but a retard is at the keyboard!
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| posted by puyi 100 days ago |
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maybe bustundy was speaking out of her exhaustive pipes
darren rudd is and never was a sinophile
but the reports were a smoggy mistake
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| posted by shazza 100 days ago |
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Originally posted by The Cerne Abbas Giant
However, the 'Long Live China' b*****ks really got up my nose. Why turn a human tragedy into a nationalist rally? Imagine if crowds in London were in the streets chanting 'Eng-ger-lund!' after (say) the July bombings. Just wouldn't be right.
I don't see what's wrong with that, although the Chinese didn't say 'Long Live China', more like 'be strong China' and 'China' here includes the victims and those who's helping out there, unlike any sort of worship. It might be just a different way of expressing ourselves compared to youse English?
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| posted by bus aunty 99 days ago |
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I don't understand why people are having problems with using 'unity' via nationalistic sentiments for a good purpose/outcome.
Are we all that sad on this forum?
When would it be a good time to use such sentiments?
Or are these sentiments to be boxed away and never to be expressed?
Chih-sin. I think everyone on this board is starting to sound like grumpy old whinging f%rts.
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| posted by Gimpmask 99 days ago |
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Damn, I've got John Lennon's "imagine" running in my head.
Peace.
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| posted by Gimpmask 99 days ago |
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I think I have been most inspired by the story of Chen Jian who was trapped under the rubble for days. He was found but rescuers were not able to free him since the roads were blocked and heavy lifting machines could not be brought in. Whilst rescuers were helpless, he motivated himself and others around him with encouraging words and the thought of his wife whom he recently married. Alas, the machinery arrived and he was freed after being trapped for over 100 hours. Unfortunately, he died whilst he was being carried away from the site.
But his display of courage in adversity is something that should be admired.
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| posted by The Crone 99 days ago |
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omg Gimpy! How sad is that!
I dream again
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