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kupus · 17-10-2012 05:33PM

john47832 wrote: »

Did your friend previously work for the corporation?

All grants and charity money should be stopped going into africa,
the only people who get it are the warlords, who then flog it off for double the price to the poorest, same with medicine.

mark renton · 17-10-2012 06:15PM

kupus wrote: »

All grants and charity money should be stopped going into africa,
the only people who get it are the warlords, who then flog it off for double the price to the poorest, same with medicine.

Are you saying theyre subcontracting the charity work?

eyescreamcone · 17-10-2012 06:35PM

Ethiopia
population mid 80s - time of BandAid and Bob Geldof - 30 million
Today - 90 million

Keep sending the money!

kupus · 17-10-2012 06:36PM

john47832 wrote: »

Are you saying theyre subcontracting the charity work?

Yes John that is what Im saying, They have to pay off gangsters in whatever disaster hit area they happen to be in:
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/alertnet-news-blog/is-the-media-getting-tougher-on-corruption-in-aid/

Also heard from word of mouth but Im sure you wont believe that nor would I expect you to.

The only thing that can help Africa is education not charity, but since too many people and too many organizations make a lot of money out of charity that wont happen.
There is a great saying "give a man a fish and he is hungry a day later. Teach him to fish and he is set for life."

Madam_X · 17-10-2012 06:48PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Important facts like Sex = Baby? It's not rocket science like.
I know it's a way of life for them but if I was in their position there's no way I'd make it a way of life for someone else. To have a child in such complete and utter poverty is selfish.

Well you're not in their situation so you haven't a clue really.

Wacker The Attacker · 17-10-2012 06:52PM

KenSwee wrote: »

I much prefer this..

To this

This is better

http://thefilmreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/piranha-still-kelly-brook-bikini-1.jpg

Wacker The Attacker · 17-10-2012 06:54PM

The wire is better that the sopranos

seamie87 · 17-10-2012 07:01PM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

The wire is better that the sopranos

Now that's hardly an fringe opinion.

Lots of people have good judgement.

Shryke · 17-10-2012 07:02PM

kupus wrote: »

All grants and charity money should be stopped going into africa,
the only people who get it are the warlords, who then flog it off for double the price to the poorest, same with medicine.

Everything being done with Africa only makes the place worse. Donating clothes was a big thing, but all that did was destroy local clothes industries in different regions destroying what economy was there.

mark renton · 17-10-2012 07:03PM

The pain during child birth is vastly overrated...

1ZRed · 17-10-2012 07:05PM

john47832 wrote: »

The pain during child birth is vastly overrated...

Good to know the sex change went well Jane, John!

NegativeCreep · 17-10-2012 07:09PM

Madam_X wrote: »

Well you're not in their situation so you haven't a clue really.

Doesn't matter whether I'm in their situation or not, I can still have and opinion on it.

Wacker The Attacker · 17-10-2012 07:14PM

seamie87 wrote: »

Now that's hardly an fringe opinion.

Lots of people have good judgement.

Not necessarily a fringe opinion. I would have thought it was a minority opinion though.

mark renton · 17-10-2012 07:29PM

1ZRed wrote: »

Good to know the sex change went well Jane, John!

Tis surely true, I mean if it was really that painful then they wouldnt go through it...

flutterflye · 17-10-2012 07:31PM

john47832 wrote: »

Tis surely true, I mean if it was really that painful then they wouldnt go through it...

Please tell me you're just trying to get a reaction!

mark renton · 17-10-2012 07:36PM

flutterflye wrote: »

Please tell me you're just trying to get a reaction!

Unpopular opinions usually do get some kind of reaction, are you in the popular opinion camp in this instance?

flutterflye · 17-10-2012 07:58PM

john47832 wrote: »

Unpopular opinions usually do get some kind of reaction, are you in the popular opinion camp in this instance?

Whether opinions get a reaction or not is not the point.
There is posting a genuine opinion and happening to get a reaction, and there is posting an opinion you don't really hold just to get a reaction.
The latter is what I was referring to.

mark renton · 17-10-2012 08:08PM

If that was an indirect question then the answer is yes, I do hold this opinion, unpopular as it is...

kupus · 18-10-2012 12:21PM

Unions are a pyramid scheme/scam where the obliging members pay and only the top get the cream. And like everything in Irish life lately the top don't care about the bottom.
Yes I dont like unions.

Da Shins Kelly · 18-10-2012 01:01PM

john47832 wrote: »

Tis surely true, I mean if it was really that painful then they wouldnt go through it...

Da Shins Kelly · 18-10-2012 01:03PM

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

The wire is better that the sopranos

Hardly an unpopular opinion. I think it would be more unpopular to have it the other way around. Which I'm going to put out there now:

The Sopranos is better than The Wire.

Ashbourne hoop · 18-10-2012 01:36PM

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

Hardly an unpopular opinion. I think it would be more unpopular to have it the other way around. Which I'm going to put out there now:

The Sopranos is better than The Wire.

As much as I loved "The Wire", Sopranos is much better.

NegativeCreep · 18-10-2012 01:37PM

Sopranos and the wire were both crap. Now there's an unpopular opinion

donalg1 · 18-10-2012 01:44PM

john47832 wrote: »

The pain during child birth is vastly overrated...

I for one agree with this statement, it has to be overrated, if it was really that bad then we would all be an only child. Nobody would ever decide to go through "that much pain" voluntarily.

NegativeCreep · 18-10-2012 01:58PM

I think the broodiness and desire for another child out-ways the memory of the pain from having your last child. I have no doubt that it's incredibly painful but 'the.most painful thing in the world's is an exaggeration I'd say.

flutterflye · 18-10-2012 02:05PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I think the broodiness and desire for another child out-ways the memory of the pain from having your last child. I have no doubt that it's incredibly painful but 'the.most painful thing in the world's is an exaggeration I'd say.

Nope!

pickarooney · 18-10-2012 02:18PM

flutterflye wrote: »

Nope!

I'd say being hung by your thumbs or shot in the stomach or having acid poured in your ears might be a bit worse, and there are none of those lovely hormones to help you through it.

1ZRed · 18-10-2012 02:25PM

pickarooney wrote: »

I'd say being hung by your thumbs or shot in the stomach or having acid poured in your ears might be a bit worse, and there are none of those lovely hormones to help you through it.

No doubt child birth would be painful but having your fingers pulled off with pliers or having your throat slit open is far worse again.

And with an epidural, wtf are ye bitching about?

mark renton · 18-10-2012 02:44PM

I'd say the pain is on a par with a mediocre tootache... A few years ago I went on a major bender for 3 days consisting only of guinness, doner kebabs (Abrakababra of course), chicken chow mein, prawn roan and prawn jalfrezi. The fourth day consisted of close proximity to a lavatory... No big deal

flutterflye · 18-10-2012 02:58PM

1ZRed wrote: »

No doubt child birth would be painful but having your fingers pulled off with pliers or having your throat slit open is far worse again.

And with an epidural, wtf are ye bitching about?

I've done it 3 times now.
First 2 without epidural, latest one with.
The epidural is AMAZING!!!
The only part that hurt was the pushing - and that still did hurt like hell!

The thing is though, you can't always get an epidural.

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