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OfflineJunkFood
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Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid?
    #7537900 - 10/20/07 12:41 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Shit, even a kid living in an apartment.


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: JunkFood]
    #7537914 - 10/20/07 12:45 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

What about just toilet bowls?

"Ooooo what is this beautiful porcelain sculpture? Oh and it holds fresh water!"


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: buckwheat]
    #7537920 - 10/20/07 12:47 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I know someone who's done relief work. She told me about this one time when she gave an orange to a girl. She didn't eat it, she just kept it and pet it.


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InvisibleMOTH
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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: JunkFood]
    #7537924 - 10/20/07 12:48 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Hey...I have an idea...how about they TRADE SPACES??!  :shocked:

*cue theme music here* 

Too bad I don't have television.


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: AlCapwn]
    #7537925 - 10/20/07 12:49 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

No loins trying to eat us....


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: Brainiac]
    #7537934 - 10/20/07 12:51 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

we're pretty lucky to be born in somewhere taht isn't a shithole. also, we're pretty lucky to not be born ants or banana slugs. fuck it!


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: TODAY]
    #7537948 - 10/20/07 12:55 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

They have rich kids over there...


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OfflineHrethic
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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: Brainiac]
    #7538019 - 10/20/07 01:25 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I'm eating a 1066 calorie pot pie right now, after downing some rum and coke, and watching some dumb movie in my wonderfully warm basement.

We (in developed countries) are UNBELIEVABLY gifted. Jesus chirst, stop making jokes, end this thread, and just think about how lucky we are to be typing at a computer instead of hunting the local town rat for a bite to eat.


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InvisibleMOTH
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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: Hrethic]
    #7538022 - 10/20/07 01:29 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Lighten up, man. Things are the way they are. We are surpassingly blessed in our developed country as you say, but we are still people having life experiences and it's fascinating to wonder at what it's like to be dwelling in a completely opposite type of environment.


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: MOTH]
    #7538029 - 10/20/07 01:31 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I don't find it so fascinating as I do nauseating.


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: JunkFood]
    #7538030 - 10/20/07 01:32 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

The two aren't mutually exclusive in any way.


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OfflineHrethic
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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: Hrethic]
    #7538031 - 10/20/07 01:32 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Nah, i know, i know. It's just easier sometimes to be negative than to be positive, even when all you have is positive.


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OfflineHrethic
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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: Hrethic]
    #7538033 - 10/20/07 01:33 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

by the by, i love your sig
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InvisibleMOTH
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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: Hrethic]
    #7538036 - 10/20/07 01:36 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

If you're speaking about mine...then thank you.  :smile:  I got the picture a long time ago and I've forgotten who did it.


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: Hrethic]
    #7538046 - 10/20/07 01:43 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

This thread seems strangely linked to my current dilemma. It's almost easier, and harder of course at the same time, to live in an impoverished area than in a developed one. Let me explain.

If you live where it's kill or be killed, you know it. You've known it for all your life, and you will until you die, and that's what you do. And whereas not a large majority AT ALL of developed societies people could live in conditions like that, i think it's the same way around the bend. I don't KNOW what i have to do to be happy here. I've tried a couple things, they don't work out, now i'm stuck. Not trying to hunt for a meal, but trying to hunt for a life.

I just might have done better having to kill my kill and eat my meat, but now i have to find my own way, which isn't really my way at all because I'm expected to go out and get a job i don't want and spend my life there to make my way. I'd be willing to bet that some of the best hunters in the crappy world couldn't make it here, just as the Donald Trumps and Bill Gates couldn't make it if they had to chase down that marmoset to eat their next meal.

No point to this post really, just a random babble to exercise my mind.


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: MOTH]
    #7538054 - 10/20/07 01:47 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

:cool: hell yeah, it's rockin.


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: JunkFood]
    #7539372 - 10/20/07 01:44 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I'd rather focus on the kids here in America that are starving seeing as how they will grow up to become either the next crackhead or doctor that lives down the street. The economic benefit would be realized much quicker by helping those in our own country out.

That's not to say there is no economic benefit for ensuring the survival of these starving children in Africa. The ROI is very significant for this issue but the economic benefits would be dispersed globally rather than concentrated locally.


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: MOTH]
    #7539397 - 10/20/07 01:52 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

MOTH said:
If you're speaking about mine...then thank you.  :smile:  I got the picture a long time ago and I've forgotten who did it.




It's Brian Froud, pretty sure.  :heart:


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: JunkFood]
    #7540932 - 10/20/07 10:06 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I think the same thing everytime I watch a Chris Crocker or Mr. Pregnant video. If these people have that much time on their hands...


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Re: Imagine how disgusted a starving African child would be with a rich Beverly Hills kid? [Re: JunkFood]
    #7541847 - 10/21/07 08:21 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I thing the average starving African kid would be amazed at such wealth and shyly but driven by necessity would ask if he could have some of that wealth to eat.

And that's a perfectly valid request :crankey:

Its insane that we live in a world where hundreds of millions of children are severely malnourished and tens of millions of kids yawn at being given a Playstation because they wanted an Xbox.

If I could psychologically handle watching all that suffering I would be out in the third world right now helping out in any way I could, but in reality I would be traumatized shut in mere weeks and only be a burden to the aid system.

I have my charities and I'm a consistent benefactor of aid projects in the third world. Some of those programs actually are helpful. It is said that if firstworld nations donate 2% to structural aid to the developing world, we can solve many of these problems. I'm doing my part and consistently donate 2% of my net income to such charities, aside from spontaneous donations.

If only people who actually had any money did the same.


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