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@rubyred wrote:
As if life is not bad enough, as if the nightmare visions of children,wide eyed with hunger and need,the starving,the brutalised Look of the the women folks, mainly Dying of aids , dont haunt me.. then the comments on here just MIGHT !
Pah, im ashamed of a good few of you !
one would affect me, the other wouldn’t even come close
They have been living with dirty water for well over 2000 years, I am sure they must be used to it by now?
Clean drinking water is a “new idea”
In the UK it started to come in about 150 years ago and was a “low priority”at the time. Sewage was higher, do we all remember the great London stink of 1800’s?
How many of us have been on holiday in Europe and told to drink only bottle water? Its not just an “African” problem and some parts of Europe are just has bad.
Mains water is not the answer, it cost a fortune to install and set-up, the water then has to be paid for.
Hand pumps are and they are being installed and local people trained to maintain them.
I know “water aid” and what they do very well and I’m sure any of the staff would have a good laff at this post.
Waspish is right, the add’s are crap and look like they’re made by a 2 year film student and their does seem to be a lot of them.
@dead_on_arrvial wrote:
do we all remember the great London stink of 1800’s?
not all………although there might be one or two in 50s room who can still recall it
@rubyred wrote:
As if life is not bad enough, as if the nightmare visions of children,wide eyed with hunger and need,the starving,the brutalised Look of the the women folks, mainly Dying of aids , dont haunt me.. then the comments on here just MIGHT !
Pah, im ashamed of a good few of you !
You know as well as I do, Ruby, my love, that comedy is born out of tragedy, misfortune and despair, as a defense mechanism and way of processing the horrific and unimaginable into the copeable-with. Laughing instead of crying and all that auld stuff.
I would hazard that most on this thread are doing just that.
There will be those of us so sick and shrivelled with sorrow that the effort to keep on breathing is an epic battle each and every second of each and every loss-blighted, war-scarred day; for whom scanning a newspaper becomes a ritual of weeping and tearing out of hair; every atrocity and senseless savagery mounting to another stab at an already punctured heart and a tingling at the wrists, saying ‘open me up and let me drain away the devil with the flow..’
..oh..that’ll just be me then.With god’s fist at my face, i’ll continue laughing, for my tears are busy damping down the flames of hell scalding at my soles.
@rubyred wrote:
Pats,, i will be here all night arguing Darwinism and the theory of the survival of the fittest.
as someone who DOES agree with many works of Charles Darwin, im more into Science than i am god bothering.
Mother nature can be a right kunt.. she produces eggs that are fertilised by the men of the village. they know no contraception. Its no excuse that its more so the women who are dying of aids and HPV.. Its easy to say ” oh its not us” i kow your a sensitive woman, imagine your dfaughter having to choose which child will live,and which one will die.. Like a modern days ” sophies Choice”.
I have no magic wand to wave, that will solve this.. But id rather make Poverty History.
I just didnt really like the wee jokes.. They are somebodys scrap of life.. they have a soul, they were born.
make poverety history…. PLEASE !
wouldnt we be better paying 2 quid a month to introduce birth control then???instead of stand pipes. my heart also bleeds for the children………they didnt ask to be born. so the men of the village should be taught that having a dozen kids 8 of whom will probably die b4 the age of one and a desease riddled wife isnt going to guarentee comfort for them in old age.
So you’d have them starve to death cause they cant grow food or die of thirst cause theyre too infirm to fetch water. Birth control is the last thing they need
The lack of insight into another country is bordering on criminal. I used to complain that the Americans were insular and bigotted, that when they said World News, it would say “today in Chicago” or “today in Ohio” and nothing about the rest of the world was mentioned at all. This was a personal observation at a time that Iraq and Iran were at war. I knew it was happening, but not a single mention on the news in the States at all the whole time I was there.
Are we now the same as huge areas of America in that we don’t give a damn about the rest of the world as long as we are okay?
N.I.M.B.Y.
Didnt say i hadnt neither did i jump to conclusions about a post like you seem to have done You asked the question
Are we now the same as huge areas of America in that we don’t give a damn about the rest of the world as long as we are okay?
I simply answered it
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