Before we start our next whinge

[chim]

Somebody linked to this in the health section, very poignant and makes you think on a Monday morning as we all settle in to a week at work and bemoan our lot in life.


I know poverty because poverty was there before I was born and it has become part of life like the blood through my veins. Poverty is not going empty for a single day and getting something to eat the next day. Poverty is going empty with no hope for the future. Poverty is getting nobody to feel your pain and poverty is when your dreams go in vain because nobody is there to help you. Poverty is watching your mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters die in pain and in sorrow just because they couldn't get something to eat. Poverty is hearing your grandmothers and grandfathers cry out to death to come take them because they are tired of this world. Poverty is watching your own children and grandchildren die in your arms but there is nothing you can do. Poverty is watching your children and grandchildren share tears in their deepest sleep. Poverty is suffering from HIV/AIDS and dying a shameful death but nobody seems to care". " Poverty is when you hide your face and wish nobody could see you just because you feel less than a human being. Poverty is when you dream of bread and fish you never see in the day light. Poverty is when people accuse you and prosecute you for no fault of yours but who is there to say some for you? Poverty is when the hopes of your fathers and grandfathers just vanish within a blink of an eye. I know poverty and I know poverty just like I know my father's name. Poverty never sleeps. Poverty works all day and night. Poverty never takes a holiday" (One Poor African)

[Tyre Smoke]

Probably written by an American who has no concept of which they speak but is a fairly good wordsmith.

I doubt any true poverty stricken African could be so eloquent.

[BarRefaeli]

Tyre Smoke said:

I doubt any true poverty stricken African could be so eloquent.

Unlikely they'd have internet access either.

[ProfessorPeach]

Sounds like it was written by the same people who did that Thomas Cook advert with Louise Redknapp in.

What a great ad that is.

In no way makes me want to smash her nose off.

[singlecoil]

So how does poverty give you aids/hiv then?

[PaulHogan]

ProfessorPeach said:

Sounds like it was written by the same people who did that Thomas Cook advert with Louise Redknapp in.

What a great ad that is.

In a way makes me want to smash her back doors in.

Fixed that for you.

[G_T]

I'm going to Las Vegas in August.

[chim]

Why oh why did I think PH would be a good place to post this.

[bigandclever]

Well..... what are you doing about it?

[10 Pence Short]

bigandclever said:

Well..... what are you doing about it?

Use the Bob Geldof defence- "Give me your f'cking money"

Edited by 10 Pence Short on Monday 8th February 12:12

[Cock Womble]

G_T said:

I'm going to Las Vegas in August.

My cupboards, fridge and freezer are chock-a-block with food.

[chim]

bigandclever said:

Well..... what are you doing about it?

Highlighting their plight on here

Its a Monday morning and I had a moment of reflective weakness FFS.

Must man up, let the little sts starve, the population is way to high anyway.

There, feel better now

Carry on.

[BarRefaeli]

Cock Womble said:

G_T said:

I'm going to Las Vegas in August.

My cupboards, fridge and freezer are chock-a-block with food.

Dunno what you two are so smug about, look at our weather compared to theirs...

[chim]

BarRefaeli said:

Cock Womble said:

G_T said:

I'm going to Las Vegas in August.

My cupboards, fridge and freezer are chock-a-block with food.

Dunno what you two are so smug about, look at our weather compared to theirs...

[Cock Womble]

BarRefaeli said:

Cock Womble said:

G_T said:

I'm going to Las Vegas in August.

My cupboards, fridge and freezer are chock-a-block with food.

Dunno what you two are so smug about, look at our weather compared to theirs...

Good point. The lucky bds don't know they're born.

[71notout]

and they don't have to put up with Heather Mills!

[Lefty Two Drams]

10 Pence Short said:

bigandclever said:

Well..... what are you doing about it?

Use the Bob Geldof defence- "Give me your f'cking money"

Edited by 10 Pence Short on Monday 8th February 12:12

Have a roffle.

[Lefty Two Drams]

Cock Womble said:

BarRefaeli said:

Cock Womble said:

G_T said:

I'm going to Las Vegas in August.

My cupboards, fridge and freezer are chock-a-block with food.

Dunno what you two are so smug about, look at our weather compared to theirs...

Good point. The lucky bds don't know they're born.

I think Mariah Carey nailed it on the head too:

"I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that but not with, you know, all the flies and stuff."

[WorAl]

Cock Womble said:

BarRefaeli said:

Cock Womble said:

G_T said:

I'm going to Las Vegas in August.

My cupboards, fridge and freezer are chock-a-block with food.

Dunno what you two are so smug about, look at our weather compared to theirs...

Good point. The lucky bds don't know they're born.

I haven't been able to take the TVR out for ages due to the salt on the roads and the rain making them greasy, its got a full tank of Petrol too. I've just had a Chicken sandwich, some nice juicy grapes and melon, an apple and an orange and a nice big glass of fresh chilled water for my lunch. I think I'll have another glass actually.

[8Ace]

singlecoil said:

So how does poverty give you aids/hiv then?

Discount hookers?