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Pete wrote:I once gave £5 to oxfam online. They have since spent £6 posting me shite every month.
Oh yes - that's another thing that pisses me off.

There's another charity thing that annoys me. Any of them that suggest money is needed in India.

India has a fucking space programme.
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Well yes, but it also has lots of dead children
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Sput wrote:Well yes, but it also has lots of dead children
I didn't know they had a space programme, but if they're spending money on that there whilst children are dying then that's fucking outrageous - they should get their priorities sorted.
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Oh absolutely.
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Am I straying into Daily Mail territory if I question whether they should be attempting to host a Commonwealth Games if they are having trouble feeding their poor?

(And just how do they manage to get so much jobbie on the walls of as yet unused bathrooms?)
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You're safe for now: It's only a Daily Mail if you don't try and find out why before venturing a glib opinion.
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They should be attempting to raise taxes really.

Despite being richer than Germany, India takes only $130 billion per year in tax.

Germany takes $1.507 trillion.

India's space programme costs $1.25 billion.

I guess they just don't value life like we do, which makes sense considering their population size.
Gavin Scott wrote:(And just how do they manage to get so much jobbie on the walls of as yet unused bathrooms?)
By not wearing shoes or washing regularly.
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Chie wrote:
Gavin Scott wrote:(And just how do they manage to get so much jobbie on the walls of as yet unused bathrooms?)
By not wearing shoes or washing regularly.
I'm not sure that explains it.
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Chie wrote:By not wearing shoes or washing regularly.
Ah - there's the Daily Mail.

The answer could have been that the sewer had backed up (quite likely, in fact), and the filthy water had jetted upwards into the room.

Had you considered that?

I don't know myself - having never been to India. I assume you have?
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Chie wrote: By not wearing shoes or washing regularly.
Great Scott you two have given remarkably sedate responses to what strikes me as quite an ignorant, sweeping and racist comment. I don't like you at all, Chie.
Ronnie is victorious, vivacious in victory like a venomous dog. Vile Republicans cease living while the religious retort with rueful rhetoric. These rank thugs resort to violence and swear revenge.

But Ronnie can punch through steel so they lose anyway.
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Gavin Scott wrote:The answer could have been that the sewer had backed up (quite likely, in fact), and the filthy water had jetted upwards into the room.

Had you considered that?
By 'they' I didn't think you were referring to the singular sewer.
Gavin Scott wrote:I don't know myself - having never been to India. I assume you have?
Are you suggesting that all Indians are the same, Gavin?
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