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Rice Thread - Feed the poor, you homps

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    Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    "Hey, white people!

    We know how much you guys like charity. But isn't having to give your own stuff away such a pain in the bum? Yeah, it sure does suck - you have to decide between being caring and compassionate and all your really important stuff!

    Well, listen, we've solved your problem. Now you can help people without giving anything that you don't want to!

    'But, computer,' you whine, 'if everyone can give something for no cost, then how will giving anything be special?'

    Not so fast, cracker! You get to help feed the proletariat with your brain. Just by virtue of knowing words, you get to feel totally fantastic about yourself as you give third-world countries spoonfuls a day! No more do you have to decide between status symbols of materialism and mass-marketed compassion - now, you get twice the bragging rights for your time investment! Your friends will be awed as you casually mention, 'Yeah, I was giving out some rice to poor people today - it was really exhausting, but it really helped me to stop feeling so tenebrific.' Your friends will want to know how you give so much - and what tenebrific means!

    Don't worry, white people. We got your back."

    Buying them like 8 flocks of chicks

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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    purchasing a single goat for an entire tent city of starving refugees

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    this is something white people do to feel good about themselves
    There's always someone like you that has to dismiss anything good someone does as just doing it to feel better about themselves as if that negates the value of doing something good.

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    AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Druhim wrote: »
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    this is something white people do to feel good about themselves
    There's always someone like you that has to dismiss anything good someone does as just doing it to feel better about themselves as if that negates the value of doing something good.

    yesss, I knew Dru would come in here eventually

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    Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    If this site had advertisements on it I would actually feel like there was some potential for real contribution going on.

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    unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    dru would you like to do a kiva?

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Ok, go ahead and jump all over my back about how I'm white knighting or something. Hey, let's hear that tired old, completely inaccurate saw about how Africa is a hopeless wasteland and we shouldn't bother trying to help them any more.

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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    middle-class white people are so good at looking down on middle-class white people

    it's practically all we do

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    Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Druhim wrote: »
    Ok, go ahead and jump all over my back about how I'm white knighting or something. Hey, let's hear that tired old, completely inaccurate saw about how Africa is a hopeless wasteland and we shouldn't bother trying to help them any more.

    also you're old

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    Charles KinboteCharles Kinbote Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    dru you're overreacting

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    dru would you like to do a kiva?
    I totally would, but it'll have to wait until next month as I'm bloody broke for a while.

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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I am just going to sit over here and look a little bit smug

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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Druhim wrote: »
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    this is something white people do to feel good about themselves
    There's always someone like you that has to dismiss anything good someone does as just doing it to feel better about themselves as if that negates the value of doing something good.
    fucking kantians

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    unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Druhim wrote: »
    dru would you like to do a kiva?
    I totally would, but it'll have to wait until next month as I'm bloody broke for a while.

    alright just let me know

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    bentbent Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    one of the level 60 definitions asks you what a satsuma is

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    unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    it's a wooden ship from the civil war era

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    bentbent Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    well I know it's not a swimming pool

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    WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    just did 500 grains and got bored

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    Baroque And RollBaroque And Roll Every spark of friendship and love Will die without a homeRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I got about 1200 before I looked away.

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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    i am practicing my french now

    j'ai besoin de mon mari et je veux manger mais je suis au travaille

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    WallhitterWallhitter Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Fun as this is...why don't they...uh. You know. Just give the people the fucking rice?

    silly UN.

    (also i'm up to 1210 yay.)

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Wallhitter wrote: »
    Fun as this is...why don't they...uh. You know. Just give the people the fucking rice?

    silly UN.
    because it costs money
    and this raises extra money to donate to the U.N.
    so they can give more rice
    DUH

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    Volucrisus AedriusVolucrisus Aedrius Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
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    QuothQuoth the Raven Miami, FL FOR REALRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    3000 grains yay

    that is what like one bowl of rice

    also i suck at african geography

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    FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    To be fair, feeding the poor is not really much of a solution.

    Where's the site where I can play games to provide the poor with condoms and education?

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    potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Fishman wrote: »
    To be fair, feeding the poor is not really much of a solution.

    Where's the site where I can play games to provide the poor with condoms and education?

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8260414.stm

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    Baroque And RollBaroque And Roll Every spark of friendship and love Will die without a homeRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I figured more people would be boasting about their impressive vocabulary.

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    FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I was up around 43 when I got asked:

    Cockloft means?:

    .. and one of the answers was 'Womb'.

    I knew it was wrong, but how on earth am I going to resist clicking that?

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    Fishman wrote: »
    I was up around 43 when I got asked:

    Cockloft means?:

    .. and one of the answers was 'Womb'.

    I knew it was wrong, but how on earth am I going to resist clicking that?
    Well done my good and faithful servant.

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Druhim wrote: »
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    this is something white people do to feel good about themselves
    There's always someone like you that has to dismiss anything good someone does as just doing it to feel better about themselves as if that negates the value of doing something good.

    I am more curious why the UN doesn't just give them rice.

    I mean it's one of the reasons they are around to feed and support the people who cannot do it themselves.

    If it was some faceless corporation that was doing this I would understand why they are trying to limit the amount of rice they give to the starving, but shouldn't the UN just give them all the rice they have as opposed to yelling at africa, "You can only have 2 kgs or rice today because middle class white people are STUPID."

    I don't have anything against people that are doing this, I'm just wondering why it was set up like this to begin with.

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    L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Going to the page gives them pageviews for the ads, meaning the advertisers pay them money, meaning they have money to buy the rice with, and it also raises awareness.


    I would also rather it went towards condoms, but that would probably be controversial because some people are fucking morons.

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    Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    Really? The only ad I could see was a tiny little one in the bottom right hand corner.

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    ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    i am giving so many rices

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    The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2009
    How much is 1000 grains anyway? Is that even enough for a single person? For a single meal?

    Maybe the UN should just donate the food

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2009
    L|ama wrote: »
    Going to the page gives them pageviews for the ads, meaning the advertisers pay them money, meaning they have money to buy the rice with, and it also raises awareness.


    I would also rather it went towards condoms, but that would probably be controversial because some people are fucking morons.
    Yeah, as I said before this raises money from companies that donate it to the U.N. so they can send more rice. This isn't an issue of the U.N. doing nothing if it weren't for Free Rice. I don't understand why people keep acting like this is the case. This is simply providing additional funding so they can do more of what they do. Because it does cost money.

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    THEPAIN73THEPAIN73 Shiny. Real shiny.Registered User regular
    edited September 2009
    I just found my new time waster at work.

    Thanks topic.

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