Originally posted by VargI'm dealing with the macrocosm, ie the world cup, it would be a great start...you can practice your beliefs in the microcosm but it changes little, whereas the message that would be sent out if the world cup was aborted and the money re-channeled to an apprpriate need wiould be enourmous, and while we're at it ban the Olympics too!
Unless you spend [b]nothing on luxury items you cannot criticise.
We all spend on frivolous things which could be better spent on the third world.
And this is coming from someone who doesn't like football...[/b]
Originally posted by VargThe money that the host country spends and the money that other countries would spend to send out their teams could be 'rechanneled' as you say....It's just MAD!!! People are starving, there are totalitarian countries with regimes of terror, sickness, injustice and poverty beyond Western compare, and yet we sit on our fat arses watching a ball being kicked around and project our outmoded patriotic fervour onto the pitch , its outlandish, mad and unbelievable!
Well, you could rechannel the money, but there wouldn't be any money.
Originally posted by paul1Why am \I talking nonsense the fat West sits on its laurels praising itself with the world cup and the olympics while people are really suffering, you need to think a bit deeper my fictitous friend!
I'll be as trite or fictitous(?) as I like. You're talking nonsense.
The money that the host country spends and the money that other countries would spend to send out their teams could be 'rechanneled' as you say....It's just MAD!!! People are starving, there are totalitarian countries with regimes of terror, sickness, injustice and poverty beyond Western compare, and yet we sit on our fat arses watching a ball being kicked around and project our outmoded patriotic fervour onto the pitch , its outlandish, mad and unbelievable!
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Originally posted by VargYou don't have to be Mother Teresa to be charitable and you can live comfortably and with a little luxury and still do your bit for good causes.
Unless you spend [b]nothing on luxury items you cannot criticise.
We all spend on frivolous things which could be better spent on the third world.
And this is coming from someone who doesn't like football...[/b]
Living in a little luxury and sincerely objecting to the money being spent on the World Cup aren't mutually exclusive. There is nothing hypocritical about it.
Do we have to live like monks to be allowed to question the vast amounts of money spent on some frivolous entertainment?
And to Vladimir No1: your comments are refreshing and your indignation justified.
Originally posted by Vladamir no1Good thinking - we should all sit in mud huts [wooden if you can't find any mud] and restrict ourselves to one meal of gruel per day and 1/2 a litre of water. In this way all that we save could be transported to third world countries. Naturally we would have to stop using electricity and oil related products. Even more savings if we all lived in holes in the ground.
The money that the host country spends and the money that other countries would spend to send out their teams could be 'rechanneled' as you say....It's just MAD!!! People are starving, there are totalitarian countries with regimes of terror, sickness, injustice and poverty beyond Western compare, and yet we sit on our fat arses watching a ball being kic ...[text shortened]... project our outmoded patriotic fervour onto the pitch , its outlandish, mad and unbelievable!
What a good idea. 🙁🙁
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Originally posted by Dr StrangeloveDon't be a pedantic extremist going from one polarity of existence to another is not the answer as you well know, we're talking the middle road ,...
Good thinking - we should all sit in mud huts [wooden if you can't find any mud] and restrict ourselves to one meal of gruel per day and 1/2 a litre of water. In this way all that we save could be transported to third world countries. Naturally we would have to stop using electricity and oil related products. Even more savings if we all lived in holes in the ground.
What a good idea. 🙁🙁
Originally posted by BobskiGo to a mirror paint your face white with a red cross in the miidle...when the world cup starts go to a pub and cheer 'engerlund' on and then get in a fight with someone cause they're a Man city fan ....You're idea of a good day/night out yea!
Yeah let's stay on those white lines....eat, drink and be right t'merry like!
I'm in...😛😉😀
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Originally posted by Vladamir no1LOL ...if they are getting the beers in.....it's sweet as!
Go to a mirror paint your face white with a red cross in the miidle...when the world cup starts go to a pub and cheer 'engerlund' on and then get in a fight with someone cause they're a Man city fan ....You're idea of a good day/night out yea!
Most of my family are City supporters...poor things...😉
I still love em though!