07 Dec 11
Originally posted by HandyAndyScience shows that a fat person can go without food longer than a skinny person. Thus, when you see a fat person eating, take their food and give it to a skinny person. Once that fat person is skinny, they will be in line to receive food taken from fat people. Eventually everything will level off, and there you have it.
Tell us how to end it.
07 Dec 11
Originally posted by PhlabibitI'll give it a try.
Science shows that a fat person can go without food longer than a skinny person. Thus, when you see a fat person eating, take their food and give it to a skinny person. Once that fat person is skinny, they will be in line to receive food taken from fat people. Eventually everything will level off, and there you have it.
Originally posted by avalanchethecatGive a man a fish and you end poverty for a day.
No, but I'd like to see it shared around a bit. I think each continent should starve for a couple of weeks and then pass the hunger on to the next one.
Teach a man to fish and you end poverty for a lifetime.
The key is sustainability.
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08 Dec 11
Originally posted by Pianoman1...until the mega-trawlers come from Iceland and Scotland to catch all the fish off his shores, and leave his coastal waters an underwater wasteland and him starving again.
Give a man a fish and you end poverty for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you end poverty for a lifetime.
The key is sustainability.
Well, quite. But poor and hungry people are rarely the ones who kill it.
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