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[Yu_Bum_suk]

[skeeterses]

I have to agree that the Starving Baby in Africa argument is pretty low indeed.

First off, there's poverty in other places besides 3rd world countries. In America, over 1 million people have to sleep on the streets on any given night. I sure wouldn't go up to a homeless person in America and pull the starving African argument with him.

[Newbie]

[esetters21]

[shifty]

It is natural to want to maximise the life that providence gave us.. Any hiccups and we're quite entitled to grouse.

That said, perhaps there is an inverse relationship between being blessed and moaning. The poor folks of Africa are very stoic and it takes real hardship before they start performing.

This phenomenon has to be taken into account when devising security to prevent burglary. You think, ah no burglar will to all the trouble of shimmying up that wall. Fact is the burglar has a pedigree of uncomplaining derring-do and won't hesitate. For him it's the work of a moment. You think ah noone will steal that battery, it's too heavy to cart for 10km to the deprived dwelling area. Think again.

Neither a moaner nor complainer be is the motto of people of Africa.
So don't use the poor starving children of Africa on your children when they won't eat all up.

[Kimchieluver]

[thematrixiam]

Score, sounds like a few things have been settled.

Earnings to xenophobia complaints have no relevance.

Bitching is universal.

Po (aka slang for poor) peeps (aka slang for people) can't bitch on their own because they can't afford the interrant (aka internet), so we should do it more often because they can't.

All I know is I like bitching if I have felt pain. As most people do. My old boss owes me five grand. I worked hard for that.

I also worked remotely hard in Uni, and am still paying it off, to have a potentially cushy job so i can bitch about it on Dave's.

I will say it again, bitching is universal. Sure it may not sound as good when someone that has money bitches, compared to those less fortunate. But I am just doing my part as a middle class man to help create a smaller gap between numbers of Po folk and da rich folk.

Sure I got a shitty grade in my economics course. But from what I learned, the po folk need the rich folk and the middle class folk to have their cushy jobs and bitch, so as to eventually gain the same level of living through basic principles of social evolution.

Bitching helps us push forward. It deals with stress, and if done correctly can form unions of bitchy people and get things done to move society forward. Sure some bitchy people are just tools, and will most likely get their asses kicked in a bar some where for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. All that means is that their level of bitching has not come up to speed with what is acceptable.

The only way we are going to get acceptable bitching, that will push forward and advance civilization, and thus get po folk more food and better jobs, is to also have shitty bitching. Through shitty bitching we as a society can learn from our bitching mistakes and develop our techniques to move forward faster as a society of effective bitchers.

I think that made sense.... if not, meh. Just bitch about it.

[cruisemonkey]

LOL... I, for one, am thankful Korea allows me to bitch (quietly). Bitching in K-land is an art form - in which one gets what one wants and one's superiors 'save face'.

[Froggy Parker]

[ESL Milk "Everyday]

Ummm... this isn't really related, but about the kids coming up to us and saying hello... beyond the kids being rude sometimes, does anyone else sometimes feel like this is the parents actively trying to humiliate foreigners?

[thematrixiam]

[Rae]

I understand what you're saying, but it's at par with calling Hitler a good man because he never cheated on his wife.

Anyone that compares themselves to the worst-case scenario comes out looking good. But that's not realistic and there's no equal means of measurement. It's just a thing friends say to each other when someone's in a shthole and by pointing out their neighbor's (even bigger) shthole it's supposed to make them feel better.

The problem here is the hole is quite vast, we all share it, and although there's some people that found a corner with a lot less *beep*, it's still a *beep* hole. Oh, I forgot to mention the clever message board constructed in the middle of the hole.

Unhappy people talk the loudest ... so yeh .. what did you expect?

[bluelake]

[shifty]

My late father was always one to shooka shooka the salt in liberal doses all over his food. The rationale that we'd hear every evening was that time ago people would work the whole day for a lick of salt.

Also from Africa I think. It's horrific that I can't remember the detail, given
the times I heard the story.

[nautilus]

People in Africa are starving because they are beset with such insanely corrupt governments. Eating salt or no makes no diff.