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[Harry Hornet]

This and Children in Need day are just the worst. FRO and leave me alone. I'll contribute what I want, to who I want, when I want and none of your fake bonhomie and stupidness will alter that.

and there was me thinking you were going to do a sponsored silence...

[Goosenka]

Comic relief. Just don't like it at all. About as 'comic' as my nuts in clingfilm. This Peter Kaye thing is so shite.

Edited by Goosenka, 15 March 2013 - 08:44 PM.

[turbobob]

I booked the day off work cos I was getting hacked off with one department doing fcuk all other than dossing around for comic relief.

[Claws]

Comic relief. Just don't like it at all.

About as 'comic' as my nuts in clingfilm. This Peter Kaye thing is so shite.

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[darronwall]

+1 on the comic relief shite, might be a bit harsh but its my opinion that throwing money at the unfortunate isnt the answer,stopping breeding might help though

[Dave E]

Precisely. The problem is a simple question of numbers and stupidity. If you can't support one child how the hell do you think your going to support six? These families never seem to be a single child family which is their tradition. Have a bucket load of kids and there will be someone to look after you IF you get old, this mindset is what needs changing. If they ever start asking for donations for mandatory sterilisation I'll give generously. Heartless, maybe, but the sentiment has to be lost if the problem is going to be improved. Ok so that's my seat in hell booked

[Goosenka]

Precisely.

The problem is a simple question of numbers and stupidity. If you can't support one child how the hell do you think your going to support six? These families never seem to be a single child family which is their tradition. Have a bucket load of kids and there will be someone to look after you IF you get old, this mindset is what needs changing.

If they ever start asking for donations for mandatory sterilisation I'll give generously. Heartless, maybe, but the sentiment has to be lost if the problem is going to be improved.

Ok so that's my seat in hell booked :rolleyes:/>

Comic relief is 25 years old. If money works, why is it still needed?

Edited by Goosenka, 16 March 2013 - 08:52 AM.

[Dave E]

Because they keep tackling the effect-insufficient resources , not the true cause- the unsustainably high birth rate , but what do I know.

[Goosenka]

Because they keep tackling the effect-insufficient resources , not the true cause- the unsustainably high birth rate , but what do I know.

I probably sound nasty and selfish but what do I know either.

[Dave E]

Here's an uncomfortable thought. Part of the money goes to fighting HIV and malaria, what state would the continent be in now if they'd managed to eradicate these twenty years ago?

[Goosenka]

Here's an uncomfortable thought. Part of the money goes to fighting HIV and malaria, what state would the continent be in now if they'd managed to eradicate these twenty years ago?

Comic cull?

[LY_Scott]

The having loads of kids thing is an effect of not many surviving rather than a cause. We were the same here until early/mid 20th century (depending on your class) More effort needs to be put to sorting out the governence of these countries. We shouldn't be still sorting out their problems in this day and age. Politics of greed and war rather than social and health care are the problems.

Edited by LY_Scott, 16 March 2013 - 09:56 AM.

[Dave E]

The having loads of kids thing is an effect of not many surviving rather than a cause. We were the same here until early/mid 20th century (depending on your class)

But why are they not surviving in the first place. If you watch child after child die through starvation what makes you think having another couple is going to improve matters. And if they're dying of HIV, why have more just to watch them suffer.

Of course corrupt government and war has an effect as do may more things but I do believe that runaway population growth this the biggest problem.

I'll also add that this wont be restricted to Africa and the third world before too long, how much time did it take for the world population to jump from 6 to 7 billion, whatever it was it'll be nothing compared to the jump from 7 to 8.

[Boombang]

Sure I've said it before, but people who spend an entire train journey on the phone. This irritates me far more if I realise mid call that they are seeing the person they are talking to immediately after getting off that train.

[Andrew aka Stuwy]

Have lots of places are coming down. "Africa still has a high child mortality rate" is a myth...

[Mangham54]

The problems of child birth rates and poor life chances are not just in Africa... Before we criticise their problems we have to look at our own island and realise there is exactly the same issue here, but in a less extreme fashion. I am in work and earn a respectable wage, yet I cannot afford children realistically - yet in the next village most are out of work and have large, ever increasing families... the current system in this country fcuking stinks. We are slowly degenerating educationally and intellectually.

[LY_Scott]

I'd have to agree with that. Its much easier for the unemployed and won't work bunch to have kids than those in work. We're not breeding a good society if the majority of our next generation is brought up by doleys.

[Mangham54]

I'd have to agree with that. Its much easier for the unemployed and won't work bunch to have kids than those in work. We're not breeding a good society if the majority of our next generation is brought up by doleys.

Unfortunately the proof is out there, despite what the Rowntree Foundation say. The kids that enter my classroom are worse than the previous year, every year (on average, as there are exceptions). I seem to remember a discussion with an Ofsted Inspector for FE the other week 'agreeing wholeheartedly' when I said that the kids entering FE each year are more 'damaged' than their predecessors.

I don't agree with retrospectively cutting back social support, but do feel that new claimants should find it harder. As a sideline, Mel has been out of 'permanent' work for the last 2yrs following her completing a 3yr teaching degree. She has taken all and any work she can get her hands on... yet throughout the whole period we have been eligible for zero support. Prior to Uni she over payed her NIC when both self-employed and as a Teaching Assisstant. We have also been advised that we would not be eligible for state maternity pay. So our child, if we were to have one would suffer tighter financial effects than in a jobless family, with free housing, reduced council tax and financial support on top.

[rob999]

And hence we'll have a majority with the mindset of 'Society owes me something'...no accountability.

[LY_Scott]

Working too many weekends is getting on my chebs. Overtime or no overtime