Disasters Effecting paintball teams??

[Mark Toye-Nexus]

C'mon guys get over it - Tsunami have every right to call themselves that name.

If they change it then thats up to them.

Whats important is that we all try and help out in some way. Dont buy a box of paint this month and donate the money instead - make a sacrifice because we have a choice and those poor unfortunates do not.

On a lighter note - Team Doughnut is changing its name to Team Lettuce forthwith due to historically proven health implications of the carb and sugar loaded snack time treats.

LA Lakers are considering LA Puddlers to avoid offence to anyone affected by pedlo accidents.

I'm not sure what Orlando Bloom is doing though after the recent catastrophic algae bloom off the coast of Italy that poisened many thousands of fish

 

[ChairChimp]

Mark T

Word.

And FYI Orlando feels bad about the algae so is going to be known as Orlando Sprout from now on.



Makes it much simpler,

Chimp

 

[Steve Hancock]

Oh thank god,

I was wondering when a thread RE tsunami's name would come up and i'm glad that it didn't end up as a pointlessly politically-correct farce. The name is no worse now than it was before, but yes they may have some issues.

One thing that i have been thinking, but not saying so far, is that although the tsunami was terrible, far worse things happen all the time but no-one cares because they don't make such great TV.

 

[TJ Lambini]

Originally posted by Steve Hancock
far worse things happen all the time

Out of interest, what?

 

[L J]

Originally posted by TJ Lambini
Out of interest, what?

tom jones

 

[Mario]

i would guess, war (see iraq), genocide (see rwanda) torture (see china), drug addiction blighting communities (see everywhere)

but whatever...

did anyone think that to have a three minute silence a couple of days ago was a bit much? Soldiers who fought in both world wars and the countless others who have died have a two minute silence and thats on the anniversary of the end of the second world war. Far more soldiers died than tsunami victims.

I personally thought it was ridiculous.


There is a time and a place to remember the dead and a few days ago was not it. in my humble opinion.

(btw im only talking about those countries in europe who decided to conduct the silence.)

 

[Steve Hancock]

Originally posted by TJ Lambini
Out of interest, what?

Budda's example,

Number of aids deaths per year.

Loads of stuff happens but isn't instantaneous so its not newsworthy. I would be amazed if fewer people starved to death last year than died in the tsunami.

Even within the tsunami, more of a fuss is being made over the 100,000 instant deaths the the 1,000,000 that face disese etc afterwards.

 

[le-pig]

Originally posted by Steve Hancock
Budda's example,

Number of aids deaths per year.

Loads of stuff happens but isn't instantaneous so its not newsworthy. I would be amazed if fewer people starved to death last year than died in the tsunami.

Even within the tsunami, more of a fuss is being made over the 100,000 instant deaths the the 1,000,000 that face disese etc afterwards.

i think the onlly reason it is in the news so much is because it happend over chistmas,while we were sat here safe and warm patting are full bellies and wondering do we need that extra can of stella.
if it had happend a couple of months later i doubt there would of been so much attention

 

[Gups]

Originally posted by le-pig
i think the onlly reason it is in the news so much is because it happened over Chistmas,while we were sat here safe and warm patting our full bellies and wondering do we need that extra can of Stella.

And yet even at a time of 'goodwill toward men' there are those who are untouched by the disaster. Just this morning i was in the perpetual queue at the Post Office when a woman's voice behind me loudly complained to another that she thought it 'ridiculous that everywhere has collection boxes for this bloody tsunami' She continued that they 'won't get a penny out of me no matter how hard they try' and that she has 'no sympathy for them'. Apparantly, according to the Gospel of the Fat Woman in the Queue (and she was bloody HUGE, as was her kid who was contentedly stuffing a jam donut into it's gob) 'These people bring it on themselves' because..and this made me wonder if she was mean or just plain mad...'They have a corrupt Government' Right....
Now this woman had no volume control, she was either full on or mute and i had no option but to listen to her binting on as I progressed up the queue, then as one old chap put some change into the Tsunami collection bucket she called over to him and said 'Don't waste your money mate, only 1p in the pound will ever reach them anyway'.

Ooooh! I'm afraid at that point i broke the 'post office queue code of conduct' and actually spoke to the person next to me, aka The Fat Woman and informed her it was lucky for the victims of the disaster that the rest of the world wasn't as cold and tight fisted as her.

Well that pissed her off somewhat and not unexpectedly i was told to go forth and multiply, but lo and behold a host of Angels appeared in the guise of other customers around us in the queue (well 2 of them) who joined in our discussion and backed me up, including a middle aged biker with a lack of teeth and a cool spider web tattoo on his throat and cheek. Strangely she shut up complaining when he joined in.

 

[HERMITT]

In a world that is as fast paced as ours we spend each day racing through with very little time to express our emotions. It is also the case that as we work longer hours, spend more time on the phone, the net, playing computer games, in an office we have less time to interact physically and mentally with those around us.

When major events occur, see the death of Princess Di, 9/11. the death of Ken Bigley and now the asian Tsunami, many people subconsciously find themselves joining in a mass emotional outpouring. It is an instant identification and sharing of an experience with those around you, something that is becoming rarer and rarer. As social beings, dependent on the receival of acknowledgement and interaction of others, society clings to these events as though they are directly touching people at an individual level. Someone pointed out that there was a minutes silence at a number of football matches. Prior to the silence the crowd was cheering and singing at full volume. When the silence was announced the crowd hushed as it expressed sympathy for those who had died. As soon as the whistle blew the crowd returned to shouting and singing. In such a brief period of time it is highly unlikely that any of those people could express the whole range of emotions involved at a truly sincere level.

I am not saying that we should not feel sympathy towrds those involved and do our best to help them. However, as we fall silent in a shopping mall on yet another occassion, as we stop to put the change in the collection tin, it is difficult not to question the sincerity of these actions when we then return to our lives as normal. Grief is not an emotion to be taken lightly, when people feel that a minutes silence (or three in this case) is a suitable way of expressing this grief, it is hard not to see it as a little condiscending to those that have actually been affected.