Tsunami

[justsomeguy]

That shit fucks me off...
Fuck I hate taxi drivers!!!

Yes, some of them are a royal pain. But don't worry. I'm trying to get the neighbours cat a driving license ---- looking at all the others that have them - I'm sure the little fellow will qualify. Matter of fact if you look at the drivers we are finding on our roads and their behaviour in the past few years ---- I guess all you have to do to get a license now days is just ask.

[MSTRS:Me]

Think NZ has it's own problems, rather see fund raising for the SPCA.

Nah, give it to the tsunami appeal - you'll be helping to save our fishermen from frivolous prosecution.

[moko]

The British Government has very genorously given £2 million in total towards relief for victims of the Tsunami or to put that in perspective 1% of the re-fit costs for ONE of our very useful nuclear Submarines,the price of ONE cruise missile of the kind heroically lobbed into Kabul and Bagdhad from hundreds of miles away,less than a third of the cost of the royal family per year and 1/180th of the overspend on one government building in Scotland

[Marmoot]

looks like the death toll may get close to 100k
Sounds like that movie "the day after tomorrow"

Btw, amazing how easy it is for some people to scoff at others death when they don't look alike.
Whatever they are, gooks, borts, blacks, niggers, I can't see why cats/dogs can be more important.
I'm sure the response would have been different if this had happened in other place......like oz or uk?

Moko: U have a very valid point there

[F5 Dave]

Yeah the magnitude is unfathomable. I mean a kid goes postal at some school with daddy’s semi killing ½ a dozen kids & the world is saying what an immense tragedy. But this sort of thing puts it in perspective.

Closer to home than you realise. At my small work we think we have a couple in Thailand. Tiller hope your father is ok.

[Ms Piggy]

It's pretty bloody mind boggling alright. :disapint: Too sad for words really.

[riffer]

It's pretty bloody mind boggling alright. :disapint: Too sad for words really.

Just got an email from a couple of friends holidaying over in Thailand.

One of them was scuba diving at the time the tsunami hit and says she was lifted up and back a good 50-75 metres in the water. They thought it was some kind of weird tidal surge, until they surfaced and looked on shore.

Bloody lucky they were in the water a few hundred metres out I guess...

A few anxious days were had waiting for their emails.

[sels1]

Think NZ has it's own problems, rather see fund raising for the SPCA.

Yeah, already doing that - do you?

Thanks for the link Jim2

[Bob]

My stepmother-in-law has a friend holidaying in Thailand. So obviously, we were worried.

So we had been watching Sky News, as they are running messages from people that have contacted them to say they are OK. Then the presenter announced that they were going to speak to a UK tourist... and it was my stepmum-in-law's friend that they were interviewing.

So huge relief all around.

To anyone who has friends or relatives out in any of the affected areas, I hope you also receive good news soon.

Meanwhile, TV programmers need their heads banging together. My father in law had changed channel to catch another news programme - so we caught the end of a game show 'Catchphrase'. And they announced that the competitor was going for the star prize... a holiday to Sri Lanka.

Simple good taste says that show should have been pulled. When you know your show has holidays as a prize, then a quick look at the VTR, which would take all of a few seconds, would let you know and you could drop in a substitute programme.

[Indiana_Jones]

Quite sad indeed, but I guess those kind of things happen.
On a side note I never donate to really as most of those people are poor because of thier governments, taxing them to fund the armies.

-Indy

[Bob]

The British Government has very genorously given £2 million in total towards relief for victims of the Tsunami or to put that in perspective 1% of the re-fit costs for ONE of our very useful nuclear Submarines,the price of ONE cruise missile of the kind heroically lobbed into Kabul and Bagdhad from hundreds of miles away,less than a third of the cost of the royal family per year and 1/180th of the overspend on one government building in Scotland

Looks like that amount has been increased - this from the BBC:

"On Wednesday the UK government pledged £15m ($29m) to help the first phase of the relief effort - making Britain the second largest donor after the US."

Still a drop in the ocean (no pun intended, believe me) compared to things like the overspend on the Scottish Parliament Building, but a big increase. I wonder how much other major countries are putting into the effort? I would imagine our second closest neighbours will not be putting up a brass Centime, but will make their 'technical skills' available... for a price of course.

[gav]

Heres a link to some amazing footage of the tsunami
tsunami footage

[moko]

As Bob said the Brit government have increased the amount,not once but twice.Bliar runs his government according to how it makes him look in the media,the Overseas minister got a real roasting on a phone-in this morning from angry members of public,silly bitch really thought "it`s a lot of money" was going to wash.Say what you want about us but the average Brit(if not the Govt,)will pitch in and do what they can when it`s required.By this afternoon ordinary people had already given more in donations than the Govt and embarassed them into raising the total to £50 million,so far ordinary Brits have given £35 million,or 3 times what the U.S. Govt. have managed to scrape up.

[El Dopa]

No, call me sick, but rather save a cute little puppy than some......... eyed person in a foreign country.

It may be a troll, but I'm going to bite anyway.

Teflon, have a think about why NZ is nicknamed the 'Shaky Isles'.

What exactly do you think the result would be if, say, something on the scale of the Lake Taupo eruption happened in the present day? Or even if something on the scale of the recent NZ 'quakes happened in a more densely populated area, such as Auck/Welly/Chch?

I don't think you'd be too picky about the skin colour or eye shape of any potential rescuers from our neighbours round the pacific rim, who'd more than likely be the ones on the operating end of a rescue.

Thats assuming you were one of the lucky ones who survived.

[James Deuce]

It may be a troll, but I'm going to bite anyway.

Teflon, have a think about why NZ is nicknamed the 'Shaky Isles'.

What exactly do you think the result would be if, say, something on the scale of the Lake Taupo eruption happened in the present day? Or even if something on the scale of the recent NZ 'quakes happened in a more densely populated area, suck and Auck/Welly/Chch?

I don't think you'd be too picky about the skin colour or eye shape of any potential rescuers from our neighbours round the pacific rim, who'd more than likely be the ones on the operating end of a rescue.

Thats assuming you were one of the lucky ones who survived.

If the Orongorongo "event" happened in modern times, all of NZ wouldn't need aid because we'd all be dead.

The east coast of Australia would be in the crap too. They've found house sized boulders hundreds of kilometers into the Aussie outback from the last Taupo eruption. That means a ballistic trajectory for an object weighing tens of tons.

However you raise extremely valid points, and I am desparing at how hard the "liberal" media, such as BBC World has to struggle to keep the plight of the victims newsworthy.