Comments on: BNP Algebra http://skuds.org/2010/01/bnp-algebra/ "Please send me evenings and weekends" Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:15:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nimrod http://skuds.org/2010/01/bnp-algebra/comment-page-1/#comment-100999 Nimrod Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:18:03 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=4352#comment-100999 Android-I-beg-your-pardon-Andrew Skudders , I was brought up to believe that charity always began at home ? Android-I-beg-your-pardon-Andrew Skudders ,
I was brought up to believe that charity always began at home ?

]]> By: skud's sister http://skuds.org/2010/01/bnp-algebra/comment-page-1/#comment-100769 skud's sister Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:55:54 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=4352#comment-100769 The BNP crass? Shome mishtake shurely? The BNP crass? Shome mishtake shurely?

]]> By: Skuds http://skuds.org/2010/01/bnp-algebra/comment-page-1/#comment-100764 Skuds Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:43:36 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=4352#comment-100764 Well yes, and with so many people staying at home or leaving the car at home, and most of the driving being done a lot slower it is even possible that lots of road deaths were avoided. But I don't think bodycounts are the point. It is not about how many people died in Haiti. Being pragmatic, they are beyond help. It is the millions without homes, food or even water - and in some cases without family. We might have moaned about the cold here, but we are doing it mostly from warm houses and with no chance of starving or catching typhoid from poisoned water. Comparing our situation to Haiti is just crass. Well yes, and with so many people staying at home or leaving the car at home, and most of the driving being done a lot slower it is even possible that lots of road deaths were avoided.

But I don’t think bodycounts are the point. It is not about how many people died in Haiti. Being pragmatic, they are beyond help. It is the millions without homes, food or even water – and in some cases without family.

We might have moaned about the cold here, but we are doing it mostly from warm houses and with no chance of starving or catching typhoid from poisoned water. Comparing our situation to Haiti is just crass.

]]> By: skud's sister http://skuds.org/2010/01/bnp-algebra/comment-page-1/#comment-100763 skud's sister Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:19:35 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=4352#comment-100763 And some of the winter-related death toll, if the past is anything to go by, will be as much 'thoughlessness-related' as people ignore safety warnings and some common sense to try walking on ice, or driving at stupid speeds in driving snow.... The people of Haiti are suffering almost as much from the problems of past and present regimes as from the effects of the most recent natural disaster but that can hardly be called thoughlessness And some of the winter-related death toll, if the past is anything to go by, will be as much ‘thoughlessness-related’ as people ignore safety warnings and some common sense to try walking on ice, or driving at stupid speeds in driving snow…. The people of Haiti are suffering almost as much from the problems of past and present regimes as from the effects of the most recent natural disaster but that can hardly be called thoughlessness

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