Just a buck a day

[RAM]

Thanks for your words, Rocket   Really appreciate them  

<S!>

[Ripsnort]

I for one am not going to crucify someone for making a tasteless joke, we certainly are all guilty of that at one time or another, and I think that Ram did one of his knee-jerk reactions to this guys dull sense of humor...

Fuzzy bunny, you're welcome to fly with VMF-323 anytime,as we do not judge a person by one 'dark-humored' post.

[Torque]

Speak for yourself Ripper  

<poke> gotta run here comes Ram  

Eight days away and three of them are over, AH shakes started lastnite.  

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[Dowding]

That's your lookout Ripsnort - if that's the kind of person you want in your squad.

The 'joke' was crap, pal. The sick part of it made it worse.

Hey Wilfrid, Sailor - well said guys! How's the 99th getting on without me?   Probably alot better, I should think, hehehe  


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Dowding

99th 'Raging Rooks'

[racey]

RAM... you must really hate paramedics and doctors.  Behind closed doors they make wise cracks and jokes about the dead and dying regularly, and it's those very, um, what was the word you used.."stupids" that save lives every day. You see, man kind makes humor about depressing things because if he constantly dwelled on the hurt, pain, injustice, etc. it would drive him mad.  Join in our reindeer games.

 Why don't you concern yourself less with what others do, seeing as though you're nobody's daddy here, and second of all.. you aren't starving in Sudan either so what right do you have to speak on the subject?  
RAM, Robin Williams said it best in Good Morning Vietnam... he might as well have been talking to you when he said, "You are in more dire need of a blow job than any other white man in history".

And Dowding.. Fuzzybunny just happens to be in MY squad and has been for three years. If Fuzzy was squadless Ripsnort should/would jump at the chance to have as solid a person, pilot, leader, friend, etc. as FuzzyBunny. There isn't anyone's membership in my squad I value more than his.  He has made me laugh for three years, and has been a friend.  So you're the expert on what jokes are funny or not eh?  Let's hear it.. be funny Mr. Funnyman!  Bust our guts!  Loser.
 
You are all bafoons for assessing someone's entire character based on one wise crack.  Not one judgement you have passed on this guy is anywhere close to the truth.

Oh, and Fuzzy just happens to work at a hospital, it could be your life he's helping to save next you judgemental bastards and he'd be happy to do it.

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[metronom]

I work in a Hospital too but I don't make jokes about dying ones.
This has nothin to do with whats youre profession, only with a little respect against other People.
The good thing about a written word is that you can reread what you have wrote and decide is it to be released or not. That means you have no excuses if you send crap out. Thats the point.

Sailor

[racey]

metronom,  you are the only one I've ever heard of that doesn't do that, Sailor.  You are an oak man!  You are like Jesus... so in that case.. surely you can understand why some might, Sailor.  And you know full well they don't do it to "disrespect" anyone, Sailor.  And what people never hear don't hurt them, and that's the truth, Sailor.  Like the starving, dead, and dying are bothered by a "joke", Sailor.  They evidently have worse things on their minds, Sailor / Dork.

[easymo]

 Just dont say you admire the Roman model, for the search and destroy mission. They go crazy when you do that.

[Torque]

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[Creamo]

My learjet seats have Scotch stains all over them. HAving new leather thats aged and treated by virginal Island chicks is the sweet solution.

Now that's a worthy cause!

BTW, I wouldn't spend .50 cents a day to feed the starving to last 2 more miserable days.

[Revvin]

The saddest thing of all is that such a pitiful ammount of money could feed these starving people, but you know the saddest thing is that your money does'nt go to the right people. The respective governments (dictatorships) in Africa seize this money anyway to buy guns to fund their never ending civil wars and even the Oxfam shipments of food are more often seized to feed the soldiers to fight for a dusty patch of land while their children die in their homes.

It would be nice if the more advanced nations people could give such a pitiful ammount to wipe out hunger and the disease in these countries that we have already wiped out in the West but until the African states take responsibility for their people over a patch of land then I for one will not give to such charities until I can be assured my money goes to the right people.

[Dowding]

Revvin - I see your point but I don't think it is true for all organisations. Many take the aid you buy DIRECTLY to the people who need it, bypassing the government completely. Some friends of mine have just built a school in Ghana, they also took a load of stuff to help the people there' the government were not involved at all. This is true for many organisation working in areas where famine has struck.

Well said sailor. Racey, if I cracked a racist joke , and then justified with the excuse that I work with Black people, would you be satisfied? I think not.

Anybody who has been involved with helping the third world would find that 'joke' tasteless, so I don't understand your surprise that people are offended.

[Revvin]

Dowding> I agree that some charities get through to the right people when it comes to building schools ( <S> to your friends) but as soon as these charities that supply food and clothing have been to these vilalges then the paramilitaries arrive and confiscate the food  and clothing for their own means, building schools are about the best way to help them, educate them, I saw an article a while ago that got kids to go to school by rewarding them with a warm meal and that was good but for most causes I just feel I've wasted my well intentioned contribution.

[Dowding]

Maybe you're right, what you describe does occur, especially where there is war. But the organisation they were with goes back every year, to improve that particular area of Ghana, and is completely non-profit making.

I'm not lecturing, by the way - I don't do enough really.   I was meant to go with my friends to Ghana (post-graduation travel thing) but fell ill just before, and couldn't go. Nevermind - they said it was a solid school though   . I have yet to see the pictures.

It does feel sometimes that we can't do anything, no matter how much money we give though.  

This really is an O-club discussion - I don't think I'll post here anymore.

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[devildawg]

Dont even get me started on those animals over there in Africa. I say let em do what they do best, kill each other off. Sure I was all wrapped up in we are the world, and the feel good donations to ethiopia and somalia. But the second they drew my brother's blood (Marines, and yes you Army dogs) they lost all my compassion. My good friend just came here from S. Africa. His front yard had barb wire, motion sensors, trip flares. I say let em sleep in there bed they Fuc&ing made it.

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