Post by: oldspice on May 27, 2006, 02:21:15 pm
Did nayone see that programme last night featuring three families who spend, spend, spend? Two of the families were rich and one was an ordinary tribe with five kids.
One lot spent loads of money buying designer coats for their dogs (I kid you not - hoodies for dogs). The family with five kids spent most of their money on very expensive clothes and shoes for their tribe. Three of the children were tiny - yet their mother was spending hundreds of pounds each on a single outfit. At one time she confessed the kids had 'about ten pairs of shoes each'. She held a tiny pair or trainers up to the camera - "these cost £90 a pair" she boasted.
The most amusing bit to me was when she was introducing the children -
"Destiny - when I had her, I didn't know where I was going so I called her Destiny; then there's the twins - I was going to call them Ebony and Ivory but I thought it was a name mixed race babies might choose so I called them Ocean Blue and (I can't remember the other name).
Would a mixed race couple seriously choose Ebony and Ivory for their children's names???
Post by: smurfboy on May 27, 2006, 02:30:34 pm
Post by: oldspice on May 27, 2006, 02:37:36 pm
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Post by: Forth Bridges on May 27, 2006, 07:03:11 pm
Post by: oldspice on May 27, 2006, 07:54:06 pm
Truly though, this programme made me sick. A two year old having a manicure. How many children could receive a vaccine for the price of one pair of those trainers?
Can it be right that chioldren in the west are so pampered whilst children in the third world die from illnesses that could be prevented and go to bed with empty bellies. How many months of schooling could a street child in Brazil receive for the price of one mini Versace outfit? It's obscene.
Post by: Forth Bridges on May 27, 2006, 07:58:22 pm
Post by: on May 27, 2006, 09:29:10 pm
Truly though, this programme made me sick. A two year old having a manicure. How many children could receive a vaccine for the price of one pair of those trainers?
Can it be right that chioldren in the west are so pampered whilst children in the third world die from illnesses that could be prevented and go to bed with empty bellies. How many months of schooling could a street child in Brazil receive for the price of one mini Versace outfit? It's obscene.
and people tell governments to do more!
Post by: kevvosa on May 27, 2006, 09:53:45 pm
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Post by: lorri on June 01, 2006, 01:15:31 am