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# It's 12 noon in London, 7am in Philadelphia...

news
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:18, archived)
# yes
I was quite saddened when I heard this
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:18, archived)
# what did you hear?
(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:19, archived)
# gunfire
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:19, archived)
# It's reckoned only about 5% of Live Aid money went to the famine relief in Northern Ethiopia
the rest was stolen/syphoned off by warlords to buy weapons in the Middle East

Radio 4 this morning - they might not have mentioned it on Chris Moyles ;D

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8535189.stm - I might have imagined the 5% element
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:23, archived)
# surely this can't be true
because they'd have all starved in that case, cos you can't eat guns
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:25, archived)
# Kurt Cobain tried.
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:29, archived)
# hahahahahaa
Kurt Ker-bang
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:30, archived)
#

(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:32, archived)
# limited edition
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:36, archived)
# pfft
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:43, archived)
# hahahahahahaha
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:32, archived)
# If I remember correctly,
many of them did starve.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:33, archived)
# ahhh well that's alright then
logic 1 ethiopian kids 0
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:34, archived)
# Eh?
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:39, archived)
# perhaps I ought not to have any more coffee
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:42, archived)
# I'll have it instead.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:43, archived)
# but they were good at dodging bullets
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:34, archived)
# ah well, you see I might have missed all that, as I was listening to Nickleback on the CD
:)
(I helped save b3ta! bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:27, archived)
# Sad yet unsurprising
As for the news story...

;O)
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:20, archived)
# I thought this was exposed years ago?
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:26, archived)
# w/y/h!
(I helped save b3ta! Damien's Hearse, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:27, archived)
# charities can fuck right off
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:27, archived)
# BLOODY DO-GOODERS!
(I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:30, archived)
# right off!!
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:32, archived)
# hiya prodigy
how are you on this wonderful day? :)
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:34, archived)
# the next person to rattle a charity box in my face is getting punched

take a guess
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:37, archived)
# I'm collecting for the CFC Fund A Disappointing Striker Charity
*rattles*
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:45, archived)
# now that's a needy charity :(
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:47, archived)
# aw, there, there
It's only 65k a week for a few more months. Uncle Dermot will fix it.
(I helped save b3ta! drbroon abloooobloobloo, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:49, archived)
# Charity muggers can fuck off most of all.
"Hi, I work for an agency, not the charity I'm telling you to give money to and we're going to take the first year's donations from the charity for getting you to sign up, while the charity hopes you're too lazy to go through the process of cancelling your direct debit at any point."
Wankers.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:36, archived)
# We need to invent some sort of apparel
that makes Chuggers aware that if they approach you then they should expect a punch in the face with no legal consequences for you.
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:39, archived)
# ^this
"Hi, I'm really annoyingly jolly and patronising! Care to give £3 a week to Disabled Bats League while I 'accidentally' put £10 on your form? I'll be back tomorrow collecting for the Uruguyan Arms Trade Relief Fund, a cause I really believe in, honest."
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:40, archived)
# OH HI I'M REALLY HAPPY CAN YOU GIVE ME MONEY?

NO I CAN'T AS I'M UNEMPLOYED..CAN YOU GIVE ME MONEY?..

NO? THOUGHT SO...FUCK OFF

(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:40, archived)
# Shop it!
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:45, archived)
# why shop it when I can live it everyday
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:59, archived)
# I once got chugged
by Shelter, coming out of the Shelter office where I worked at the time

Moron
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:41, archived)
# Ha!
I've got a bad cough and laughing at this nearly killed me...
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Wed 3 Mar 2010, 10:44, archived)
# nope, fuck you
I've had to work at that job in the past because that was the only way I was able to afford to eat. so fuck you and your high horse.
(I helped save b3ta! Tom OBedlam I have control of a tank, Wed 3 Mar 2010, 11:03, archived)