Definitely hypocritical, just bordering on silly.
I'm always happy to agree that westerners are benefitting from the suffering of the poorest and most miserable.

We get to live these blissful, ignorant lives, pissing and moaning about bullshit while there are people in the Niger Delta who are still essentially slaves, exploited and oppressed but underpinning the whole global system.

Call me a massive gay if you want, but I think this means we should care more about people, try and build a sustainable, exploitation-free future, even though it will bring hardship to the west. Politicians aren't bastards, they just defend national interests, 'cos that's what people demand. People are selfish, hypocritical, short-sighted bastards, and if they are readers of certain tabloids, they feel hard done by to boot. I say fuck 'em. Morality is what we make it. Nature and fortune didn't make us equal, but if we actually wanted equality, and would pay the price, there's no reason why we couldn't have it. *rant over*
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 10:26, 1 reply)

Gay.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 10:48, closed)

When I was checking the spelling of the word 'hypocritical'
I saw this quote from Samuel Johnson:

"Nothing is more unjust, however common, than to charge with hypocrisy him that expresses zeal for those virtues which he neglects to practice; since he may be sincerely convinced of the advantages of conquering his passions, without having yet obtained the victory, as a man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage, or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and may honestly recommend to others, those attempts which he neglects himself."

I'm not gay, but I would definitely fuck Dr. Johnson. (Fetch me a shovel)
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 10:54, closed)

Yeah, see - I don't hold Johnson in such regard.
Tired of London and life, and all that (or whatever it was "London has all the myriad pleasures that life has to offer"). He was quite full of himself.

I just suppose I've met too many sanctimonious twats evangelising about the naughtiness of it all from the comfort of their centrally-heated flats while eating organically-sourced lentils flown in from Mexico that very day.

The irony of having a placard saying "Save the environment" that's printed on cardboard and nailed onto wood is hilariously depressing.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 11:00, closed)

Bloody hell
did Vith Form debate class let out early today?
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 11:02, closed)

Vith Form?
Is that Darth Vader with a lisp or something?
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 11:07, closed)

I believe it's Roman Text Speak.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 11:11, closed)

Sure you're not thinking of V 4M?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 11:26, closed)

I don't take vitamin supplements.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 11:28, closed)

Racist.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 11:33, closed)

Sorry, but I hate The Vitamins Cong
You weren't there man, you don't know.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 11:55, closed)

Ah, Glastonbury.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 12:17, closed)

it can't all be knob jokes and Honda Accord stories

(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 11:20, closed)

Oh yes it can.

( flake has nothing against your right leg, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 13:35, closed)