Good morning Internet. How are we all this morning?
Apparently the UK government are giving a few million in aid to the Philippines. We also give more than £200 million a year to India. Is this right?

EDIT: Good luck to Winders as he starts his new job today.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:26, 124 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

Indian aid, no.
And isn't it being wound down anyway?

Aid to the Philippines is justified, it's humanitarian.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:30, Reply)

I agree. Ridiculous we give aid to India, if they can afford to send rockets in to space then they can pay for their own smelly food.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:35, Reply)

which is why aid is being woubd down, their economy is booming
Plus, fit Fillipina birds need our help.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:37, Reply)

It should stopped immediately, not reduced over time.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:38, Reply)

well of course
BRIC innit.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:41, Reply)

They should kick out Brazil and add Pakistan & Kenya.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:43, Reply)

I think India have said no thanks to our aid, but it'll take us a few.years to wind it down.
Which seems to be our incompetence, not their begging.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:38, Reply)

How can you not stop paying money out straight away?

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:39, Reply)

That's what I thought. Think it'll take a few years, which seems a bit mad.
Maybe it's got something to do with ringfenced budgets? Dunno.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:44, Reply)

because it's not "aid" in the sense of "here is some money"
it is aid in the sense of trade agreements, discounted contracts etc.

It makes us money. Hence why India would quite like to stop it. And, hence why, it goes without saying, people railing against it as giving money to rich forrins are fucking idiot pricks who should learn to read something apart from the fucking Mail.

hth xx
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:49, Reply)

I was unaware of this being how it works.
I will immediately DMAAKM.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:50, Reply)

I like tje Fred Basset comic strip. Is it still in the Fail?

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:53, Reply)

Those Indian call centres won't create themselves.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:35, Reply)

A lot of those are being moved to Egypt apparently.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:36, Reply)

Of course it is
we are, comparatively, extraordinarily well off.

and even £200 million is a meaninglessly small budget amount, and it generates more than that a year in increased trade, so it's a net profit anyway
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 8:47, Reply)

I think we should give it all to Windy Pig so he doesn't have to start his new job today.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:01, Reply)

Morning
Of course we should send humanitarian aid.
If you could justify paying your wife four grand a month for her just to stick your kid in a nursery for the day, which you also paid for, I'm sure you can agree sending help to people who've lost everything is justifiable.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:06, Reply)

I posed a question. Didn't say I didn't agree with sending money to the Philippines.
Micro doesn't go to nursery. We have a nanny.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:09, Reply)

fucking furious
NatWest machine swallowed my card, deducted the £150, didn't give me the cash. now my bank tell me it takes "2-3 weeks" for a refund. wtf. and I am going away today and I have no card/access to cash, because I bank at a stupid obscure bank that only has one branch in london.

CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNTS.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:14, Reply)

Hahahaha.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:15, Reply)

I agree with the learned gentleman
hahahaha
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:20, Reply)

^These guys get it.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:20, Reply)

none of you get it
because you're all fugly
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:24, Reply)

Dunno about the other chumps, but I am dashing.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:26, Reply)

You really are the real Frogface?
Not that cock in the above thread?
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:30, Reply)

Yeah, it's me. (Look for the 50p ghost)

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:32, Reply)

If you're strapped for cash you could always call in the Pizza debt owed to you
Morning all
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:15, Reply)

We do need more Bank of Bongo-Bongoland branches, yes.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:17, Reply)

lol

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:20, Reply)

This has really cheered me up.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:21, Reply)

what an unpleasant and weird little man you are

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:23, Reply)

Schadenfreude innit you fat mess.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:25, Reply)

the thought of you eating and drinking yourself into an early grave in your lonely bedsit is something that other people might get pleasure from, you know

( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:33, Reply)

Pfft. Bedsit. I don't think so.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:36, Reply)

fine
cardboard box then
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:38, Reply)

I like the cut of his jib tbh.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:28, Reply)

Do you enjoy the misfortune of others?

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:23, Reply)

When it comes to Swipe then yes.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:24, Reply)

yes
because he is so unfortunate that he has to take pleasure in the minor inconveniences of others.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:24, Reply)

Who doesn't?

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:26, Reply)

I think the amount of aid being given by the government to the Philippines is fucking pathetic.

( Peej, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:18, Reply)

YM was pathetic after I ruined her dung funnel last night.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:20, Reply)

Really?
She said it looked like a Peperami and though you can be proud of the length, it didn't touch the sides and looked all burned and wrinkly.
( Peej, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:22, Reply)

I'm surprised she didn't mention the smell.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:23, Reply)

She's not rude you know

( Peej, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 10:32, Reply)

Battered is Simon Weston?

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:23, Reply)

Just his cock

( Peej, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 10:32, Reply)

Gonz had a different angle on it
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post2143044
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:21, Reply)

That's because Gonz is a twat.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:21, Reply)

I bet that's the closest he's ever got to one

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:22, Reply)

Morning HH.

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:22, Reply)

Yellow

( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:23, Reply)

Done any skipping recently?

(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:27, Reply)

Yeah about four pages
I had to go back and read the whole chapter again for it to make sense
( hartley hare Just some prick who thinks it doesn't apply to him, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:30, Reply)

Yeah good luck in your new job.
As a noob, you may be asked to fetch a glass hammer, or ask stores for a long stand. Take it in good humour, and smack the cunt in the mouth.
(Pookie Bear had some very shiny foez, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 9:56, Reply)

Guy at work once got me with asking for a 'hammerfor'
I'd never heard of one, and after about 10 minutes, asked the obvious question, and was mocked like the twat I clearly was.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 10:02, Reply)

When I worked on building sites (while at Uni)
I once saw a bloke fall off the scaffold, they rest of the lads tried to catch me out at this point and asked me to get an "Air Ambulance" like that's a real thing
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Tue 12 Nov 2013, 10:14, Reply)