Yeah', fuck it, better they do absolutly nothing at all and don't help anyone in any shape or form.
What I don't get, for a country that has the perfect growing conditions (volcanic soil, tropical climate), how can 'mud cakes' be a national dish?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:08, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Look at India.
Their natural resources are simply staggering - yet most of them live on a bowl of rice or dal a day. How? Total and utter corruption cf Rhodesia, sorry, the wonderful utopia that is Zimbabwe.

Wasn't as bad under colonial rule. This is a non-PC observation but cold, hard fact (and before I get carted off for this viewpoint I did study this for three years).
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:17, Reply)

I recommend
everyone read The Undercover Economist. Written in plain English and entertaining, there's a chapter on Cameroon (an example struggling country) and about why it's in the poverty it is.

There's a lot of political establishment figures in this country on the gravy train but it could be a lot worse.
( djtrialprice, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:22, Reply)

It's not just a non-pc observation, it's a stupid one.
If I wasn't so busy today I'd have a field day in this thread.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:30, Reply)

You clearly know more than several senior lecturers at SOAS, then.
As well as the head of South Asian Studies at North London University.

You've obviously read more than these internationally-respected experts with their decades of specialist study, and therefore I bow before your mastery of this complex subject.

I only studied the British in India for just the three years - unlike you, so what do I know, eh?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:38, Reply)

PS....(!)

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:44, Reply)

I didn't read anything after "north london university"

(PsychoChomp, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:58, Reply)

It's that attention to detail that has helped you gain your expertise, I expect.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:59, Reply)

And anyway, dispite how much he's worth, if we put it down into percentages and time spent helping out people, they both probably do more than all of us lot.
But don't let that stop a good rant.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:17, Reply)

Bono has done far more damage than he has done to help people
Vertigo alone erases every good deed he has done
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:20, Reply)

The man is an unelected tool
who wants to go around the world telling governments how to do things! If he was an academic I could understand it but he's just the front man of a piss poor band.
( djtrialprice, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:23, Reply)

I think someone who is good at writing games
should make a "Whack-A-Bono" game.

With a timmy mallet mallet.

And occassionaly Brian Blessed will pop up and if you hit him he bellows "DIIIIVVVVVVVVVVVVVVE" and you lose 10 points.

Best game ever right there. Best game ever...
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:25, Reply)

Yes.
More of this sort of thing. Anyone here any good at writing Flash games?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:37, Reply)

He's just a Bono, he's just a bono, he's just a bonno, he's just a bono - U2's bono !
to the tune of Rascal by Dizzee Rascal.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 19 Jan 2010, 10:24, Reply)