18,000+dead Pakistanis, and it's business as usual here
 

unfucking unbeleivable that there aren't any more threads here about this disaster!

ummm ok
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Uhm welcome to yesterday. Its 30k by now.

Quite the tradgedy :(

Its much more interesting when theres someone to blame..

Last i saw it was 30,000 dead.

I'm very sad about this bad stuff happening around the world. :(

If you shed a tear for all the people that die terrible deaths everyday, you'd never stop crying.

Basically because it's far enough away to turn a blind eye, plus ignorance with comments on GFY like "Good riddance".

It's a different story when stuff happens in your own back yard - the same people expect sympathy and support, which they will get, despite themselves.

I think that num ber will still rise as recovered dead bodies continue to increase.

I wonder how many people cried in Pakistan when N.O. got hit by the hurricane? I bet they were mourning for days on end..

Why is it you guys think we have to talk about every damn disaster around the world for 5 weeks or else it proves we are all selfish scumbags?

I am trying to forget. That's more depressing than the Katrina incident

You never notice all the whiners complaining other countries were not going to help with N.O??? (Totally inaccurate of course - just the usual "US hate" of everything from international orgs to "shit counties", but the UK is "cool" and France is well.. that 'French fries' country. :1orglaugh )

Selfish scumbags may not be the general term, but sure is with the ignorant.

5 Million homeless people is a major problem for any country.

I have a friend whose little daughter about 10 was in Islamabad. After he divorced she got custody and fell in love with an Arab guy and moved their with his daughter.

Don't know if she was one of the kids crushed or not yet. The Arab guy my friends ex married was a successful businessman so hopefully she wasn't in one of the schools made of brick and mud.

I feel bad for Pakistani's.

I do too, but... didn't they lay hate and blame at the feet of "Allah" for what happened in New Orleans? Oh the irony...

Alex from Montreal: so how much money did you donate then, hmm? :disgust

They did??? Ya learn something new every day...

What happened to that country that supported Bush's "war on terror" to make sure you slept safe at night? (Least according to Bush).

It's back to the usual flippant syndrome of "It's Monday morning so it's hate some country day". That's what we do each Monday morning... same on Tuesday... same on Wednesday ad nausea. It's just a quaint tradition and one of "our values".

yea we hate everything.. including people like you, that always come on here bashing this or that about Americans..

yeah I made a donation today.

Yes Webby they did... multiple reports indicated that many in the Middle East thought the destruction on New Orleans was "biblical" and attributed to "Allah".

Of course they did, they're looking for anything right now....

on anybody' scale this isn't just another disaster. In addition to Pakistan it also hit India. Yeah, that's the same India that gave money to us for Katrina but they I was never taught to only have compassion for the people that gave me money in the past. These people live on less than $2 a day but yeah they aren't allowed our sympathy unless they pony up.

allah wills

darwinism at its finest.

they dont have creditcards so who cares ?

It's 42.000 now :(

there's a guy in the newspaper (UK immigrant) says 80, yes 80, of his family were wiped out :Oh crap :Oh crap

We have enough going on here
 

I think there's enough going on here like a possible Britney Spears Sex Tape and Looting.

I shouldn't joke...alot of people died. It just seems like unless it happens in the US, then people simply don't care.

Except when it's the US . Do a GFY search for Katrina...

yea I'm not saying we should just ignore them.. of course we should help them and donate to the funds and help them out if there is any way. Of course I feel bad for them and I hate to see people suffer and die.

However I just get sick of all the bash USA people because we don't sit here and talk about the stuff 24/7 or this or that. Sure we are going to talk about a Hurricane hitting N.O. for a few weeks or a terrorist attack on our country. That's because it directly affects us in our lives.

So while thousands of people getting killed in another country is really bad. It's not something we are going to dwell on for days and weeks on end. It's not because we don't care, it's because it doesn't directly affect our day to day lives. You can call that selfish if you want but it's the truth. Just because we don't talk about it doesn't mean we don't care.

You know, why is it only when something like this happens people say oh my that bad for a few weeks and pretend they really care.. Yet thousands of people have died in countries like The Sudan and no one makes topics for them. Why is it no one cares about the thousands of people put in North Korea death camps every year? N.K kills off entire families if one member does something wrong.. Kids are left to starve on the streets because the food aid we give them gets sold by the N.K. govt on the black market. What about the thousands of people dieing of aids in Africa, where is their forum topics?

42000 by now...

i say fuck'em

In reality it swings in roundabouts. When Katrina happened people from the States were screaming that the world wasn't paying enough attention despite the fact they were sending massive amounts of money and so when something happens outside of the USA those people go 'NOW who isn't looking?!'. Then the next time something happens in the States the same will be said about the world and so on.

I totally agree about not enough attention paid to the Sudan, etc. I could happily bore the board all day with world politics threads becaue it is an interest of mine. However, I guess the deal with things like this, the Tsunami and hurricanes is that they would happen regardless of political situations.

Bitch slaps from nature are all of our buisness in my view. I know that some of those people killed in Pakistan probably wanted me dead. However, I am sure there are more there who had sons and daughters in the USA, Canada and the UK and who had no grudges. Then I am sure some of the people that died in Katrina wanted me dead too (being not totally straight, etc) but I gave to them too.

Hailstorms hinder relief efforts and bring a new threat of mudslides on steep mountainsides as the estimated death toll from the huge South Asia earthquake soars above 42,000.

Nearly 3 million people are living outside amid freezing conditions, having been left homeless.


Fuck that is sad. For any country to experience death tolls and tragedy like this.

Just imagine it could be you, your mother or your daughter...

2005 been a bitch of a year so far. I can't wait for 2006 to kick in.

FUCK NEW ORLEANS FUCK KATRINA AND FOREMOST FUCK PAKISTAN

i dont even care about myself!
happy now?

whoa that was foul heh

Business as usual ??

What do you want us to do, stop everything and be sad ?

Everyone is sad for them, but you can't blame people for getting on with it. If you want to stop everything, go ahead, but don't expect everyone to do the same...

$900 to the Canadian Red Cross.