Lottery Money and commonsense
The last few days have been harrowing for all New Zealanders, both in NZ and around the world. I can't even imagine what it must be like for people who had to go through the earthquake and especially for those who lost family, friends and colleagues.
Efforts are already well in advanced stages to fundraise for this here in London. Several events are set in stone and we'll be sending as much as we can to NZ over the next month or so. My Facebook group, originally set up to advertise the Waitangi Pub Crawl is being used as a message board to get the details across to as many Kiwis as possible - I have over 3000 members on it and the feedback coming from it is immense.
The only silliness I have seen, apart from the fucktards who think it is funny to steal and loot from earthquake victims, and the jesus freaks who blame abortion and gay rights on the earthquake, are the people asking for this weekends Lotto prize to be forfeited and given to the relief fund. A noble cause but not when you read the comments from the people who think it's a good idea:
"Potential winners of this prize will never miss what they didn't have.... Residents of Christchurch however, know what it is to loose [sic] everything. Lotteries commission, it is the communities [sic] money hand it over."
"$15m is too much for anybody to have, hand it over"
This is mental. If I won the lottery nobody is going to take away a cent from me through force, guilt me into giving it away and most certainly tell me how I should spend it. It doesn't matter how I view charity or not - if I pay for a ticket I intend on having a chance to win. Silly buggers like this on Facebook is hardly useful and in a country small like NZ, I can imagine the poor person who does win in the weekend will want to stay anonymous and hidden away for fear of reprisal.
Sad.
read article here
Efforts are already well in advanced stages to fundraise for this here in London. Several events are set in stone and we'll be sending as much as we can to NZ over the next month or so. My Facebook group, originally set up to advertise the Waitangi Pub Crawl is being used as a message board to get the details across to as many Kiwis as possible - I have over 3000 members on it and the feedback coming from it is immense.
The only silliness I have seen, apart from the fucktards who think it is funny to steal and loot from earthquake victims, and the jesus freaks who blame abortion and gay rights on the earthquake, are the people asking for this weekends Lotto prize to be forfeited and given to the relief fund. A noble cause but not when you read the comments from the people who think it's a good idea:
"Potential winners of this prize will never miss what they didn't have.... Residents of Christchurch however, know what it is to loose [sic] everything. Lotteries commission, it is the communities [sic] money hand it over."
"$15m is too much for anybody to have, hand it over"
This is mental. If I won the lottery nobody is going to take away a cent from me through force, guilt me into giving it away and most certainly tell me how I should spend it. It doesn't matter how I view charity or not - if I pay for a ticket I intend on having a chance to win. Silly buggers like this on Facebook is hardly useful and in a country small like NZ, I can imagine the poor person who does win in the weekend will want to stay anonymous and hidden away for fear of reprisal.
Sad.
read article here
Labels: chchearthquake, silly buggers
posted by Clint H at
Saturday, February 26, 2011
1 Comments:
Couldn't agree more. The initial idea is a nice one but when you hear its advocates in the media or see the faecesbook page you quickly see what sort of people are behind it.
Its the "politics of envy" patrol
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