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"Donate some money to charity"

Go on. There's over 20,000 people been killed in Asia by that earthquake, the death toll will probably rise to twice that, and there'll be over a million people homeless when the tides have calmed down. A million people homeless. The UN reckon it'll cost in the billions to recover from this tragedy.

So what are you going to do today? Are you going to sit on your backside playing your PS2 or Xbox, complaining that you didn't get what you wanted for Christmas? Are you going to go and spend money you didn't earn on DVDs, CDs and games in the January sales?

Why not give a little bit of money to something that matters, it'll make you feel better. £10, £20, whatever you can afford. Don't just ignore this thing, they need all the help they can get.

20,000 people dead.
A million people homeless.
[URL]http://www.oxfam.co.uk/what_you_can_do/give_to_oxfam/donate/asiaquake1204.htm[/URL]

I'm fully aware this is very preachy and I don't normally do this kind of thing, but a million people homeless? Ignoring it would be criminal, right?

Maybe we should destroy it?

Double

I think one or two of the countries hadn't signed up to an early warning system. Just shows you how dangerous and devasting nature can be.

He should play CS so he can shoot people in the face.
I'm sure that'd make him happy.

gamesfreak wrote:
> The problem with Tsunamis is the fact that they are quick to reach
> shore after the Earthquake has taken place.
>
> They never had a chance.

They had a few hours, but were never warned, even though it was detected as far away as Hawaii, and they knew there was a good chance this would happen. Seeing the footage though, it proves how strong the waves were. You expect the wave to stop at the shore, but it carries on...and on and on, further inland, drowning people along the way, or smashing them against walls and with debris. Bloody awful.

Goaty, you seem in a bit of a mood tonight.

Goatboy wrote:
> "indie low-fi"

Oi! Don't bring other threads into it. It was a horrible shirt, I might send it over in an aid package.

Or, finish that musical donation site I started.

It didn't work when coupled with Sept 11th and Belsen and the suggestion that they were serious because of "and explosions" - just came off like a clumsy studied "indie low-fi" attempt at nonchalance.
"this was an earthquake and some water - how devastating can that be!?"

My bad.

Goatboy wrote:
> Tsunami.

> "how devastating can that be?"

I was being rhetorical.

It was an underground earthquake in Asia, and it killed people in Africa. An absolutely terrifying display of nature at its worst.

The problem with Tsunamis is the fact that they are quick to reach shore after the Earthquake has taken place.

They never had a chance.