call me synical but...

chav1 · 06-02-2006, 18:29

just watching the news and they are doing a segment on how the most popular present this year at xmas was to send a goat to a starving village

now here where my problem is with this sort of thing

the girl who was bought the gift of a goat was filmed with her card which contained a picture of a white goat with black lower legs yet when they flew her out to rohanda to meet her goat the goat she was parading around was jet black with a bit of white on its lower legs

for all we know oxfam may be simply selling pictures of goats and when people go out there to see their goat they get handed any goat thats to hand and say here you go this is what your money bought

dont get me wrong i think its a good idea in principle but the scheme is so open to abuse it makes me wonder how many people who think they are doing a good thing are been sold the same goat over and over again

ime not bad mouthing oxfam either because i am pretty sure the people high up in the company deserve their bentley cars paid for by money donated to help the starving instead of using the money donated to them to help others

maybe with it been xmas they simply ate the white goat and didnt have the heart to tell the 15 year old girl what hadhappened to her little billy

Neil · 06-02-2006, 19:18

Hi synical butt.

Neil · 06-02-2006, 19:20

They probably ate the original donkey on Christmas day, so had to find another. After all what is the chance that the sender of the donkey is actually stupid enough to want to go and meet it?

chav1 · 06-02-2006, 20:13

it was a goat you ass

although donkey kebab dosnt sound too bad

Neil · 06-02-2006, 20:15

Donkey/Goat same taste different number of portions. An ass taste's different so I am told.

chav1 · 06-02-2006, 20:16

true and both love to chew carrots

so if you have a girlfriend that acts the goat and kicks like a mule hide your carrot

Neil · 06-02-2006, 20:23

Sorry mate was this an attempt at a serious thread?

chav1 · 06-02-2006, 20:38

times are hard ime having to resort to trashing my own threads

Gayle · 06-02-2006, 20:41

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Originally Posted by chav1

most popular present this year at xmas was to send a goat to a starving village

Few questions - how did they get the goat in the envelope and how did it survive the five months stuck in the Royal mail system?

chav1 · 06-02-2006, 20:53

i think they made it into a curry first then mailed it to rowhanda

Neil · 06-02-2006, 20:55

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Originally Posted by chav1

times are hard ime having to resort to trashing my own threads

Thats ok then. I was going to call you a Doctor if you were being serious.

Ernie · 06-02-2006, 21:34

You're a Doctor, Hows that?

mani · 07-02-2006, 00:03

*L*

we get loads of stuff like this in islam and i think wait a min is that OUR goat or some animal they've got off the net?

about a yr ago we had some guys come around sayin they were raising cash for an orphanage in afganistan. normally its like ok here's a quid two b on ur way but these guys were prepared - presentation pics and all sorts. mom fell for it hook line and sinker. they even had loads of pics of kids - pass port size and they wud give u one sayin that is the kid ur cash is goin to. mom was dead impressed so she gave i think 140 or sommet for two kids to b clothed,fed and sheltered in this place. she told my aunt and my aunt who was recovering after a breast cancer op wanted to do her bit and she gave the same amount. again nice lil pics of the kids etc all fine adn good

6 months later we had a dci come in sayin it was all a scam and they'd been pocketin the cash etc and they got prosecuted. but i was thinkin bloody hell that is one deeply prepared scam.

i wud've just told em to go away as i needed the cash for my ipod...

chav1 · 07-02-2006, 02:01

there is a lot of proffit to be made out of other peoples misfortune its just havingthe cheeck to do it

WillowTheWhisp · 07-02-2006, 09:09

That's an absolutely appalling scam mani because with all the photos and everything that's just the sort of thing that would make me want to help too. How do people like that live with themselves, making money out of the misfortune of others!