Get over yourselves
Sorry, but this QoTW is making the red mist descend.

Take one split second and think about how many humans have ever walked this planet.

Out of them how many have known what it's like to have water on tap ? Or to sleep in a bed ? Or have not known the meaning of (real) hunger ?

We are all a bunch of lucky, lucky bastards. And frankly, when I think that anyone has enough spare cash to want to spend the $$$ that are being quoted round here for worthless tat like Stars Wars figurines, it makes me despair of humanity and perceive us to be like the fat collector out of Toy Story 2.

**EDIT**. Sorry to be on a soapbox here. I'm no better than the rest of you. I just value this site for insights and humour and this QoTW is short on both...
( I_Was_Mordred, Sun 17 Aug 2008, 7:49, 9 replies)

We ARE lucky bastards
But just because we have more than some, does that mean we have to spend all our time moping that other's may have a worse time than us, or should we appreciate what we have and enjoy it?
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sun 17 Aug 2008, 11:44, closed)

that wasn't the question tho was it, preachy numpty.
I've enjoyed this QOTW. If anything the message has been that materialism is futile.

And it's blowing money on Tat that helps keep our economy alive and creative.
( lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Sun 17 Aug 2008, 13:40, closed)

when i posted this question
i was more interested in hearing about those precious personal items that people had formed emotional bonds with, not collector's pieces.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sun 17 Aug 2008, 14:13, closed)

I gave
all of my worldly possessions to charity, donated both kidneys to easterm european orphans, both corneas to an iraqi, a lung to some Equadorean and all of my bone marrow for developing a cure for aids.

got fuck all thanks for it
(Halfy By light alone, Sun 17 Aug 2008, 16:03, closed)

In the words of eric cartman...
*GAT DAMN HIPPIES*

ill get my coat
( Axai is in Montréal, Canada O.o, Sun 17 Aug 2008, 19:45, closed)

I know the REAL meaning of hunger...

...and tragedy, sorrow, suffering and loss.

get this...

recently, the entire staff of my local Chinese takeaway - the sainted Eastern Star...fucked off on holiday for TWO WHOLE BASTARD WHORE-HUMPING WEEKS!

Did they spare one cock-stitching thought for me?...did they sort out a relief staff? Did they care? Did they fuck.

I thought I'd die. But I didn't.

They opened again this weekend...and I've only just been able to lift my gargantuan swollen belly off the ground again.

oh, but that thing you said...erm...yeah.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Mon 18 Aug 2008, 8:25, closed)

Stick your soapbox up your arse.
Please don't take this personally, as this isn't directed at you so much as at everyone who has ever made a post, speech, talk or comment making us all out to be such terrible people because, sometimes, just occasionally, we don't all sit around and spend all day working for charity to save the starving dying cancer-ridden orphans. So what if we have never felt 'real hunger'? So what if someone wants to spend their money on 'worthless tat'? It's their money, and who are you to look down on anyone for not giving their money to the 'poor starving orphans'? We are disconnected from those orphans so much that invoking them as a reason why we are 'bad' for being materialistic has become a cliche, and unless you are a fedora-wearing aid worker taking time out of his busy non-stop schedule of delivering gruel to Africa, you are being a hypocrite.

Yes I spend more time thinking about myself and my life than I do about the starving orphans. No I don't feel guilty when I leave good food at the side of the plate, even though there are starving people in the world. Does that make me a bad person? I don't give a toss. I'm just sick of the whining, hand-wringing soapboxed bollocks that gets spouted about how we should feel guilty for owning things when OMG THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO SURVIVE ON EIGHT PENCE A DAY. I don't care. I don't have to. I've got water on tap, I've got a bed, and a fridge full of delicious tasty food. I win at life, and have absolutely no emotional connection to the starving millions. You are not going to guilt me into giving up what I have, either to give to them or simply to feel what you probably think is verstehen for those people. You might as well follow me around reading out the cricket scores - it's not emotionally jarring, it's irritating and of absolutely no interest.

And breathe.
( Shegetz Chris Kamara's comedy moustache, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 10:12, closed)

hmm
I agree with what Shegetz said. I find nothing more annoying than these self-righteous, hypocritical comments.

I've made a reasonable success at life, I enjoy good food and have a reasonably comfortable life..

I don't feel guilty about it. Why should I?
(scotsbloke, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 10:43, closed)

@ Shegetz
I started off agreeing with you but the rant went a little too far.

How did you win at life by being born in a developed country where everything you need is found? Surely you were just lucky? And surely because we are more develpoed we do have some responsibility to improve the life others, even if the contribution is only small, at least it's a difference.

Or are you too cool for that?

Tit

On another note, I though QOTW was meant to be humorous and what's more humorous than hearing about someone else's misfortune (most of the time, not the really bad stuff like relatives or actual close personal stuff)

cos at the end of the day it's only money innit?
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Mon 18 Aug 2008, 10:51, closed)