View Single Post
  #38 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Bruce[_28_] Bruce[_28_] is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 15,279
Default Food drive - USPS

On Sat, 12 May 2018 08:03:50 +1000, Bruce >
wrote:

>On Fri, 11 May 2018 16:00:16 -0600, U.S. Janet B. >
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 11 May 2018 10:58:36 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>snip
>>>
>>>Here's a good one that I've noticed on late night commercials.
>>>Some charity to feed the starving little children in some 3rd
>>>world country. First of all, they show cute little kids to get
>>>your sympathy. But then they show many hard cases...mothers
>>>waiting in a long line for food and those little kids look like
>>>living skeletons, obviously near death from starvation.
>>>
>>>What bothers me is all those horribly starving children are being
>>>held by very well fed and healthy looking mothers. I see a big
>>>problem with that.

>>
>>It doesn't even make sense to make a commercial like that.
>>I think you see that because that is what you want to see.
>>You're always the first one and the last one in with a story about
>>how you know personally how people cheat.

>
>Gary doesn't believe there is bad malnutrition in 3rd world countries.
>I won't comment any further.


No, wait, he was just kidding! Damn, he tricked me again!