MVPapi wrote Is it society that have made us like this or the internet? There's a label for everyone, there's a name or word to describe everyone and everyone's intricate features but why? Dinosaurs dominated the earth for a long time and I don't ever remember hearing about a Dino War?

One last thing that realllllly grinds my gears is all of the charities set up for poor countries. Okay, I love charities and what they stand for but I once watched 3 different charity ads in a row all for different countries - none of which were my own.

Some African nations suffer the most, but these charity campaigns have been going since the 60's onwards, and they've hardly made a difference.

A little under a hundred years ago, Vladimir Lenin took over a really poor, starving country which didn't even have electricity. Russia being much bigger than any African nation, was in the middle of war and you couldn't even travel round most of it. Within the 7 years that he was alive whilst in power, he revolutionised the country! Getting their exports up to some of the highest across the world, electricity or at least lights in every house, and 20 years later when his protoge was in power: They lead the space race and became a superpower. After being nothing for centuries. So Africa's real way out of the hole that they're in is to put somebody in charge that knows what they're doing! Lenin had to force his way to power, and the people of Russia idolised him.

You are fat because you consume too many calories than what you burn off, so don't cry because somebody makes a comment, don't get upset because it's YOUR fault. I heard one of my fat friends making some ginger jokes aimed at one of my other friends for a good 5 minutes, he turned round and said "at least I don't stink like sh*t cause I can't fit in the bath!" and he cried. The fat f*cker cried. And everyone jumped on his side, now ginger jokes in my eyes are like racist jokes? A person's hair colour is the same as a person's skin colour: nothing to do with them. You cannot control it, yet it's still one of the biggest bullying subjects today.

Lavish wrote Lol @ you saying it's OK to bully someone who is overweight just because it's their "fault".

Labyrinth wrote

MVPapi wrote Is it society that have made us like this or the internet? There's a label for everyone, there's a name or word to describe everyone and everyone's intricate features but why? Dinosaurs dominated the earth for a long time and I don't ever remember hearing about a Dino War?

Because Dinosaurs didn't have conscience's as intricate and developed as ours. They didn't feel the need to go to war, they worked on instinct.
You could even argue that every time a dinosaur killed another that was a war, but that depends on your definition of the word.

One last thing that realllllly grinds my gears is all of the charities set up for poor countries. Okay, I love charities and what they stand for but I once watched 3 different charity ads in a row all for different countries - none of which were my own.

Then you should be happy that you live in a relatively developed country, and I think that sitting through 3 adverts is a simple price to pay for that.
You have all these privileges but 3 adverts about an impoverished country just ruins your day, doesn't it? Please.

Some African nations suffer the most, but these charity campaigns have been going since the 60's onwards, and they've hardly made a difference.

Secondary-school enrolment [in Sub-Saharan Africa] grew by 48% between 2000 and 2008 after many states expanded their education programmes and scrapped school fees. Over the past decade malaria deaths in some of the worst-affected countries have declined by 30% and HIV infections by up to 74%. Life expectancy across Africa has increased by about 10% and child mortality rates in most countries have been falling steeply.

A booming economy has made a big difference. Over the past ten years real income per person has increased by more than 30%, whereas in the previous 20 years it shrank by nearly 10%. Africa is the worlds fastest-growing continent just now. Over the next decade its GDP is expected to rise by an average of 6% a year, not least thanks to foreign direct investment. FDI has gone from $15 billion in 2002 to $37 billion in 2006 and $46 billion in 2012.

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Obviously not all of this is directly linked to charity, but Africa is improving.

A little under a hundred years ago, Vladimir Lenin took over a really poor, starving country which didn't even have electricity. Russia being much bigger than any African nation, was in the middle of war and you couldn't even travel round most of it. Within the 7 years that he was alive whilst in power, he revolutionised the country! Getting their exports up to some of the highest across the world, electricity or at least lights in every house, and 20 years later when his protoge was in power: They lead the space race and became a superpower. After being nothing for centuries. So Africa's real way out of the hole that they're in is to put somebody in charge that knows what they're doing! Lenin had to force his way to power, and the people of Russia idolised him.

Have you actually read anything about how Lenin ran Russia for the short time that he was in power? Anything about War Communism? Industrialization? Taking from the peasants and forcing them to work?
It was compulsory for anyone between the ages of 16 and 50 to do hard labour. 6 million people died of starvation and there were rebellions all over the country. Moscow's population fell by 50% as well.
Obviously if you work the entire population of a country to death there will be economic improvement.

Lenin couldn't have died too soon, and if he was more open with how he felt about other members of his party, he might have even prevented Stalin gaining power.
He was not some brilliant leader, he was a moron who was so brainwashed by Marxism that he didn't see how badly he was treating his own people.

So if the point you were trying to make is that Africa needs men like Lenin it would probably be one of the worst things to happen to Africa since the second Congo war.

You are fat because you consume too many calories than what you burn off, so don't cry because somebody makes a comment, don't get upset because it's YOUR fault. I heard one of my fat friends making some ginger jokes aimed at one of my other friends for a good 5 minutes, he turned round and said "at least I don't stink like sh*t cause I can't fit in the bath!" and he cried. The fat f*cker cried. And everyone jumped on his side, now ginger jokes in my eyes are like racist jokes? A person's hair colour is the same as a person's skin colour: nothing to do with them. You cannot control it, yet it's still one of the biggest bullying subjects today.

You are ginger because you won't dye your hair. So don't cry because somebody makes a comment, don't get upset because it's YOUR fault. I heard one of my ginger friends making some fat jokes aimed at one of my other friends for a good 5 minutes, he turned around and said "insert ginger joke about souls here." and he cried. The ginger cried! And everyone jumped on his side, now fat jokes in my eyes are like racist jokes? A person's hair colour is not the same as a person's skin colour: they can dye their hair. You can control it, yet it's still one of the biggest bullying subjects today.

See how that logic doesn't work? It doesn't matter if someone is fat, thin, ginger, blonde, gay, straight, bisexual, black or white, whether they can change or whether they're stuck the way they are. People shouldn't make jokes about another person's appearance full stop.
You're defending a bullies right to bully because the person can change the aspect of themselves that they are being bullied for.
You would stand by watching a fat kid get bullied thinking, 'Well he can change so he has nothing to whine about.' ?

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Lavish wrote Lol @ you saying it's OK to bully someone who is overweight just because it's their "fault".

This.

Also I don't get what you mean about 15 year olds glued to their phones and skinny jeans. What does that have anything to do with... anything.