Disgusting, mad, off-limits

Skybird · 05-29-07, 06:59 AM

First Big Brother, now this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm

Gladiator fights and live coverage of patients dying in hospital next? All under the label of "reality report" and "charity", of course - so how could one be against it?

Variation of it: soft drink companies and beer producers advertising with this: if you buy their drinks, 10% or so of the price goes into water support projects in the third world, of saving two trees in the rainforest. Implication: "If you don't drink our drinks, you are a selfish, non-solidaric egoist who does not care for people in the third world. how dare you...?" That such drinks are brought into places with intact water supplies, wehere they cause more and more a garbage problem (plastic bottles), in other areas the natural water ressources are depleted because company pump off the water to fill it into their bottles and sell it elsewhere, is not mentioned, of course.

05-29-07, 06:59 AM	#1
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 42,636 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	Disgusting, mad, off-limits First Big Brother, now this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6699847.stm Gladiator fights and live coverage of patients dying in hospital next? All under the label of "reality report" and "charity", of course - so how could one be against it? Variation of it: soft drink companies and beer producers advertising with this: if you buy their drinks, 10% or so of the price goes into water support projects in the third world, of saving two trees in the rainforest. Implication: "If you don't drink our drinks, you are a selfish, non-solidaric egoist who does not care for people in the third world. how dare you...?" That such drinks are brought into places with intact water supplies, wehere they cause more and more a garbage problem (plastic bottles), in other areas the natural water ressources are depleted because company pump off the water to fill it into their bottles and sell it elsewhere, is not mentioned, of course. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.