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[Banjax]

death toll reckoned to be between 100000 and 200000 which puts all our petty problems into perspective.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8462796.stm

[jonnycool]

Absolutely

[cem_devecioglu]

very sad news ..  we never must forget we are living on a moving surface above a hot liquid

[Chris_H]

death toll reckoned to be between 100000 and 200000 which puts all our petty problems into perspective.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8462796.stm

Don't forget that there are ways to share your hard-earned wonga via trust-worthy on-line charities without too much more than the obvious pain. 

[Richie London]

i havent read nothing or seen anything about this on tv. if it comes on i switch over. i am not interested in it. i dont care,cruel, but im just sick to death of other countries problems.

[Chris_H]

i havent read nothing or seen anything about this on tv. if it comes on i switch over. i am not interested in it. i dont care,cruel, but im just sick to death of other countries problems.

Not quite the serious sort of death I was thinking of! 

I know it appears as if there are too many problems 'out there' to even begin to tackle, and there are much more 'real' problems close to hand, but it's a case of weighing life up on un-biased scales in my view.

[Pitchfork]

i havent read nothing or seen anything about this on tv. if it comes on i switch over. i am not interested in it. i dont care,cruel, but im just sick to death of other countries problems.

That is callous

[waspy]

It's a shame what has happened to them & my heart goes out, but that's life. We ALL die one day in one way or another.
Looking at the way the countrie's been over the years, i'd say the dead are the fortunate ones.

Disasters will go on & there's jack we can do about it. We have to get on with our own lives until it's our turn.
Call me heartless, but that what life has made me.

We should help the living that DESERVE HELP as much as we can. But charity begins at home

[Chris_H]

It's a shame what has happened to them & my heart goes out, but that's life. We ALL die one day in one way or another.
Looking at the way the countrie's been over the years, i'd say the dead are the fortunate ones.

Disasters will go on & there's jack we can do about it. We have to get on with our own lives until it's our turn.
Call me heartless, but that what life has made me.

We should help the living that DESERVE HELP as much as we can. But charity begins at home

:question

That's certainly the teaching that we've been given over the last 20 years or so.

[Lizzie_Zoom]

i havent read nothing or seen anything about this on tv. if it comes on i switch over. i am not interested in it. i dont care,cruel, but im just sick to death of other countries problems.

Richie!!!!!

This disaster has taken place involving thousands of women, children and men; fellow human beings who are now suffering unimaginable living horrors in one of the world's poorest countries.  They need fellow man's compassion and help at a time of great need, not heartless self centred non-actions!

They are the weak who we, the strong, must help, and thank God there is some at least amongst us who are committed to giving that help. 

When you are in hospital Richie just thank God that the doctors and nurses recognise you as someone needing help, and do not take your attitude of "im just sick to death of other people's problems" and walk away from you when you are in great pain!!

At times I dispair of the self centred attitudes displayed on here in a so called Christian country!  This is ONE fragile world, and the sooner everyone understands that the better.

[Banjax]

i havent read nothing or seen anything about this on tv. if it comes on i switch over. i am not interested in it. i dont care,cruel, but im just sick to death of other countries problems.

Richie!!!!!

This disaster has taken place involving thousands of women, children and men; fellow human beings who are now suffering unimaginable living horrors in one of the world's poorest countries.  They need fellow man's compassion and help at a time of great need, not heartless self centred non-actions!

They are the weak who we, the strong, must help, and thank God there is some at least amongst us who are committed to giving that help. 

When you are in hospital Richie just thank God that the doctors and nurses recognise you as someone needing help, and do not take your attitude of "im just sick to death of other people's problems" and walk away from you when you are in great pain!!

At times I dispair of the self centred attitudes displayed on here in a so called Christian country!  This is ONE fragile world, and the sooner everyone understands that the better.

well said Liz - i think what this disaster and others like the tsunami in south east asia a while ago show is that we're increasingly becoming one world especially in these days of mobile phone cameras, youtube, and 24hr news channels - the pictures coming through are immediate and vivid - i think it becomes harder and harder to turn the other cheek.

isn't part of being British and our supposed sense of fair play that we always help out in these situations? we always send aid, personnel and money and the day that stops is when you can take down the "Great" in front of "Britain"

[cleggy]

I agree with RICHIE & PETE, I am also fed up with being bombarded with texts from Orange, and Emails asking me to donate. I will contribute when they empty Baby Doc's Swiss bank account, he and his father ruined this French colony. We really do have enough problems in our own country.
They'll want us to help Rhodesia next, and save the starving after Mugabe, and his cronies have raped the country, and furnished their nests.
CYNICAL ? ABSOLUTELY !
CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME.

[sexydaz]

i sort of have to agree with richie england is always being sponged off now i know this disaster and aid isnt sponging but we always seem to be helping out every bugger else and we have our own problems no bugger helps us we have englishmen who have fought for this country and living on the streets an asylum seeker gets treat better,yer cant tell me that when an african swaps a goat with a father for his 11 yr old daughter he doesnt know that by having sex with her a baby will be concieved and that disease they all have wont be spread further they dont help themselves and nothings changed for years,like my mate said they have to walk 5 miles each day to get water why dont they move nearer the waterand CD Pete yes charity does begin at home firstly my home and if i had owt spare i would be giving it to cancer research or great ormunds basically i would try to help my own country first and i dont think thats selfish its patriotic

[albitz]

I completely agree with Banjax and Lizzie, (did I just type that out loud ). i detest spongers and there are plenty of them around the world who think they have some sort of right to British taxpayers money,but this situation is completely different.Its a huge humanitarian crisis ,not of their own making, and we as human beings should help them. simple as that.Politics has no place in this discussion.I dont understand how anyone can watch the footage on screen and not feel desperately sorry for those poor people (especially thr little kids) they have had all sorts of problems thrust on them for many years and now this.We dont know how lucky we are.

P.S.- There should be no need for charity in this country,its an extrememly wealthy country and if anyone is in  genuine need its because the tax revenues are not being distributed properly.
Money being given to asylum seekers etc rather then soldiers injured in conflict is proof of the above,theres no shortage of money for the injured soldiers, its just that some politician has decided to give it to someone else instead.Imo this doesnt in any way constitute a reason not to help people in the kind of desperation we cant begin to imagine,

[Entwood]

I completely agree with Banjax and Lizzie, (did I just type that out loud ). i detest spongers and there are plenty of them around the world who think they have some sort of right to British taxpayers money,but this situation is completely different.Its a huge humanitarian crisis ,not of their own making, and we as human beings should help them. simple as that.Politics has no place in this discussion.I dont understand how anyone can watch the footage on screen and not feel desperately sorry for those poor people (especially thr little kids) they have had all sorts of problems thrust on them for many years and now this.We dont know how lucky we are.

and isn't that just the most truthful statement on OOF for many a long day ......

We can all whinge and moan about what Gordon and others have done/are doing ..but we are so much better off than many, many others in many places.