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Dirty Pictures and a Dirty Joke (NSFW)
I warned you!
Not safe for work!
Unfit for human consumption!
But just in case some delicate soul clicked on this diary in the mistaken opinion that there aren't really any dirty images or dirty jokes in it, I set it up so the images are out of sight unless you scroll down...
Don't do it!
Go back!
It's still not too late!
Last chance!
OMIGOD it's just a soccer ball!
What's so "dirty" about a soccer ball?
You don't want to know!
You already saw too much!
Do not scroll down!
Just take my word for it!
You don't want to know!
But if you really don't see anything obscene about a soccer ball...
It's probably because...
You never saw...
The little girl who made it.
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June 16, 2009 8:10 PM
This was 'ouch' in a good way, root. Thanks.
I always want to do something...
www.kiva.org
www.empowerinternational.org
a couple that I know about.
June 16, 2009 8:27 PM
Far frickin out. Great post.
Unhappy subject.
You grabbed me on this one!!!
June 16, 2009 8:24 PM
Thanks, dickday, and if you read the next comment on this thread after yours, and its sequels, you would probably understand how I got to be such a touchy rutabaga, and why I post all those zingy comments that you usually find so objectionable.
I'm "part of the problem" of indentured child labor.
I "exploit" unfortunate children.
I'm a "parasite."
Enough of this shit!
June 16, 2009 11:06 PM
So, Root, what do you do on a daily basis to help these children? Other than exploit them for your artistic purposes? Just wondering. Put up or shut up. You are part of the problem, not the solution.
June 16, 2009 8:32 PM
Wow, that's kinda harsh, no?
I thought it was a great post. Builds it up and then makes you think....real hard.
Maybe that's just me, though.
June 16, 2009 8:38 PM
And I think Synchronicity's links just add to it all.
Good job, both Rutabaga and Synch.
June 16, 2009 8:40 PM
Well, maybe I'm into harsh these days. Jacob loves posting pics of suffering children. I'm just asking what he is doing in the real world to help them. Plastering their pictures on the internet to show how compassionate he is falls far short for me. If he can say he supports Doctors Without Borders or some humanitarian relief organization, and would post some links for how we can all help, I'd believe he has more in mind than his own need to show how politically correct he is. I want the people on the blogs to walk away from the ether and actually do something.
Maybe that's just me, though.
June 16, 2009 8:43 PM
Okay, I just found your comment rather harsh in light of your comment to me two weeks ago.
But I'll let that go, and agree with you that we should all be doing more.
June 16, 2009 8:49 PM
I spent 8 days in Pakistan recently, with displaced children. So, I don't have much tolerance for empty exploitation, orchestrated to gain political points. Do something about it, god dammit. Here is another place people can go to help:
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/
June 16, 2009 8:52 PM
Appropriately humbled, Kate. My apologies....and my thanks for doing something that substantial. Thanks for the link.
And...peace.
June 16, 2009 8:58 PM
Let me explain....if a young girl in Pakistan or Iran can make some money stitching a soccer ball, then that's a good thing, and who are we to judge? If she has Chagas disease, or TB, and there is no treatment for her, that's a very bad thing. Jacob's pictures are often of attractive and sympathetic children. He's an artist, he knows what he is doing. I spend far too much time in airports and hotel rooms (the Verizon 3G network is a good and bad thing) and in places of considerable sickness and despair. I read TPM to pass the time and see what people back home are saying. I wish Root would use his considerable artistic talents to get people to help, rather than to merely enrage and instigate. Sorry if I'm harsh. Guess it comes with the territory.
June 16, 2009 9:17 PM
Yeah.
June 16, 2009 9:27 PM
Well, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Jacob has seen some real heartache and poverty in Malibu.
June 16, 2009 9:31 PM
Oy. No, no he hasn't. How could he?
We need education, ma'am, but this is NOT the place. I don't think.
A new blog would be better.
June 16, 2009 10:10 PM
I so wish it had occurred to me to brag about my charitable donations and volunteer work, instead of trying to raise consciousness about child labor in my own way.
Thanks for showing us all the way, KateO, meaning your way is the only way, and making stupid insinuations about me, based on nothing... You narrow-minded, unimaginative, self-righteous jerk!
June 16, 2009 9:17 PM
My way is one way. If you feel good about your way, more power to you. I hope it helps.
June 16, 2009 9:22 PM
First you accuse me of "exploiting children," then you claim I'm "part of the problem" of indentured child labor, and only after celebrating yourself as a humanitarian heroine of oppressed children everywhere...
You offer little insincere "tolerance," just to show what a wonderful, open-minded person you really are.
Shove it up your ass!
June 16, 2009 10:30 PM
And no, KateO, you miserable liar, you didn't just ask!
June 16, 2009 10:50 PM
Fuck you. You privileged whiney sot.
When you TELL us about your experience, then maybe you'll have room to disparage people that put their lives and their money where your big mouth is.
Shame on you, you parasite.
Have another latte and be angry because you are a putz. An empty angry putz. An arrogant empty spoiled prig.
It ain't exactly news that you're an empty shell. So you can think. So fucking what?
Move over. I'd prefer to hear about Kates REAL experience as opposed to your wannabe importance any day.
Too bad reality wins out over your pseudo anger, every time. Deal with it.
June 16, 2009 10:16 PM
Chill, por favor. Reread Kate's comments and 'baga's comment.
June 16, 2009 10:25 PM
Maybe it's news for a clown like bwakfat, but anybody can claim to be anything on the internet, and...
If there were really as many humanitarian heroes in the real world as there are self-congratulatory pseudonyms on the internet, we would already be living in an earthly paradise.
June 16, 2009 10:36 PM
Wow. Thanks blue veg.
Yes, indeed. I guess maybe little girls in Pakistan are like America's little girls 100 years ago.
I hope they progress. How can we help them? Can we? I feel thankful that wasn't something my little girl ever had to do. She went to school, instead.
Now she skips. A lot. I think I will show her this. Maybe her problem, is an unhealthy appreciation for history. Maybe.
=(
June 16, 2009 9:25 PM
Cancel that
I don't plan on bothering, any more.
June 16, 2009 10:17 PM
I sure hope KateO is some snarky person trying to make DWB look bad. Otherwise, what an ass.
June 16, 2009 10:42 PM
I spent quite a bit of time in several hospitals lately, and I can say with certainty that most doctors are assholes.
June 16, 2009 10:44 PM
Nice to meet you, badsin. Welcome to TPM. We'd be glad to hear your input about hospitals, especially with the whole healthcare debate going on.
That being said, I wouldn't run around making your first comment at a blog post one in which you call someone an ass.
Again, welcome to the Reader Cafe and we look forward to hearing your input about hospitals.
June 16, 2009 10:57 PM
Jacob, this was an awesome post -- as I said. It built up beautifully, and then made us think hard when we saw the end result.
Kate has some good points too, and I think Bwak wants to see those points in another blog. That's my understanding of things. And I completely understand and agree.
Still, I highly rec'd this post and I think you rawked it...I had no idea we could do the whole scroll down thing, and I still don't know how to put a picture up.
Anytime you wanna give lessons, count me in, dude.
June 16, 2009 10:47 PM