sweatshops

[EssentialSacrifice]

Fancy a haggis?

There's nothing fancy about haggis ! , but yes my family (dad's side) is northern England and Scotland. Not been out of U.S., besides Tijuana, but hope to soon to locate old trails and maybe family.

[RickD]

FYI,

[Storyteller]

Knew there was a reason I loved you ES!

Haggis is just ikky.

Hubbys grandfather was half Scottish/American.


Rick, you don't like dripping yet you like haggis? Youre just weird.

[RickD]

Knew there was a reason I loved you ES!

Haggis is just ikky.

Hubbys grandfather was half Scottish/American.


Rick, you don't like dripping yet you like haggis? Youre just weird.

Oh no! The pic I posted says "Real Men Eat Haggis". You're assuming that I'm a real man. There's your mistake!

[Storyteller]

Knew there was a reason I loved you ES!

Haggis is just ikky.

Hubbys grandfather was half Scottish/American.


Rick, you don't like dripping yet you like haggis? Youre just weird.

Oh no! The pic I posted says "Real Men Eat Haggis". You're assuming that I'm a real man. There's your mistake!

sorry, my bad

[EssentialSacrifice]

hoot mon it be the haggis hop

[Audie]

And, no, every time I buy a shirt made by some 3rd world poor's factory, I'm not to have great guilt over the fact that they are being paid poorly.

Agreed. Frankly, I believe this whole topic was intended as bait for Christians by Audie. Bait, like the live dogs that are used to fish for shark by various Asian nations...

FL

You would think that.

[Audie]

And, no, every time I buy a shirt made by some 3rd world poor's factory, I'm not to have great guilt over the fact that they are being paid poorly.

Agreed. Frankly, I believe this whole topic was intended as bait for Christians by Audie. Bait, like the live dogs that are used to fish for shark by various Asian nations...

FL

Maybe Audie feels bad running her own sweat shop ring?

I dont run them.

[Audie]

Why do some of you guys feel a need to attack her culture? You ought to be ashamed.

Ken

Are you saying there is something bad about sweatshops found within such cultures?

I was referring to the Jokes made about Chinese and Asians.

K

Well, we can make them about Canadians then or us yanks or better yet the New England Patriots?

Whats wrong with a sense of humor?

I am sure the Chinese have doozies about western cultures too...

There is a really bad joke Clinton did back in the mid 1990's selling Nuke reactor parts to North Korea. Now, today on the news, the North Koreans successfully launched an ICBM underwater from a submarine and then there is the wondrous Iran nuke deal...

Yes, the joke maybe real soon on us so lighten up - really dark times are ahead Kenny... that is no joke.
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Two important Chinese went to the White House for dinner. Mr X and Mr. Y.

They were eating dinner and Crinton had to go take an important phone call!

So Mr. X decided to take a white house plate for a souvenier, he put it in his pocket.

Y thought he should too. But just then Crinton came back.

"Look, our friend Mr.X was teaching me a magic trick! I put this plate in my pocket and it appears in his!"

[Audie]

Why do some of you guys feel a need to attack her culture? You ought to be ashamed.

Ken

Are you saying there is something bad about sweatshops found within such cultures?

I was referring to the Jokes made about Chinese and Asians. I can understand disliking her because she is not Christian like you guys, but that's a little uncalled for; don't cha think?

K

Kenny,

If you'd done your homework, and paid attention, you'd have seen that Audie jokes right along with us. It's what we do here. It's all friendly fun.

And we don't dislike Audie. We love Audie. All 49kg of fightin' Geisha!

Ken was misreading the situation, I almost liked* you, no offense was taken and all was well until YOU had the nerve to implicate me as being Japanese!

Now I am deeply hurt and infuriated. Meanie.

*just trying to be nice, I meant "barely tolerate while holding my nose"

[Audie]

Is it moral / ethical to purchase goods produced in third world sweatshops?

A good question - I don't think it was necessarily bait. It's not very ethical but it's probably hard to avoid these days if you're not wealthy. I remember my mother making a lot of our clothes (which I didn't appreciate at all when all the other kids at school seemed to have cool bought clothes) until she realised she could buy them more cheaply than what she paid for the material to make them. Clothes were probably pretty expensive when she was growing up because of where and how they were made.

My take on it is that it is not unethical as such to buy from such sources. The people desperately need the work.

What a person should do to try to ensure they only buy from producers that are themselves ethical in how they treat the workers, I dont know. The way that products can be moved about to disguise their origin may make it impossible.

[Audie]

Rick: Yes, I shop at Wal-Mart all the time.

Personally, I like to avoid it!

As much as possible.

NOW look at who is putting out bait! The American Trailer parkers will have their tongues hanging out.

[Philip]

Truth is, there's always at least a bit of truth behind stereotypes. Question always is, is the stereotyping accurate to the person/situation someone applies it to? And so many stereotypes are just funny.



ANYONE we know?

[RickD]

Truth is, there's always at least a bit of truth behind stereotypes. Question always is, is the stereotyping accurate to the person/situation someone applies it to? And so many stereotypes are just funny.



ANYONE we know?

That almost looks like Furstentum Liechtenstein! I say "almost", because if it were FL, it would be a whisky bottle, instead of wine.


Ok, I like this game. My turn. Who's this? Hint: he lives in a state between Georgia and North Carolina.

[Philip]

Er, more like someone living BELOW Georgia, but just barely.