thundermental writes
Thursday, November 03, 2005
  so...
The week after the earthquakes in Pakistan, with all the requests for aid etc. A banker celebrates his bonus by asking for the world's most expensive cocktail to be created so he can treat his friends. With each glass £330 worth of liquid starts its rapid conversion to piss. Should I even bother to analyse? According to Feed the Children it only takes 26 cents (17p - UK) to feed a child a hot meal a day in Kenya and $7 (£4.00 - UK) will provide for one hungry US child for a month, so each glass could have fed approximately 1940 children in Kenya and provided one month of food for 83 children in the West, expensive as it is. Hmm...

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