Third World Laughs at Blackout Woes

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[Moby Grape]

1. Take a spelling class
2. Are people dying in boats to get to the shores of YOUR country?.

[r9etb]

This blackout is news precisely because it's so rare.

The third world portion of Africa, however, is a cesspool because it is filled with countries that are so busy trading cannibablistic military nutjob governments that they can't even run a decent sewage treatment facility.

Amusingly, the only parts of Africa that are not third-world cesspools are the ones where the British (and in some cases the French) stayed around longest.

[Huck]

Hanging out playing cards? Sounds like he's really suffering.

[FixitGuy]

Third world countries will think differently as they get used to modern conveniences and come to regard them as necessities!

Well pumps, computers, lighting, air conditioning, television, vibrators..oops...

[freeper2003]

Maybe George Ruweid should get a job instead of playing cards on the SIDEWALK?


Freep

[Huck]

Maybe George Ruweid should get a job instead of playing cards on the SIDEWALK?

Yeah, he could get off his ass and help out.

[Moby Grape]

If this turd thinks our temporary power outage is funny and hopes it lasts 2o years, he must think 3000 dead in Paris due to a heat wave is a real knee slapper....and you are right...he would make a fine welfare recipient in the US...sitting on his butt playing cards and hoping someone else suffers like him.

[Huck]

Oh well. No shortage of punks in the world.

[newguy357]

"Blackouts are a part of our daily life. I can't understand why there is such panic in America," said Unal Karatas, 44, a pretzel vendor in Ankara, Turkey

What panic was that pretzel boy?

[RightWhale]

"Look at their response there in New York,"

We watched, but knew NYC would handle it. Did everyone grab their few belongings and form columns of refugees? Did mass rioting ensue? Did anyone worry this might be permanent? Did the streets fill with frightened people screaming 'terrorists, terrorists'? Did the government fall or the military roll out to guard every streetcorner?

No? Maybe the Americans aren't such soft sheep after all.

[Spyder]

I was amused/disgusted when I heard about 5 mins of Savage last night

How could you stand 5 minutes' worth?

and some woman was on whining about being frightened because she hadn't heard Bush address the issue yet. And Savage was whining along with her! Jeez!

O'Reilly had some idiot psychologist on answering questions. Someone asked what to do with whining kids who were bored (no TV, no PS2, etc.). Her suggestion was that they weren't really bored, they were SCARED, and that was why they were whining. What a load! I've seen my kids scared during electrical stomrs and I've seen my kids bored during power outages. Big difference, and I've never seen them whine when they're scared.

[FixitGuy]

So what's the point of this authorless piece of tripe?

Is the author saying that none of these poor/backward countries would NOT have it better,if they could?

I really doubt it!

I also doubt that they are revelling in their poverty.

[FixitGuy]

PS: Lost power for 4 hours in Ohio.

Visited a neighbor.

Had a very nice time!

[CdMGuy]

Their countries suck and they don't even know it, they are so ignorant. Nothing happens in these backwater places except for dictators screwing the people all the time. It is irrelevant whether the electricity is on or off since industry is non-existent as is mass transit, appliances, etc.

If I lived in Iraq, the Philipines, Africa, etc., and was sitting there in my mud hut, I couldn't give a damn if the power grid went down.

[discostu]

"Quite often"? What like 4 times in the last 40 years. Get real. You know why that's never happened in those other places you mentioned: because they're TINY. The entire nation of Japan would fit in the part of America that blacked out, they don't have anywhere near the challenges to overcome we do. We've got to generate more electricity for more people and deliver it over a wider area with more variation in terrain and weather.

And learn about calendars. The colonization period was centuries 17 through 19, and the reason we colonized those places is that they already were backwaters. you don't colonize the civilized world. And just to round out your incorrect facts America is ALSO the product of colonialism, why'd we do so good and these guys didn't?

[gorush]

Every time I see a kid riding a bicycle wearing a helmet I get this wierd feeling, something on the order of "what has happened to us as a culture?" We (once again, as a culture)seem to be raising little wussies...after all, I was an exceptionally daring youth, yet I know of noone that ever received a serious head injury. This is anecdotal, I understand, but still...somehow this story reminded me of that.

[toomuchcoffee]

The only time your country was any good *was* when it was under colonialism, dude.

[GSWarrior]

I had to switch channels when that idiot started spouting her 'kids are scared' BS. Her reasoning seemed to be that parents are just helpless to take care of their kids' needs during a time of crisis.

We need darkness counselors!

[LaGrone]

Do any of these countries produce anything but poverty? Thought so.

Sometimes in order to get help from someone else, you begin by helping yourself.

[MD_Willington_1976]

if it happened here we would just get out the camping gear, deck chairs, fire up the BBQ and cook up the meat in the freezer and invite the neighbours over..actually sounds like fun...