What Makes You Cry?

[Mistress Snowy aka Yuki-sama]

Oh Nom, I'd say I totally agree but I don't get it that bad. xD *hugs you and Liz*

You know what else made me cry? Seeing my "best friend" constantly hurt the feelings of the guy I really liked at the time knowing that I couldn't really do anything about it.

[turner]

Bastardy pancreas pain.

[Mairi]

Right now, doctor who... I'm going to miss David Tennant so much. I've been watching my dvds

Matt Smith will be fantastic, and Chris Eccleston was too.

But my heart will always belong to the tenth doctor... end of story. *cries*

[Mikey]

David Tennant seemed a very popular Doctor- I wonder how Matt Smith will match up

All these programmes on Channel 4 have got to me recently- I watched Kevin McCloud in the slums and had seen Slumdog Millionaire, but when I saw the Secret Millionaire programme, it got to me just how desperate life is there. I especially felt this when watching Dispatches: Slumdog Children of Mumbai last night. It made me feel miserable how I live with such an excellent education, free health care, a magnificent shelter, a fanancially stable family... And they have so little. I just wanted to adopt all the children! It was terrible seeing, for example Salaam, who was living alone on the streets at about 11 escaping domestic violence only to find himself under the care of a gang who introduced him to drugs and sexual assault. It made me feel selfish here and quite sad.
And it's unpleasant to think how not only are these children suffering in such a way, but also the adults, and not only in India. Anyway, I've gone on a bit.
I've looked on the Channel 4 site and there's lots of nice sites like this one and I hope to see how much I can afford to donate

[Mairi]

He was so popular I think I'll love Matt Smith in the same way loved Chris Eccleston... but David Tennant is just on a whole other level to me, and to a lotta a lotta other people too if the polls are anything to go by

A good thing about what you're saying Pev is that these shows have obviously gotten the right message across. Russell Howard always hits the nail on the head when he talks about how whiney we are as a nation, he's constantly trying to remind us that we're all so privilaged to have grown up in the western world really.

I see it all the time at the Red Cross, I work with refugees who have survived torture and sexual violence. It's hard getting your head around the fact that a person, sitting right infront of me having a cuppa and a chat.... if this very person is deported tomorrow (which happens unfortunately, they're snatched and sent back to their own country in 'dawn raids'), they could be shot as soon as they land in their home country. Unfortunately this has happened.

Makes you realised how mollycoddled we are, doesn't it? People just don't realise that these things are happening right now, all the time.

[Mikey]

Indeed, it's crazy how it takes television to make us realise these things. People always seem to think they're aware of poverty/corruption abroad, but most tend to think of Africa and then sort of move onto other thoughts.
Do you work for the Red Cross then? My mum works at the Weymouth Women's Refuge where women come either on their own or with children to escape domestic violece and an awful lot of them are sent back home to the violent parteners because of illegal immigration or rights over the children. Most of them don't move back to a terrible country, but it's linked.

When my mum gets back home, I'm going to ask her if I can start donating some money to the fund for the slum children

[Mairi]

Jan 23, 2010 11:48:36 GMT 1 Mikey said:

Indeed, it's crazy how it takes television to make us realise these things. People always seem to think they're aware of poverty/corruption abroad, but most tend to think of Africa and then sort of move onto other thoughts.
Do you work for the Red Cross then? My mum works at the Weymouth Women's Refuge where women come either on their own or with children to escape domestic violece and an awful lot of them are sent back home to the violent parteners because of illegal immigration or rights over the children. Most of them don't move back to a terrible country, but it's linked.

When my mum gets back home, I'm going to ask her if I can start donating some money to the fund for the slum children

Yeah it's great there are more and more documentaries on these things coming out. There's a brilliant one on channel 4 from time to time called 'unreported world' and it's mainly in Africa because events there do seem to pass us by. I spend alot of time trawling through reuters for news stories because they always cover Africa, and I remember on Christmas Day 2008, 635 people were massacred in churches across Uganda and I think Congo too... and it never made our news headlines! It popped up in a tiny section on the bbc website 5 DAYS LATER, that was it. How can that be??? It drives me crazy! And makes me cry... to quote the thread


Yeah I volunteer for the Red Cross... I'm sort of moving between branches just now so I'm on a little break. That sounds amazing what your Mum does, she must find it hard though, I know I do! I think my section used to be just for women, but there are so many men out there suffering these things too that the funding was stretched to cover men too. That's brilliant most of them don't go back to the country, your Mum and the rest of the refuge must do a fantastic job!

That sounds great My boyf and I do this thing every month on payday where we donate a wee amount to something It all helps

[Mikey]

You seem so charitable!
It is a bit crazy. All we seem to hear about Africa is the stuff they show on Comic Relief and things like that. I wish there was a channel for international news- we don't hear much. I was thinking the other day that I don't even know what it looks like in Turkey
It's very nice of you to spend time for the Red Cross. The Weymouth refuge is closing at the end of March due to the central refuge thing cutting costs, which is a shame, because there are so few refuges in Britain.