[QUOTE=ZeroMinus;28733926]Nice thought, but stupid, as $700 is going to impact a country that has millions of dollars worth of damage and their annual GDP is what? $4.308 trillion (3rd richest in the world) that's what?
[B]$4,000,000,000,000[/B] with your measly $700 dollars helping them, not also to mention the other MEDCs in the planet giving them aid.[/QUOTE]
One million people each giving ten dollars is still ten million dollars.
[QUOTE=ZeroMinus;28733926]Nice thought, but stupid, as $700 is going to impact a country that has millions of dollars worth of damage and their annual GDP is what? $4.308 trillion (3rd richest in the world) that's what?
[B]$4,000,000,000,000[/B] with your measly $700 dollars helping them, not also to mention the other MEDCs in the planet giving them aid.[/QUOTE]
Are you absolutely fucking RETARDED?!
I assume you'll be footing the $4,000,000,000,000 bill yourself then?
[QUOTE=Scotchair;28709011][url]http://www.onethousandcranesforjapan.com[/url]
So in Japanese legend, the man who could fold 1000 paper cranes would be granted any wish they desire (usually health)
This is a website that's aiming to get 1000 cranes folded with the help of us. The jist of it is, they've contacted several artists from around the globe who've made designs, which you can print out and make into your own paper crane. You donate £2 (or more) and that allows you to download a PDF file with your design, and instructions on how to make your crane.
I donated £10 and chose the second design... I'll print it tomorrow and make it. I reckon I'll leave it somewhere, with a note attached with the website address, in the hope that somebody else will do the same.
It's a pretty cool way to raise money, it helps a good cause while rewarding the donation with a simple, non-materialistic gift.
£2, that's one less pint on your next night out. Do your part.
My crane, left in uni :)
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/kieran_duncan/5546897469/][img_thumb]http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5295/5546897469_32cfc90d1e.jpg[/img_thumb][/url]
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/kieran_duncan/5546897469/]One Thousand Cranes[/url], on Flickr[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Scotchair;28709127]Yeah well if you want to build a steel crane then be my guest... OR, you could pay a couple of quid without having to get off your arse, which could then be used to buy a steel crane. Your call.
Puns aside... donate some money :)[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Bad)-(and;28709179]£2 for a pint!? Where do you go drinking?![/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Scotchair;28709229]Haha well.... £2 for a decent pint. None of this Tennants or Strongbow riff raff.
Fine, we'll call it "£2 for a pint and a packet of crisps on your next night out."[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Bad)-(and;28709311]Haha, no. I mean that's cheap as hell. Atleast £3.20 here.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Wizard of Ass;28709317]I'd rather take a 10£ note and folt a crane of it and send it to them.[/QUOTE]
ITT: English people
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[QUOTE=EcksDee;28709524]I just noticed I have a sheet of [B]Aluminium[/B] standing by, so gonna try to make a crane out of that.
It's not exactly steel, but good enough I'd say.[/QUOTE]
Seriously. Where did all you people come from?
Scottish....
British*
this reminds me of something
How well do they float on sea water?
Poor taste :saddowns:
[QUOTE=Scotchair;28736189]Are you absolutely fucking RETARDED?!
I assume you'll be footing the $4,000,000,000,000 bill yourself then?[/QUOTE]
$4,000,000,000,000 is the gross domestic product, not the cost of the damages :frog:
I acknowledge the thought of donating to established companies which produce actual results
itt: nice people filled with a few idiots.
I love the idea, includes some Japanese folk lore and is a very good charity. Is this for you folks across the pond or can we over here in 'Murrika donate too?
[QUOTE=ZeroMinus;28749664]$4,000,000,000,000 is the gross domestic product, not the cost of the damages :frog:
I acknowledge the thought of donating to established companies which produce actual results[/QUOTE]
Do us all a favor and get the fuck out.
[QUOTE=Pedro the Fuzzy;28750064]itt: nice people filled with a few idiots.
I love the idea, includes some Japanese folk lore and is a very good charity. Is this for you folks across the pond or can we over here in 'Murrika donate too?[/QUOTE]
As far as I know anybody can donate... you donate via JustGiving, which is a worldwide fund-raising organisation.
Done. I picked the Zeitguised design. Will leave it somewhere and post a picture.
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Hang on, what the fuck happens in steps 4-6. These instructions are awful!
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;28758980]Done. I picked the Zeitguised design. Will leave it somewhere and post a picture.
[editline]23rd March 2011[/editline]
Hang on, what the fuck happens in steps 4-6. These instructions are awful![/QUOTE]
"I PAID £2 FOR THIS SHIT?!"
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[QUOTE=TurbisV2;28759786]"I PAID £2 FOR THIS SHIT?!"
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[img]http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/6888/cursedinstructions.jpg[/img]
[editline]23rd March 2011[/editline]
Last caption interchangeable with "Oh fuck off!"
I had to look up a video online...
[QUOTE=Dacheet;28712371]I remember some book about a girl from Hiroshima who got Leukemia after the Atom bomb and made like 722 paper cranes before she died. The other kids in her class made the remaining 278 and buried them with her.
:smith:[/QUOTE]
It's based on a real life story, except in real life they made the 1000 cranes before she died.
This is going to spawn a shitload of copycat Origami killers! /sarcasm
This 1000 cranes thing is pretty interesting. I'll assume it's pretty popular not only in Japan judging by some of the posts made.
[QUOTE=Itsjustguy;28709831]You explained as if you pay money for people to buy paper and make cranes to make a wish.[/QUOTE]
Could you possibly have missed the obvious any more?
For a second there I thought this organization was donating paper cranes to Japan, and I thought "why the fuck do they need paper?"
I understand the whole point of the charity and everything, I just never saw 1000 paper cranes as a massive feat or anything like that. I mean, I made hundreds (possibly even over a thousand) in elementary school because I'd take any piece of scrap paper I could find and make one out of it. Only takes, what, 2 minutes to make one?
Now 1000 origami coyotes, that would be fucking sick.
[img]http://i54.tinypic.com/oavr0k.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=ZeroMinus;28749664]$4,000,000,000,000 is the gross domestic product, not the cost of the damages :frog:
I acknowledge the thought of donating to established companies which produce actual results[/QUOTE]
No one should just donate any money then because they are an insignificant worm who can't make a difference, even if they have over 700 dollars to give because we should all just leave it to the big businesses to donate right :downs:?
Seriously, how fucking stupid can you be? Most of the people who donated give under ten bucks, yet this man gave 700 that he was saving for a new computer, and you give him shit over it? You should just get the fuck out of the thread, no one likes heartless people like you.
Donated since I have family in Sendai and relatives who are most likely dead from the sunami as they lived on the shore line.
[QUOTE=Wikipedia]Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes is a non-fiction children's book written by American author Eleanor Coerr and published in 1977.
This true story is of a girl, Sadako Sasaki, who lived in Hiroshima at the time of the atomic bombing by the United States. She developed leukemia from the radiation and spent her time in a nursing home creating origami (folded paper) cranes in hope of making a thousand of them. She was inspired to do so by the Japanese saying that one who created a thousand origami cranes would then be granted a wish. Her wish was simply to live. However, she managed to fold only 644 cranes before she became too weak to fold any more, and died shortly after. Her friends and family helped finish her dream by folding the rest of the cranes, which were buried with Sadako. They also built a statue of Sadako holding a giant golden origami crane in Hiroshima Peace Park. [/QUOTE]
My high school a few years ago sent a group of people over there and put 1000 paper cranes on the memorial.
[QUOTE=ZeroMinus;28749664]$4,000,000,000,000 is the gross domestic product, not the cost of the damages :frog:
I acknowledge the thought of donating to established companies which produce actual results[/QUOTE]
It's going in the [url=http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/japan-earthquake-tsunami-relief/]Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund[/url]
Since you're not big on looking into things, they give the money to "[I]International Medical Corps, Save the Children, and other organizations on the ground to provide support[/I]". Maybe it's just you, or are those not well established organizations that produce results? Wait no it's just you.
Have 20$, japan.
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