to just turn off the tv whenever Nepal comes on and ignore it

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It just upsets me too much and makes me feel useless. I've already given a donation.

I just feel like it doesn't affect me so I shouldn't feel the need to see all the brutal details as it doesn't achieve anything.

Gozer, I only spent a week in Nepal and I was captivated. A magical country with beautiful people, just amazing. Lucky you living there for 6mths.

Some people on here need to think outside of their own little box. The world is a big place, suffering does indeed happen every day. To just ignore a disaster doesn't make it go away. Why is one tragedy more worthy than another?

And then there is this:

www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/29/baby-boy-rescued-from-nepal-earthquake-rubble this

So eloquent whatit

And, yeah, what Squirm said.

How can anyone not have any empathy for the people who have been killed in this terrible disaster. What horrible human beings some people on this thread are.

Dexters that was a coincidence wasn't it?

Well said mummylin

You don't have to watch it if you don't want to. I haven't watched/seen too much because I don't generally watch the news. I experienced a few earthquakes and they are fucking scary as shit and nothing bad happened to me, although people were killed where they happened. I can't bear it when they focus on the children because of the fear I felt for my own children at the time. And then it is ongoing because of the aftershocks.

As for donating, to all you cynics if you don't believe the money will get there then Khalsa Aid are asking for donations of items such as formula milk and hand sanitiser (they have a list of specific things) and they have collection points at least in the South East. Then they will take them over to Nepal.

Jeez, would all those public schoolgirls who spent their "gap" year in frickin' Nepal, with their chums, cease the patronising piffle about their "friends" in Nepal. I met plenty of Egyptians in Sharm el Sheikh last year, lovely people, but I suspect they're as close to being my "friends" as the "lovely people" you met in Nepal?

..........watch the "In betweeners2" movie to get the picture.

loop FWIW, I did not go to a public school, nor did I spend my gap year in Nepal. I have visited a number of times, but only ever for a couple of weeks at a time.

Nevertheless, I happen to have some very close Nepali friends. I think you are being patronising in making assumptions with regard to how such friendships might or might not have been formed. Frankly, you have no idea.

Kampeki I suspect that you're wasting your time trying to reason politely with this poster.

I'm sorry for how your friends have suffered.

Loop Hmm, so you aren't a fan of public school 'girls' going on gap years but are ok with public school boys going on big game hunts. That's an interesting viewpoint.

Thank you sooty. You're probably right. I'm just amazed sometimes at the narrow-mindedness of some posters.

I can't quite get my head around why anyone would assume that it's impossible to have real friendships with people who happen to live in other countries. They must inhabit very narrow worlds indeed.

loop are you rich?

How can anyone not have any empathy for the people who have been killed in this terrible disaster. What horrible human beings some people on this thread are.

Absolutely this.

I'm the most miserable, uncaring, hard-nosed cowbag when confronted by a 'woe is me' tale from anyone finding themselves In a mess when it's self-inflicted. But seriously, how can anyone say they don't care about something like this?

These poor people haven't brought this upon themselves!

We should never forget that most of us are here, in a safe, wealthy country purely due to being lucky enough to have been born here.

Any of us could be in the shoes of the people seen suffering on the news.

Just spare a more charitable thought for them, and perhaps a couple of pounds as well if you can spare it.

ShellyBoobs great post you cowbag

Thanks Luis. Normal service will be resumed on other threads.

Excellent Shelly

shelly

Just another quick note...

It's understandable that people don't always feel happy donating money to charities in these circumstances, as they don't trust the money to get to where it's needed.

Perhaps you might feel able to help MSF though?

They mobilise volunteer doctors and nurses from around the world (including some of our lovely NHS ones!) to help people in crisis, like those suffering in Nepal.

Within hours of the earthquake they were responding with teams and emergency equipment.

blogs.msf.org/en/staff/blogs/nepal-earthquake-emergency-response

If anyone doesn't care then they are clearly not quite right. Even the people you hate,Farage, Thatcher, Piers Morgan etc are, I image affected by watching the news. There is a Nepali man in our compound (in Doha) who has lost everyone. Family and friends. Everyone and everything he had. It is having a huge effect on our community as so many are affected. The only thing I think helps is that because we are so close and have so many Nepalis here it is more real and so we feel less impotent. We can actually speak to people direct and help. I understand why the endless UK bulletins are distressing and its hard to be able to relate but of course everyone cares, empathises and donates. The person below is either sick or does not exist.

I've donated to a friend who is out there organising landrovers of supplies to the outflung villages. He lives & works out there and is directly affected.

But I'm not interested enough to watch the endless irrelevant news stories banging on.

TBH, I haven't watched the news since all the election crap started - but I'm never "bothered" or "upset" by stories like Nepal.

Stuff happens, it's not nice, but it does.

For those of you who couldn't give a rat's ass, here's a picture of what was coming out of the taps in KTM yesterday (sent by my friend who managed to get out last night).

Glad to know that "giving a rat's ass" is achieved by uploading a photo of a tap!!

Don't be ridiculous.

Pea brained at best