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« on: May 27, 2006, 02:21:15 pm »

Did nayone see that programme last night featuring three families who spend, spend, spend? Two of the families were rich and one was an ordinary tribe with five kids.


One lot spent loads of money buying designer coats for their dogs (I kid you not - hoodies for dogs). The family with five kids spent most of their money on very expensive clothes and shoes for their tribe. Three of the children were tiny - yet their mother was spending hundreds of pounds each on a single outfit. At one time she confessed the kids had 'about ten pairs of shoes each'. She held a tiny pair or trainers up to the camera - "these cost £90 a pair" she boasted.


The most amusing bit to me was when she was introducing the children -


"Destiny - when I had her, I didn't know where I was going so I called her Destiny; then there's the twins - I was going to call them Ebony and Ivory but I thought it was a name mixed race babies might choose so I called them Ocean Blue and (I can't remember the other name). 


Would a mixed race couple seriously choose Ebony and Ivory for their children's names???

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« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2006, 02:30:34 pm »
And would they live together in perfect harmony?
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« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2006, 02:37:36 pm »
What, side by side on a piano?
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« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2006, 04:34:40 pm »
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« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2006, 07:03:11 pm »
it better than a telly!

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« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2006, 07:54:06 pm »

Truly though, this programme made me sick. A two year old having a manicure. How many children could receive a vaccine for the price of one pair of those trainers?


Can it be right that chioldren in the west are so pampered whilst children in the third world die from illnesses that could be prevented and go to bed with empty bellies. How many months of schooling could a street child in Brazil receive for the price of one mini Versace outfit? It's obscene.

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« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2006, 07:58:22 pm »
remmeber there kids die and are very poor in UK as well

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« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2006, 09:29:10 pm »
Quote from: oldspice

Truly though, this programme made me sick. A two year old having a manicure. How many children could receive a vaccine for the price of one pair of those trainers?


Can it be right that chioldren in the west are so pampered whilst children in the third world die from illnesses that could be prevented and go to bed with empty bellies. How many months of schooling could a street child in Brazil receive for the price of one mini Versace outfit? It's obscene.



and people tell governments to do more!


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« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2006, 09:53:45 pm »
Its just the way the world is sadly. Its disgusting that the world is going this way. If I had the kind of money some of these people do I wouldnt be wasting it on coats for my dogs (if I had one that is).

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« Reply #9 on: May 30, 2006, 11:54:42 am »
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« Reply #10 on: June 01, 2006, 01:15:31 am »
i did not watch it as i had seen the trailers for it, i hate people that have kids just to dress them up as "mini me" im all for kids being fashionable, but not  accessories