Makes you proud to be British

[Gromit]

It is heartening to hear that the British public have donated £46 million to the Haiti earthquake appeal. It is even more a remarkable sum given that we are in a recession.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8478559.stm

It is good to know that we are still a nation that is prepared to help a fellow nation when they are in need.

Well done the British public?

[anotheoldgit]

Not trying to get a tiny bit patriotic are we Gromit?

[VHG]

Much as we may moan about our "lot" here in the UK we all realise that compared to most countries we are very well off (and I dont just mean financially).

When you see what people's lives are like in Haiti at the moment, where even the basic requirements of life are not available, then people here realise that a few pounds to someone in the UK means a lot to someone in Haiti.

[123everton]

I wonder how many of the contributors were foreigners?
I dunno, blummin foreigners spending their money how they like, sending it abroad, they should spend their money here, there's people in need here you know!
I didn't see the people of Haiti sending money and aid to us when we had all those floods a few months ago, when was the Port Au Prince concert in aid of the people of Dorset during the November floods, some things never change.

[Seadragon]

Absolutely, acts like this do make us proud to be British. And that is not complaining about the fact that Haiti has been exploited by the French, USA etc as a global modern Community, agendas aside, we do come together.

[Seadragon]

Everton, you can't possibly compare the floods to the disaster of the Earthquake?

[123everton]

I was being ironic, AB certainly needs the new sarcasm lexicon in it's armoury.

[Rev Sermon]

Everton,

Currently AB can't afford it but the Haiitians have offered to set up AB-Aid as soon as their current problems are sorted.

[123everton]

And about time too!
Better late than never.

[Seadragon]

You need to develop a symbol so people know when your're being sarcastic? - Something like * ~ )
That's my smiley face, but you can use it?

[123everton]

Can I?

[Seadragon]

Yes absolutely, but I haven't worked out how to put the other eye on symetrically.

[Seadragon]

Okay, you got me with the irony again! (laughing)
*~)

Signing off, until next time.

[Kromovaracun]

You could just put [/sarcasm] at the end of a sarcastic statement.

[123everton]

SD, ha ha.
Krom, that idea lacks subtlety, I think it needs something more nuanced.
Unless you're being sarcastic, in which case, DOH!

[naomi24]

Yes indeed. Well done the British public.

[VHG]

>I was being ironic, AB certainly needs the new sarcasm lexicon in it's armoury.

I am staggered that people could not see the irony in your append and took it for real.

I realsied you were being ironic after the first few words.

The author Bill Bryson (who is American) has a wonderful sense of irony missing from most Americans.

I remember him tellling a story about arriving back in the USA after a trip abroad, and when he got to the customs desk a customs officer said sternly "Any fruit".

Bryson replied "Yes please, i'll have two apples, three oranges and a melon.

The guy just stared at hm, and Bryson realised here was a guy you dont mess with.