It could have been you.

[cambus]

The National Lottery heritage fund has awarded a group of Rumanian travellers �250,000, to help them set up their own community.
It is hoped this will improve relations with the local villagers and lead to a better understanding of each others cultures.
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/hom e/home.do
Do you think this is money well spent?

[sp1814]

AOG

Our work firewall won't let me see the Nat Lottery site (gambling!)

What was the funding for?

[adamhornsby]

Something about some kids painting a thing to do with the awareness of the slave trade, several hundred years ago.

[ludwig]

sp1814 -'Got a feeling this is one of those fake stories that occasionally gets put about' - no kidding? - there's a big clue underneath the question - it's the bit in bold that says 'cambus'.

[sp1814]

Ha!

I've managed to trick our firewall and look at the Nat Lottery site.

Teaching children about the history of slavery???

What a disgrace.

Did you read the bit where one kid says:

"Even though we were taught about it, it's a different thing experiencing it for yourself".

The bit that really sickens me though is this:

The project has been particularly effective in stimulating students' interest in modern-day slavery, with many of them pledging to find out more about current breaches of human rights.

This is a prime example of left wing PC nonsense. Why on earth are they teaching kids that slavery existed.

It should be ignored and forgotten. It's the 21st century after all...

(ab lib to fade).

[adamhornsby]

Exactly, a bloody waste of money. Can't the money go to an enviromental charity, or the NSPCC or the RSPCA or even Great Ormond Street?

[sp1814]

RSPCA?

What?

Animals???

Nope. If animals aren't willing to occasionally buy lottery tickets, then why should they benefit from our hard-earned cash?

Look at the lives of modern day cats and dogs. In my day they worked...catching mice, or out in the fields.

Nowadays they just loaf about watching 'It's Me Or The Dog'.

And don't get me started about the NSPCC...

Children?

More like mini-gansters.






(I have an interview to become a staff writer on the Daily Express later today).

[anotheoldgit]

Must remember to let the ED. know you are forever using your employer's time messing about on Answerbank.

And playing about with company's firewall to boot.

Don't think we will be seeing you in the office somehow sp1814.

[Supernick]

Ormond St Children's Hospital!!!!! What a waste of money.
'm fed up with all our lottery money being spent on wealthy London. It's full of immigrant nurses anyway, and most of the patients don't come from this country anymore, especially the vicious little kids that roam around in gangs. I don't want single penny to go towards treating them. It's not as if they can even buy lottery tickets in the first place, so why should kids reap the benefits? Its PC gone mad.

[vehelpfulguy]

Silly requests for fundling

http://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/mediacentr e/item/219/national-lottery-reveals-the

[China Doll]

So no ones up for my cult then?

Nuts... I'd just filled in the form and everything.

[adamhornsby]

They could always give it to all us normal folk

[China Doll]

Define 'normal'?

[cambus]

Back causing trouble, I see, hope you are well. x

[China Doll]

I always take time out of my schedule to ensure that the balance is maintained in this section. It's hard being the voice of reason y'know. x

[adamhornsby]

I mean 'us' folk. More and more of us are in debt, so the big hand should be giving us a 'hand' to pay them off.