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Old 16 April 2011, 10:19 AM
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A Small Act

A Swedish woman sponsored a needy schoolboy in Kenya and years later he got in touch with her. He is now a Human Rights Lawyer at the UN and a graduate of Harvard Law School.
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Old 16 April 2011, 12:15 PM
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Was she fit?
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Old 16 April 2011, 12:18 PM
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^^ You've not seen the video great story though ...

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Swedish were all over Zim also , in fact the girlfriend could easily have been there if she hadnt been sponsored by the british council for her journalism degree
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Originally Posted by Trout
A Small Act

A Swedish woman sponsored a needy schoolboy in Kenya and years later he got in touch with her. He is now a Human Rights Lawyer at the UN and a graduate of Harvard Law School.

Excellent story.

World can be a beautiful place indeed.
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fantastic story - human kindness, empathy and the "butterfly" effect
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So now he defends the rights of paedophiles, terrorists and rapists?
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What are we supposed to make of this Trout?

Affirmative action works?

Being a Harvard Graduate and a human rights lawyers is some special achievement?
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The world could be a better place if people had more opportunity?
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Originally Posted by tony de wonderful
What are we supposed to make of this Trout?

Affirmative action works?

Being a Harvard Graduate and a human rights lawyers is some special achievement?
**** he could have been an out of work roughneck
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Old 16 April 2011, 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by tony de wonderful
What are we supposed to make of this Trout?

Affirmative action works?

Being a Harvard Graduate and a human rights lawyers is some special achievement?
Make of it what you will my Marxist friend

The beauty of living in a free world is that we can make our own choices
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Old 16 April 2011, 03:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Trout
The beauty of living in a free world is that we can make our own choices
As long as those choices fit within the legal parameters set by our ruling elite
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Being a "Human rights Lawyer", he'll probably let all the worlds scumbags reside in Sweden!
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Old 16 April 2011, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by DCI Gene Hunt
As long as those choices fit within the legal parameters set by our ruling elite
I can still choose to tell you to go and **** off!
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It just shows that there are some people who care for others.
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I can still choose to tell you to go and **** off!
You can't though - as the word Fu ck is banned on here, you fail
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Originally Posted by PaulC72
It just shows that there are some people who care for others.
Caring for others or just setting up a standing order from your bank account?
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Originally Posted by tony de wonderful
Caring for others or just setting up a standing order from your bank account?
whats the difference if you have the money to spare and use it to do some good for someone then it is caring, me I would blow the lot and f**k them all...
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Originally Posted by DCI Gene Hunt
The world could be a better place if people had more opportunity?

Yup http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011...ton-f1-groomed

If someone had sponsored me to get into racing at the same age as Lewis Hamilton started out, I'd be whooping his **** this and every other Sunday.....and Button....and Vettel* and I wouldn't be here posting this tosh



(*and I'd do my damndest to bang every fit pit lane girl at every track event )
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Old 16 April 2011, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by DCI Gene Hunt
You can't though - as the word Fu ck is banned on here, you fail
I didn't say Fu ck - I said ****!!

So **** OFF!!!!
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Old 17 April 2011, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Trout
I didn't say Fu ck - I said ****!!

So **** OFF!!!!
Like a puppet on a string
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