It was my last Boxing Day in Her Majesty's Estate and I remember thinking 230,000 people were far worse off than I was.

Indeed, JK. The sheer scale of the tragedy is beyond human comprehension.

If anything, it still shows we are often powerless against mother nature, no matter how big headed we get.

david wrote:
Indeed, JK. The sheer scale of the tragedy is beyond human comprehension.

If anything, it still shows we are often powerless against mother nature, no matter how big headed we get.

If anything it shows there are no such things as God/Allah/Buddah/Krishna etc

On subject but to put another angle..when I once caught a plane back from Bangkok and got sat next to a "self appointed' child campaigner who regularly garners headlines about "pedos behind the bushes"..this odious creature got pissed as a rat and continually accused a Catholic priest I know as being 'suspect' because he runs a successful deprived youth centre.(then she groped me and I got myself moved to another seat..I should have sued and had her charged))

She also receives about 800 grand a year in government funds which get spent on her attending "conferences "in 5 star hotels.

Meanwhile the tsunami hit and the revolting creature...after receiving a text message from one of her demented supporters in Thailand got front page headlines declaring that "100's of pedophiles had rushed to Thailand to take advantage of orphaned kids". Embarrased police said the story was trash.

She of course rushed to supervise this non existent story from one of Bangkok's superb luxury hotels whilst the Catholic priest she defamed gathered 10 supporters who rushed to Phuket and together physically built about 100 pre-fab houses for homeless kids and slept at night in tents. Thailand's King proclaimed him a hero.

Show me one of these self appointed fanatics and give me a shotgun.