freerice.com is addicting. It cures long hours of boredom when I'm skipping school. What's YOUR highest vocab level?
It raises an eyebrow over here too.... What sense does it make? Why not just donate the maximum possible amount straight off the bat? Why do I need to play a wordgame for hungry people? Kinda sick and twisted....
Yes it is pretty sad that they don't just donate the money. It's fun though. I am also a nerd though, so ya know...
I've been up for 20 hours, and I need to be up again in 5, so I'll keep this brief, and elloborate on it later. Food aid should olny be given in famines. The cause of hunger in impoverished parts of the world isn't a lack of food, it's a lack of resources, and those resources are financial or services *roads, irrigation, refrigeration* I'll repeat that, hunger isn't because of not enough food. Theres more then enough food grown in African nations *which is an easy comparison* to feed their populations. The financial aspect is really in play here, and it's part of a way that affluent countries (such as the US, European nations, and Japan) exploit underdeveloped markets. Essentially whqat happens is that these wealthy nations, artificially deflate the price of their own crops. They impose export subsudies, so the prices of their crops are very cheap. So cheap in fact, that developing markets will purchase them instead of local crops. The reality of starvation in the world, is farmers with fields of wheat with their family suffering from malnutrition and their wheat rotting in fields. These programs also contribute to these food dumping programs. They pump excess unneeded cheap produce into foreign markets, deflating their prices, so local farmers can never escape poverty. Heres a good opening article into these food dumping practices. http://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Poverty/FoodDumping.asp
Makes perfect sense. There is absolutely no reason for a country to be hungry, it doesn't make any sense... how did it exist in the first place if it could never feed its population? Why don't they simply take care of themselves? See above reason. Anything to do with the united nations has to make ya wonder... especially when the words are all coming from some cooperation! http://www.lexiteria.com/ The words are very catholic, and very fear mongering. There are zingers in there, but for the most part it almost seems like a subliminal message. This was kinda odd: girth = circumference splay = spread apart convex = bulging outward chaste = pure ------ dowdy = frumpy obdurate = stubborn effeminacy = womanishness forbearance = patience dapper = stylishly dressed afflict = trouble ream = block of paper heliocentric = sun-centered medial = middle The words are not random, they are grouped in a certain way. egalia = royal finery insurrection = uprising ocular = visual guff = nonsense cognition = knowledge anomaly = irregularity enigma = riddle cronyism = favoritism to friends docket = agenda coup = takeover averse = reluctant gaga = crazy aggrandize = make greater attentive = heedful "Uprising against royalty is nonsense. Being intelligent isn't normal, you aren't capable of figuring it out." "We have an agenda to take over, those who oppose are crazy. We will attentively grow." A stretch, perhaps... but I take nothing at face value when it comes to international politics in particular. Wrapping such motives into "feeding the poor" when doing so is only making things worse... Raises an eyebrow, or 2
Why would you skip school to play a wordgame? Isn't that a little counterintuitive? And no I didn't have to learn that from a website.
Haha. This sounds rather stupid, but I have 43598 people coming in for Christmas, and my mom needed me to help her clean. I was on a break. :/ Now I'm off to read those other posts...
OoooOoO... I had an inkling that the game had taken control of your mind... ok well, maybe not quite all that LOL.
thats the point. When the first word I got was "detonation - explosion" and I saw this was through the UN... yea. It would be nice to have someone go over the ordering with a phsyciatric background - they would better be able to make out any possible "suggestions"... but without a doubt the words are NOT random and they are VERY negative. All the words I got and a chilling quote from the site below: detonation - explosion dormant - inactive ode - lyric poem snoopy - prying acquit - fing not guilty obstinacy = stubbornness tyrannical = despotic pixie = sprite grope = fumble reconcile = settle bogus = sham perseverance = steadfastness epoch = era impeach = accuse of a crime scrutiny = examination inestimable = measureless vise = clamping tool simper = smirk foster = nurture expressly = explicitly plotter = conspirator emancipation = freedom sprightly = lively artisan = craftsman alcove = nook lucidity = clearness lavish = profuse outskirt = border disheveled = unkempt furl = wrap apprehension = dread dire = dismal pleat = fold chalice = goblet maritime = nautical squelch = quell apparition = ghost illusive = deceptive incognito = disguised procreate = reproduce flimflam = trick prerogative = privilege croon = sing replication = copy amorphous = shapeless absolution = forgiveness altercation = dispute jaunt = outing flounce = ruffle ouster = expulsion rigmarole = nonsense pendent = hanging discomfiture = frustration alms = charity pathogenic = infective whelp = pup castigate = chastise protuberant = bulging dauntless = bold foreordain = predetermine lien = legal claim browbeat = intimidate lei = wreath tableland = plateau temperate = moderate mezzanine = lowest balcony bolero = Spanish dance subjugate = conquer putrescence = rottennes skullduggery = trickery primo = first propagation = spreading albeit = even though raptor = bird of prey condescension = disdain rife = abundant abate = subside awry = off course hypnagogic = sleep-inducing speechify = harangue narcissistic = self-obsessed belligerently = hostilely prudish = priggish sacrilegious = profane congenial = agreeable purview = scope indefatigable = untiring modish = fashionable highfalutin = grandiose impart = give jenny = female donkey warble = trill centesimal = hundredth piddling = trivial squalor = filthiness surly = bad-tempered incandesce = glow spry = nimble reword = paraphrase dispirited = listless underling = subordinate strapping = large copious = plentiful repressive = inhibitory lustrous = shining pristine = unspoiled ostracism = banishment carbine = rifle concurrent = simultaneous profound = deep inglorious = shameful cistern = water tank sonogram = ultrasound image crossbreed = hybrid abruption = breaking off agglomeration = cluster nullity = nothingness sanctimonious = self-righteous infallible = unerring baroque = ornate ladyfinger = small sponge cake regalia = royal finery insurrection = uprising ocular = visual guff = nonsense cognition = knowledge anomaly = irregularity enigma = riddle cronyism = favoritism to friends docket = agenda coup = takeover averse = reluctant gaga = crazy aggrandize = make greater attentive = heedful fatuousness = absurdity gimp = hobble augment = increase integral = essential platitude = trite expressio benevolent = kind ntemeridian = before noon loquacity = talkativeness reparation = amends girth = circumference splay = spread apart convex = bulging outward chaste = pure volition = free will admeasure = apportion greenhorn = novice sidle = move sideways dowdy = frumpy obdurate = stubborn effeminacy = womanishness forbearance = patience dapper = stylishly dressed afflict = trouble ream = block of paper heliocentric = sun-centered medial = middle "After you have done FreeRice for a couple of days, you may notice an odd phenomenon. Words that you have never consciously used before will begin to pop into your head while you are speaking or writing. You will feel yourself using and knowing more words."
