Just donate some money instead.Donating money requires money. I'm a poor student, I can barely afford food right now. However, spending time playing some internet word quiz? I mean, come on. This is a great concept.
Donating money requires money. I'm a poor student, I can barely afford food right now. However, spending time playing some internet word quiz? I mean, come on. This is a great concept.Giving rice is not an expensive process and I'm pretty sure you could spare what, 5 to 10 euros per month? This is not really a new concept either and I'm pretty sure a direct contribution would generate more rice than a session on this site does.
edit: Also this is pretty hard for someone that has English as a 2nd language (well at least for me) :(
Giving rice is not an expensive process and I'm pretty sure you could spare what, 5 to 10 euros per month? This is not really a new concept either and I'm pretty sure a direct contribution would generate more rice than a session on this site does.
ten grains of rice costs like 1 cent.
Why you gotta be like that, man? I'm sure most people donate small amounts to charity regularly ($5-10/month) so this is a simple and easy way to donate a little more.Ya the site is obviously better than nothing but I'm saying that it's pretty gay of someone who is only semi-poor by scandinavian standards to call it a good alternative to donating because it would be too expensive otherwise.
This site fails cause a guy from those countries can just answer all the questions till he has like 1 billion rice n stuffYes because people don't have enough money for food and water yet they have enough money for internet and all the free time to go to www.freerice.com
Ya the site is obviously better than nothing but I'm saying that it's pretty gay of someone who is only semi-poor by scandinavian standards to call it a good alternative to donating because it would be too expensive otherwise.It's pretty gay saying donation is a good alternative to doing charity work, for someone who has way too much spare time, because it would be too time-consuming otherwise. See where this is going? Seriously man, hammering at this because donating money is better is über-gay. This is a good cause and even if you feel holier-than-thou because you donate or whatever doesn't mean you should be so assholish as to throatfuck anyone here who decides to spend ten minutes with this and get a good conscience from doing so. And yeah, ten euro a month actually would pretty much fuck up my economy. Well I guess I could eat cheaper food or decide not to have internet, but since I'm not going to do so, and since my current way of living pretty much takes up all the money I get, then I suppose I should be able to use this site for a few minutes without feeling like a cheap fuck for not donating.
LOL it must be some really expensive organic gold-coated rice then! 0,50$ buys about 1 kg of rice or some 50.000 "rice grains"
Tried this before and got bored after 40 grains. Just donate some money instead.
No, you only said the site was better than nothing and even your first post in here said "DONATE INSTEAD" right off the bat.shaddup.
And I do understand what you're telling Lars--you're just coming off as a huge cock in the process.
Somnambulist? How the hell was I supposed to know that. That was so alacrity.
Well ok go on banging on anything you don't consider sacrifical enough. You're a pretty horrible person for what you've posted though. Charity isn't some kind of COMPETITION where the one that gives the most is the WINNER. I just don't see the point in trying to make everyone who plays this game feel guilty about not donating.When did I ever say it was a competition. I'm just saying you're using a shitty excuse.
Somnambulist? How the hell was I supposed to know that. That was so alacrity.
Yeah, I got this one too but I got it wrong. It was "sleepwalker", right? Never seen or heard that word before.
That word I find actually easy.As do I but mostly because I've watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. :fogetmmh:
Call me an asshole but...if we feed poor people then the world would be overpopulated......
Call me an asshole but...if we feed poor people then the world would be overpopulated......
I dunno, does anybody know how many grains are in like a 5 pound bag of rice? They make it look all dramatic with BOWL OVERFLOWING WITH NOURISHING RICE but I'm pretty sure 100 grains would be like just a little bit on the bottom of the bowl
But like I said volume probably makes this a lot
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thats it otomon your last post didnt rile up much of a response so try again
Okay....Okay, shut up from now on, please. This is not a "give otomon attention" topic, and you were already warned for your previous post.
GUYS DONT CLICK ON THE WEBSITE! IT HAS WAREZ AND GHEY P0RN!
.....anything??
I know 1 kilo of rice can go at least a day or two, if you're not obsessive about rice like most Filipinos.
Why can't they just give away the rice without the quiz?Because they need something to draw in people which can then generate revenue for their sponsors. The sponsors donate the rice by giving away part of their revenue.
Hm, that makes sense, nevermind then.
It doesn't actually make that much sense. I seriously doubt that they are only making 3.3 cents for each adview from the companies they have sponsoring them (which are all huge names), so even IF (they don't, but IF!) the grains of rice cost a penny each then there is a lot of money that is going into the webmaster's pocket.
I brought this up before because I think it is pretty important. The companies are probably sponsoring the site to seem charitable, but there is probably a huge amount of graft. I like the idea of things being given to poor people, but I don't like that there is a very good chance that some fatcat is probably laughing all the way to the eBank. Seriously, did anyone read their FAQ? It's so full of guilt trips and shit "It's FREE RICE you want to give FREE RICE to STARVING kids in a THIRD WORLD to save their LIVES RIGHT?! You're not some RICH GUY who doesn't want to HELP STARVING KIDS?" that there just has to be more than meets the eye here. I mean, those ads to sponsor children in 3rd world countries are full of guilt trips and stuff, so you might expect it; but this site isn't trying to get our money or anything so I would expect them to be a bit more subtle in their explanation of the site's goals.
I don't know, it's fun and it probably does help, but I still can't see how there isn't 100x as much food being generated by the huge number of pageviews they must get.
you can piece together the parts of the word to determine the meaning sometimes. Somnambulist is actually a really easy one!
Somn > sleep, as in insomnia
Ambu > moving, as in ambulatory
Also if the guy really cared he would make this site highly susceptible to botsHis sponsors would figure out that it is and cancel their support.
I also add words together (or break them down) to discover their meaning, it is my favourite part about words.Break them down? "Ambulance" comes from "to ambulate", which simply means walking or moving from one place to another. Flavus per domum ambulat.
ambulance
Ambu > moving, as in ambulatory
His sponsors would figure out that it is and cancel their support.
Effectiveness
One month after the inception of the viral marketing program, users had earned enough points for one billion grains of rice. The United Nation's World Food Programme stated that this amount could feed 50,000 people for one day.[3] Thus, approximately 20,000 grains of rice provide enough caloric intake to sustain an adult for one day. Using this calculation, enough rice is donated to feed 7,019.15 people daily per the totals for December 28, 2007.