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I wonder, how do they count the rice grains when they're giving them? Do they count them one by one?

Plus donating to the poor does not help them, it prevents their economies from developing instead.
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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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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.

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.
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4,280 grains of rice donated...and I am tired...
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Hell, even if it's a scam, I like words. Level 41 before I got sick of it, and lots of rice. And if it's for real, well, good for the people who get the rice, right? I see no downside.
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I got up to 3000 grains of rice (which is at least a couple bowls full). I am a level 41 grammar wizard!

My only problem is that 10 grains seems a bit small (per donation). I mean, surely this site is getting a lot more ad revenue from the huge names that advertise here; ten grains of rice costs like 1 cent. If they were donating 50/100 grains of rice per question I'd be a lot more impressed, because some of the words were pretty impossible and they still made money off of it. They could probably easily afford to make 100 grain donations per right answer and still pay for a high-volume server. The number would go from 1 billion to 100 billion! :0 I don't recall reading "not-for-profit" anywhere on the site though, so they are probably raking in huge dough.

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Pretty cool site, I gave up after getting 1300 grains or so.
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ten grains of rice costs like 1 cent.


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"
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Awesome find. This is pretty fun and it makes me feel good knowing that just by answering relatively simple questions I can be saving lives. I'm definitely going to pass this on to some of my friends.
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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.
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I am pretty sure they use some money to pay for the bandwidth and such too...

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This site fails cause a guy from those countries can just answer all the questions till he has like 1 billion rice n stuff
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This site fails cause a guy from those countries can just answer all the questions till he has like 1 billion rice n stuff
Yes 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
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If they asked I could mail them 100 grains of rice
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I did this a while ago when it appeared on Digg. I was pretty bored at work so I managed to fill quite a bunch of bowls!
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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.
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I can only get to 25 ;_;. donated some rices though.
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Charity work would be spending some of that spare time on real volunteer work, or drinking ONE LESS BEER per month in order to cover the cost of a montly donation (which is pretty much all it would take but apparently that is too big of a sacrifice for a student in one of the top five richest countries in the world).

And uh, I wouldn't call myself smug at all. I don't care if you're donating or not, but I do care that you're using a shitty excuse in order to avoid admitting that you don't care enough to make a minor sacrifice.
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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"

I was making a point. Rice is cheap, the ad revenues from the sponsors should be able to buy WAY more rice than they are donating. It is still cool, but that doesn't mean they aren't laughing in their giant money vaults a la Scrooge McDuck.
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