The Splosh UK Forum

Mercedes and myself were doing a food shoot couple of weeks ago.

Beans,cream,rice pudding etc etc when she said all this food we are wasting could feed dozens of starving people in 3rd world countries.

Now when you seriously sit down and consider this statement she has a very valid point of how us in the west take things for granted.

In future food shoots therefore i shall be scraping all the waste up and putting it in a container and forwarding it to Oxfam

Thats our bit done now where's them eggs? Cedeeeeeeeee

i know this is in incredibly bad taste but .... my friend Puck saw me eating angel delight one day.

He slapped my wrist and said "Dolly! THats disgraceful! Dont you know there are poor underprivileged people who could be covering themselves in that, and you're sat there EATING it?!"

funny guy.

Not be able to look at angel delight, without thinking about you DD, and your DD's of course in quite the same way again LOL

NX

There is a serious point in here somewhere. My partner has spent time in the third world and doesn't approve of the use of food in sploshing because of the perceived waste (she is OK about the mess). I have tried explaining to her that much of the stuff used is inedible or would be by the time it reached the 'starving millions' but she replies that it is symbolic. She even says that a shaving cream pie pushed in someone's face is a symbolic insult to people who have nothing to eat.

If we all go down the symbolism path, we are screwed. Everything can be symbolic of something, so it's a load of sym-bolicks. Take Live 8. How does a show meant to help the starving justifywealthy people paying 150 quid a ticket (which wasn't passed on), given free air/road transport that fucks the environment and being fed salmon and champagne to make themselves feel good about doing charitable work for hungry people. At a more local level, look at people like the Rotary having big meals and parties to raise money. If we are being logical, more money could have been raised if everyone had just given the dosh and not eaten.

I am aware that the waste of food might seem insulting but the amount of waste made by sploshers doesn't even begin to compare with the MASSIVE over production of food in the western world. Supermarkets chuck out more every day purely for marketing reasons than sploshers could ever use. It's the idea that we need 20 types of cheese (for example) to choose from, 16 of which will get thrown out, that is the problem not a minority of people pouring the occasional carton of custard (that would have been chucked anyway) over ourselves.

Yes greed is appalling. But sploshing is not the problem. Global economics is.

Bill and Hayley

Well said, Hayley.

I agree entirely with what you say, Hayley. Having worked in the retail trade myself, I know that there is a lot of waste but it is a matter of convincing someone who has made up her mind on the subject and is totally intractable.

This is not the place to discuss politics, but I feel that the GATT system is much more to blame than all the sploshers in the world!

All is not lost, however; next week we are taking her two, half Peruvian grand-daughters for a camping trip in the New Forest so we might get some wet & muddy fun (the girls love water fights).

Wish me luck!

Richard.

Mrs bulber and I believe that the fairtrade scheme is the best way.
We try to buy fairtrade products whenever possible.
It's not just Live 8 and the rotary club, what about the art world.
The millions spent on so called works of art, naked girl in a magazine porn, naked girl on canvas art.
If this is not the place to discuss politics, maybe there should be an "off topic" place like other sites have.

Neither Bill nor I have a problem with people discussing serious issues on the forum so long as we don't all get too far up our own arses. The food one is a subject that gets raised a lot, and is one that should be aired.

Fear not, the rest of the forum will remain solely for flirty, filthy stuff.

Hayley

I was of the American generation who was told to clean his plate because of the suffering in Eastern Europe and Korea.

Lots of times this is a trollope (sp) to make a larger political point.. the American right trying to make points with Laurie David or Al Gore about using jet travel for speaking engagements about global warming; BP Amoco not wanting to explore ethanol for fuel because "it is immoral when people are starving..."

And so it goes.

Dojn

Now ive head as i am sure you all have of anal sex but is it not physicaly imossible to get it up our own arse? or was that just a figure of speech..
That said amusing visions of strugling people now fils my mind..

I know when I would do my pie play .. I would normally get the ones that were about to be thrown out.. not only were they cheaper but hey, they were going to go to waste anyway so why not use them.

O

Getting up one's own arse is, of course, a figure of speech for being pretentious.

Anal sex is far more fun.

Love
Hayley

Politicians can get up their own arse, it's the only place they can hide from the tabloids.
Unless some journalist is masquerading as a rent boy.

You know, you could always get totally covered in it, , scrape it off and then compost it, couldn't you? Wouldn't that be ok?

In any case, sounds like a great inroad to get someone muddy to me.