FreeRice.com

[KeithBMI]

FreeRice.com

It's like a vocabulary test... but for every correct answer the site donates 10 grains of rice to the UN.

 

[mike_v_s]

FreeRice.com

It's like a vocabulary test... but for every correct answer the site donates 10 grains of rice to the UN.

Why are you posting this here? Have you even bothered to check the grammar standards?

Mike

 

[The BurgerMeister]

rockin! thanks, Keith!

i only had time to donate about 600 grains of rice so far... my vocab level was averaging about 40.

must play more!!!

 

[thesteve]

I hope this is real...I'm going to feed so many people.

 

[Fontaine]

ive got 600 now, but ill go back my physics for a while, but i shall return!

 

[Mark Wilson]

I'm up to 1,400 grains of rice!

 

[NJL]

f###!!! i owe rice now!!!

lol

 

[Jack]

Looks real:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeRice

 

[eedre]

So basically you can just get a dictionary and donate as much rice as you want? Cool!

 

[jomahu]

uh...so why don't they just donate the rice without the vocab lesson?

 

[thesteve]

uh...so why don't they just donate the rice without the vocab lesson?

because there's no monetary generation that way. it's an advertisement revenue site.

 

[mike_v_s]

uh...so why don't they just donate the rice without the vocab lesson?

No one gets the warm fuzzies that way.

Mike

 

[Ericman197]

Yeah, but for every answer you get wrong someone actually takes 10 grains of rice from a starving person

I'm a bit suspicious of the motivations behind these 'click for charity,' but I would be a bit more in favor if they were giving something useful like plumpynut. White rice is good for calories, but not much else. Plumpynut is probably much more expensive (can't get cheaper than rice), but it has protein, fat, sugar, vitamins and minerals, so it can reverse most cases of malnutrition.

 

[Mark Wilson]

I'm up past 2k.

I'm gonna take a break for now.

 

[gkbass13]

i gave 300 grains today. im going to try to hit this site for a few hundred grains per day. good stuff indeed!!!

 

[KeithBMI]

Bump.

 

[markjazzbassist]

cool.

 

[Fontaine]

im at 2410, and im telling all my friends and advertising on msn lol.

 

[Spector_Ray]

Why the gimmick? If you want to send some rice, send some rice.

 

[nbw]

Gimmicks are fun, and in this case even educational. It is easier to get someone to piddle around on a site like this then to make them get off our butts and put something in a mailbox at out own cost.. People in general mean well, but are lazy.