# We're 10 Hours tougher than you ! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758 "2003-03-12T05:42:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758/1 "2003-03-12T05:42:31Z")
I noticed a reference in another thread concerning the “30 Hour Famine” which struck me as odd. I’ve always known it as a “40 Hour Famine”. A quick google using [‘30 hour famine’](http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=30+hour+famine&btnG=Google+Search&meta=) brings up pages and pages of .org and .com sites. These are often American based sites, though not exclusively, so I googled [‘40 hour famine’](http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=40+hour+famine&btnG=Google+Search&meta=) which brings up pages and pages of .org.au and .org.nz sites. Hmmmmmm. I google some more and find [this](http://www.worldvision.or.kr/eng/how/how_44.html) list of 19 countries participating in the “x hours famine”. And I smile smugly. 🙂 AHA ! Us Aussies & Kiwis are a tough breed 😉 We can point and laugh at the weaklings overseas. 😃 But wait, my 30 Hour Famine friends. You can turn, point and laugh at the Koreans, the Dutch and the Brits. See how much fun it is ! They can only last a measly 24 hours ! 😃 So bow down and acknowledge our 10 or 16 hour superiority ! Obvious Disclaimer : This whole post was written with a tongue so far in cheek, that it may have escaped the mouth entirely ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Barber\_s\_Underwear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58f4c7/32.png) [@Tony\_Barber\_s\_Underwear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Barber_s_Underwear)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758/2 "2003-03-12T05:51:35Z")
Hey **Goo** , I noticed it [too!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=168972) - Bubba. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758/3 "2003-03-12T06:34:02Z")
They’ve been doing 40 hour famines here in NZ for _mumble, mumble_ years, since I was in school. Maybe th’ “4” just looked better on our ads, **Goo**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758/4 "2003-03-12T06:42:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tony Barber’s Underwear \* > \*\*Hey Goo, I noticed it [too!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=168972) > > - Bubba. \*\* But… but… but… I have _three_ links and you only have two ! And _I_ have a list ! And _my_ OP laughs at the poms and the dutch ! 😛 O.K, you win 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Barber\_s\_Underwear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58f4c7/32.png) [@Tony\_Barber\_s\_Underwear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Barber_s_Underwear)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758/5 "2003-03-12T07:09:40Z")
But yours has 3 (now 4) replies, and mine has none, so you win. - Bubba. ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758/6 "2003-03-12T07:17:55Z")
AHA ! Sink to obscurity underwear-boy ! 😉 Actually, I must say, I almost wet my pants the first time I saw your username. And I don’t have a weak bladder. Now where’s the rest of the world gone ? I wanna point and laugh ! ---
**Author:** ![Tony\_Barber\_s\_Underwear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58f4c7/32.png) [@Tony\_Barber\_s\_Underwear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tony_Barber_s_Underwear)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758/7 "2003-03-12T07:44:09Z")
They’re probably all swooning at the thought of our superior fundraiser-fasting abilities. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758/8 "2003-03-12T08:11:31Z")
I’ve never heard of this, probably because I’m an athiest. This is something run through religious organizations, right? However I did once forget to eat for 3 days. College days, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758/9 "2003-03-12T10:32:17Z")
> [@](#): > > _Orig. by Osiris_ > This is something run through religious organizations, right? Well, yes – the one in New Zealand is run by [World Vision](http://www.wvi.org/home.shtml) : > [@](#): > > World Vision International is a Christian relief and development organisation working for the well being of all people, especially children. Through emergency relief, education, health care, economic development and promotion of justice, World Vision helps communities help themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758/10 "2003-03-12T10:34:49Z")
In high-school in Canada I used to tease my friends about this very thing! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![pingalondon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@pingalondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pingalondon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758/11 "2003-03-12T12:09:31Z")
Just noticed it’s only 24 hours here in the UK!! [http://www.worldvision.org.uk/getinvolved/24hourfamine/?ExpandMode=ExpandAll](http://www.worldvision.org.uk/getinvolved/24hourfamine/?ExpandMode=ExpandAll) I remember doing the 40 hour one when I was about 10. All that buttersotch, still can’t eat it… Damn they breed 'em tough down south. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Magic8ball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Miss\_Magic8ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Magic8ball)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/were-10-hours-tougher-than-you/160758/12 "2003-03-12T14:23:54Z")
Well, I dunno. Its the school’s idea. Remember, here in the north we have to keep up our strength for the Caribou and buffalo hunts… 30 hours without food is long enough to make it hard to run down and spear a wild animal…