At first I was all like "Hey now, is it really wise to give my credit card number to the internet?"
But then I was like "Shut up dad! I can do whatever I want!"
That statement turned out to be untrue. When I revealed that I am not a U.S. citizen PayPal wanted me to register.

No problem, I thought. After filling out some registration info I thought to myself, "Boy, I could sure give this weeks cigarette budget to the less fortunate! I bet they smoke all the time!"
That's when I recieved this piece of information:

Check your card statement in 2-3 days and find the 4-digit PayPal code for the charge.

To me it seems like I have to do that before I'm allowed to send my money to strangers on the internet. Am I missing something obvious?

I want to apologize for the tone of my previous post; I came across as terse and angry and poor Boonmeister thought I was lashing out at him. I didn't intend that at all, I was just frustrated that people were trying to make it a group decision when the very nature of forums (conversations happen over an extended period of time) meant that we would automatically miss out on the best opportunities. They really do fill up that fast. I think that the best that we can hope for is to nominate something here and trust that Wong will a) see it in time and b) agree that it is, indeed, cool and worth funding. As others have said, I think the screening process before we ever see the candidates is amazingly thorough.

I think we can do some amazing things here. I would hate to see the concept get lost in committee. I apologize if I inadvertently poured sand in any vaginas with my poor wording.

Kissies for everyone, and an initial $25 (there will be more) from Alderaan, Painhammer and Mr. Unpossible as soon as I finish typing this and get back to the Paypal link. I'm also sure I'll be funding stuff on my own over time, and I think this would be an incredible opportunity to teach Painhammer about helping people.

This is seriously the best thing ever, and I love all you guys so much right now I would swear I was drunk if I didn't know better.

OK, the pharmacy guy got thirded.  We're about to loan him money.

I like the cow guys, I don't really care which one, seems like they would help a lot of people though.

Cows!

I vote for this guy. His pants are the coolest thing ever seen in Azerbaijan.

After silently watching PWoT save the world by building hospitals and curing cancer through music, I could not stand aside any longer. In for 20$ USD.

I'm down with the cows, too.

And while the pants of Quagmar's man are, in a word, quite the shit, I'm partial to this guy:

Javid Rahimov


He looks like Niko Bellic if he had forewent his life of Grand Theft Auto and murder for hire and decided to raise cows instead.  This is our chance to turn Niko's life around!

But his pants aren't as cool, though.  I'm torn.

I think it would be cool just to finish off the loan, yeah it would use up most of our money, but who cares as long as its going to a good cause, right?  Plus I'm sure more donations are on the way, I plan on giving some more when I get paid next week.

Thirded for the awesomeness of his pants.

Aside from the thingy on our lender page telling what loans we've funded, we should have a little Hall of Loans here, showing the borrower and why we thought it would be cool to fund him in the first place. Lest we forget.

Awesome pants guy gets my vote as well. It looks like my donation won't be cleared until June 2 according to paypal. I used my bank account instead of a credit card so that could be why.