^^ @grantway
Perfect example of the ignorance of which I speak. If you can tear yourself away from the Daily Mail you might appreciate just how good the NHS is. It's got problems, certainly, but not ones that will be fixed by throwing money at it. The future is, equally, not something that will be fixed by diverting money and instead will require the same sort of pastoral values that most other countries already have.
[i]You could always donate to the NHS ?[/i]
My Mrs is a staff nurse on a kids high dependency unit, & she had the idea of subscribing to Dogs for the Disabled.
FTW!
None. Never will. Comic Relief is the biggest crock of shit ever. Is Lenny Henry doing it this year? It's basically been his career for the past 15 years other than them adverts. Z list celebs trying to gain exposure/bolster their CV and passing it off as charity.
Flaperon - Member
^^ @grantway
Perfect example of the ignorance of which I speak. If you can tear yourself away from the Daily Mail you might appreciate just how good the NHS is. It's got problems, certainly, but not ones that will be fixed by throwing money at it. The future is, equally, not something that will be fixed by diverting money and instead will require the same sort of pastoral values that most other countries already have.
Only read the Guardian
please excuse while one yawns
esselgruntfuttock - Member
You could always donate to the NHS ?
My Mrs is a staff nurse on a kids high dependency unit, & she had the idea of subscribing to Dogs for the Disabled.
FTW!
POSTED 4 MINUTES AGO # REP
MMMMM sorry my wife runs four trust buildings within the NHS Warehouse K-Aneurin Bevan House- Mile End Bancroft Rd and Clifton House so sorry I don't cocker doodle do right now !
[i]MMMMM sorry my wife runs four trust building within the NHS WarehouseK- Aneurin[/i]
Errr...what?
£20. You need to look past the BS.. it's not perfect, nothing is, but if there is even a small chance that even a few of the 20 pounds, makes it way to help some kid, then that will do me.
Until grantway learns to use the quote function, this thread is almost unreadable 😐
Well...it's perfectly clear who the winner is in the thread.
Congrats, you won The Internet!
Until grantway [s]learns to use the quote function[/s] stops drinking, this thread is almost unreadable
None. Never will. Comic Relief is the biggest crock of shit ever. Is Lenny Henry doing it this year? It's basically been his career for the past 15 years other than them adverts. Z list celebs trying to gain exposure/bolster their CV and passing it off as charity.
So you won't support a good charity because you don't think the celebrities that support it have a high enough status ?
I'm not saying you have to contribute anything....
But how about making your judgement based on something real at least, like the work that they do with the money raised.
Me and my kids are going to ride the Tissington Trail for Red Nose Day - it will be the furthest they have ever ridden (if they make it)
http://www.justgiving.com/poppy-and-jasmine
so far we have raised £100 on the just giving page (original target was £95) and another £100 cash
(there is some blurb on the Just Giving page about why we chose £95 as the target)
wheeliegood - Member£20. You need to look past the BS.. it's not perfect, nothing is, but if there is even a small chance that even a few of the 20 pounds, makes it way to help some kid, then that will do me.
+1
£10 to answer the OP.
Good luck to your daughters Dawson.
cheers chaps!
15 quid.
Gave £100, big softy at heart and the sight of those kids in the videos. Lets face it, its the cost of a couple of monster high dolls.
I texted £10 and am watching Mad Max 2 instead.
I'd pay 10x that if half of the presenters agreed to never show their faces on TV again.
Grantway, your a first class, first world, self indulgent knob, I had a whole response drafted, it's not worth it there is far bigger issues than indulging a drunken Internet troll
unklehomered - Member
If you want to give only to UK charities, give only to UK charities. There are plenty about. Other people chose to care about people in many other places across the world as well. Is that so bad? We live largely free of disease, we have doctors and nurses, running water, electricity, and can afford 2 bottles of wine on a Friday night.
About sums it up better than I would, nice one Homer
Dawson, nice one I hope your daughters complete the challenge and most of all enjoy doing so, it may seem a little drop in the ocean but they will have made a big difference and your JG page really touched me, can't wait to do stuff like this with my daughter in a couple of years
£5 each. (4 of us).
Aging celebs, politics, "mind boggling selfishness and ignorance", urban decay aside, some of it might do some good somewhere.
My lads (5 & 7) put a presentation together proposing a school dress down day, & made an appointment to see their headmaster... 🙂
Dawson...good luck to your girls.
I've never given moneyy to comic relief.
I'm giving them a tenner just to piss off grantway.
Speaking of grantway, do you reckon he's passed out now. 😀
I've given some cash via school, the kids had fun. But I do get mildly agitated by being asked for money by a multi millionaire.
Not watching it, but gave a tenner.
Whatever misgivings I/we might have about the cause/methods/delivery, it can't hurt.
But prefer to give regular monthly donations (Oxfam, Red Cross, Greenpeace and The Dog's Trust).
None. Never will. Comic Relief is the biggest crock of shit ever. Is Lenny Henry doing it this year? It's basically been his career for the past 15 years other than them adverts. Z list celebs trying to gain exposure/bolster their CV and passing it off as charity.
+1
not to mention the "oh look how hard it is for us, white water rafting or whatever down the Zambesi river"
We've sponsored Dawsons girls. Cracking idea.
£10...
cheers Roger, pass on my thanks to your youngest - very kind!
Me and my kids are going to ride the Tissington Trail for Red Nose Day - it will be the furthest they have ever ridden (if they make it)http://www.justgiving.com/poppy-and-jasmine /p>
so far we have raised £100 on the just giving page (original target was £95) and another £100 cash
(there is some blurb on the Just Giving page about why we chose £95 as the target)
Not sure about this yet, are you startting from home?
They did it! - have started a thread http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/red-nose-day-charity-bike-ride-tissington-trail
