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Comic Relief

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PassingStranger · 21/03/2025 16:23

The local radio were talking about Comic relief and trying to raise money today?
Is it still a thing. Does anyone watch it on the TV?

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NoKnit · 21/03/2025 17:40

MargaretThursday · 21/03/2025 17:37

I've been confused about FB saying it's the 40th anniversary.

I could swear the first time it happened was 1988.

No I reckon a few years before that because I remember being at primary school and there was talks about who had a new official red nose or an old one from previousyear/years. I went to secondary in 1989 so definitely before then and red noses with flappy hands and ones for the car were being sold.

MargaretThursday · 21/03/2025 17:37

I've been confused about FB saying it's the 40th anniversary.

I could swear the first time it happened was 1988.

worrisomeasset · 21/03/2025 17:05

It’s nowhere near as big an event that it used to be. The primary school I worked in today did absolutely nothing about Red Nose Day, and I get the impression that fewer and fewer schools bother with it every year.

Mareleine · 21/03/2025 16:52

Oh that's why one of the local schools had a random non-uniform day today. I saw a boy going to school in a banana costume and didn't make the connection. Ours didn't even mention it. I think people are just so done with it since we were all told by the far left a few years ago that raising money for foreign charity is Bad and Wrong and trying to help people is not wanted, no actually it's patronising and terrible and we're all awful for wanting to help. So... people don't go for it the way they used to. It's a microcosm of what's going on in society at large. People try to do nice things, get lambasted by professional arguers for trying, and eventually stop bothering.

murasaki · 21/03/2025 16:45

I'd forgotten it was today, so thanks for reminding me to avoid bbc one!

madaffodil · 21/03/2025 16:45

Stop press... I'm on it😂

(blink and you'll miss me though)

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 21/03/2025 16:44

Our kids came out of school with a picture of them wearing a red nose and had made a biscuit but the school didn't do anything to raise money for it :s I didn't even know it was today

UndermyShoeJoe · 21/03/2025 16:44

Agree with the fed up of seeing celebs on the beg basically. For just £5 you can….. Raise 150k and what’s his name will run in a wedding dress 🥱

I’d rather give things to actual local charities.

TheDandyKhakiDuck · 21/03/2025 16:42

I think with streaming services available it’s diluted the excitement around a night of telly where your favourite programmes/actors band together to do funny sketches. I had a quick look at the list for the TV tonight and haven’t watched any of the programmes/casts listed, so would be pretty meaningless to watch it.

Son’s high school have had a non uniform day for it and the deputy head dressed up as a lobster for a laugh. That was all!

Sweetpea333 · 21/03/2025 16:39

A lot of countries who they 'help' have corrupt governments who want to keep people poor. As with all charities, I don't trust those in charge.

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PassingStranger · 21/03/2025 16:38

Guinessandafire · 21/03/2025 16:33

I think people are over ' Comic Relief ' and ' Children in Need' to some extent.

the public have no time for celebrities looking pensive in poor areas of far off lands, or hugging small non white children like they are a great white saviour.

The whole thing is just self promotion.

I feel sorry for ' Children in Need' ; it hasn't been the same since Terry Wogan died. Such a worthy cause but the public are fed up that it even needs to be a ' thing' . There's just no interest in it now.

Agree, local BBC were really promoting it today.

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KnickerlessParsons · 21/03/2025 16:36

Guinessandafire · 21/03/2025 16:33

I think people are over ' Comic Relief ' and ' Children in Need' to some extent.

the public have no time for celebrities looking pensive in poor areas of far off lands, or hugging small non white children like they are a great white saviour.

The whole thing is just self promotion.

I feel sorry for ' Children in Need' ; it hasn't been the same since Terry Wogan died. Such a worthy cause but the public are fed up that it even needs to be a ' thing' . There's just no interest in it now.

I agree - too many overpaid celebrities trying to coax the underpaid into giving up hard earned £££.

I'd prefer them to donate the cost of the trip to the far off lands direct to a charity, rather than go there for a jolly go there to highlight "the poor".

Guinessandafire · 21/03/2025 16:33

I think people are over ' Comic Relief ' and ' Children in Need' to some extent.

the public have no time for celebrities looking pensive in poor areas of far off lands, or hugging small non white children like they are a great white saviour.

The whole thing is just self promotion.

I feel sorry for ' Children in Need' ; it hasn't been the same since Terry Wogan died. Such a worthy cause but the public are fed up that it even needs to be a ' thing' . There's just no interest in it now.

UndermyShoeJoe · 21/03/2025 16:26

School did a non uniform day but apart from that our house has nothing to do with it.