to think if you dont donate to comic relief......

[LilaTheBrave]

You're a complete arsehole.

OP - can I ask you - before you donated to Comic Relief tonight................when was the last time that you did anything (money, time or other effort) for a community or charity?

I'd bet the last of my Ben and Jerry's it was 2 years ago at the last Comic Relief...........

I haven't donated to Comic Relief this year.

In the last six months I have donated to:

• a charity for children suffering from lower limb conditions on whose behalf my friend's DH is running the marathon for (their son has a lower limb disability);

• the Motor Neurone Disease Association which is a hideously cruel disease a friend lost her father to at christmas;

• cancer research, three times - firstly in rememberance of a family member's dead cousin, secondly in support of a friend's sister with breast cancer, and finally in support of a friend's mother with lung cancer

• an AIDS charity my friend in the States completed a half iron man for.

But bviously I'm a complete arsehole becaue I don't do what some shouty megabucks 'sleb' tells me to do

Oh, just to clarify, I don't watch it.

I find it mawkish and self congratulatory.

Yeah yeah, but you don't actually give any justification for your profound and righteous judgement OP.

I'd love to donate but I've a tenner to last until next Wednesday and a child to feed. If I had the cash I would donate, its heartbreaking.

Complete ae here then . I contribute a regular monthly amount split between causes close to my heart and I WAS going to give to comic relief til op stuck her oar in. I don't like to be bullied.

thats alright then, I'm not an areshole because I didn't watch it

No one here who can afford internet access can really truly say that they cannot afford to donate say 10p at least. When you see the abject poverty and suffering some people live and die in, real, real poverty.

But not everyone can afford to pay out £5 + at the moment.

LilaTheBrave Fri 18-Mar-11 23:25:34
No I don't actually!!! I still think if you don't donate to it, while you watch it, you're an areshole.

Lila...whats an 'areshole'?????

Lila - \link{\this} (ignore the Jesus picture - the rest of the contents aren't at all religious based - it was just put together for a Christian event) project involved me visiting what was probably 100's (if you include the overseas ones) of charity websites,

watching and reading some of the most harrowing resources I have ever come across (I didn't watch CR tonight - but I've watched in the past and I've never seen anything on it that comes close to some of the stuff I watched). Did I donate to every single one?

Again no I didn't - because I knew that I was already doing what I can financially on a REGULAR (not once every 2 years......) basis.

Was I an arsehole for not donating to every single charity whose resources and information I used to narrow down "global and national issues" to a 5 minute segment???

No, but thinking that that makes you a bit of an arsehole

why donate to a media frenzy is it because you can't be arsed selecting your own causes?

bandwagon

hissy - I've seen it with my own 2 eyes - not on the TV - in real life.

And no - being able to afford to pay your internet bill at the end of the month doesn't mean that in the middle of the month you're going to have anything to donate.

We don't - apart from the bits the kids do in the schools - we tithe our income annually (bet you don't even know what that means)

OP, if people feel obliged to pay to charity, it isn't charity anymore, it is a tax. People don't resent donating, but they do resent paying tax. So, although I kind of understand where you are coming from, I think you are being very judgemental and extremely U.

Yep, I would say it in real life......

LilaTheBrave Fri 18-Mar-11 23:18:07
"Well, I just don't get it, those poor children. Sorry I just dont get it, why would you not give SOMETHING?"

But why does it make you an arsehole if you happen to donate money to another charity instead? Why does a monthly direct debit donation of several tenners to Oxfam, the Red Cross etc etc make me an arsehole while 10 p to Comic Relief would save me from arseholiness?

Not donating
Not caring
me > you

And do you bother to do anything else for charity in real life? You should answer that if you are going to judge others.

maybe OP could give us a sliding scale of arseholeness

if i donate to say Cystic Fibrosis, does that put me higher than say MacMillan Charities

She probably would say it in RL. I've hidden three facebook status updates tonight from shouty folk demanding we donate to comic relief RIGHT NOW.

I didn't donate directly.

I did give via dd1's school, as they ahd a non-uniform day (which will have raised all of oooh, £3 from pupils )

but, OP, if you are so keen to help out charities, dd1's school is always in need of extra help.

it is a SN school, and has huge funding issues.

dd1 is a "poor child" too - as you are so keen on helping out everyone in need, I'll let them know to expect your donation.

many thanks

OP - When was the last time you donated to charity?

activate - I know what tithing is (I tithe some of your taxes too ).