To detest children in need?

[Smeeeinit]

The show that takes my precious eastenders away from me NOT what it stands for.
The whole terry Wogan/gabby roslin thing makes me want to rip my eyes out ..
I don't need to watch a bunch of non slebs doing shit to know what's happening in the world.
However I do give a good wedge every year... I'm not a total fucker!

If you feel able to raise all that money another way. You go right ahead. Then you can say you detest CIN. Until then why don't you just thank your lucky stars that you're not counting on every penny raised.

Usual, he's lost weight.

It happens that the only happy school memories I have are CiN days where we got to chuck buckets of water at teachers. Hadn't watched it in years (live abroad) and so far only recognise terry wogan and team gb and robbie williams, but they're raising millions. No bad thing.

Yabu, how can anyone listen to the back stories and think EE is more worthy of our time?oh and the presenter is Tess Daley not Fearne!

Oh dear, I see the po-faces have turned up. I'm off...

No Usual it's not cool. Well done you

Think OP was just joking.

Obviously Children in Need is a cause worthy of attention. even if it includes Fearne Cotton

I fecking hate it! rich people on telly telling us poor people to give up our cash because they're '"giving their time" - yeah! one WHOLE EVENING given up to self promotion, how inspiring!

At a time when people don't want to give? Or at a time when lots of people are struggling financially?

Plenty of point missing. The fact that call me dave is trying to shove everything in to charities and just absolve the government of any responsibilities to the vulnerable.
I believe passionately in the work of CIN/all equivalents it's just that I also believe passionately that the government should be paying for it. It's exactly the same with help for heroes.
I'm not going to tacitly agree that child protection work is being done by charities it's bloody negligent.

I've no problem with the cause, just the relentless nagging for money. If the Schlebs want to put on an evening of "light entertainment" to help raise awareness of child poverty etc in the UK, that's great, especially if they are donating huge chunks of their personal fortune to these worthy causes. However, a simple message running along the bottom of the screen with the donation details would do, I don't watch it because I can't bear the nagging. So they possibly lose money because I get so pissed off with the "please give as much as you can" from the pleading schlebs in designer frocks and £600 heels......

so glad to see people find CIN need so funny to take the piss out of.
"It pleads on peoples conscience ... do away with the lic fee and we wouldnt have to suffer it.

Im not suffering it because I have a working remote control that switches channel

Hard faced I pay enough in tax for foreign aid. Contraception and education would be more worthwhile."

fuck off

Well I fell out with children in need many years ago after a fiasco as a school child and the biggest choir EVER - very long very boring story which I should have gotten over 20 + years ago - but have never forgotten or given since.

I do donate directly to some charities that have been featured though

I knew people like you existed with your withering indignation about other people daring to raise money for children in need. I just never realised how disheartening it would be to read your actual words. There are quite a lot of tv channels. CIN is on one of them. It doesn't need to touch you in any way. Yet still you persist with your righteous indignation. Turn over.

Yes, the government SHOULD be dealing with it all, but they aren't, and won't. So it's a great way of raising awareness.

I agree with Tufty.

If that makes me po-faced, so be it

Dare to educate yourself just a little bit more about aid and you might see CIN/comic relief Etc a little differently.
I'm not going to say anyone in particular here is wrong in their beliefs because they are right, based on the information they have and the validity of its sources. And by that I mean successful propaganda.

We are all entitled to make informed decisions about to whom we give our own money to.

I wonder what the figures are like about people in benefits giving to CIN are. If they are relevant then I want to talk about exploitation in a grim way.

CIN always reminds me of my own childhood and how noone even noticed me and my brothers.

Ridiculous for me to be a bit I suppose.

I haven't watched a single second of it on the tv, but I'v had to buy spotty clothes for my children to wear to school today, and give them money to donate in school. It's also all over the shops and internet. So it's not just a tv show, is it?

I do donate, to this and a variety of other charities, but the whole telethon thing is like nails down a black board to me.

tufty was your last post in response to mine?

IamLouis yip, here too.
As the old gits burnt cash at the fireplace, they muttered "children in need, they can stay in bloody need"

But to answer the OP, its the smarmy selfserving of the slebs that provokes the nausea and vomiting. We should help children in need ( lower case).