Comic Relief - Red Nose Day 2009

[pringlejon]

https://donate.comicrelief.com/donation/

amazed by how much they've made so far, nearing 50mill. if you haven't donated yet, link is above or text "YES" to 66609 to donate £5 to charity. every little helps. cheers all.

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

Just donated a fiver

 

[pickledseal]

I donate, but with my own agenda, and make my cheque payable to CAFOD

 

[Aberdeen Shrimper]

I donate, but with my own agenda, and make my cheque payable to CAFOD

Great option if you are a Christian I guess, but if you are not!!!

 

[OldBlueLady]

We did a fund raiser at school and have had a whole week of assemblies to do with Comic Relief and where the money goes and why. Our tower of coins raised about £360, it was supposed to be a spiral but the kids had been told to bring in small coins so ended up a tower!

Enjoyed the Mamma Mia spoof and lovely David Tennant presenting, some good celeb "pieces", Annie Lennox, in particular.

 

[McNasty]

Some very heart-wrenching pieces of filming last night, but in the time I watched it was all about Africa -- did any British bits get shown ?

 

[OldBlueLady]

Yes, there were several bits about young carers, in particular one young lad with both parents registered blind and his younger brother also having the same syndrome as his father so his sight was deteriorating also. Both boys loners, the older one does everything around the house and takes mum food shopping, wheeling everything home in a shopping trolley. Helps his brother with his homework rather than do his own - desperately sad. Ant and Dec also visited a place in Gateshead that I think was also for young carers, and a mother and daughter where the mother has MS and the daughter has to do everything for her.

I didn't see more than a couple of hours and those were bits I saw to do with Britain, there's usually some to do with the homeless but not that I saw last night. The big focus seemed to be on malaria in Africa and young carers here.

 

[Lord Football]

So all these really rich and famous people parade about our televisions asking us to donate money if they tell us jokes and shock with sob stories.

This Government has just spend £100bn on ensuring the survival of capitalism. It has spent £100bm in an illegal war. It has spent countless on weapons of mass destrcution. Previous governments have similarly frittered away money on schemes that do not really benefit any bar the few.

If this money had been used to wipe out third world debt, or investing countries, or solving some of the massive social problems this country encounters, we wouldn't need things like Comic Relief.

I see just now Comic Relief collected £57m. Thats just over half what Man City wanted to pay for Kaka. Puts it in perspective really.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Some very heart-wrenching pieces of filming last night, but in the time I watched it was all about Africa -- did any British bits get shown ?

All about Africa and Lenny (im not funny) Henry's relatives!!

Can't stand it...charity begins at home, plenty of worthy causes in the uk!

 

[davewebbsbrain]

So all these really rich and famous people parade about our televisions asking us to donate money if they tell us jokes and shock with sob stories.

This Government has just spend £100bn on ensuring the survival of capitalism. It has spent £100bm in an illegal war. It has spent countless on weapons of mass destrcution. Previous governments have similarly frittered away money on schemes that do not really benefit any bar the few.

If this money had been used to wipe out third world debt, or investing countries, or solving some of the massive social problems this country encounters, we wouldn't need things like Comic Relief.

I see just now Comic Relief collected £57m. Thats just over half what Man City wanted to pay for Kaka. Puts it in perspective really.

Well said...couldn't put it better myself. The uk is in recession, us normal folks are struggling to survive, but they expect us to put our hands in our pockets...so wrong!

 

[Hotman]

So all these really rich and famous people parade about our televisions asking us to donate money if they tell us jokes and shock with sob stories.

This Government has just spend £100bn on ensuring the survival of capitalism. It has spent £100bm in an illegal war. It has spent countless on weapons of mass destrcution. Previous governments have similarly frittered away money on schemes that do not really benefit any bar the few.

If this money had been used to wipe out third world debt, or investing countries, or solving some of the massive social problems this country encounters, we wouldn't need things like Comic Relief.

I see just now Comic Relief collected £57m. Thats just over half what Man City wanted to pay for Kaka. Puts it in perspective really.

If the government hadn't have spent money on the war your family would have been nuked by a skud missile, and instead of being called "Kerry" you would be known as Mohammad Patel

makes putting a tenner into comic relief a bit more understandable !!

 

[canveyshrimper]

All about Africa and Lenny (im not funny) Henry's relatives!!

Can't stand it...charity begins at home, plenty of worthy causes in the uk!

Charity should always be a personal thing, and to be fair the majority are more than worthy causes, therefore I will donate to charities that have affected my life & family.

For years I have witnessed horror stories coming out of Africa, The Belgian Congo, Biafra, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and lately Zimbabwe. The sad truth is that donations of food, clothes, money whatever, inavariably does not go to the people who are affected by famine, illness or deprivation, but to the top people in these regimes. Mengistu in Ethiopia was buying boatloads of weaponry from the Soviets & Chinese so he could maintain an insane war with Eritrea while his people starved. As a consequence I harden my heart when I see these pictures and resolve never to donate accordingly.

 

[Basildon Blue]

I've donated some money. I thought the best bits were Smithy's team talk and Outnumbered.

 

[Perth Bambi]

Every year the arugement comes up about not donating money because it all goes to Africa. Thing is the people that say that don't have a clue, it isn't even the truth, plenty of the money goes to causes in this country.

I agree there are plenty of worthy causes in this country and they do get money all year round, granted most of them don't get enough for all the things that they want to do. But I would think it is very rare in this country that someone dies because they couldn't get any food, or dies because they can't get simple medicine.

Thinking about it now I don't think I will ever donate to a charity that runs in Scotland as well as England, after all it isn't my country. Actually sod that I am not going to donate to any charities that run outside of Essex, no wait Southend. Actually sod that I am not going to donate to any charities that run outside of my own home as I am don't want anyone else that is not in my family to benefit. Actually I am going to just keep all the money myself. Then I can agree with some of the rubbish spouted in this thread.

The cynic in me says that a lot of the celebs do this just to raise their profiles. But then when you watch it the celebs that do it are the ones that don't need to raise their profiles. Davina Mccall, Alan Carr. Graham Norton although in my opinion pretty untalented aren't going to be struggling for work anytime soon (unless they cancel Big Bro) Lenny Henry however unfunny he maybe has been doing this a very long time, and the celebs that went up kilamanjaro, well respect to them. Leeds Univeristy has the technology to mimic the conditions of high altitude and on my first degree I had to cycle for 30mins in this conditions, I tell you what it was like having to go for a hardcore bikeride after.

£5 isn't a lot of money, even I can afford it and I have just come off the back of 2 degrees and am not currently working. Just think if when the last bell went instead of rushing to the bar to get that last drink in, don't, 5 pound saved.

 

[pringlejon]

they said last night that 40% goes to causes in this country and i think they just play more videos of malaria in africa to shock and encourage more donations. even if there's a possibility of my £5 going to africa to buy a malaria net and saving a mother from having to bury her child then i'm willing to donate. it's not their fault they were born into these conditions.

i've got a maxed out overdraft and am having to buy basics food left right and centre but to me £5 is a couple of pints which i can go without.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

they said last night that 40% goes to causes in this country and i think they just play more videos of malaria in africa to shock and encourage more donations. even if there's a possibility of my £5 going to africa to buy a malaria net and saving a mother from having to bury her child then i'm willing to donate. it's not their fault they were born into these conditions.

i've got a maxed out overdraft and am having to buy basics food left right and centre but to me £5 is a couple of pints which i can go without.

No...it's the parents fault....They know Malaria is a killer and it's quite likely to kill children, but they still churn babies out at a rate of knots.

Yes, a net is a fantastic idea, but if the parents didn't keep having kids, they wouldn't need the nets would they!!

How about some sex education to the Africans!!

 

[Perth Bambi]

No...it's the parents fault....They know Malaria is a killer and it's quite likely to kill children, but they still churn babies out at a rate of knots.

Yes, a net is a fantastic idea, but if the parents didn't keep having kids, they wouldn't need the nets would they!!

How about some sex education to the Africans!!

Sex education is a good idea but this theory on having lots of children is rubbish. Even if a couple have ten children i would think the chances of more then 2/3 of them reaching adulthood is poor.

And your logic doesn't really work either does it. Are you saying that people in Africa shouldn't have children because they might catch malaria? Well if no-one had any children the population of Africa would die out wouldn't it. Then who would Portsmouth sign? If a child is an only child or has ten brothers that child still has exactly the same amount of chance of catching malaria.

Do you have kids or have any ideas of having them in the future. If someone told you that you were never allowed to have sex again because if you did there was a chance you might get someone pregnant and if that someone did get pregnant there was a chance that the baby might get ill and die, are you honestly telling me you would never have sex again?
Your original idea about sex education was a good one, especially with the Aids epidemic as parents in general don't know how it s passed on/down etc, and I am sure some of this money will go towards sex ed but you can't tell a whole continent to stop having sex just because there is a chance there children might get malaria.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Sex education is a good idea but this theory on having lots of children is rubbish. Even if a couple have ten children i would think the chances of more then 2/3 of them reaching adulthood is poor.

And your logic doesn't really work either does it. Are you saying that people in Africa shouldn't have children because they might catch malaria? Well if no-one had any children the population of Africa would die out wouldn't it. Then who would Portsmouth sign? If a child is an only child or has ten brothers that child still has exactly the same amount of chance of catching malaria.

Do you have kids or have any ideas of having them in the future. If someone told you that you were never allowed to have sex again because if you did there was a chance you might get someone pregnant and if that someone did get pregnant there was a chance that the baby might get ill and die, are you honestly telling me you would never have sex again?
Your original idea about sex education was a good one, especially with the Aids epidemic as parents in general don't know how it s passed on/down etc, and I am sure some of this money will go towards sex ed but you can't tell a whole continent to stop having sex just because there is a chance there children might get malaria.

Condoms...great invention! You can have sex every night.

If an African family has 10 children, that's 10 nets, have 2 children, 2 nets...much more affordable, just 2 nets rather than 10. Virtually guarantees 2 safe kids that grow into adulthood. Portsmouth will be sorted.

How about Portsmouth FC donate millions to buy nets, then if any kids grow up to be great footballers, they can sign for Portsmouth for free as Portsmouth did the ground work when they were babies!

 

[Bluesmanager]

Put it this way - a tenner from everybody in my class (including lecturers, LSWs and so on) is as near as doesn't matter £200.

It all adds up. Of that 57million, how much d'you think was big celebrity endorsed donations? (3.6million from Radio 1 for Killermanjaro, didn't catch how much The Apprentice raised though). End of the day, it's not a lot compared to the rest of the money.

On a less serious note - it is now official: DOCTOR WHO is better than BIG BROTHER. McCall was bloody terrible!

 

[A Century United]

Condoms...great invention! You can have sex every night.

If an African family has 10 children, that's 10 nets, have 2 children, 2 nets...much more affordable, just 2 nets rather than 10. Virtually guarantees 2 safe kids that grow into adulthood. Portsmouth will be sorted.

:O DWB, can I suggest that you take the time to actually read up on things like child mortality rates in the third world, and the reasons they are as high as they are, before you make incredible statements like that? You make it sound very simple. It really isn't.