Comic Relief - Red Nose Day 2009

[Perth Bambi]

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!

I assume you don't have the need to buy condoms by your comments but take a trip down to your local supermarket, a pack of three costs nearly the same amount as a malaria net, except you don't need to buy a malaria net every three times you have sex. I am going to assume you are just looking for an arguement rather then believing the rubbish you spout.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

: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.

You know what...this sounds very harsh, but as long as I can look after my wife and kids and make sure they are fed, watered and healthy, I don't care too much about anything else.

If we had major problems in this country, I wouldn't see any other countries leaping in to help any time soon.

I would rather save those pounds that I could put to charity and have them as a backfall if anything did happen to my family!

 

[davewebbsbrain]

I assume you don't have the need to buy condoms by your comments but take a trip down to your local supermarket, a pack of three costs nearly the same amount as a malaria net, except you don't need to buy a malaria net every three times you have sex. I am going to assume you are just looking for an arguement rather then believing the rubbish you spout.

Wrong, Africans would need to buy a Malaria net EVERY time they had sex if they werent using contraception!


No argument wanted..you can get condoms free at the local clinic I hear.

 

[Hotman]

as embarrassing as it is to admit it I am loving dave webbs brains input into this thread, it's made his 3,940 other threads worth getting through

 

[davewebbsbrain]

as embarrassing as it is to admit it I am loving dave webbs brains input into this thread, it's made his 3,940 other threads worth getting through

Oh you flatterer...I am just saying what you any many others are thinking. Just I don't care what people think,(unlike many on here who are too scared to say what they really think for fear of getting Neg Repped) I am entitled to my opinion and life would be boring if everyone had the same opinion.

How many people are truly happy to be giving from their own pocket 18 or so years in a row. If it eradicated the problem and there was an end to it or our government paid the amount the British public paid year in year out to these charities...or it was even guaranteed the money raised would all go to the charities, all well and good, but none of it can be held as true!

 

[The Flying Scotsman]

I think it's a chance for us to sit back, reflect and realise just how lucky we are.

Happily donated last night.

 

[McNasty]

Can one of our educated folk enlighten me as I can't work something out.

In the jungle nature decrees the survival of the fittest so only the strong live yet I can't work out who will feed these many, many thousands of children who, with the aid of a mosquito net, are likely to live when millions are already dying of starvation ? Surely if there is not enough food to feed the numbers already, how can they stretch the food to cover more and more children ?

or why not eradicate all the mozzies so malaria vanishes ?

 

[pickledseal]

Through working as a volunteer at Crisis the last 4 Christmases and doing my stint in Ethiopia I know that in both the UK and overseas charity donations DO make a difference to people lives.

Yes, and particually in the past, things may have gone wrong and the wrong people go the money, but this happens far less so now. Charities in the UK and overseas are so much more accountable (I saw the ammount of paper work the sister in Ethiopia had to do!).

I guess it is all down to personal view, as already stated, I don't give to Comic Relief or Red Nose Day but have made donations to other charities inspired by their evening of 'entertainment'. I'll also always try to sponsor people if I can.

If you don't feel you want to or can't fair enough, and if you a sceptable about how its used I won't be able to change you mind. Perhaps instead do a few hours volunteering with a local charity? You know then your money is not being mis-spent! ;)

 

[OldBlueLady]

I think it's a chance for us to sit back, reflect and realise just how lucky we are.

Happily donated last night.

Exactly how I felt, though I take Ken's point about "survival of the fittest" and all that. I think the greatest thing we can provide the respective areas of Africa with is education, surely with education they will then have the knowledge of how to support their communities and hopefully will also not have the need to produce so many children if contraception and advice is provided? Or is that far too simplistic a hope?

 

[pickledseal]

Exactly how I felt, though I take Ken's point about "survival of the fittest" and all that. I think the greatest thing we can provide the respective areas of Africa with is education, surely with education they will then have the knowledge of how to support their communities and hopefully will also not have the need to produce so many children if contraception and advice is provided? Or is that far too simplistic a hope?

I actually think, although education is important, that long term investment into industry providing stable employment and development would be of most benefit. From my own experiences, there are simply no jobs, no careers, few professions...

Now you can argue that you needed an educated workfroce before that is possible, and I'd agree, but I can't see that investment around the corner!

 

[manor15]

When Fearne Cotten fainted was I the only one who thought that the nurses might have more important things to be doing? Great effort by everyone involved, donated my share and Smithy taking the **** out of JT was worth £50,000,000 alone!

 

[OldBlueLady]

When Fearne Cotten fainted was I the only one who thought that the nurses might have more important things to be doing? Great effort by everyone involved, donated my share and Smithy taking the **** out of JT was worth £50,000,000 alone!

Yes, I thought so too, and I had forgotten about the Smithy thing earlier - it was another of the highlights, and a chance to see lovely David Beckham! ;)

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I'm all for charity, but wish they'd change they'd change the means of fund-raising.

A sponsored silence instead of climbing Kilimanjaro would surely raise more money?

I hate to think how much of a burden they and Comic Relief Night were to the NHS, who had to cope with unprecedented numbers of people stabbing themselves in their eye with a fork just so they didn't have to watch.

I think bribing their guide to lead them the wrong way and over a cliff-edge would also be a good way forward. This would raise lots of money as being such fans of charidee, the participants will have left all their money to good causes. They will have lots of money left because they don't have to pay for their holiday to Kilimanjaro and can no doubt claim back expenses back from the charities.

 

[pickledseal]

When Fearne Cotten fainted was I the only one who thought that the nurses might have more important things to be doing? Great effort by everyone involved, donated my share and Smithy taking the **** out of JT was worth £50,000,000 alone!

Although the fee paid by the BBC to the hospital should have hopefully paid to feed that nurses family for a week?

 

[manor15]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/7938381.stm
Worth watching if you missed it

 

[duncan bulgaria]

I taped Comic Relief and watched all the funny parts whilst fast forwarding the African Kids .

 

[Hotman]

I taped Comic Relief and watched all the funny parts whilst fast forwarding the African Kids .

Racist !!!

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[Basildon Blue]

did anyone else watch lets dance for comic relief? Robert Webb's Flashdance was amazing. :D

 

[Ricey]

I taped Comic Relief and watched all the funny parts whilst fast forwarding the African Kids .

You did alot of fast fowarding then ;)