Comic Relief
- Thread starter Ranu
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i don't mind charity at all, i just find all this...uncomfortable; there ar epeople on tv who have a SHITLOAD more money than me telling me i need to give their new black friends some money for things that foreign (and home) policies should be working towards. Without the proper infrastructure in place nothing will ever change. So while ADe Edmonson tells me about the new classrooms he wants in Kenya, our government and the wetern world do nothing. Meanwhile I have to feel guilty for not giving.Iemanja said:
In return i get to enjoy a night of piss poor entertainment.
The whole thing just makes me uncomfortable. Support good causes by all means, but is this the right way?
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
Comic Relief sometimes seems more about saving the careers of C list celebs than saving starving kids.
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wishface said:
I agree with you wishface. There seems to be two fundamental issues when it comes to things like comic relief.
1) It totally smokescreens the real issues, and the money created is pathetically small to what is needed anyway.
2) It becomes a place for slebs to raise their branding profile. Totally sickening to see in our horrible sleb culture shallow world.
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El Sueno said:
Better smokescreening or better branding?
skunkboy69
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Lol@blair
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that was some surreal shitskunkboy69 said:
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
eek at blair. that was just horrible.
skyscraper101
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OMG...how many opportunities for cutting and splicing that Blair footage will that provide!!!
I can see the 'Don't Watch That Watch This' lot rubbing their hands with glee already
I can see the 'Don't Watch That Watch This' lot rubbing their hands with glee already
Ceej
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Catherine Tate is pants - one trick pony and by God does she do her party piece..again and again....and again.....and again....oh my days, it's little Tony B.....just no. No.
I don't dispute that our hard-earned cash helps, but I really object to all this horrible dead-kids-dying-babies-abused-teenage manipulation film designed to break our hearts and make us dig deep. Clearly we're not able to make a decision by ourselves who we want to support......
I don't dispute that our hard-earned cash helps, but I really object to all this horrible dead-kids-dying-babies-abused-teenage manipulation film designed to break our hearts and make us dig deep. Clearly we're not able to make a decision by ourselves who we want to support......
dlx1
Well-Known Member
Comic Relief: The Big One
More like Big number two
Don't mean to sound hartless but how many year has this been on how much money has been rased!!
The money must be going a stray into the wrong peoples pockets.
all the celebs on CR could donate would be better then have them act like tits and seft back pat
More like Big number two
Don't mean to sound hartless but how many year has this been on how much money has been rased!!
The money must be going a stray into the wrong peoples pockets.
all the celebs on CR could donate would be better then have them act like tits and seft back pat
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
well, there doesn't seem to be any other way that raises so much fucxking money.wishface said:
if the alternative raises less money, it isn't a good alternative, is it?
ChrisFilter
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Am I the only one who thought Tony Blair did a really good job of that?
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
why?thedyslexic1 said:
do you think all the problems should have been solved by now?
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
he did, actually - good timing, naturalitic delivery, self-confident... but that all made it worse!ChrisFilter said:
tony blair: frustrated thespian is too horrible to live with
ChrisFilter
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I wish I hated him as much as I'm supposed to. Despite everything, I did still rather him than any of the other contenders.
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spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
because it's phenomenally expensive to get mains water and irrigation to every outlying village on an entire continent, encompassing desert and other inhospitable terrain - plus huge numbers of civil wars.thedyslexic1 said:
in addition, water/food isn't anywhere near the only problem in africa.
damn straight, governments should give more. But you seem to be implying that in the last 11 red nose days, the 250million quid or whatever that they've raised is enough to do more than be a drop in the ocean of need out there. and because they haven't irrigated the entire continent, solved civil wars and famine, and cured aids with that money, that someone must've been on the fiddle.
quite frankly, get a grip!
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
i liked ross' comment.
"remember, all the performers tonight are appearing for free", followed by a cough, that sounded exactly like "wogan"... dig at his Radio2 colleague's children in need fee.
"remember, all the performers tonight are appearing for free", followed by a cough, that sounded exactly like "wogan"... dig at his Radio2 colleague's children in need fee.
ChrisFilter said:
No. You are not.
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