Comic Relief

[All Seeing Eye]

Apparently Comic Relief raised £54,690,437 yesterday. Last year they only raised 40.5 Million.

HELLO! I thought we were in a recession! how can they raise 40.5 million when we're not in a recession and yet they can raise 54.6 Million during a recession and at such a bad point in it at that?

Makes you wonder what's wrong with the world.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

God bless the weak Pound.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

People give more when more are in need, and they give more when they are facing problems themselves, because they can better empathize with others, even if their problems are not on the same level.

 

[Ethros]

50 Million? What's that, about a months wage for BBC "stars" like Jonathan Ross?
Maybe if those rich bastards gave away some of their huge Scrooge McDuck esque money piles we wouldn't need stuff like this. And have to sit through horrendously bad comedy clowning

My favourite is Terry Wogan, who unlike other presenters on Comic Relief & Children In Need who do it for free, he insists a fee for presenting it. What a prick

 

[Bob The Skutter]

50 Million? What's that, about a months wage for BBC "stars" like Jonathan Ross?
Maybe if those rich bastards gave away some of their huge Scrooge McDuck esque money piles we wouldn't need stuff like this. And have to sit through horrendously bad comedy clowning

My favourite is Terry Wogan, who unlike other presenters on Comic Relief & Children In Need who do it for free, he insists a fee for presenting it. What a prick

I think you have your information wrong here. Jonathan Ross gets £6m a year for all of his work at the BBC, including his company producing a few shows, not an unspeakable amount of money for the amount of shows he does. And Terry Wogan didn't ask to be paid, they just gave him the money, which if I remember correctly last time he gave back. Sure you could say he was wrong for accepting it in past, and you're probably right, but he never insisted anything.

But I do agree with what you're saying about why the celebs who earn so much money can't give more themselves instead of trying to emotionally blackmail the general public in to giving more and more every year.

 

[cultcross]

Makes you wonder what's wrong with the world.

People apparently give to charity despite personal hardship and something is wrong with the world?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Makes you wonder what's wrong with the world.

People apparently give to charity despite personal hardship and something is wrong with the world?

Yep, just like this country should think of itself and throw out all immigrants, people should think of themselves, because charity begins at home.

 

[Ethros]

Well I was exaggerating about the Ross wages obviously.
But I just hate the concept of multi-millionaires with their massive houses (more than one) and sports cars and boatloads of cash begging people who work at ASDA cleaning the toilets at £5.50 an hour to give them money.
All trying to make out their "one of us". Like that fuckwit Chris Moyles, yes because "we" all earn 630 grand a year for doing about an hours work a day don't we?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Makes you wonder what's wrong with the world.

People apparently give to charity despite personal hardship and something is wrong with the world?

Yes, there's got to be something wrong when they only donate 40.5 million when the economy is fine and then donate 54.6 Million when everybody's losing their jobs, everyone's losing their homes, nobody has any money and people can't get credit and the entire country is in a recession.

You're telling me there nothing up with that?

 

[cultcross]

everybody's losing their jobs, everyone's losing their homes, nobody has any money and people can't get credit and the entire country is in a recession.

First, exaggerate much?

You're telling me there nothing up with that?

Funnily enough, hardship tends to make people realise what it's like to face... hardship. Strange, but true.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Well I was exaggerating about the Ross wages obviously.
But I just hate the concept of multi-millionaires with their massive houses (more than one) and sports cars and boatloads of cash begging people who work at ASDA cleaning the toilets at £5.50 an hour to give them money.
All trying to make out their "one of us". Like that fuckwit Chris Moyles, yes because "we" all earn 630 grand a year for doing about an hours work a day don't we?

I don't disagree with you on that point. At points it's like they're berating you for not giving more.
"We're begging you just dig deep and give one more time." "Don't just text one time, text again and again." But that's the problem, it's not one more time, you know it'll be back again next year, or in 2 years asking you "just one more time" and every year it's a record breaking amount, and every year they ask for that little bit more.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Makes you wonder what's wrong with the world.

People apparently give to charity despite personal hardship and something is wrong with the world?

Yes, there's got to be something wrong when they only donate 40.5 million when the economy is fine and then donate 54.6 Million when everybody's losing their jobs, everyone's losing their homes, nobody has any money and people can't get credit and the entire country is in a recession.

You're telling me there nothing up with that?

When people are down on their luck they are reminded that they too can face hardship, and thus they try harder to help those less fortunate then themselves. People come together when times are rough, it's a basic survival mechanism.

There's nothing wrong with it.

 

[Ethros]

Paul Ross deserves to get paid 50 million a month though

 

[jamestyler]

And Terry Wogan didn't ask to be paid, they just gave him the money, which if I remember correctly last time he gave back. Sure you could say he was wrong for accepting it in past, and you're probably right, but he never insisted anything.

Odd sidenote, but wasn't there a big thing with Chris Evans doing something like that quite a few years ago? "I've made enough, give the rest to charity" sort of deal?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

And Terry Wogan didn't ask to be paid, they just gave him the money, which if I remember correctly last time he gave back. Sure you could say he was wrong for accepting it in past, and you're probably right, but he never insisted anything.

Odd sidenote, but wasn't there a big thing with Chris Evans doing something like that quite a few years ago? "I've made enough, give the rest to charity" sort of deal?

Now you mention it there does seem to be some bells ringing... but I couldn't say for certain.

 

[Huntingdon]

When people are down on their luck they are reminded that they too can face hardship, and thus they try harder to help those less fortunate then themselves. People come together when times are rough, it's a basic survival mechanism.

There's nothing wrong with it.

Yep. Individual giving has gone up in every past recession where they've recorded donations. Coporate giving, on the other hand, goes down, so it evens itself out.

Volunteering also tends to go up, as people see it as a way of keeping busy and maintaining or learning new skills to get a job more quickly when the economy picks up again.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I find it very said that people complain when others are giving money to those who need it

I'm not complaining i'm pointing out there's something wrong with how the world works when people can give more during a recession than when not in one. I would have thought less money would have been given, if people could afford and were capable of giving this much during a recession then last year people should and could have given more.