is charity ruining tv?

I don't watch TV, but in a similar vein, I'm teased off with the 'chuggers' in Stafford's high street. They're people collecting money on behalf of charities and their tactics are aggressive. Last 3 times I visited Stafford's high street, there were 5 chuggers operating from their 'spawn' spots outside EE, Boots, Smiths, Maccy D's and what used to be the old Bella Pasta. The one outside Boots (working for NSPCC apparently), stopped me and asked if I wanted to go on a direct debit with them. I said I didn't have my card details, and she was like "ok let's walk to your bank together and sort it out in there". I said "can I just take one of your leaflets?" but she wasn't having any of it. I just walked off and she followed me for a bit then gave up.

If any of you responsible are reading this post, then gtfo!
 
Haggisman said:
The starving african kids ones in particular strike me as a waste of time:

"Kumala has to feed her kids mud and make them drink antelope-toilet water"

Well maybe she shouldn't have had 20 of them while living in the middle of the ****ing desert then?!

We've been throwing money at Africa for 30+ years now, and oh look, they're in exactly the same state as they were 30+ years ago. Maybe if we stopped giving them money, and enabling them to live in the desert in crap conditions, they'd stop doing it? Either by moving to more fertile locations or stopping having so many kids they can't support (and increasing the suffering and overpopulation in the process).

Please note, I have no problems with charity going to victims of natural disasters and other one-off, freak events, but when it's an ongoing problem where it makes no difference, at what point do you turn round and say "enough is enough"?
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Kijcax said:
Or Snow Leopards to starving kids ;)
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No, no. There are plenty of starving kids, not many leophards...

Kill two (well more in fact) birds with one stone. Solve the starving kids issue, provide more food for the rest of the starving kids not fed to the cats, increase leopard populations and decrease the human population... Win, win, win and win!
 
Monserrat said:
I don't watch TV, but in a similar vein, I'm teased off with the 'chuggers' in Stafford's high street. They're people collecting money on behalf of charities and their tactics are aggressive. Last 3 times I visited Stafford's high street, there were 5 chuggers operating from their 'spawn' spots outside EE, Boots, Smiths, Maccy D's and what used to be the old Bella Pasta. The one outside Boots (working for NSPCC apparently), stopped me and asked if I wanted to go on a direct debit with them. I said I didn't have my card details, and she was like "ok let's walk to your bank together and sort it out in there". I said "can I just take one of your leaflets?" but she wasn't having any of it. I just walked off and she followed me for a bit then gave up.

If any of you responsible are reading this post, then gtfo!
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Like drugs... Just say no! :p
 
Monserrat said:
I don't watch TV, but in a similar vein, I'm teased off with the 'chuggers' in Stafford's high street. They're people collecting money on behalf of charities and their tactics are aggressive. Last 3 times I visited Stafford's high street, there were 5 chuggers operating from their 'spawn' spots outside EE, Boots, Smiths, Maccy D's and what used to be the old Bella Pasta. The one outside Boots (working for NSPCC apparently), stopped me and asked if I wanted to go on a direct debit with them. I said I didn't have my card details, and she was like "ok let's walk to your bank together and sort it out in there". I said "can I just take one of your leaflets?" but she wasn't having any of it. I just walked off and she followed me for a bit then gave up.

If any of you responsible are reading this post, then gtfo!
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You're mistake is engaging with them, just say nothing and walk past them. I wish i can get them banned altogether.
 
slick rick said:
What annoys me is that they don't ask for a one off donation of whatever you can afford, you have to pay X amount every month for how ever long. Makes no sense.
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This, I'm not the totally cynical and heartless ******* that I normally portray, but if I was feeling flush at some point and would like to contribute to some charities managers company car fund, I'd like to do it in a one off capacity, not be struck for a direct debit, then put on a suckers list and suffer bombardment from them and their partners about donating a little but more every month.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
on every channel now it seems like its a charity 24/7 ad campaign !

from snow leopards to starving kids in every known region of man to every other kind of begging.also its depressing.

so do you get annoyed at the frequency of these adds and how they are done ?

my kids would like to watch there cartoon without being bombarded by these adds 20 times in 30 minutes :mad::p
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and annoyingly most of the money you donate will be spent on paying for these adverts rather than helping
 
It's a January thing, to capture the gullible New Years resolution to give more to charity crowd market.
 
My sister signed up for one of these once for whatever reason, I think it was Oxfam. £2 a month Direct Debit got her bombarded with glossy begging leaflets, magazines, and a few more once she had decided to chop it (because they clearly weren't making any real effort to ensure as much money as possible actually went to charity).

I don't think people really mind giving to a charity of their choice, they will have reasons and lots of people will know people who have been personally affected by areas that certain charities deal in. It's the highly paid executives and flashy central London offices that go with it that people resent.
 
StevieP said:
I don't think I've watched a program "live" for about 5 years so I never actually watch the adverts anyway - 30x is your friend! :D
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Sports aside, I don't think I've spent 30min the past 5 years watching any TV.

I can even remember the last time I've sat in front of a TV to watch it. Ireland were playing the All Blacks. Before that it was Olympic badminton and before that about 10min of the royal wedding.

Nothing else since or in between.

Don't know what these adverts are people are talking about :p
 
Burnsy2023 said:
BBC iPlayer
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I used this once, spent ages going through it all. Was appalled how bad the content was.

Then jumped in 5 On Demand? once. Exactly the same. Had a look at the Gadget Show. Oh my god. 160 seconds worth of ads before it started.
 
How did you manage to go through every programme on iPlayer and find nothing interesting, amusing or entertaining?
 
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