is charity ruining tv?

It's the casino/betting app adverts that get on my *** ends.

"Oddsfather - we need something more exciting, what can do you for us?"
"OK, here's our new website. Sign up now for £10 free bets."
"OMG thank you that's changed my life forever I'm going professional!!"

"Bet online. Bet on your mobile. Bet in play - now."

Ridiculous. It was never like this up until about 5-6 years ago.
 
I don't mind most adverts for charities, I don't donate monthly but many are truly good causes. Nets to prevent malaria, aid for Syrian refugees, survivors of natural disasters, Schools for orphans, I don't mind any of that stuff.

But Kaiden needs to walk 30 miles every day to the nearest clean water? Just move to the flippin water! I'd even pay towards that. "Just £10 of petrol will move 2 families close enough to a river that they dont have to do a 30 mile round trip every day".
 
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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yeah, this annoys me. Ir starts off something like "just 50 pence prevents this starving child" and then it turns out it is 50p a day so a 180 quid a year, which is really a very different amount of money.

Now I do support charities but there is no way I want a 30 quid monthly direct debit out. I want to make a one off donation and not be pestered about it.
 
I would happily watch charity appeals 24/7 if it meant tosh like big brother and "TOWIE" were never to be seen on my TV again.
 
On top of the Charity adverts,

Bingo companies
Ambulance chasers
Loan Sharks
PPI reclaim chancers

all these should be banned from advertising on TV (and preferably locked in the their office buildings which should then be set fire too).
 
memyselfandi said:
On top of the Charity adverts,

Bingo companies
Ambulance chasers
Loan Sharks
PPI reclaim chancers

all these should be banned from advertising on TV (and preferably locked in the their office buildings which should then be set fire too).
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Add CASH MY GOLD to that list also... Glad I've boycotted TV it's only on the odd occasion I have to watch it. Just wish netflix would get there act together on streaming quality.
 
Except that some of us just have it on as background noise when working from home so as to not be sitting in a dead silent house. Then you don't want something you want to watch as you aren't really paying attention to it but it gets irritating when every time you glance up it seems to be the same ads all the time ...
 
it might just be me getting old but sometimes i find the adverts go on so long i actually forget what i'm watching and i'm surprised when it comes back on. :p
 
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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Same here, the only live TV I watch is football and even during half time I will watch something I recorded.
My player has got a 4 minute, 1 minute & 15 second fast forward buttons so I never see adverts.
 
Yep need to donate to keep funding those admin costs of 70+% of all funds received, not to mention the £250,000+ income of the CEO's (Plus bonus of course). Charities are awesome.
 
No, tv is being ruined by the fact it sucks nowadays, I basically watch 3 channels.

Dave (sometimes, but pretty much only for top gear), Good food and Vintage tv.

I'll just watch something off the htpc or netflix otherwise.

Everything else just has hoards of ****, and even the BBC are advertising constantly, I don't care what else you're planning on putting on BBC, I have a tv guide, I KNOW WHAT IS GOING TO BE ON!

I mean lets have a recap on some of the **** they put on tv: Xfactor, the voice, big brother (and any of the stupid spinoffs like im a celebrity), the only way is chelsea, made in essex and all those types of shows, jeremy kyle (or anything where a bunch of inbreds act like inbreds), chavs going abroad to magaluf or whatever that crap is, hollyoaks, eastenders? that's been crap for 10 years, neighbours is crap nowadays too, basically anything which has Harry Hill in - the man is so unfunny he actually makes me want to self harm, anything documenting celebrity lives, anything documenting faux celebrities lives oh and the news if you can really call it news any more. The tv is awash with crap.
 
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Woden said:
But Kaiden needs to walk 30 miles every day to the nearest clean water? Just move to the flippin water! I'd even pay towards that. "Just £10 of petrol will move 2 families close enough to a river that they dont have to do a 30 mile round trip every day".
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They do have nearby clean water, 99% of the time in their normal everyday lives, they have food and markets and an infrastructure. But if they have a bad crop year and drought, like anyone else could, everything goes to poo-poo, and they have to start walking to find whatever water is left. Those guys will probably be fine in 6 months, but right now they need a bit of help.

African famines are one off events and they happen in different regions at different times. Africa's a big place, they deserve as much charity as any other natural disaster.
 
SickAsAParrot said:
They do have nearby clean water, 99% of the time in their normal everyday lives, they have food and markets and an infrastructure. But if they have a bad crop year and drought, like anyone else could, everything goes to poo-poo, and they have to start walking to find whatever water is left. Those guys will probably be fine in 6 months, but right now they need a bit of help.

African famines are one off events and they happen in different regions at different times. Africa's a big place, they deserve as much charity as any other natural disaster.
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So why, in the last 30+ years have they not built infrastructure to mitigate those circumstances - water storage, irrigation, etc.?

I can't imagine how many billions of £ has been sent over there, and yet nothing seems to have changed...
 
My ex-wife signed up a few years ago to help to RSPCA. It started at £2 a month. Within 2 months she'd been asked to raise it (and did) to £3 p/m. Teh she got a letter asking her to raise it to £5 p/m with some guilt inducing letter to accompany it. At that pouint, even she said enough is enough and cancelled the DD. That triggered a flood of mail (and not all from the RSPCA) begging for money.
The end result is that my ex and I are both firmly commited never to get drawn into this sort of guilt based scam again.
Similar to the OP, my kids like watching Cartoon Network and the amount of really quite unplesasant and uncomfortable ads that they are subjected to is incredible. However, the only real effect it has had is that now my kids are a whizz with time-shifting on the Sky box. :)
 
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?!
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"Olajide and his villagers have to walk for 3 hours a day to collect water, your £5 a month could install a water pump in his village......"

Olajide should move closer to the pump.
 
Haggisman said:
So why, in the last 30+ years have they not built infrastructure to mitigate those circumstances - water storage, irrigation, etc.?

I can't imagine how many billions of £ has been sent over there, and yet nothing seems to have changed...
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Because it's expensive, why haven't we built an irrigation system to get water from scotland to the south? and we're relatively rich, and Africa is how many times bigger?

It's like saying we sent all that money to Indonesia, why didn't they make it Tsunami proof?

A drought/crop failure on a large scale is a natural disaster, you can't prevent it.
 
Haggisman said:
So why, in the last 30+ years have they not built infrastructure to mitigate those circumstances - water storage, irrigation, etc.?

I can't imagine how many billions of £ has been sent over there, and yet nothing seems to have changed...
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Big countries, lots of poverty, wells are difficult to build and maintain in the middle of butt**** nowhere.

It started at £2 a month. Within 2 months she'd been asked to raise it (and did) to £3 p/m.
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You gave him one fiddy, now he gon' be back asking for tree fiddy!
 
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