Movember 2010
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Here is my effort, nothing compared to lots of you but I've raised over £120 so I've done my best 
http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/Joe_Monkey/?action=view¤t=WP_000012.jpg
If this is huge somebody let me know and i'll just leave the url, I can't actually see image from work.
http://s14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/Joe_Monkey/?action=view¤t=WP_000012.jpg
If this is huge somebody let me know and i'll just leave the url, I can't actually see image from work.
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Here is my effort, nothing compared to lots of you but I've raised over £120 so I've done my best
If this is huge somebody let me know and i'll just leave the url, I can't actually see image from work.
Image didnt show matey (well not for me anyway)
As for the beards comment, it will get shaved into a tash for the end of the month
there should be no beards, the whole point is to grow and groom a moustache throughout the month of November. Not just grow a beard for a month then trim it down to a tash for 1 day :/
http://uk.movember.com/uploads/files/PDFs/Movember Rules.pdf <-- rules
http://uk.movember.com/uploads/files/PDFs/Movember Rules.pdf <-- rules
there should be no beards, the whole point is to grow and groom a moustache throughout the month of November. Not just grow a beard for a month then trim it down to a tash for 1 day :/
http://uk.movember.com/uploads/files/PDFs/Movember Rules.pdf <-- rules
I like my god damn beard you filthy lefty!
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Hmmm, there's a thread here and Ive been needing to get this off my chest.
I applaud anyone for wanting to raise money for charity, and obviously its a good cause....but, this?
Charity fundraising is about going out your way to do something difficult, something people will be happy to sponsor you for. I recently completed the Royal Marines Commando Challenge and it's no exaggeration to say that it was one of the hardest things I've ever done. A sponsored moustache though? That's just not shaving! You may as well have a sponsored "non ironed shirt" month or a sponsored "lie down weekend".
Of course, you probably think if its raising money then what's the problem - my issue is that this sort of thing devalues and trivialises fundraising as a whole. The more things like this become common, the more people will become alienated with sponsoring people to do things.
So my feeling is of you want to do something really worthwhile, send the charity 50 quid yourself and leave the fundraising to people who are willing to do something that's actually challenging. You'll feel better for it and not look quite as silly. And your coworkers wont need to put uo with 5 emails in one day about a sodding moustache
I'm sure very few people will understand where I'm coming from, but I just had to get that off my chest.
I applaud anyone for wanting to raise money for charity, and obviously its a good cause....but, this?
Charity fundraising is about going out your way to do something difficult, something people will be happy to sponsor you for. I recently completed the Royal Marines Commando Challenge and it's no exaggeration to say that it was one of the hardest things I've ever done. A sponsored moustache though? That's just not shaving! You may as well have a sponsored "non ironed shirt" month or a sponsored "lie down weekend".
Of course, you probably think if its raising money then what's the problem - my issue is that this sort of thing devalues and trivialises fundraising as a whole. The more things like this become common, the more people will become alienated with sponsoring people to do things.
So my feeling is of you want to do something really worthwhile, send the charity 50 quid yourself and leave the fundraising to people who are willing to do something that's actually challenging. You'll feel better for it and not look quite as silly. And your coworkers wont need to put uo with 5 emails in one day about a sodding moustache
I'm sure very few people will understand where I'm coming from, but I just had to get that off my chest.
worst "i cant grow facial hair" post ever
Yep, as expected, point gone waaaaay over someones head already
no its not it is about raising funds , hence the use of the word fundraising which it appears (im no expert like) is made up from the words raise and funds
your whole idea of fundraising is shot to bits IMO. people dont need to show off by doing something kerazzzzy to raise funds.
anyway movember is not just about fundraising. it is about raising awarenes.
it raises awareness because people say ''hey why have you got that silly moustache'' or you boss says ''hey get rid of that silly moustache'' then you tell them
funds follow awareness
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To which most people surely respond "oh right"
I just think it might do more harm than good, plus the effort some people put into doing and promoting it could be much better used elsewhere
Oh get a grip, fund raising is fund raising, generally speaking the amount people give is proportionate to the amount of effort people put in, it's not like people are going to say "Oh yeah, I could climb Everest for [insert charity] but you know what? I'll just have a bake sale instead".
Another good reason I imagine is that the fact they are climbing Everest has as much to do with making money for a charity as it does with them just WANTING to climb Everest. Not only do they get to either try or hopefully accomplish such a goal, they do some good work in the progress.
If you want to do things like whatever it was you did then all power to you, however if a group of lads want to have a little fun and raise some money for a good cause in the process, the only person you make look stupid for calling them out on it is you.
Mines terrible, i dont grow facial hair at all
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Congratulations on completing the Royal Marines Commando Challenge, doubtless something to be proud of but I'm not convinced you're in a particularly good position to define what will make people "happy" to sponsor someone. You'd be imputing your value system onto what other people believe and there's no guarantee that they share the same views.
So if it's just because it's silly that it trivialises fundraising for you then I assume you also hate most of what goes on with Children In Need - they typically joke of "having a bath in baked beans" or maybe a sponsored bake sale, that's not hugely difficult aside from purchasing industrial quantities of baked beans or perhaps an inability to bake. How about Jeans for Genes day, would that also fail to meet the suitable difficulty level test?
Put simply I don't think sneering at any charity activity that helps it raise money and awareness is good, not everyone can or would want to do something that meets your standards of suitable difficulty (physicality?) for fundraising - why should they be excluded from doing their bit?
Ah, maybe that's the problem, you've had too many people asking you for money - I can appreciate that's annoying but there is, or should be, no obligation felt for you to sponsor them. As mentioned it's not just about the fundraising although it was what I chose to highlight in my last post, it's also about raising awareness so if that means looking like a bit of an idiot for a month then I'm fine with that. I look like an idiot for the rest of the year, may as well cash in for that period.
I dunno, maybe its just the way people at work have been going about it has annoyed me. I'm certainly not alone in my views, most people in my office seem to be getting annoyed with it.
When we did the commando challenge, we sent one email when we entered and one just before we did it - the amount of money we raised was astonishing, a few grand! People were more than happy to pledge significant amounts of money because they knew how difficult the challenge was..
But the 2 blokes participating in Movember at work have been sending out weekly updates, normally followed my several "reply to all" emails and it's getting on a LOT of peoples nerves. Not because they're raising money, nobody would have an issue with that - just the way they're going about it and the fact the time could have been spend on something more worthwhile. The fact they have barely mentioned the charity at all sums it up for me, it seems like a way to get some attention.
As I say, that's my experience though and it probably has made me bitter
When we did the commando challenge, we sent one email when we entered and one just before we did it - the amount of money we raised was astonishing, a few grand! People were more than happy to pledge significant amounts of money because they knew how difficult the challenge was..
But the 2 blokes participating in Movember at work have been sending out weekly updates, normally followed my several "reply to all" emails and it's getting on a LOT of peoples nerves. Not because they're raising money, nobody would have an issue with that - just the way they're going about it and the fact the time could have been spend on something more worthwhile. The fact they have barely mentioned the charity at all sums it up for me, it seems like a way to get some attention.
As I say, that's my experience though and it probably has made me bitter