Our project this summer!

arknor · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:24

[TW]Fox;18320749 said:
No, I will not pay for your working holiday.

Sounds like a fantastic life experience and great expedition but you should pay for it yourself like everyone else who goes on such trips has to!

indeed... and you could donate they dont make the 19k and then your paying towards "next years expedition" instead ROFL

sounds like a nice idea to get a yearly holiday why dont we start an ocuk members expedition to silicon valley or something.

im sure we can round up some donations

nydryl · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:24

[TW]Fox;18320792 said:
He's going to have the time of his life, he'll gain skills and knowledge which will make his future employability increase significantly and he'll spend the sort of time in a foreign country most of us could only dream of.

Which is fantastic - but getting everyone else to pay for it through donations? I think not. There are numerous more worthy charities you can donate to if you wish to donate money - charities where the work involved really is a chore, not somebodies dream trip.

I don't have any intention of donating, if I want to donate money I'd give it to Macmillan or something decent. Saying that if some proper research is getting done it is mildly better than the majority of donate money for my holiday schemes.

Beerguzzler · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:28

[TW]Fox;18320749 said:
No, I will not pay for your working holiday.

Sounds like a fantastic life experience and great expedition but you should pay for it yourself like everyone else who goes on such trips has to!

Ok, thanks anyway. We are paying for it ourselves, our personal equipment, vaccinations, flights and travel for instance. Obviously we couldn't afford the equipment needed to survey, scientist wages and so on which is why we need to raise funding. The work will very much be a chore as I heard from the previous expedition out there last summer, who where looking at effects of oil companies in the area.

Didn't read about the University department connection in my haste to moan about people raising money for holidays. Although it still stands for the majority, and I suspect to some extent this one, I take it back about this one if it's going to involve doing proper research.

No worries

Our adviser/research leader has been working in the area for many years now and we will be doing similar research which will be especially helpful since we are working in unexplored areas.

guyfawkes5 · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:30

arknor said:
indeed... and you could donate they dont make the 19k and then your paying towards "next years expedition" instead ROFL

sounds like a nice idea to get a yearly holiday why dont we start an ocuk members expedition to silicon valley or something.

im sure we can round up some donations

Of course, I'm sure once people hear we'd have to get up really early and work really hard I'm sure they'll fork out!

arknor · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:31

Beerguzzler said:
Ok, thanks anyway. We are paying for it ourselves, our personal equipment, vaccinations, flights and travel for instance. Obviously we couldn't afford the equipment needed to survey, scientist wages and so on which is why we need to raise funding..

eh? you said you need to raise 19k INCLUDING FLIGHTS (WHICH WE ARE PAYING FOR)

if your paying for threm why do you need to raise 19k including flights? you mean your paying for them upfront and then getting the money back ? :rolleyes:

Beerguzzler · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:32

arknor said:
indeed... and you could donate they dont make the 19k and then your paying towards "next years expedition" instead ROFL

sounds like a nice idea to get a yearly holiday why dont we start an ocuk members expedition to silicon valley or something.

im sure we can round up some donations

If we don't make the money this year it will go towards the same planned expedition, but set back a year. I don't see why it's funny.

arknor · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:34

Beerguzzler said:
If we don't make the money this year it will go towards the same planned expedition, but set back a year. I don't see why it's funny.

youve been guzzling to much beer mr "beerguzzler" did this expedition come out of a drunken night down the pub?

[TW]Fox · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:35

guyfawkes5 said:
Of course, I'm sure once people hear we'd have to get up really early and work really hard I'm sure they'll fork out!

Oh no, getting up really early and working really hard :eek:

Well thats totally worth a free trip to Peru. My mistake!

Beerguzzler · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:36

arknor said:
eh? you said you need to raise 19k INCLUDING FLIGHTS (WHICH WE ARE PAYING FOR)

if your paying for threm why do you need to raise 19k including flights? you mean your paying for them upfront and then getting the money back ?

Yea, 19k is the cost of the trip, we each put in £850 for flights. We do not get the money back, so by your definition we need to raise just under 14k.

arknor · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:37

i need funding for an expedition to survey some almost extinct red lions.

about £50 should to do it i will pay for my own taxi and kebab

Yea, 19k is the cost of the trip, we each put in £850 for flights. We do not get the money back, so by your definition we need to raise just under 14k.

so you dont need to raise 19k now? :O

Beerguzzler · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:37

[TW]Fox;18320912 said:
Oh no, getting up really early and working really hard

Well thats totally worth a free trip to Peru. My mistake!

Except its not free :rolleyes:

[TW]Fox · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:37

Beerguzzler said:
we need to raise just under 14k.

We need to raise roughly £19,000

Ok...

[TW]Fox · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:38

Beerguzzler said:
Except its not free

It was until you decided to magically knock £5k off the amount you needed after everyone saw through your free field trip plan.

arknor · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:38

turning into an epic thread XD

nydryl · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:39

[TW]Fox;18320933 said:
Ok...

Seems pretty clear that he's just subtracted the money they each put in from the 19k. Not hard to understand.

arknor · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:41

nydryl said:
Seems pretty clear that he's just subtracted the money they each put in from the 19k. Not hard to understand.

seems pretty clear he wanted to raise 19k and was not putting any money in.

if he already had the 5k they dont need to raise 19k :S

Beerguzzler · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:41

nydryl said:
Seems pretty clear that he's just subtracted the money they each put in from the 19k. Not hard to understand.

Exactly. It's not hard, when I said we need to raise the 19k I included us in the list of funders.

guyfawkes5 · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:42

arknor said:
i need funding for an expedition to survey some almost extinct red lions.

about £50 should to do it i will pay for my own taxi and kebab

Well God bless you for putting up with such a 'limited diet'.

Narj · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:42

OP's username betrays him and gives a hint as to the true purpose of this collection...

nydryl · 26 Jan 2011 at 18:43

arknor said:
seems pretty clear he wanted to raise 19k and was not putting any money in.

if he already had the 5k they dont need to raise 19k :S

Reading between the lines I'd say they need 19k and 6 of them put in £850 each towards the total required. That takes you down to around £14k. He's not misrepresenting the amount required.