Don’t Forget

I'm almost never serious on this forum.  However, when you toast the New Year in just over three hours time remember the thousands of dead children, missing relatives and homeless people in Asia.  We spend millions of pounds blowing people to smithereens and it looks like we can use our billions of surplus pounds to good as well.  I will be donating £25 in the New Year.

[goldencup]

[marble]

A very valid statement.

You did not have to inform us of your donation amount, however.

Anyone who can (and wishes to) will donate whatever they feel they can and wish to without letting everyone know how clever they are.

Sorry, I just find it annoying.

I hope this is the start of the world's nations working together, but I am too cynical to believe it to last.

Hello Marble.  Unlike many people, I don't have a hidden agenda.  I was merely pointing out that the usual one pound in the tin is not enough for this one.  This time it's big.

I don't believe that the ability to donate a specific amount is an indication of how clever I am.  



 

[loulou]

What percentage of your £25 do you think will actually get to where it should end up?

I don't know.  I would hope all of it.  

[oldspice]

Hidden Agenda? Can you elaborate?

I would have thought you were familiar with the term 'hidden agenda' Spicegirl, not that you have one obviously.

[oldspice]

Why do you think Marble has a hidden agenda? That's what I don't understand. Why should anyone posting on the Forum have a hidden agenda? What is the point and where would it get them?

[loulou]

bounty I don't think all your £25 will get there. Only 10% gets to the cause and the other 90% is eaten up in administration charges.

Lou Lou, I doubt that.  I think you are pandering to apocryphal tales.  If you show this to be the case there would be uproar.

Oldspice, I didn't imply that Marble had an hidden agenda, but he seemed to be implying that I had.  I was merely stating that whatever I said is what I meant.  If Marble is offended by me putting my money where my mouth is then tough titty.

[loulou]

No bounty it is true. I think you are being very naive if you think all your £25 is going to get there untouched.

You tell me how an administrator for Scope charity that I know gets £22,000 a year.Where does her wage come from and why does my friend who works in Help the Aged charity shop get paid £5.65 per hour. People assume that people working in charity shops do so voluntarily and unpaid.

And why do Scope charity shop take £15 a week from the takings and keep in a jar so the staff can have a Xmas night out and on their birthdays get a day at a spa having a facial, manicure and massage?

[loulou]

And while I'm on the subject of charity scams I'll tell you about the old lady near me who set herself up at a local market with a stall selling knitted baby clothes and told everyone the money she raised went to the Stroke Association. Having been involved with the Stroke association I mentioned it to them that I gave to this lady regularly for them to tell me she did not work for the Stroke association but would not prosecute as it was bad publicity and they believed that if the public thought that when they donated money into a collection tin it wasn't going to get to the charity then nothing would ever be donated. They actually told me that they are well aware of certain people who collect and keep the money for themselves but weren't too bothered about it.

[goldencup]

Well that's the last time I give my stuff to a Scope shop! By the way I'm a little confused (nothing unusual) - I thought Marble was a she?

Lou Lou, OK so I was naive.  Thankyou for pointing it out.  I will give nothing now.

 

Goldencup, I would say Marble is a bloke.