Sports Relief

[MyUserName]

I ran a mile in full armour a year or two ago for sports relief. I didn't get any sponsorship, I just wanted to make sure it fitted properly and SR gave me a convenient chance.

[Freaki Li Cuatre]

Hmmm, so what's likely to persuade you to give to charity?

Stuff like this, whilst it can be irritating, makes people reach for their wallets now, not at some indeterminate point in the future that may never come. I was impressed enough by John Bishop's efforts last time to text whatever it was to donate my fiver.

I give reasonably significant amounts to various charities at certain points of the year. I'm a supporter of 3 in particular and I always get my cheque book out at Christmas and Co. year end. I normally do it when I go on holiday too. Normally it's at times when I am indulging myself in something that my thoughts turn to people/animals/things that are less fortunate than myself.

I really couldn't give a flying f*** about whatever it was John Bishop did, nor David Walliams doing that swimming thing. Good on them, and all that, but let's not forget that these supposedly altruistic acts are normally shrewd investments in their flagging careers.

Not that I'll be watching it but let's hope they don't pull the normal stunt of whisking somebody off to be filmed in the presence of poor Indian street kids where they will turn on the waterworks bang on cue.

One can only imagine the scene when the cameras stop rolling.

"Ok, Benji, was that a wrap?"

"Crissy, dahling, how could anyone possibly think that you are a crass, vulgar, narcissistic, ginger disc jockey after that performance?"

...and the rest of the conversation is drowned out by the whop whop whop of the blades of the approaching helicopter which has come to whisk them back to the Bombay Hilton where the Bolly is on ice....

I know that sounds frightfully cynical but some of 'em are ghastly people. Not all, but a significant number are.

[Freaki Li Cuatre]

The problem is that the stuff is like Japanese knotweed in the BBC, it gets everywhere and where it is there is going to be lots of it. I could take this stuff when it was on one night of the year and I could not watch it but now you cannot avoid it.

Davina McCall is just annoying and now her career is in freefall she does a bit of comic relief so we all have to suffer her for weeks on end.

All of this +100.

That knotweed comment could be applied to so many things. Strictly Come Dancing, for example. Not something I've ever watched because watching people dance ain't my cup of tea but it is oozed from every pore of the popular media when it's showing.

If it were just a weekly 1 hour show, as things used to be, I could happily ignore it.

[d000hg]

Well who would have guessed the most dull poster on CUK would find this stuff interesting.

And 'running' an 8 hour marathon a day is not extreme and not horrible, maybe it is to a fat weakling like yourself.

Oh do shut up you bitter old man. We already know you disapprove of everything and can find fault with everyone else and everything they ever do, so why not shut yourself away from the world where it can't annoy you and more importantly, the world won't be subjected to your negativity.

[minestrone]

Who'd have guessed, a post from minestrone is complaining about something!

The 'stunts' they do are pretty extreme actually and genuinely look horrible - swimming the Thames, running a marathon a day, etc.

It clearly works in terms of fund raising...

Well who would have guessed the most dull poster on CUK would find this stuff interesting.

And 'running' an 8 hour marathon a day is not extreme and not horrible, maybe it is to a fat weakling like yourself.

[minestrone]

The problem is that the stuff is like Japanese knotweed in the BBC, it gets everywhere and where it is there is going to be lots of it. I could take this stuff when it was on one night of the year and I could not watch it but now you cannot avoid it.

Davina McCall is just annoying and now her career is in freefall she does a bit of comic relief so we all have to suffer her for weeks on end.

[d000hg]

Does this tulipe now run for the entire duration of the year?

Who'd have guessed, a post from minestrone is complaining about something!

Don't start me off....

If there's one thing more likely to dissuade me from giving to charity it's a bunch of celebs rallying us proles to the cause by performing crass stunts like playing golf in their cacks. Plus all their sermonising. Still, at least Lenny Henry isn't involved.

When is it anyway? Just so that I know to spend the day living under a stone....

The 'stunts' they do are pretty extreme actually and genuinely look horrible - swimming the Thames, running a marathon a day, etc.

It clearly works in terms of fund raising...

[mudskipper]

Don't start me off....

If there's one thing more likely to dissuade me from giving to charity it's a bunch of celebs rallying us proles to the cause by performing crass stunts like playing golf in their cacks. Plus all their sermonising. Still, at least Lenny Henry isn't involved.

When is it anyway? Just so that I know to spend the day living under a stone....

Hmmm, so what's likely to persuade you to give to charity?

Stuff like this, whilst it can be irritating, makes people reach for their wallets now, not at some indeterminate point in the future that may never come. I was impressed enough by John Bishop's efforts last time to text whatever it was to donate my fiver.

[oracleslave]

Don't forget comic relief this year . Your 5 pounds can help a disabled African tell the difference between an intruder and his girlfriend

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Been wall to wall on BBC R5 for the last 8 months at least. They can feck off.

[minestrone]

It has been going on for the last 6 weeks at least.

[Freaki Li Cuatre]

Does this tulipe now run for the entire duration of the year?

Don't start me off....

If there's one thing more likely to dissuade me from giving to charity it's a bunch of celebs rallying us proles to the cause by performing crass stunts like playing golf in their cacks. Plus all their sermonising. Still, at least Lenny Henry isn't involved.

When is it anyway? Just so that I know to spend the day living under a stone....

[minestrone]

Does this tulipe now run for the entire duration of the year?