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Farlsborough, you are mean minded, mean sprited and ........ I love you for it (in a totally brotherly sort of way of course!). I have been a Wogan listener and fan since he first appeared on our radios but this morning when the bids to spend a lunchtime with Joanna Lumley (not something I would pass up if a reasonable chance presented itself) failed to exceed £12,000 I was revolted by Wogans "Oh do this for the children, the suffering children the children in pain".

Do something for suffering children by all means (closing down Harringay Social Services Department would be a cheap and effective option), but don't ram your appeals for more thousands down my throat when I am stuck in a traffic jam in my modest (small) family car trying to get in to my office to work my backside off for the day for the same amount of money in one year as these people are offering for twenty minutes of ego boosting fame.

I retuned to the new local commercial station.

PS: Please don't forget that Terry Wogan gets well paid for his appearance on children in need night!! Charity??? Charity my ****.

queen of clubs wrote:For Children In Need I'm doing a sponsored not-offending-anyone-on-talkmagic week. Any of you idiots want to put your hand in your pockets?!

I would sponsor you, if I thought there was a chance you'd succeed

Unless... you're not going on holiday for a week, are you...?

I'm surprised to find that the majority around here seem to agree with me!

Charity is good, and helping those who need help is what the rabbis call a mitzvah (a moral commandment and a blessing). I regularly support several charities.

BUT... the BBC is not in the business of running charities. They're supposed to exist for the provision of broadcast entertainment. How dare they tell me where my money ought to go? And why should their own pet charities be given days of publicity when every other worthy organisation in the country isn't allowed to advertise on the BBC?

And indeed, why should they be allowed to take funding from my licence fee to pay for non-broadcasting activities that I may not support?

I find it outrageous in the same way as the "mission creep" of other charities -- such as Oxfam and the RSPCA becoming political lobby groups instead of performing the work specified in their charters.

I hate the idea of any Charity that has an age limit on who it helps. How bad is that? More child worship, that's what civilisation needs.

As far as money raising charity events go they should threaten to put one on unless a certain amount is raised then I'd be more inclined to give.

Also if someone is sponsored to do something and that money is given in advance surely you should get your money back if they fail? not on your nelly! why bother then? just ask for money.

Even worse is the breat cancer run I witnessed where the participants were sponsored to do a 2 mile run and a good 80% of them walked....WALKED.
A sponsored 2 mile walk! How about I get sponsored get off the sofa and make myself a sandwich?! Ridiculous!

Finally charity is all well and good but we do have a human population crisis on this planet and maybe.........you get the idea.

I was watching children in need with my dad and I said to him I bet the audience have to be on painkillers to put up with this tripe for seven hours (yes I know they ship em out and get a new lot in every few hours)

greedoniz wrote: Even worse is the breat cancer run I witnessed where the participants were sponsored to do a 2 mile run and a good 80% of them walked....WALKED.
A sponsored 2 mile walk! How about I get sponsored get off the sofa and make myself a sandwich?! Ridiculous!

But at least they're doing something. I know what you mean and it really doesn't take a whole lot of effort to train for a 2 mile run but who cares??? At least they were doing something good, worth while and raising money for a very good cause.

2 miles might not sound alot to everyone but it's still a good 30-45 minute walk and that's more walking than some people do in a couple of days.

Let's be honest here, I can easily go a week without clocking up a total of two miles.

My favourite charity story concerns Bono in one of the Live Aid concerts. He came out on stage slowly and rhythmically clicking his fingers, solemnly stepped to the mike, and said: "Every time... I click my fingers... a child in the Third World dies."
A spectator shouted back: "Then stop doing it, you b----d!"

Robbie wrote: "Every time... I click my fingers... a child in the Third World dies."

Yeah, and let's see him sell one of his houses to try to help. I really dislike the man. And I'm not a person who really does dislike. But him, I'd happily see fall on his ar*e.

And I'll be raising money for comic relief in a few months, so if anybody has any suggestions for what I should do, that'd be great