AW1Steve
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Joined: 3/10/2007 From: Mordor Illlinois Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: Dixie Bloody charities, I already give you £8 a month. Yes I know that there's flooding in Pakistan and that things are bad. But no, you cannot have £100, bugger off! I have no spare cash, so no you can't have £50 either THERE'S your problem! When you give on a regular basis , the money you provide is used for administration of the organization to sell your name to everyone else and let them know that "your a soft touch". What I do is once a year (usually Christmas time) my wife and I decide what charities to support , then provide a cash, anomous gift. My favorite stunt use to be to find the coldest , most miserable looking bell-ringer for the Salvationan Army and drop a big bill in the kettle. Besides the joy of giving, I always got the joy of watching someones eyes bug out (in a good way). I stopped doing that when they went to "professional " bell-ringers (people hired for the job). The charities that I / we really care about can call me if they want-should there be a special fund drive or something like that. I don't mind hearing from charities that I really care about. From time to time I'll agree to increase my gift for, say, a matching corporate donation. For all the others-the Inverted Nipple Foundation, the Salt-encrusted Frothcrotch Foundation, Saving Pinnipeds through Terrestial Canabalism-that lot can go hang. i suppose you guys in USA have the same thing as we have here in France: once in a year (usually just before christmas) there is a huge tv show going for 48 hours, to have funds from the public, for a disease (myopathie, just don't ask me to translate i have no idea). At first, i was thinking this could be good. Once i knew Claire , she told me that she was very upset that there was no such big show for her cancer type...or for cancer of any type. THis indeed sounded strange: why to save one kind of disease and not the others. And a few years ago, a foundation supposed to fight the cancer proved to be only a vast crooks-thing for the president of this firm to earn money. Never agin did Claire give anything. Even now that she is cured. And i am very very cautious about charity....too much false firm. Very,very true Eric.
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