Comments on: Charity http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/03/28/charity/ Noli nothis permittere te terere Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:24:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Primal Sneeze http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/03/28/charity/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Primal Sneeze Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:42:37 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=69#comment-142 Ha! Nice one, Sam! Your dad has been added to my list of heroes.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('142','Primal Sneeze'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Ha! Nice one, Sam! Your dad has been added to my list of heroes.
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]]> By: Problemchildbride http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/03/28/charity/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Problemchildbride Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:05:28 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=69#comment-141 Yes, these costs are flippin' shocking me. Kudos for putting the time in though, no matter the return and the gits who're taking liberties. My dad runs a kidney patient charity in the Western Isles and recently had a volunteer tell him she hadn't realized when she turned up at the supermarket she'd be bagging groceries. This was beneath her apparantly. In the end my dad put her over by the door rattling a tin instead. Every time the door opened a blast of icy air would blow her well-coiffed do all over the place. She had a hairstyle like a Shetland pony's when she was done. Mydad said it was great.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('141','Problemchildbride'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Yes, these costs are flippin’ shocking me. Kudos for putting the time in though, no matter the return and the gits who’re taking liberties.

My dad runs a kidney patient charity in the Western Isles and recently had a volunteer tell him she hadn’t realized when she turned up at the supermarket she’d be bagging groceries. This was beneath her apparantly. In the end my dad put her over by the door rattling a tin instead. Every time the door opened a blast of icy air would blow her well-coiffed do all over the place. She had a hairstyle like a Shetland pony’s when she was done. Mydad said it was great.

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]]> By: Primal Sneeze http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/03/28/charity/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Primal Sneeze Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:10:55 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=69#comment-140 Flirty - Agreed. But the charity I work with will never say no. If the LWL's blow €5k on a nice-dress function, and raise only €500, we can buy a specialised keyboard for someone. Ok, if they raised €5k we could make someone's bathroom wheelchair accessible, but we are grateful for what we get. As an aside: Are the costs I mentioned shocking you? Kav - Agreed again. I could have said more in the post, but you have to stop somewhere. However the good folks really make up for them. They really do. One man with this particular condition wrote a book. It took him 3 years. He published it privately. And donated all the proceeds to the charity. Again, I could mention more like him.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('140','Primal Sneeze'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Flirty – Agreed. But the charity I work with will never say no. If the LWL’s blow €5k on a nice-dress function, and raise only €500, we can buy a specialised keyboard for someone. Ok, if they raised €5k we could make someone’s bathroom wheelchair accessible, but we are grateful for what we get.

As an aside: Are the costs I mentioned shocking you?

Kav – Agreed again. I could have said more in the post, but you have to stop somewhere. However the good folks really make up for them. They really do. One man with this particular condition wrote a book. It took him 3 years. He published it privately. And donated all the proceeds to the charity. Again, I could mention more like him.

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]]> By: kav http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/03/28/charity/comment-page-1/#comment-139 kav Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:29:34 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=69#comment-139 Fair play to you for telling it like it is. I've met some arseholes who use their disability as a cross for everyone else to bear and have no problem manipulating situations to their advantage. As you say, no way an able-bodied person would be allowed to get away with it.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('139','kav'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Fair play to you for telling it like it is. I’ve met some arseholes who use their disability as a cross for everyone else to bear and have no problem manipulating situations to their advantage. As you say, no way an able-bodied person would be allowed to get away with it.
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]]> By: irishflirtysomething http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/03/28/charity/comment-page-1/#comment-138 irishflirtysomething Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:56:01 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/?p=69#comment-138 The worst are the ladies-who-lunch charities. Generally they have no commercial ability, organise big events, get shafted by everyone and spend WAY to much. Raise a few grand but a fraction compared to what the event cost but sure at least they got to wear a nice dress.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('138','irishflirtysomething'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> The worst are the ladies-who-lunch charities. Generally they have no commercial ability, organise big events, get shafted by everyone and spend WAY to much. Raise a few grand but a fraction compared to what the event cost but sure at least they got to wear a nice dress.
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