Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[Tractor]

BTW- Do any of you lot cut grass on a regular basis?

I do, I used to quite enjoy it but like you, the grass has started taking steroids!

[gatso]

pretty sure this is wrong tom, sadly in a bad way. the normal model now is that the charities agree a fixed price for each new signup, usually £100 plus so the one you signed up for at 2 quid a month for a year probs cost the charity about £80


aha, found the article I read recently http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7966571/Chugger-premiums-can-swallow-donations.html

BHF pay £136, cancer research £112, no other charity would tell newsnight how much

[AndrewT]

pretty sure this is wrong tom, sadly in a bad way. the normal model now is that the charities agree a fixed price for each new signup, usually £100 plus so the one you signed up for at 2 quid a month for a year probs cost the charity about £80


aha, found the article I read recently http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7966571/Chugger-premiums-can-swallow-donations.html

BHF pay £136, cancer research £112, no other charity would tell newsnight how much

This is all fair enough, IMO.

The chuggers are just affiliates, getting signups to charities that would not have signed up otherwise.

I signed up for a tenner a month for some charity about 8 years ago by a door-to-door chugger. That's getting on for a grand that would not have otherwise been donated because it's not something I would have gone out of my way to sign up for, and I'm not tight enough to cancel a tenner a month DD to a charity.

If enough people voluntarily regularly donated to charities, they wouldn't be needed. As a woman from (I think) BHF said on Newsnight, if loads of people went to charities tomorrow morning and volunteered to encourage people to signup, the payments to the chugging companies would disappear overnight. But they haven't, so they haven't. As people won't volunteer, they have to use people who want paying.

[RED-DOG]

BTW- Do any of you lot cut grass on a regular basis?

I do, I used to quite enjoy it but like you, the grass has started taking steroids!

What a nice sky you have. (Not a bad shed either)

[Karabiner]

BTW- Do any of you lot cut grass on a regular basis?

I do, I used to quite enjoy it but like you, the grass has started taking steroids!

What a nice sky you have. (Not a bad shed either)

That's a shed !

I thought it was a cricket pavillion.

[RED-DOG]

t' oss 'as a wesh.

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[RED-DOG]

pretty sure this is wrong tom, sadly in a bad way. the normal model now is that the charities agree a fixed price for each new signup, usually £100 plus so the one you signed up for at 2 quid a month for a year probs cost the charity about £80


aha, found the article I read recently http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7966571/Chugger-premiums-can-swallow-donations.html

BHF pay £136, cancer research £112, no other charity would tell newsnight how much

This is all fair enough, IMO.

The chuggers are just affiliates, getting signups to charities that would not have signed up otherwise.

I signed up for a tenner a month for some charity about 8 years ago by a door-to-door chugger. That's getting on for a grand that would not have otherwise been donated because it's not something I would have gone out of my way to sign up for, and I'm not tight enough to cancel a tenner a month DD to a charity.

If enough people voluntarily regularly donated to charities, they wouldn't be needed. As a woman from (I think) BHF said on Newsnight, if loads of people went to charities tomorrow morning and volunteered to encourage people to signup, the payments to the chugging companies would disappear overnight. But they haven't, so they haven't. As people won't volunteer, they have to use people who want paying.

ARRGGGHHH!!! Sensory overload!

Andrew T make post that I agree with that disagrees with post that I agree with.

[sovietsong]

Red, it seems to have been quite a while since your last story.

Tell me about the best horse you've ever owned...

edit - or dog or car.

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Red, it seems to have been quite a while since your last story.

Tell me about the best horse you've ever owned...

edit - or dog or car.

I've told the best horse story Sov, it starts here and continues over the next few pages.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=30601.msg652982#msg652982

As you know, this is the story of a good dog.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=30601.msg766430#msg766430

It's not the story of my best dog. My dad used to say that every dog man will get one special dog in his lifetime. I must be very lucky, because I've had two. Each one would need an entire book.

[sovietsong]

Red, it seems to have been quite a while since your last story.

Tell me about the best horse you've ever owned...

edit - or dog or car.

I've told the best horse story Sov, it starts here and continues over the next few pages.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=30601.msg652982#msg652982

As you know, this is the story of a good dog.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=30601.msg766430#msg766430

It's not the story of my best dog. My dad used to say that every dog man will get one special dog in his lifetime. I must be very lucky, because I've had two. Each one would need an entire book.

Car?

[sovietsong]

The dog story is brilliant, what was your first dog red?

[RED-DOG]

The dog story is brilliant, what was your first dog red?

My first dog was an Alsation x Rhodesian Ridge-back called Kim. He looked for all the world like a wolf. He was my guardian, my confidant, my constant companion, and my best friend.

I've always thought that this poem should have been written for him. It never fails to  bring a tear to my eye.

TIM

It's wonderful dogs they're breeding now:
Small as a flea or large as a cow;
But my old dog Tim he'll never be bet
By any dog that ever he met.
'Come on,' says he, 'for I'm not kilt yet.'

No matter the size of the dog he'll meet,
Tim trails his coat the length o' the street.
D'ye mind his scar an' his ragged ear,
The like of a Dublin Fusilier?
He's a massacree dog that knows no fear.

But he'd stick to me till his lastest breath;
An' he'd go with me to the gates of death.
He'd wait for a thousand years, maybe,
Scratching the door 'an whining for me
If myself were inside in Purgatory.

So I laugh when I hear them make it plain
That dogs and men never meet again.
For all their talk who'd listen to thim
With the soul in the shining eyes of him?
Would God be wasting a dog like Tim?

[Karabiner]

Did you oil it's hooves afterwards to give it that Polish look(see what I did there?)

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Did you oil it's hooves afterwards to give it that Polish look(see what I did there?)

Now then Tubby, don't cut yourself.

[sovietsong]

Just read the horse story again Red.  Are you still involved with horse breading or is this a stupid question?