Celebrity endorsed charities
really piss me off.
I really do feel sorry for the people in this world who suffer, but when somebody with more money than I could ever imagine tells me to empty my pockets I start foaming at the mouth.
If every celebrity, sportsman, (w/b)anker, tycoon (great word), toff, and mogul gave a couple of months salary every year to a fighting fund for major disasters there would be enough in the pot to sort out problems like the recent Haiti earthquake.
Please bear in mind, us ordinary working folk give a substantial proportion of our wage directly to the government (who waste in many wonderful ways), everything we buy is taxed, not just at the point of sale but at every stage of production. Are you a motorist ? If so you are taxed when you buy a car, when you buy parts for it, when you have it serviced, fuel (obviously), then tax for the privilege of owning said car. This is before you even try to park the damn thing. How much of EVERYTHING we buy is at an inflated price due to excessive taxes.
You could argue that the taxes a necessary, but if that were true then why is the government able to waste truly massive amounts of money.
So when fucking bono tells me I'm a cunt for not putting my hand in my already well lightened pocket I just want to rape him and all his twatty friends with the business end of pitchfork, right before I insert the pinapple.
My holiday this year will consist of seeing how far I can ride my bicycle in a weekend, not flying MY OWN FUCKING PLANE to a country hit by some natural disaster for some great P.R. and then asking me to pay for it.
I'm so angry I think I've just shat.
(danceswithferrets is leaking sanity, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 12:11, 7 replies)

I feel your pain
I know that some celebrities give generously of their own money, and I'm sure many more do so in secret, but this idea that getting such-and-such to turn up somewhere and solicit donations is a joke, when said celeb will be paid obscene amounts in "expenses" and no doubt be accommodated as luxuriously as possible.
It's like this record for Haiti. Simon Cowell could personally contribute more than the record will ever make, let alone if the singers on the track chipped in too. Is there a reason Cowell pays Max Clifford £750k a year for reputation management?
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Sun 7 Feb 2010, 14:06, closed)

click
because I agree. There's only one "celebrity" I can think of who actually gives their own wages to charity is liverpool player Dirk Kuyt. He gives 1/3rd of his wages to charity every week.
(Hitler's other ball. R soul., Sun 7 Feb 2010, 14:07, closed)

bill gates
gives a hell of a lot of money to charity as well.
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Sun 7 Feb 2010, 23:15, closed)

considering
bill gates made his money by crushing the competition, forcing businesses to go under, and generally wreaking havoc on the lives of people trying to make an honest living. The small percentage of his unfathomable personal fortune he gives to charity is the least he should do. Microsoft continues to crush the little guy to the detriment of everyone who ever has or ever will use a computer (or a service that relies on computers, Greater Manchester Police for example)
(danceswithferrets is leaking sanity, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 12:44, closed)

Really?
Good on him then, he's gone up in my estimation.
(The man with the flan swashed his buckle on, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 14:48, closed)

I watched south park the other day,
and it turns out that bono is actually a piece of poo.

True story.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Sun 7 Feb 2010, 15:47, closed)

that may be so
but who is the coon ?
(danceswithferrets is leaking sanity, Mon 8 Feb 2010, 12:37, closed)