Movember

[dip]

I'm taking part in this years Movember and I'd really appreciate your support/donations.

It's a great cause that raises money and awareness for both prostate and testicular cancer.

if you'd like to donate/sponsor me http://mobro.co/justdip

or for more information http://uk.movember.com

thanks x

[russycarps]

Charity for the "look at me! look at me!" Facebook generation. No doubt there will be "hilarious" updates on facebook and twitter every half hour.

Why cant people just donate quietly to a charity of their choice anymore? Why does there always have to be an element of self-promotion?

I note these tools dont actually donate themselves, that's for others to do, but they do get a helluva lot of attention.

It's win-win!

Edited November 4, 2011 by russycarps

[fatyeti24]

Charity for the "look at me! look at me!" Facebook generation. No doubt there will be "hilarious" updates on facebook and twitter every half hour.

Why cant people just donate quietly to a charity of their choice anymore?

[russycarps]

do you often approach people and ask why they have a moustache?

[fatyeti24]

the ladies love it.

Edited November 4, 2011 by fatyeti24

[russycarps]

you've met my missus???

[radish]

Charity for the "look at me! look at me!" Facebook generation. No doubt there will be "hilarious" updates on facebook and twitter every half hour.

Why cant people just donate quietly to a charity of their choice anymore? Why does there always have to be an element of self-promotion?

I note these tools dont actually donate themselves, that's for others to do, but they do get a helluva lot of attention.

It's win-win!

[Dan R]

Charity for the "look at me! look at me!" Facebook generation. No doubt there will be "hilarious" updates on facebook and twitter every half hour.

Why cant people just donate quietly to a charity of their choice anymore? Why does there always have to be an element of self-promotion?

I note these tools dont actually donate themselves, that's for others to do, but they do get a helluva lot of attention.

It's win-win!

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I've never even heard of Movember until reading this. So then I looked it up and came across this;

November - the month of the year when a load of desperate attention seekers grow a moustache in the thinly veiled pretence that they are doing it for charity, when actually they think it will get girls to talk to them.

Wonder how much of that is true despite the argument it's all for charity. Why not do stuff in March for charity for example. Don't bother answering because I've just realised I don't care.

[LondonTom]

So what if people do it for a bit of attention? Some money goes to a good cause at the end of the day. And people generally want to promote a cause they believe in as otherwise a lot of people wouldn't even know to be able to donate money.

[Dan R]

cos a few of us , do the right thing cos its the right thing to do. Not to have something to post on facebook

In this information age I doubt the people they are reaching have very little awareness.

[LondonTom]

Yeah but the people who do the right thing are gonna do it regardless. The amount of fashions and trends that go around having one that even raises a little bit of awareness for a good cause can't be that bad can it?

[bamber]

I just often thought that raising awareness of cancer seems bit odd to me? I can't imagine many people not knowing cancer = bad and needs money than governments are prepared to spend on research for it.

[philipsteak]

I sort of agree. If we are in the business of "raising awareness" it should be focused on pointing out the ridiculous inequalities of this world which manifests itself, cancer aside, as life expectancy being just 42 in Swaziland, Zambia and Mozambique for example.

[BlackHole2006]

I just often thought that raising awareness of cancer seems bit odd to me?

[Greenish]

I just often thought that raising awareness of cancer seems bit odd to me? I can't imagine many people not knowing cancer = bad and needs money than governments are prepared to spend on research for it.

[russycarps]

I saw a couple more of these braying bellwhiffs on the train this morning comparing the whispy little pubes on their top lips. Why is it that the sort of people that so these self promoting stunts always talk a couple of decibels louder than everyone else, and work in "media"?. They were probably on their way to that anti-capitalist camp, safe in the knowledge that their trust funds will shield them from any single kind of discomfort whatsoever in their priviledged, safe, utterly tedious pointless existences.

If I ever find a lump on my swingers I've a good mind to let it become cancerous and die just to spite them.

[guypjfreak]

ha ha bollocks

[rexclark]

Fuck sake, If people want to do something for charity then it's thier business and if it earns some awarness and a bit of cash for a charity then good.

[m_bantam]

Fuck sake, If people want to do something for charity then it's thier business and if it earns some awarness and a bit of cash for a charity then good.

[russycarps]

Fuck sake, If people want to do something for charity then it's thier business and if it earns some awarness and a bit of cash for a charity then good.

Edited November 7, 2011 by russycarps

[rexclark]

If only they did keep it "their business". That's the whole problem. They make it my business by mentioning it every hour for 30 days and acting like they are personally finding a cure for cancer.

They are not. They are merely growing a moustache and getting other people to pay money. The self promoting dimwits.

[russycarps]

Do you feel the same about people who do a sponsored silence or a sponsored walk? Perhaps some people are a bit "look at me, look at me!" but does it matter if they earn money for charity? It's the same with nearly any form of fundraising wether it be growing a moustache, dressing up at work or sitting in a bath of beans. I don't see how individuals can get involved in fundraising without promoting themselves and although you may not be, some others may be interested in being updated on how the fundraising is going.

[Dan R]

If only they did keep it "their business". That's the whole problem. They make it my business by mentioning it every hour for 30 days and acting like they are personally finding a cure for cancer.

They are not. They are merely growing a moustache and getting other people to pay money. The self promoting dimwits.

[radish]

If only they did keep it "their business". That's the whole problem. They make it my business by mentioning it every hour for 30 days and acting like they are personally finding a cure for cancer.

They are not. They are merely growing a moustache and getting other people to pay money. The self promoting dimwits.