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also $100k a year isnt alot over there really is it? Do a CS degree at a decent college in the US and you can walk straight into $100k

Would they have made $24,000,000 revenue last year without spending $12,000,000?

But how much of that $24,000,000 would have been dontated to other charities had ALS not been chasing it so effectively ? I actually have no idea, but I expect the answer isn't none.

The problem for me is that the expenditure is just so high as a proportion of revenue... presumably a huge charity like oxfam or red cross doesn't need to pay its board that much more but will have much higher revenues and hence % spent on charitable work.

I hate small charities that seem more like a way to make someone feel better or show off (i.e. single cause single university groups so middle class kids can think they saved africa, or the "Insert Celebrity Here Foundation").

http://metro.co.uk/2014/08/30/police-investigate-grandfather-who-made-10-month-old-baby-do-the-ice-bucket-challenge-4851067/

The ALS books and records pretty much show them in the same light, if not better, than other equivalent US (or UK) charities, in terms of spend on admin and other non-program costs.

perspective
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ETQn9ZPwk&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop

I love all the anti-ALS stuff floating around Facebook based on the 27% research thing. Some people are on a mission to prove they don't want to read up on things they're willing to share.

There's a message going round Twitter, WhatsApp and text about a supposed terror threat tomorrow, and all Met Police being called in at 4am and called back from holiday. Reeks of Twitter panic bullshit but I suppose in the wake of the escalation of the terror threat a lot of people seem to be finding it believable.

Hoax, apparently:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/926602-london-tube-terror-attack-threat-all-police-officers-called-into-met-police-slam-rumors/

Perhaps someone who wants a quieter commute tomorrow.

I wonder what Theresa May thought would happen when she raised the threat level? Surely this precise kind of panic was always going to be a natural consequence of that?

Then again, maybe that was the point. Excuse me, my tin foil hat needs re-creasing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMykYSQaG_c

I don't understand. Now we're angry because they're really good at what they do? Hey, you! Stop being so effective.

If they're effective at creating extra charitable donations from money that people would otherwise spend on sweets, then fine they're worth it even if the take a large fraction of that extra money home.

On the other hand, if they're effective at making their charity more competitive so that it captures a larger slice of a fixed size donation pool, then taking a large fraction of that extra money home is taking away from the total amount that will actually bet spent on charitable things.

http://www.cotswoldlife.co.uk/home/cotswold_voice_wheels_of_ire_1_3750240?action=logout

The sweaty Spandex stick insects round corners in the middle of lanes and ride double and triple-breasted on dangerous A and B roads. They pay no road tax and their only contribution to the environment that they visually and verbally despoil is, as far as I can see, to order a few black coffees and non-alcoholic drinks from the non-sweaty owners of coffee bars and pubs.

I have often thought that if Health and Safety had been in existence in the 19th century and known about the coming of the millions of automobiles on our roads it would have stated the obvious and said to any interested parties suggesting the advent of spandex cyclists ‘Does Lycra go splat?’

more Butlins holiday-level trollumism. yawn.

My friend's 14 year old has gone missing. She's not been seen since last Thursday and left home without her Oystercard, money, or a change of clothes and her phone is switched off. Police search, TV/newspaper reports and social media campaigns have so far brought no news but we all remain hopeful.

Please help by spreading the word and keeping an eye out for Alice, particularly if you live in West London (Hanwell, Ealing). Cheers.

Please retweet and help us find Alice Gross! She's been missing from Hanwell since Thursday x pic.twitter.com/TN5Cxx6PB4

— FIND ALICE GROSS (@findalicegross) September 1, 2014

Should folks wish to grumble to an inbox:

@cotswoldlife: For editorial enquiries, please email joanne.goodwin@archant.co.uk

or to the man himself

RT @cotswoldhack: Send me an e-mail at adam@potlickers.co.uk

"There are two classes of people who ride bicycles – bicyclists and cyclists."

What a complete and utter arse.

@rhb and @spindrift

Have you been tweeting about this?

I don't do Twitter.

I can't even work my toaster.

Your toaster will not be the most effective way to tweet.

I'm on it -along with a few other appalled readers...

@cotswoldlife Haven't read this much bilious anti-cyclist twaddle for ages. Grrrr. And fyi, drivers don't pay 'road tax' either, muppet.

— alex_miss_mouse (@alexecrawford) September 1, 2014

I've told them what I think.

cracked me up tbh
"sturdy archer" gtfo
in other news,
has anyone ever heard of any of these twats who took nekked selfies and have now been outed all over the internetz? never heard of any of them. must be chickenheads....