Can you sponsor me?

You utter fucking cunts.

You utter fucking cunts.

Worth reading the drivel to get to this point. Close the thread please.

Jesus Fucking Christ!
Really?

Of everything in the world worth bitching about, you cunts gang up on someone for either not running far enough or for having the audacity to choose a charity which isn't local?

And don't close the thread.
Tika, have some money.

"Wait, wait, Tika's not down in the gang."

"Look at my bike! Look at the bike I want to buy!"

Jesus Fucking Christ!
Really? Tika, have some money.

And some more £ from me too.

Frankly childish behaviour from some people on this thread, which made me embarrassed to have a log in on here.

Thanks Object for letting me know about this thread via twitter.

Well done Tika. You are an inspiration to us all.

I don't know Bazschmaz nor s123 and, having seen their pathetic bullying behaviour on here, I really hope that I never do. I know there have been a number of inadequates on this forum over the years but those two plumb new depths.

Shower of cunts... Donated...

Good on ya, Tika!

Just as well you lot didn't see some of the comments before they got edited...

Really? Keyboard Warrior ManChild types?

(and no, I'm not talking about Hoops)

I particularly liked the trotting out of the misquoted "charity begins at home"

But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

Ok - clearly I overstepped the mark since I'm now a "pathetic bullying cunt" or similar. Although I don't recall making any personal insults, and don't think they are justified in return.

I thought that someone is asking for charitable donation on a public forum that is essentially opening up public discussion on what the money goes towards and the worthyness of that cause.

Tika - I'm impressed you're running a half marathon, I probably couldn't run half half 26 miles, and no personal slight was meant, my comments were only intended to relate to the general concept of "charity fundraising" in the UK. However every little helps and best of luck with your run, hope you reach your targets and all goes well.

Everyone else - let's not judge over 2 lines eh? Apologies for going off topic or being excessively cynical.

^ top marks for apologising

Charity starts at home remember. If you want to help start with your local community first.

Leaving everything else aside, this remarkably stupid comment cannot go unanswered.

While there are many worthy charities in this country and indeed in this city, to suggest that one should not help charitable work in the developing world is more than inane.

To do so in a patronising manner as though speaking with authority simply because one is quoting and interpreting a hackneyed old adage reflects more on the author than anyone else.

"We enliven minds and empower communities to use their own skills and resources to change their lives for the better."

I think I need my mind a bit more enlivened if I'm to understand what is this I don't even.

A way for middle class westerners to assuage their underlying guilt and provide a moral counterweight to a lifetime of capitalist exploitation and political ignorance of the third world?

Ok - clearly I overstepped the mark since I'm now a "pathetic bullying cunt" or similar. Although I don't recall making any personal insults, and don't think they are justified in return.

I thought that someone is asking for charitable donation on a public forum that is essentially opening up public discussion on what the money goes towards and the worthyness of that cause.

Tika - I'm impressed you're running a half marathon, I probably couldn't run half half 26 miles, and no personal slight was meant, my comments were only intended to relate to the general concept of "charity fundraising" in the UK. However every little helps and best of luck with your run, hope you reach your targets and all goes well.

Everyone else - let's not judge over 2 lines eh? Apologies for going off topic or being excessively cynical.

regret always come at the end.

has anyone been on ryan air flights when they go on and on about their scratch cards where some of the purchase price goes to children's charities?
i'm perhaps a little cynical but i don't think the primary motivation of those selling and buying these scratch cards is to help children's charities. That particular enterprise stikes me as self-interest dressed up as selflessness. As do requests for sponsorship such as this one.
What's the OP's primary motivation? To help african children or to participate in a fun and challenging event? Charities aren't stupid - they know that most people won't give much of their time or money for nothing, so the charities give them something in return...and so you get these mass-participation events billed as personal challenges or experiences.
i'm not saying charities shouldn't be as clever as they can to raise money - by all means they must do what they need to do. i just find people parading themselves as charitable fundraisers when in reality they have simply bought into the idea of whatever event / experience / challenge the charity have sold them a little distasteful.
maybe the op is different. but to me the morality of all this is a little skewed and perhaps conflicted. there's nothing wrong with that - i am as morally ambivalent and conflicted as everyone else - it perhaps ought to be recognised that's all.

Shower of cunts... Donated...

Good on ya, Tika!

quelle douchebags

donated :)

xx

i was going to put this thread on ignore. As Object and some other people kept it alive I will post one more time.

First of all thanks to all the people that supported me. I really appreciate it.

To all the others: who do you think you are to judge what other poeple do or think? I hate the moral police. Yes it will be fun I never said that I wanted to save the world with this. I onlythought that instead o paying £40 for the entrance fee I could donate the fee to a charity and if I could raise a bit mor money it would be awesome. That is all

@ Carson: you did apologise but what the heck gives you the right to call me a SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY? when you don't even know me. I can be some times if I want to. Is easy to call people names and the delete it and apologise. I really regret not having quoted you comment so people could see how lame you are.

FUCK YOUR MORALS I DON'T GIVE A SHIT

@ Carson, I see where you're coming from. But does anyone who participates in a mass event whilst raising money for charity ever actually parade themselves as charitable fundraisers?

People say things like, "come-on it's for a good cause, etc.", but that's called sales/promotion. In my experience people don't claim to be some sort of Mr Benevolent.

Also it's worth pointing out that for a lot of charities (especially the major ones), sponsored events like these raise comparatively little in themselves. The real goal is brand promotion. For smaller ones the promotion is even more essential.

Sometimes I get a bit tired of every event having to be linked to charity - for e.g. me and my mates didn't get onto Ride100. But there were lots of charity places left... in the end I wasn't prepared to commit the time/effort over that period to raise money.

Anyway I think you're being overly cynical about the whole issue and just projecting your grumpiness. IMO there are many more important gripes that can be levelled at charities than individuals raising money for a sponsored event.

Carson, take you high horse, huge assumptions and cynicism somewhere else. As you said, you don't know the OP, but many of us do. She's used the forum as a way of reaching out to the many friends she has on here to see if they might want to support her fundraising efforts.

Fine that you don't want to but, if you want to have a debate about the motivation of charity fundraisers, maybe do it somewhere else, rather than clogging this thread up.

Oh, and have some ££, tika

I've found a way to not dodge the stretches, exercises and activity!

I've gone and signed up to a sponsored bike ride and will let the guilt force me to complete it.

https://believe.in/fundraising/DavidKitchen/319

Yeah, I want donations.

More seriously though, the ride is with a load of other entrepreneurs and whilst I should kill it, the sciatica has been fucking with me all year. It's going to be a suffer fest, I'm not even convinced I should do 60 miles in one go.

And that, is why I'm really going to have to take stretching, and doing the exercises, swimming and training seriously.

Sciatica is a bitch.

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Ha! Clive. hilarious.

Just stumbled across this. Fuck me, there are some utter bellwipes on here these days, aren't there?

Good luck, Tika.

thanks for you support
If finished in 01:47:01
not as fast as I wanted but anyway...

Well done Tika, that's a really good time!

Good work Tika