I am a Bad Person

[callmemadam]

Because I really hate the whole Children in Need campaign.

Comments

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

You can add me to the 'bad person' list too. About the only national charity event-connected thing I do is buy a poppy each year. (I do make monthly DDs to charities, I just find fundraising events quite irritating.)

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness! Me too; I buy a poppy but apart from that I'll choose my own charities, thank you very much.

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

I think it's a combination of the relentlessly jolly 'isn't this fun'? attitude (I have no idea who half the 'celebrities' are and have no desire to sit through 4 hours of sketches based on programmes I don't watch) and the general assumption that if you don't want to give/ get involved, you therefore hate children, won't give to charity at all and are some sort of miserly misanthrope.

I support non-traditional communities (eg shanty town dwellers, migrants) in Kenya year-round, and elderly people in this country. If I don't feel like giving money to someone to sit in a bath of beans just so they can get on telly and the world can see them sitting in a bath of beans, that's my choice!

(Yes, I feel quite strongly about it!)

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! You should have written my post for me because you've said it all.

[scarletts-web.livejournal.com]

Brings to mind Harry Enfield doing the old gits. "Children in Need? They can stay in bloody need."

I have done fundraising with my Brownies and playgroup, but I can't bear enforced wackiness.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Hee, I was just thinking yesterday about that old gits sketch.
'Enforced wackiness'. Yup, and they're all so pleased with themselves.

[scarletts-web.livejournal.com]

There were mums in the playground this morning wearing their nightclothes because they are so wacky! I gave them a pound to go away.

[pinkhebe.livejournal.com]

In order to avoid hysterical guides tonight (because they watch the TV before coming out they get very wound up) we are doing a sponsored walk in the dark tonight. Gah.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I liked Sarah Kennedy doing the Queen's Speech in Cockney!

I won't be watching, though, not even for Dr Who.

[lurpak.livejournal.com]

I do too, though I expect I'll have to watch it later (daughters insist). And then I'll probably cave in and send money when they show films of children who've benefitted from the fund-raising. Bah.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Thank you! You two have made me laugh out loud.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Won't that make them even more hysterical? :-)
Good luck!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

In Wogan's dreams.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

And I like some of the records people pay to have played. But I don't like the assumption that *the whole country* is behind this and that it's a Special Day. Wouldn't be so bad if were every five years, say.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Your bad person-ness is slipping...

[lizarfau.livejournal.com]

Was that the one that used to have a blonde presenter called Sue Cook giving us "the totals"?

[pinkhebe.livejournal.com]

Given that they were hysterical because we weren't doing anything, I hope we're ok!

[lurpak.livejournal.com]

nah, bad and weak - even worse!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Der, don't know because I didn't watch.
What happened to Sue Cook? Must be too old to be on television any more *because she's a woman*.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

The Beeb forgives. He'll be on with Alesha Dixon and Tess Daly from Strictly, see here

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Oh, *radio*. Full of dames over fifty.

[(Anonymous)]

I am also a very bad and deeply cynical person, because I think 'children' are so much more appealingly visually than elderly alzheimer sufferers who are also desperately under funded. I do give to children's charities but I loathe the media circus of the whole 'children in need' farrago (not a word you can use often:)
best wishes
Oddny

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear! I'm enraged by bad treatment of the elderly but how to make them cute and this a hot issue? Go Joan Bakewell!

[(Anonymous)]

I am so glad to find I have fellow grumpies out there. I hate it all too, why are we meant to know who all these people are, are we meant to stay glued to our teles all day and night? and aren't they a self-satisfied bunch.......there, I feel better for getting that off my chest!
One of my sons is working in Malawi, so any spare money goes directly to him. His stories of the waste of some of the big charities are dreadful. He and his friends just get on with it in a small way, no fanfare, just help where it is needed.
Carole.

[dozydormouse.livejournal.com]

I hate it too. My TV is firmly off this evening.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my grumpy club.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I managed to miss the lot, jolly good.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, thank God. I thought I was the only one!

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

We are everywhere!

[(Anonymous)]

Have never understood why a night of even worse television than usual is supposed to make me feel charitable...

Childen in need

[(Anonymous)]

I would willingly give them a pound or three just to stay off TV. The programmes are bad enough these days without a whole evening devoted to this annual rubbish. Yes, it's only on once a year, but that is once too often.

Re: Childen in need

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Yes, as someone else said, even worse television than usual. Have you done the BBC Trust survey? You can lay into them there for not providing anything one wants to watch.