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Post by tiddles on Feb 6, 2012 17:52:23 GMT 1
inverclydenow.com/news/local/6434-great-wall-of-china-trek-in-aid-of-dreams-come-trueLook, why don't you just stand out side Tesco and Morrisons for a few weeks and go around the pubs instead of spending a fortune on what is basically an adventure holiday? I am heartily sick of this nonsense. There's far too much of it and not enough sensible fund raising. This is a charity that most people would be happy to give to without having a bunch of, 'adventurers' swanning off to China for a wee holiday. While I am on a roll, what the hell is a, "Brian Keachie, Music Development Officer with Inverclyde Council"  ?? Perhaps his name says it all!
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 6, 2012 18:08:21 GMT 1
anyone want to sponsor me...i go walking in the town or to the club most days.....i'll even have a no buying day if you want..
i agree, who is paying for their little jolly to china, who is paying for their stay or food or is it coming out the funds raised?
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Post by tiddles on Feb 6, 2012 18:13:21 GMT 1
There are a number of companies that specialise in this kind of, "fund raising event". Some of them advertise it as a, "trip of a lifetime". It costs a fortune and there are large deductions made from anything raised. It is nothing more than an adventure holiday lashed to a collective ego trip. Ask any of us to contribute to the charity and I'm sure you'll get NO refusals but don't even think of asking me to contribute to your, 'plans'.
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 6, 2012 18:18:03 GMT 1
its like when you go into town, your hit with this charity and that charity....this morning i was hit with an ambulance chaser....DID YOU HAVE AN ACCIDENT AND WANT TO CLAIM....no but you will if you dont leave me alone
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Post by tiddles on Feb 6, 2012 18:19:50 GMT 1
LOL
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Post by tiddles on Feb 6, 2012 18:21:17 GMT 1
I was once stopped by these Moonie creatures in the old shopping centre. They asked, "Can you say gouranga?". I said, "no, but I can say bugger off"! Mrs Tiddles nearly wet herself  |
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 6, 2012 18:24:25 GMT 1
;D ;D ;D
oh that is a classic.....
our daughter was stopped by one of them and she said no...
she went into menzies or what ever it was called back then and that girl followed her...she just couldnt get rid of her as she was right behind her....
i dont know why they allow them in the town but i suppose its as long as they arent in the oak mall but then again should they not have a license to collect money...
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Post by tiddles on Feb 6, 2012 18:29:08 GMT 1
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 6, 2012 18:34:44 GMT 1
;D ;D
well what can one say ;D.......i am going to remember the bugger off bit the next time i see them and they try and stop me....
they shouldnt be allowed to be in the town but i dare say its all "their rights"..
i have found them outside my building society in westblackhall street waiting for folks coming out
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Post by tiddles on Feb 6, 2012 18:37:38 GMT 1
They can't go into the Soak Mall now because it's private property but I did see them last year standing outside the Phones4You shop. They looked boggin. |
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 6, 2012 18:39:39 GMT 1
were the hell do they live, is there a place in greenock?
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Post by tiddles on Feb 6, 2012 18:54:27 GMT 1
The Moon?
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 6, 2012 18:56:04 GMT 1
wish they would stay there lol..........a young guy was playing his guitar at the underpass of mothercare.....i was ready to pay him to stop....it was terrible ...i suppose he cant help it
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Post by samfregreenock on Feb 6, 2012 20:59:08 GMT 1
The gouranga folk are hare krishnas
my brother specialised in boring them to death, he used to read a lot of that pish but watched every episode of a programme called the mahabarrat which was hunnerz of episodes telling of all that pish in a bollywood style - like an indian "monkey" programme
Anyways when approached by them he would start going on about it and asking them pertinent questions about the meaning of it all, basically just reciting back what he saw on ra telly - they eventually gave up and would just wander off to annoy someone else.
The moonies were even more mental, they were like the scientologists only creepier
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Post by winston on Feb 6, 2012 22:41:50 GMT 1
To go back to the original subject. Yeah I agree that these 'fundraising treks/adventures of a lifetime' are nothing more than a scam in which the beneficiaries are, in order - The company who organise the trip
- The participant (who gets to fulfil their ambition for free and receive a free ego boost )
- The charity
I'd like to see an honest financial breakdown of these types of trips just to see how much of the money raised actually makes it to the charity. |
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Post by samfregreenock on Feb 6, 2012 23:05:09 GMT 1
inverclydenow.com/news/local/6434-great-wall-of-china-trek-in-aid-of-dreams-come-trueLook, why don't you just stand out side Tesco and Morrisons for a few weeks and go around the pubs instead of spending a fortune on what is basically an adventure holiday? I am heartily sick of this nonsense. There's far too much of it and not enough sensible fund raising. This is a charity that most people would be happy to give to without having a bunch of, 'adventurers' swanning off to China for a wee holiday. While I am on a roll, what the hell is a, "Brian Keachie, Music Development Officer with Inverclyde Council" ?? Perhaps his name says it all! The god squad are involved in this "charity" that is enough to turn my stomach and keep ma dosh right away. |
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 6, 2012 23:17:55 GMT 1
winston i would like to see the financial breakdown too
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?? Perhaps his name says it all!
