More bushfire stuff

This Friday at the Basement in Belconnen local band ‘Boundless’ and a few others are having a bushfire gig, with the $15 cover charge per person being donated to the bushfire appeal.
8pm start

Or at the very least, one of them could wander ’round the floor collecting change, then take it in to the red cross.

bd84 said :

It’s becoming a bit overkill now.. as bad as the news bulletins trying to interview every single person they can find in the street.

What has become overkill and quite embarrassing is Parliament suspending question time everyday this week, so members could make statements of condolence. So we had the PM, the Dep PM, the Leader of Opposition, Dep Leader of the Ops and Leader or the Nats making statements every day about how terrible it was for four days straight. Then every member who could justify it doing the same thing, over and over. With each of them trying to outdo each other.

I could understand one day of Parliamentary condolences..but four?.. How about they actually get on with their job, which might actually help people in the fire devastated regions instead of their self indulgent, “Our side of the house is so much more sadder than your side” rhetoric.

bd84 said :

It’s becoming a bit overkill now.. as bad as the news bulletins trying to interview every single person they can find in the street.

I’m with you bd84. It’s very sad and all, but jeez the media love a bushfire. They all try and out do each other for ratings.

I would say most people who are going to donate money have by now.

It’s becoming a bit overkill now.. as bad as the news bulletins trying to interview every single person they can find in the street.

Fiona said :

Think I’ll just stick with donating to red cross directly.

I have weird and wonderous memories of telethons as a child… the overnight ones that raised money to build hospitals, dancing mini ballerinas and big dog.

I’m with you, Fiona.

And my god, big up to the Red Cross woman on the line when I rang yesterday. What a sense of humour — I mean actually drop dead funny — until she actually patched me through to donation girl and it all got a bit more mundane (which is fine; no law that says I have to be entertained while donating my cash). For charities, I’ll get over my, ‘What was (sic) your name? What was (sic) your credit card name? What was (sic) your address?’ If they’re donating their time as I suspect they are, I’ll leave my ‘Basic English for CSRs and phone jockeys’ to some other day and someone who’s being paid to be correct.

Good on the commercial networks if they raise a shipload, but I’ll avoid like the plague. Has the potential to be so cringe-worthy as to do damage to one’s own internal organs.

I’m glad that Ch9/WIN will help out by collecting some money from people that can be talked into helping. I seriously doubt I will be watching the show however.

Think I’ll just stick with donating to red cross directly.

I have weird and wonderous memories of telethons as a child… the overnight ones that raised money to build hospitals, dancing mini ballerinas and big dog.

I note Channel Nine/WIN are holding a telethon tonight from 7:30PM. They should announce during the opening speech that “iffy” donations will not be accepted – all money should be pledged unconditional without strings. By “iffy” donations I mean those people who say “I’ll donate $20.00 if the host kisses one of the panellists” or “I’ll donate $20.00 if the host does ten pushups”. I find this sort of thing to be the bane of telethons and let’s hope the seriousness of the situation this time will mean we won’t have to put up with it.

If I have to go to a supermarket anyway, better to go to one that donates to charity than not.

As for Brindabella Baby, 20% is the average markup. I had to pluck a number, so that was it. Much easier to just say a % off the sales than try to work out what my profit margin was for the month and donate that. Better to donate over a whole month’s sales than just one day. And the people who’ve already spent their money this month will have contributed in a roundabout way.