Children In need
Posted by: JamieWednesday on 18 November 2011
Is it just me who gets more emotional as I get older over the years when watching the 'In Need' clips...
It gets me as well now mate especially as i now have the little Tiger, so reminds me how lucky i really am
Ooh, Red card your barred. 
Ooh, Red card your barred.
you're
I stand corrected sir.......
I stand corrected sir.......
maze , do you not have control of your own TV then? I just don't watch simplez!
Typical BBC left wing rhetoric as usual, social engineering and thinking, dependancy creates more dependancy.
There are hundreds of channels to choose from so why bitch and moan about one and for once a year, you could even have used the excuse to go down the pub and at least the money raised is spent in the UK. i suppose you begrudge the rememberance programe as well. I don`t know you but it strikes me that you are a miserable git, but the chances are i`m completely wrong and i hope so.
As for remembrance day I fully endorse honouring our brave soldeirs past and present and all that have lost their lives in wars.
There is no real poverty in this great nation of ours, yes povery exists in many other parts of the world, but please don't insult my intelligence to say that poverty is rife in this country. What we do have are people that neglect their children problaby due our welfare state. Someone will bail me out attitude. Why is it year on year after all the giving nothing ever changes?
What improves people's lives is empowering people to take responsibility for them selves. Money does solve problems alone.
Dear maze,
Are you suggesting that there are diserving and undiserving poor?
ATB from George
Some poor little buggers are born with massive problems into unfortunate families. Just book yourself on a holiday next year. It sounds like you need it.
Tony
Tony
How about every other year a senior citizen in need appeal? We treat our elder folk appallingly in this country me thinks. I may be more inclined towards the annual tired dire children in need effort. We are too young person centred in this country and the BBC have already been brought to book over this issue.
I'll vote for the Senior citizen in need appeal.
My need is a NAC 52, thanks.
I had a read of this thread late last night.
Maze,
You need to open your eyes man.
I have seen first hand what children in need has done over the last 30 years.
I have seen what its done for children.
You might be a ok bloke in real life but i would give you a smack for your above posts on this thread.
You have not got a clue
.How much good its done over the years.
Any time you want a day out?
Come down to Hythe in Kent and i will take you to some special schools that would not be here if it was not for children in need.
I will take you to meet some of the familys that its helped, four are good friends and dont have their sons and daughters anymore.They died before they were 10 years old..
I still have my original Pud mug my son and daughters are long gone.
One day a year and it lasts with thank you's for another week or so on BBC Radio.
****, IF thats the price we have to pay for the good it does?
SHOOT ME NOW.
Stu
Perhaps you need to read my first post on the matter, I said in principal children in need I agree with, it 's just that dire programme I object to.
Interesting no comments made regarding how we treat our elder folk, just cements my thoughts that we are too youth focused in th uk. You will be old too one day, maybe you already are?
I have not had life easy. Born to a one parent family, late teens spent homeless and jobless, jobless several times actually, no money , no future. What these experiences did give me was A sense of sorting out my own difficulties in life.
Now children or anyone for that matter with medical conditions is a different kettle of fish I am am the first to put my hand in my pocket.
I have spent several years as a volunteer, which I believe offers me insight into what I am talking about. I know life's hard, families have tough times.
Let's not forget the BBC children in need is as much about the BBC promoting them and their presenters as much as it is about raising funds.
maze to come a little to Stus defence your 1st post did seem to be anti CIN, rather than anti BBC.
I agree with you the programme stinks, we used to watch every year then just record hi-lights now we don't even bother.
We give to charity through the wife's school and church.
As an aside the kids at Sally's school get great benefit from making cake and such like and learning about some of the projects that CIN do around the world.
Do you object to Branson getting his mug on the news at every opportunity? BBC is a business and needs to spread the word, it's not only the UK that sees this programme or the BBC in general.
So there is more to it than a annual programme.
> I agree with you the programme stinks
+1
The charity aspect is fine, but I'd be happy to give more if they promised not to have TW and cronies on the telly.
Of course, people should help children and others in need, but ...
A million housewives every day
Pick up a can of beans and say:
“What an amazing example of synchronisation”
He looked out of the aeroplane
And he saw the Alps way down below
He fixed his gaze on the white terrain
And he could see a portrait in the snow
And he shouted: “Hey look down there, I can see Robert Powell”
That’s an ominous example of the power of TV
from Venus in Flares
Maze,
You are to much man.
The Smack was a reff to what people do to there children.
IE Smack bottoms/Legs..
Do you have any children?
If you do? I hope they are well and you never need any help.
Stu
Got it in two. The coverage and emphasis is diabolical. Similar sentiment here to Band Aid. Affluent people to an entertainment event to save the world and spend months boasting about how much they forked up. If that's what it takes to make some people indulge in an act of charity then so be it. Not in my world.
Our largest corporate and personal donors also chose to be anonymous, rather than 'crowing' about it.
Bruce
Bruce - I don't think I put appropriate emphasis on "affluent". We are comparatively an incredibly affluent society. there's poor and then there's real poverty. By comparison, the least well off in UK society can be classified as poor little rich kids. Unless we keep the national blinkers on.