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Okay, so it has been far too long since my last update. But the problem is, as with many things in life the longer you leave something the harder it is to get back into it. Therefore am printing an excerpt from a book I’m currently reading a) because it’s quite funny and b) in the hope it will help get me back in the swing of things.

I do not actually agree with this article and think charity (in theory) is a good idea. Not wanting to sound too much like Jodie Marsh, but this is my favourite one and I urge you all to donate, seriously!

There you are, an Inca, sitting on your Trail, appreciating the view and munching on a coca leaf, generally enjoying the atmos, when along come 30 bored computer programmers from Bristol, having the time of their fucking lives ‘raising money for cancer’. It’s okay though – it’s ‘for charity’.

Because charity does not begin at home, it begins on holiday. Previously, people booked a holiday and paid for it themselves. You didn’t say to your workmates: ‘I fancy two weeks in Ibiza, getting ripped to the tits on ecstasy tablets and contracting an STD: fancy chipping in? Go on, if you all put in 50 quid I can go for sweet jack nix’.

Now, though, people are quite happy to say: ‘Go on, it’s only 50 quid and it’s for disabled kiddies.’ But then they mumble: ‘Except half of it pays for me to go camel trekking in Mongolia.’ And when you ask them to repeat the second bit louder, they show you a picture of a child who’s been blown up by a mine.

Other similar gambits might include: ‘If you pay for me to go to the pub tonight, I’ll put your change in the charity box – go on, it’s for lifeboats, you stingy cunt.’
Some people do pay the travel costs of their charity holiday themselves, but it’s still fucked up. Cancer research, care for the elderly, orphaned children: what happened to the idea that society should fund these things, what with it being stinking rich and all? Instead, it’s the cue for everyone to start cycling along the Great Wall of China (which, by the way, you can’t see from space – that’s a just a barefaced lie. If irrelevant…but still, you can’t).

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2006 at 2:22 pm by Hopkins and is filed under Personal. Comments are currently closed.