Comic Relief in Cornwall: Send us your pictures
9:56am Friday 15th March 2013 in News
Comic Relief in Cornwall: Send us your pictures
KIND-HEARTED folk across Cornwall are gearing up to raise cash for Comic Relief today (March 15).
From wacky outfits and cake sales to gruelling challenges, people are doing all they can to top last year's total.
Youngsters at Kennall Vale will be making dinosaurs out of coins, while Falmouth firefighters are pushing a bale of straw to Event's Square.
St Francis School pupils have arrived for class dressed as explorers (above) while the KFC manager in Falmouth will be sitting in a bath of baked beans.
Comic Relief was launched from a refugee camp in Sudan on Christmas Day in 1985 with the aim of ending world poverty.
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Comments(7)
Gillian Zella Martin 09
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2:03pm Sat 16 Mar 13
molesworth wrote:Lol, your comment might be more popular than you think molesworth, I have supported it financially and I bought a Red Nose Day wrist band because I sure as hell was not walking around wearing a red nose, but I didn't watch it on TV.
I know this won't be a popular comment but I utterly hate Red Nose Day. It's great that so much money is raised but at what cost? Nothing is funny about cavorting celebs hamming it up or people chucking custard pies at each other. It's cringe making. Why do the presenters have to shout whilst staring wide eyed at the camera? Because they're desperately trying to make it 'fun'. And it isn't. It really, REALLY isn't.
Regards shouting, many of the adverts on TV these days are like that, a double glazing one particularly springs to mind, do the advertisers think we are all deaf or are they under the delusion if they shout at us we will take more notice. Sales assistants don't shout at us in the shops. Although I am surprised they don't shout at me in Fords in Helston lol
Having been handed a relatively new design car key, I looked at the salesman and said "how long is it going to be before that snaps off and breaks" at which point he handed me an additional key and said calmly "well now you have two to break"
Gillian Zella Martin 09
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4:38pm Sat 16 Mar 13
molesworth
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11:54pm Sat 16 Mar 13
Gillian Zella Martin 09
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3:40pm Sun 17 Mar 13
molesworth wrote:I never judge what someone may spend the money on, if I give then I give and it is up to them what they spend it on, I have a no strings attached policy to any money I give anyone and I certainly never give to gain favours in return. If I give money for a specific charity then obviously I would like to think the money will reach the charity.
I never feel guilty about saying 'no' to tin rattlers as I have a £2 daily limit to giving money to beggars and such like that i might encounter. Once I've reached my limit I say no for the rest of the day. I learnt this technique abroad where begging is a way of life. I also learnt it's bad form to not give money to someone because they might spend it on booze or fags or worse. This robs a down and out of any dignity they may have left and in their position I'd probably want a pint of beer rather than a coffee. I'm always aware that it's quite easy to become homeless and reliant on begging...
The reason I declined this doorstep person was because I wasn't sure it was genuine because I believe if it was they should have had an official collecting tin and I will not risk being conned out of money on principle. I would be quite happy to give if someone knocked at the door and just said they had no money and could I give them some to help them, It may well have been a genuine charity but it was bad timing anyway the day after comic relief Red Nose Day.
molesworth
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6:56am Mon 18 Mar 13
Gillian Zella Martin 09
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9:33am Mon 18 Mar 13
molesworth says...
7:04am Sat 16 Mar 13