AAARRRGGGHHHH ... it's Children in Need!

[WillieBo]

I was laughing so much at this post that my wife ran into the study and asked if I was ok. She thought I was either having a heart attack or looking at porno websites again.

We ain't got any kids so maybe I'm biased but I fucking hate it. You summed it up superbly, Terry. And where does the money go ? Some of the Red Nose Day money (another waste of time) goes to councils and charities for 'diversity officers' or gay and lesbian co-ordinators'.

Do what I do - hit the pub. Mind you I do that every Friday night. Fuck 'em, fuck 'em all.

[steve56]

the lotterys the same waste of time my dad did it evrey week only won a tenner where does that go these days?

[Terry May]

I'm glad to hear that you're all in agreement.

did you also know that it's been taken over by the do gooders over the years as originally it was called Children in Need of a bloody good thrashing.

[steve56]

5 mins were enough saw the eastenders bit earlier.

[goldenballs]

For me its just an annual reinder of just how over-rated Lenny Henry was/is as a comedian.

[Lizard]

Get Wogan on camera in a blank studio, threatning to show 'Jim Davidson' singing, Shane Ritchie...'acting', Tarbuck..'telling jokes, etc etc etc, and then people phone in and pledge an amount to keep the fuckas off yer screen.

Marvellous!..

[steve56]

love to see that liz,lol.

[nosey]

Walking of Worral Thompson ang Ainsley where is little Kevin Wooford now?
Anybody know?

[nosey]

Sorry about the typo errors I sneezed as I hit the keys. I've got a stinking
cold, good job it doesn't get pumped down wires ain't it.

[The Last Word]

All well and good, I'm sure. And though it seems churlish to doubt its earnestness, I'm pretty certain it's the cloying 'Aunty Beeb' cosiness and sugary sentimentality of it that really drives many up the wall, to say nothing of the complacency and grinding apathy its constant fixture on the calendar could so easily induce. We know it's for a good cause, but does it always have to be the same bloody cause? I'm sure there are other domestic charities that would love a prime-time evening's worth of awareness and donations - ones perhaps suffering at the surfeit of public attention CIN receives. Homeless? elderly? the mentally infirm? But they would be difficult to apply the 'aah!' factor to, wouldn't they. Pudsey in a sleeping bag? with a walking frame? talking to himself loudly on a street corner? Why not?

(And the Jeremy Vine incident? Check your local paper for support groups).

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