Comic Relief Red Nose etc

[JonnyHungwell]

You can do what you want with numbers on a balance sheet, seeing most of it is fictitious. A bit of quantitative easing and there?s another ?75B to distribute - and there's more where that came from! It's not so much giving money to Africa and letting millions of them into this country is making them better off, so much as dragging us down to their level.

[JonnyHungwell]

I thought they were the same thing, seeing the whole year is taken up planning the events, actuating them and then boasting about how much was raised --- before they've finished it's time to start again. Bloody marvellous for talentless fuckers like Lenny Henry - what else could he do? Apart from shag Dawn French, but that can't be any fun.

[a m playlist]

Talking of Comic Relief 2009, I saw from tv listings that they had several male "celebrities" do a pastiche of the strip routine from The Full Monty. I haven't heard or read anywhere about anyone being up in arms about this, which I find interesting.

When Sport Relief 2006 apparently tried to do something similar with female celebrities all hell broke loose (see link here: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/co ... 78079.html).

When recently the Miss University London contest was held, again all hell broke loose (see link here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... bombs.html).

Seems to me, guys, that so long as there are people out there willing to protest strongly against any portrayal of women's nude or scantily-clad bodies in anything approaching the mainstream media, then we are going to be stuck with the dreadful sight of blokes in the main getting their kit off in mainstream media.