Begging Adverts

[PankySmooch]

I've noticed this year every other advert is an appeal to give money, £19 for a meal and a shower for a homeless person, £22 for someone to keep Mabel company at Christmas, do they think we're made of money?

[retrocop]

Mamyalynne
Thanks. Do you think UNICEF might provide me with an en-suite if I send them a letter. My downstairs toilet is quite clean but it is unsafe getting up in the night to negotiate those steep stairs in the dark. :-(

[beso]

It is important to help buy meals for the poor who have spent all their money on cigarettes.

[fiction-factory]

May be a bit of a generalisation there, beso.

[Mamyalynne]

Retrocop, maybe they would - why not ask them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYQl7K20AxI

[beso]

//May be a bit of a generalisation there, beso.//

Perhaps but take a look at who smokes and you will find it is largely the uneducated who can least afford the expense.

[Togo]

They were asking for £20 to provide a double cataract operation in Africa not long ago . Rather than wait 12 month or more I paid the thick end of £1600 for one. Should have gone to Africa got a nice tan as well. Still waiting for the other to be done.

[retrocop]

Mamyalynne
The last sentence sums it up nicely," In this day and age it shouldn't be happening". Exactly. Even the Romans had sanitation and Verulanium.

[Mamyalynne]

They did.