Today I'm happy about......

[Dujon]

Sounds like you put in the work and have been rewarded, Dan. A damn fine job - congratulations.

[bwfcdan94]

I am delighted as a Virgin Media customer I can get BT sport for free as we already have sky included in our Virgin Media package. Sky and BT squabble, Virgin nick in to take both of them to the cleaners .

[Bijou Bob]

Lorraine Pascal on BBC one in a denim mini. Ticks. Every. Happy. Button.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Lorraine Pascal on BBC one in a denim mini. Ticks. Every. Happy. Button.

Really? Not for me.....

Anyway.....fellow cyclists....always a little nod of acknowledgment whenever you pass each other on the roads.....

[thebish]

Lorraine Pascal on BBC one in a denim mini. Ticks. Every. Happy. Button.

Really? Not for me.....

Anyway.....fellow cyclists....always a little nod of acknowledgment whenever you pass each other on the roads.....

same with motorcyclists.. in fact - I nod to motorcyclists when I am driving the car - forgetting that I am not on the bike!

[Annoyed Grunt]

Lorraine Pascal on BBC one in a denim mini. Ticks. Every. Happy. Button.

Really? Not for me.....

Anyway.....fellow cyclists....always a little nod of acknowledgment whenever you pass each other on the roads.....

same with motorcyclists.. in fact - I nod to motorcyclists when I am driving the car - forgetting that I am not on the bike!

[Bruce Rioja]

Lorraine Pascal on BBC one in a denim mini. Ticks. Every. Happy. Button.

Really? Not for me.....

Anyway.....fellow cyclists....always a little nod of acknowledgment whenever you pass each other on the roads.....

same with motorcyclists.. in fact - I nod to motorcyclists when I am driving the car - forgetting that I am not on the bike!

On Islay, everyone acknowledges everyone else, pedestrian or motorist. Incredibly friendly place. I didn't know this when I first arrived and wondered why people kept nodding and waving at me.

[mrkint]

This. My favourite news story of the year

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[boltonboris]

Love that

[Hoboh]

+1

[TANGODANCER]

Brilliant that. There was hardly a summer weekend when we were emerging teenagers that we didn't walk somewhere, Moss Bank, Barrow Bridge, Sixty Three Steps, The Pike, Rivington Barn, or just up Church Road and over to St Edmunds Youth Club, Sunday nights. We walked, and loved it. Why a daft question about it upseeting fund-raiseers was even asked I'll never know. They did it because they wanted to and it was bothering nobody, that's enough surely? Good on the lot of them.

[boltonboris]

Personally, I'm suck of people asking for money to do menial tasks, or even worse, to part fund some dream adventure they've concocted. I know Pru(?) has been scathing of that in the past

[mrkint]

Aye. My mate asked me to sponsor his 'dryathlon' - not drinking for a month. If that's genuinely supposed to be a challenge then that's not a charity thing, that's rehab.

[boltonboris]

You should've replied with "only if you sponsor me not to stab you"

[mrkint]

I wouldn't have been arsed, but i ran a marathon a year before and he got more sponsor money than me

Currently planning a sponsored 'Not going to Turkmenistan'. Going to be difficult but hopefully be worth it. Will send justgiving link soon.

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Personally, I'm suck of people asking for money to do menial tasks, or even worse, to part fund some dream adventure they've concocted. I know Pru(?) has been scathing of that in the past

I think you'll find I was that miserable bastard.

I've hardened even further and can't bear the 'look at me' element of it all even when it's actually a good cause.

[Hoboh]

Personally, I'm suck of people asking for money to do menial tasks, or even worse, to part fund some dream adventure they've concocted. I know Pru(?) has been scathing of that in the past

I think you'll find I was that miserable bastard.

I've hardened even further and can't bear the 'look at me' element of it all even when it's actually a good cause.

Your right.

[boltonboris]

I wouldn't have been arsed, but i ran a marathon a year before and he got more sponsor money than me

Currently planning a sponsored 'Not going to Turkmenistan'. Going to be difficult but hopefully be worth it. Will send justgiving link soon.

Why wouldn't you go to Turkmenistan? Jesus Christ, you really are racist.

[Prufrock]

I tend to share the common view, though I'm not quite as hardened as some of you!

I don't mind it if:

a) It's a cause close to someone's heart;

b)They're doing something I couldn't do right now without any effort; and,

c)The money is going to the cause rather than paying for the thing itself.

So, if you decide to run a marathon, great, but don't randomly pick a charity afterwards coz you think you might as well. On the other hand, if someone close to you has been seriously affected by something, or it's a cause you obviously care about, than I can go along with that.

I might sponsor somebody to run a marathon, or do an Iron Man, or climb Everest; I'm not sponsoring you and your coffee shop mates to walk 5k, you lazy f*cking cows - not unless you've not got legs. Or to sit in a bath of beans. Or to have a shit hair cut. Or to not shave for a month. Even if your cause is close to you. If it means loads to you, but you can't think of anything good to do, well, that's what words were invented for. Just talk about whatever it is you feel so strongly about!

I might sponsor someone to climb Everest, but I'm not paying for it. It's your holiday.

By forum standards I think that makes me a soft-hearted pansy!

[Annoyed Grunt]

No work for 5 days.......