[Boboff]

Indeed, my wife is running the Plymouth Half Marathon this weekend to raise money for a Childrens Hospice.

Although I believe the idea of doing this is not just limited to My House, or indeed the village of Gunnislake, even cornwall, the UK, Europe, and the Northern Hemisphere, but it's a fairly global thing.

You don't need to be sorry though, Pet.

[bmstinton93]

I wonder if North Korea do much fundraising.

[Misfit]

You don't need to be sorry though, Pet.

I'm not really.

I guess £360 is a low amount of money in your life.

[chrysostom]

Oh I'm sorry, I guess where you live, people have the kind of money to donate to charity and have the time to go out fundraising.

Which town do you live where there is little in the way of charitable donations from the entirety of the local community, and people don't have peer groups to utilise for fundraising?

10 points to whoever says 'Scotland' first

[The Deadly]

You don't need to be sorry though, Pet.

I'm not really.

I guess £360 is a low amount of money in your life.

How do you at 15 years of age know the true value of money anyway?

[Boboff]

You don't need to be sorry though, Pet.

I'm not really.

I guess £360 is a low amount of money in your life.

You see, this annoys me.

Given the reference to the fact you are 15 I will cut you some slack.

What you do is you collect this money from friends and family, 360 people all give you £1 to jump (I would make it £10 if you forgot the * parachute) and you then have £360 to give to the charity, who pay £180 to the provider of the Airplane and training and equipment.

£1

x

360 friends

= £360

Not allot

£360

x

# of misfits friends

=

0

Now * off you annoying little twat

[bmstinton93]

Who has 360 friends?

[a-moron]

You've got 395.

I just checked.

[The Deadly]

You don't win friends with salad.

[chrysostom]

Well, say on average you've got:

Between 5-7 work colleagues with whom you're close enough to ask for a donation. (£5 each?)
2 parents and 1 adult sibling (between £20-30 each?)
10 close friends who you can ask for a donation (around £10 each?)
5 peripheral friends (around £5?)
A partner (£20?)
Partner's parents and perhaps a sibling (£5 each?)

You'd be at around £280 with what I see as an average network of real world contacts - and that's without really trying.

[Nicola_Red]

Given the reference to the fact you are 15 I will cut you some slack.

What you do is you collect this money from friends and family, 360 people all give you £1 to jump (I would make it £10 if you forgot the * parachute) and you then have £360 to give to the charity, who pay £180 to the provider of the Airplane and training and equipment.

£1

x

360 friends

= £360

Not allot

£360

x

# of misfits friends

=

0

Now * off you annoying little twat

1. Misfit is 19
2. I too would struggle to come up with 360 people to sponsor me; I'd struggle with 160. I don't think it's unreasonable to point out that 360 seems like a hell of a lot of people/£360 seems like a lot of money.
3. PERSONAL INSULTS. GOOD LORD.

[MK Chris]

You don't need to be sorry though, Pet.

I'm not really.

I guess £360 is a low amount of money in your life.

You see, this annoys me.

Given the reference to the fact you are 15 I will cut you some slack.

What you do is you collect this money from friends and family, 360 people all give you £1 to jump (I would make it £10 if you forgot the * parachute) and you then have £360 to give to the charity, who pay £180 to the provider of the Airplane and training and equipment.

£1

x

360 friends

= £360

Not allot

£360

x

# of misfits friends

=

0

Now * off you annoying little twat

I like the fact that this was cutting him some slack.

[bmstinton93]

Well, say on average you've got:

Between 5-7 work colleagues with whom you're close enough to ask for a donation. (£5 each?)
2 parents and 1 adult sibling (between £20-30 each?)
10 close friends who you can ask for a donation (around £10 each?)
5 peripheral friends (around £5?)
A partner (£20?)
Partner's parents and perhaps a sibling (£5 each?)

You'd be at around £280 with what I see as an average network of real world contacts - and that's without really trying.

10 close friends and 5 peripheral friends still seems a lot...

[chrysostom]

I don't think it's unreasonable to point out that 360 seems like a hell of a lot of people/£360 seems like a lot of money.

Given that 50% of that cost is a skydive (i.e. the cost of getting some form of training on the day, going up in a (private?) plane and having an instructor take your through a thrilling experience) I think that comparatively, it's not a lot of money.

For example, rent prices in London are stupidly high. We pay 30-40% more than people in rural areas. If someone was to tell me that it cost a 'shit load' to rent in London and intimated that I was somehow lauding it over them because they can't afford to do the same, I would say that it's the going rate for what it is.

[bmstinton93]

Just booked tickets for the new Russell Howard tour next year and it's for Bournemouth! No travelling to London this time!

Katie served him and his girlfriend at Vue on Sunday night.

[Nicola_Red]

For example, rent prices in London are stupidly high. We pay 30-40% more than people in rural areas. If someone was to tell me that it cost a 'shit load' to rent in London and intimated that I was somehow lauding it over them because they can't afford to do the same, I would say that it's the going rate for what it is.

That's not quite the same though - wages are higher in London too, so in theory, it should balance out. I do see what you mean though!

[MK Chris]

Just back from a great stag weekend in Prague... here's a tip for you all (as theflyingbadger will no doubt know) - airline flight numbers are reused day after day; so our flight on the way out was EZY3065... that number was used for the same journey the day after and the day after that and today. So don't just check the flight number when you book, like Paul did for the journey back... he booked today's flight back! Cost him over £100 to get on the right flight - and he was bloody lucky there was any space.

[Boboff]

1. Misfit is 19
2. I too would struggle to come up with 360 people to sponsor me; I'd struggle with 160. I don't think it's unreasonable to point out that 360 seems like a hell of a lot of people/£360 seems like a lot of money.
3. PERSONAL INSULTS. GOOD LORD.

1. Oh, why were they saying he was 15? Anyway irrelevant, old enough to post, old enough to hmm, old enough to, ummm, you know, something funny that rhymes with post.
2. Why is everyone being so literal this morning? I was trying to point out that yes £360 is allot of money, even for Tim, but you get over that by getting people you know to sponsor you, a little bit each, towards it, to help, as it goes, I wasn't saying 360 is an average number of friends, that would be silly unless you're under 21 and have a facebook account, personally I could count the number of friends I have on the penipi of a satisfaction of eunuch.
3.Sorry, I know, I did put a smily in my defense, my defense being I could point that out if anyone took offence, as in, your silly, only joking, etc, something which I hate, and therefore was being ironic, in a strictly post feminist Thatherite UK.

Ho Hum

[Nicola_Red]

1. Misfit is 19
2. I too would struggle to come up with 360 people to sponsor me; I'd struggle with 160. I don't think it's unreasonable to point out that 360 seems like a hell of a lot of people/£360 seems like a lot of money.
3. PERSONAL INSULTS. GOOD LORD.

1. Oh, why were they saying he was 15? Anyway irrelevant, old enough to post, old enough to hmm, old enough to, ummm, you know, something funny that rhymes with post.
2. Why is everyone being so literal this morning? I was trying to point out that yes £360 is allot of money, even for Tim, but you get over that by getting people you know to sponsor you, a little bit each, towards it, to help, as it goes, I wasn't saying 360 is an average number of friends, that would be silly unless you're under 21 and have a facebook account, personally I could count the number of friends I have on the penipi of a satisfaction of eunuch.
3.Sorry, I know, I did put a smily in my defense, my defense being I could point that out if anyone took offence, as in, your silly, only joking, etc, something which I hate, and therefore was being ironic, in a strictly post feminist Thatherite UK.

Ho Hum

It's Jay that's 15, people are probably mixed up. Easy mistake to make. I know you put a smiley face - but 'it was only a joke' isn't always enough, you know? (I have no idea what feminism has to do with it, though.)

[Yudster]

Just booked tickets for the new Russell Howard tour next year and it's for Bournemouth! No travelling to London this time!

Katie served him and his girlfriend at Vue on Sunday night.

He's married isn't he? Or am I muddling him up with someone else...

[Nicola_Red]

No, don't think he is married. He doesn't wear a ring on Good News and has referenced a girlfriend a few times in his stand-up, so all the evidence would suggest not.

[bmstinton93]

Apparently they were both lovely anyway. And I didn't think he was married either.

[Misfit]

1. Misfit is 19
2. I too would struggle to come up with 360 people to sponsor me; I'd struggle with 160. I don't think it's unreasonable to point out that 360 seems like a hell of a lot of people/£360 seems like a lot of money.
3. PERSONAL INSULTS. GOOD LORD.

1. Oh, why were they saying he was 15? Anyway irrelevant, old enough to post, old enough to hmm, old enough to, ummm, you know, something funny that rhymes with post.
2. Why is everyone being so literal this morning? I was trying to point out that yes £360 is allot of money, even for Tim, but you get over that by getting people you know to sponsor you, a little bit each, towards it, to help, as it goes, I wasn't saying 360 is an average number of friends, that would be silly unless you're under 21 and have a facebook account, personally I could count the number of friends I have on the penipi of a satisfaction of eunuch.
3.Sorry, I know, I did put a smily in my defense, my defense being I could point that out if anyone took offence, as in, your silly, only joking, etc, something which I hate, and therefore was being ironic, in a strictly post feminist Thatherite UK.

Ho Hum

It's Jay that's 15, people are probably mixed up. Easy mistake to make. I know you put a smiley face - but 'it was only a joke' isn't always enough, you know? (I have no idea what feminism has to do with it, though.)

1) Deadly seems to forget that Jay is 15 and im 19 on a regular basis. people get confused
2) I have about 400 friends on facebook and I can think of about ten that would sponser me. At Jays age, I would assumed even less so because people dont have a lot of their own money and its still and mum and dad thing. (thats not trying to patronising Jay, just pointing out how it was for me and my mates at that age)
3) Yes it really sounded like a joke.

[chrysostom]

imagine there's a gif of handbags where this text is.

[The Deadly]

imagine there's a gif of handbags where this text is.

I love you.