Band aid donation
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A Scottish businessman is donating approximately £7,000,000 to Band aid.
He said "once you have bought a house, car, yacht etc.. it's a struggle to find anything else to spend the money on"
Not exact quote, all from memory you see
Initially i thought "good for him" I don't have that sort of money, so it's difficult to know whether i could/would do the same? I'd like to think so...?
Then i thought..cynic in me Knighthood..!!
Hmmm
He said "once you have bought a house, car, yacht etc.. it's a struggle to find anything else to spend the money on"
Not exact quote, all from memory you see
Initially i thought "good for him" I don't have that sort of money, so it's difficult to know whether i could/would do the same? I'd like to think so...?
Then i thought..cynic in me Knighthood..!!
Hmmm
waynester said:
A Scottish businessman is donating approximately £7,000,000 to Band aid.
He said "once you have bought a house, car, yacht etc.. it's a struggle to find anything else to spend the money on"
Not exact quote, all from memory you see
Initially i thought "good for him" I don't have that sort of money, so it's difficult to know whether i could/would do the same? I'd like to think so...?
Then i thought..cynic in me Knighthood..!!
Hmmm
if it saves lives then why not - better than some of the other labour tw*ts that get one! still struggling to believe he's scottish though!!
waynester said:
A Scottish businessman is donating approximately £7,000,000 to Band aid.
He said "once you have bought a house, car, yacht etc.. it's a struggle to find anything else to spend the money on"
Not exact quote, all from memory you see
Initially i thought "good for him" I don't have that sort of money, so it's difficult to know whether i could/would do the same? I'd like to think so...?
Then i thought..cynic in me Knighthood..!!
Hmmm
The real judge of someone's character is not how much they give - it's how much they give anonymously!
>> Edited by srebbe64 on Friday 17th December 15:35
So long as he does and doesn't go smooching for with some Politician a'la Mark Langford/Bill Clinton for publicity and only make 1 installment payment of £1M leaving the other 5M pledged unpaid. Wnaker.
Edited to say: call me a cynic, but 7M will be the biggest single charitable donation I believe. Has he done this to remain anonymous??
>> Edited by anniesdad on Friday 17th December 15:40
Edited to say: call me a cynic, but 7M will be the biggest single charitable donation I believe. Has he done this to remain anonymous??
>> Edited by anniesdad on Friday 17th December 15:40
srebbe64 said:
The real judge of someone's character is not how much they give - it's how much they give anonymously!
He couldn't give it anonymously. His actual donation is to give a pound for every pound spent on the record and DVD for the last week before Christmas. It was made public in an effort to get more people to buy the record/DVD.
Jim'schim said:
srebbe64 said:
The real judge of someone's character is not how much they give - it's how much they give anonymously!
He couldn't give it anonymously. His actual donation is to give a pound for every pound spent on the record and DVD for the last week before Christmas. It was made public in an effort to get more people to buy the record/DVD.
Course he could. A statement saying: "An anonymous benefactor has agreed to give a £ for £ for every record sold".
Yes - he'll get his Knighthood
unrepentant said:
Is it my old mate Tom Hunter?
The very man......
Tom Hunter ex of "Sports Division" fame who sold out to Dave Whelan at JJB.......
Don't think old Tom needs to worry too much as according to newspaper reports he is worth over 500 million.....
Still, nice that he is prepared to give much of his hard earned wealth away, you can't knock anyone for that..............
Wacky Racer said:
unrepentant said:
Is it my old mate Tom Hunter?
The very man......
Tom Hunter ex of "Sports Division" fame who sold out to Dave Whelan at JJB.......
Don't think old Tom needs to worry too much as according to newspaper reports he is worth over 500 million.....
Still, nice that he is prepared to give much of his hard earned wealth away, you can't knock anyone for that..............
I knew Tom when he had nothing.
And Mike Ashley.
And Robert Wade Smith.
They are all sitting there saying "I knew Unrepentant when he had nothing". And he still does.
simpo two said:
£7M to feed children in Africa... Who will pay for their food next year - and then if they survive to breed, for their 20 children each?
that is not what band aid is about.
They are helping these people to help themselves with clean water /farming/educational projects too.
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