Fcuk off with your service update message, Freeview. Once a day would be too much, never mind every time you bring the TV out of standby

Now, you'd assume that was spam wouldn't you? I mean they're trying to rip you off rather than have the wit to entice you back!

I've just been nominated for one of those effing I've bucket challenge things. I specifically told the person who nominated me not to do it less than a minute before she did..
Bollocks!

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Just finished mine after being nominated twice.

Bucket bong challenge?

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... =766711456

Best one ever. Needs sound

I got nominated and did it (and donated for MND UK as the UK charity specialised in motor neuron disease). It's not that bad (probably worse if someone else pours it over you though)

I'm just pissed off because my back had been killing for weeks and the prospect of ice cold water does not fill me with cheer.

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Then don't do it?

+1. The internet does not own you.

I'm actually finding people who've been nominated, but then make big statements about how they're doing it because they won't be told what to do more irritating and far less amusing than those who don't mind participating.
Someone at work will agree to running a marathon for a charity, but won't submit themselves to a moments cold, damp inconvenience.

Two people nominated me, (both bloody relatives) and I'd have never heard the end of it. It's done now. I'll donate tomorrow.

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Where's the video then?

More infuriating is the people posting how much people at a director level make and how the money is spent. It's pretty much the same for all charities
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... 00000.html

To use it as a reason not to donate is piss-poor IMO. Chief Exec of the British Red Cross gets over £180k

Running a marathon, or a more accurately the training required to be in good enough shape to run a marathon, has a beneficial effect. So yes, they're doing it for charity but they also get something out of it.

There's also the factor that it's actually other people who are giving the money (i.e. people are sponsoring you) so it's kind of a fair split - you put the hard miles in, they give money.

In the case of this bucket challenge thing it seems to me you pour a bucket of ice cold water over yourself, then give some money to charity. I agree with Kelly Cates the sports presenter, who when nominated said something like "I'll happily give the money to the charity, but what does me getting wet actually gain anyone?" It's long since lost it's novelty now world+dog are doing it and I don't think it has any 'emotional arm twisting' now the backlash has kind of started either.

It's run it's course. It raised a lot of money, which is a very good thing. But now it has got more into the 'self publicising' area, IMO.

Having said that, the one the presenter of Click Spencer Kelly did was genuinely funny. Doing it naked (with an image of a floppy disk edited in to protect his modesty) and the line 'Right, lets get out of Terry Wogan's garden before he spots us' did make me laugh.