Shameless Sponsorship Plug

[Huffton]

OK, I have sigend up to Go Sober For October, a charity raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support. The challenge, as the title gives away, is to drink no alcohol for the whole month of October.

So if anyone would like to sponsor me in what will be quite a feat for me:rolleyes: the link is:

 

https://www.gosober.org.uk/profile/paulhoughton

 

Thanks in advance!

[Turkish]

It's an honourbable charity but seriously, sponsoring people not to put posion inside their bodies for a month, WTF? THis will be followed by a Movember, where blokes have the virtually impossible task of not shaving their upper lip for a month, wow, how will they manage it, great opportunity for lots of "selfies" on facebook though FFS. Its absolutely the ridiculous the things people are getting sponsored for the these days. My most hated though has to be "sponsor me to climb Killmangiro" and that type of thing. Claims they are doing it for charity, yeah right, having a holiday and trying to make themselves feel good about it. FFS

[eurosaint]

It's an honourbable charity but seriously, sponsoring people not to put posion inside their bodies for a month, WTF? THis will be followed by a Movember, where blokes have the virtually impossible task of not shaving their upper lip for a month, wow, how will they manage it, great opportunity for lots of "selfies" on facebook though FFS. Its absolutely the ridiculous the things people are getting sponsored for the these days. My most hated though has to be "sponsor me to climb Killmangiro" and that type of thing. Claims they are doing it for charity, yeah right, having a holiday and trying to make themselves feel good about it. FFS

 

You're all heart

[Hatch]

Look out for my begging sponsorship thread next week.

 

Going to be saving little kids lives while risking mine

[Turkish]

Look out for my begging sponsorship thread next week.

 

Going to be saving little kids lives while risking mine

 

I'm off to the Domican Republic for two weeks soon and will be looking for sponsors to help me swim with dolphins, the money collected will go towards funding a trip to Peru where i will follow the Inca trail to raise money for Guide Dogs for the Blind.

[Minty]

How do marathons sit with you Turkish? Seeing as I'm planning one next year, for charity?

[Turkish]

How do marathons sit with you Turkish? Seeing as I'm planning one next year, for charity?

 

at least a marathon requires considerable training and effort and is an achievement, it would be a different story if it was a 5k run.

[Huffton]

Wow. But then again did I really expect anything different

[Turkish]

Wow. But then again did I really expect anything different

 

To be told that if you need to be sponsored not to drink for a while then Maybe you have bigger issues than you realise?

[niceandfriendly]

Agree with Turkish completely here. Being sponsored not to drink alcohol for a month? Is that really ​a challenge for some people? Goodness.

[Huffton]

Or maybe as someone who is never going to able to run a marathon or climb Kilimanjaro I saw an opportunity to get involved and raise some money for a very worthwhile cause.

As I said it was naive of me to put it on here as I should have guessed the reaction it would get. Ive got better things to do with my life than sit here and bicker with the likes of you Turkish. Enjoy your internetting, I'm out of here.

Mods, please feel free to delete this thread.

[Turkish]

Or maybe as someone who is never going to able to run a marathon or climb Kilimanjaro I saw an opportunity to get involved and raise some money for a very worthwhile cause.

As I said it was naive of me to put it on here as I should have guessed the reaction it would get. Ive got better things to do with my life than sit here and bicker with the likes of you Turkish. Enjoy your internetting, I'm out of here.

Mods, please feel free to delete this thread.

 

Maybe if you drank a bit less and exercised a bit more you could.

[View From The Top]

Whilst I applaud the OP for wanting to raise cash for a worthy cause I have to say WTF is so hard about not drinking for a month?!

 

As for Movember, I'd been doing it for a few years, unsponsored, simply to raise awareness of male cancers, which allowing for where I work and the male members of my family that it's claimed, seems appropriate.

 

I'll be after sponsorship next year, for a local kids hospice & H4H, ahead of a f**k off big bike ride!

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

Or maybe as someone who is never going to able to run a marathon or climb Kilimanjaro I saw an opportunity to get involved and raise some money for a very worthwhile cause.

As I said it was naive of me to put it on here as I should have guessed the reaction it would get. Ive got better things to do with my life than sit here and bicker with the likes of you Turkish. Enjoy your internetting, I'm out of here.

Mods, please feel free to delete this thread.

 

Not at all, I think that it is a brilliant fund raising concept. I would genuinely struggle to do it and actually both you and Macmillan will benefit from doing it. I know my wife would sponsor me.

[Colinjb]

I can see both points of view here, but i'm favouring the one that shows a guy with a vice try to shake it.

 

I wish you luck Huffton, this is something that could be of good to yourself and the charity. Hope it goes well.

[buctootim]

I can see both points of view here, but i'm favouring the one that shows a guy with a vice try to shake it.

 

I wish you luck Huffton, this is something that could be of good to yourself and the charity. Hope it goes well.

 

Yeah but c98.73% of people would just do it quietly and donate the money they saved on booze to charity. Not ask for sponsorship

[Colinjb]

Yeah but c98.73% of people would just do it quietly and donate the money they saved on booze to charity. Not ask for sponsorship

 

Don't ask, don't get. Every little helps.

 

And if it gives him extra incentive along with helping a more then worthwhile cause, why not!

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

Yeah but c98.73% of people would just do it quietly and donate the money they saved on booze to charity. Not ask for sponsorship

 

I might be in the 1.27% but I would probably need the publicity to ensure that the humiliation of failure would give me the willpower?

[buctootim]

I might be in the 1.27% but I would probably need the publicity to ensure that the humiliation of failure would give me the willpower?

 

I know somebody who might be prepared to humiliate you in a good cause

[EastleighSoulBoy]

How about Turkish going three months without trolling/baiting/criticising for charity? Just thinking that would be a challenge?

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

I know somebody who might be prepared to humiliate you in a good cause

 

That's very kind but I might have to decline and just wish Huffton well. I will sponsor him over the weekend. The link does not do paypal

[Turkish]

How about Turkish going three months without trolling/baiting/criticising for charity? Just thinking that would be a challenge?

 

I haven't trolled on here for months.

[The Kraken]

How about Turkish going three months without trolling/baiting/criticising for charity? Just thinking that would be a challenge?

 

I haven't trolled on here for months.

Just wondering; but is EastleighSoulBoy actually trolling himself to get a reaction?

 

Is that irony? Or is it ten thousand spoons?

[CB Fry]

Don't ask, don't get. Every little helps.

 

And if it gives him extra incentive along with helping a more then worthwhile cause, why not!

 

I object strongly to everything about this ridiculous idea.

 

To demonstrate my objection, I will be donating fifty quid to Huffton immediately.

[Colinjb]

I object strongly to everything about this ridiculous idea.

 

To demonstrate my objection, I will be donating fifty quid to Huffton immediately.

 

Excellent, my stalker has arrived! Good lad.