Apparently a bloke called David Walliams, who claims to be a comedian of some sort, has just spent 8 days of his life swimming the 140 mile length of the Thames.
Well maybe it's just me, because I just don't get it. It seems one hell of a waste of 8 days of a life to me.
Alright, I know it was done for 'cherritee, mate' (please use best Smashie and Nicey accent at this juncture), but I just don't see the point. Personally, I'm all 'cherriteed' out and even if I wasn't then Sport Aid and Red Nose Day would be right down the bottom of the list. A load of so called celebs with too much money acting the arse in order to take money from poorer people who most likely can't afford it but are too thick to say no...
And of course at the end of this epic feat of human endurance there were the usual crew of b-list comedy celebs waiting to welcome him - people like Jimmy Carr, Rob Bryden, Lennie Henry, Barbara Windsor and other seriously unfunny people.
Apparently, this completely pointless piece of lunacy has raised over £1 million for 'cherritee, mate, cherritee'. Money that we can now piss down the toilet to administrators, committees and corrupt overseas governments. How much of it actually gets to the so-called 'needy people', I wonder? About as much as the £52 million of our taxes that got thrown to Somalia so that they can afford to fund kidnapping and murder of innocent tourists, I should imagine.
There are a couple of famous sayings that come to mind: "The good Lord helps those who help themselves" and "Charity begins at home".
As far as I can see this was just another turd floating in the Thames...
3 comments:
Dear Jonclese, oops sorry, Dioclese.
What you have to understand about "act-whores" is that in the self-love department they have no equal. It's in the jeans, I mean genes.
When a group comical-lesbians, sorry thespians, get together for what us lesser mortals might call a piss-up with grub, they get arty-farty and do it for "charidee".
The reason they do this is to secretly feel superior and luckier than the poor unfortunates they are "charideeing" for. They also have ample opportunity to do the me, me, me bit in front of the others in the me, me, me club.
If it wasn't for the handle of "charidee" they would all stand around vacantly looking at each other wondering what they were doing there.
I like your style Dioclese.
As a retired "trouble maker" I'm intrigued by your cruise experiences. I have done a few myself and hate the giant floating entertainment centres. My aspirations are towards a small vessel with Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Sydney Greenstreet, etc.
I fancy Seabourne. Any experience there?
georgesilver - mail me direct at dioclese@virginmedia.com and I mail you back with some recommendations
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