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If you have $1000.00

But..... Is he who everybody thought he was, or was he just a patsy?
 
Hmmm...he couldn't have been that smart - spent half of his life in the nick.
 
Tell you what.

Give me $1000 and I'll arrange for my people in Ghana to give you a share of the $20 million in insurance payouts from Shell/Mobil/BP/pick one which my rich uncle earned from his untimely death, now owed to his heirs. But they can't find any, so the guys there have offered it to me.

Anyone want in?

-d-
 
Oh well...your loss.

Just write a cheque to your own favourite charity today. And take yourself out to lunch.

We raised $10 K recently for one of my favourite charities by treating friends to lunch at Canoe in Trawna. Since I'm in NYC next week, just thought I'd extend an invite to those who might be interested in having lunch. And doing some good.

Hardly a ban-able offence. Not like lying about using someone else's pic and claiming it was me, or anything.
 
Let me break it down. Thousand-dollar plate charities aren't at all unheard of. And to those who attend, they presumably are attracted by one of three things - the food itself, the company they get to keep, or the charity. Probably a combination thereof.

So let's take a look at your invite again. What is the charity? You don't mention it. In fact, you don't even say in a generic way what it involves - LBGTQ? youth? the underprivileged? environmental? social? Whatever it is, we have zero idea what it is. As such, the charity is obviously not the draw here, unless this is a call to people who have so much money they enjoy dropping a thousand to charities willy-nilly.

So on to the food. Is that the draw? It doesn't appear to be. I've never been, but I've heard of the place. It's apparently nice, heavy on the ambiance, but it's not like they don't let tourists in the front door. And to those JUBbers that haven't heard of the Oyster Bar, you certainly didn't bother selling the place to us. (One might argue that if anyone were in New York to take advantage of this special offer, they'd know what it is. That said, you're well-aware that your reach here is a bit beyond just New Yorkers with a thousand dollars burning a hole in their pocket.)

So that leaves only one thing as the draw - your esteemed company. In fact, by stripping away the parts that obviously aren't the draw, you're in essence saying "I'll let you hang out with me for a thousand dollars". And regardless of the charity and food served, that's a particularly ugly sentiment. It puts you in the same realm as Mr B Natural of 3000 YouTube clips. One might say it puts you beneath him, as he only (passively) asked for our attention, not our paychecks.

I've done charity fundraisers before. You know I put on sports uniforms and high heels every year for a LGBTQ charity. And each year, that's the draw - seeing me work with these sporting teams, building my outfit, and clumsily running this race. Which of course I'm happy to do. Your fundraiser sounds more like you were just going out to lunch anyway, and you'll let us hoi polloi sit at the cool kids table for a thousand dollars. And hey, maybe you can raise a ton of money offering that. In which case, good for you, and good for your charity. But in this case, I'm thinking "my loss" is really my gain.

Lex
 
^ Oh all of you.

Get the Fuck over yourselves. If you don't have the $1000. and aren't interested enough to pm me and ask more about the charity...like some people already have....and you don't want to be taken out for lunch at one of new York's iconic eating places....then don't give me a lecture to make yourself feel superior.

As I said to one of the dreary and sanctimonious folks who posted in this thread...why the fuck would he think that I'd take someone like him out to lunch for free?
 
G-Lexington said:
Let me break it down. Thousand-dollar plate charities aren't at all unheard of. And to those who attend, they presumably are attracted by one of three things - the food itself, the company they get to keep, or the charity. Probably a combination thereof.

So let's take a look at your invite again. What is the charity? You don't mention it. In fact, you don't even say in a generic way what it involves - LBGTQ? youth? the underprivileged? environmental? social? Whatever it is, we have zero idea what it is. As such, the charity is obviously not the draw here, unless this is a call to people who have so much money they enjoy dropping a thousand to charities willy-nilly.

So on to the food. Is that the draw? It doesn't appear to be. I've never been, but I've heard of the place. It's apparently nice, heavy on the ambiance, but it's not like they don't let tourists in the front door. And to those JUBbers that haven't heard of the Oyster Bar, you certainly didn't bother selling the place to us. (One might argue that if anyone were in New York to take advantage of this special offer, they'd know what it is. That said, you're well-aware that your reach here is a bit beyond just New Yorkers with a thousand dollars burning a hole in their pocket.)

So that leaves only one thing as the draw - your esteemed company. In fact, by stripping away the parts that obviously aren't the draw, you're in essence saying "I'll let you hang out with me for a thousand dollars". And regardless of the charity and food served, that's a particularly ugly sentiment. It puts you in the same realm as Mr B Natural of 3000 YouTube clips. One might say it puts you beneath him, as he only (passively) asked for our attention, not our paychecks.

I've done charity fundraisers before. You know I put on sports uniforms and high heels every year for a LGBTQ charity. And each year, that's the draw - seeing me work with these sporting teams, building my outfit, and clumsily running this race. Which of course I'm happy to do. Your fundraiser sounds more like you were just going out to lunch anyway, and you'll let us hoi polloi sit at the cool kids table for a thousand dollars. And hey, maybe you can raise a ton of money offering that. In which case, good for you, and good for your charity. But in this case, I'm thinking "my loss" is really my gain.

Lex
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All points technically valid, sure. But largely over-intellectualised, in my not at all humble opinion.

-d-
 
Dejavudoo said:
So, you're saying there IS no dessert? :grrr:
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Apparently I'm having crow baked in humble pie...but an extra order of the soft bellied clams is highly recommended.
 
Dessert will be the six different kind of cookies you made last week. Duh!
 
Wow. So this wasn't one of those unfunny/slightly funny parody threads, but instead was an unfunny and poorly thought out/explained charity with very little information except real money, and the person was expecting people to:

A - Take it seriously and PM for the rest of the information if interested, instead of, you know, actually supplying it so that people could be interested.

B - Not take it seriously, and see it as either spam, or, as I did, as a parody of something that I obviously missed. In which case, they get called sanctimonious and told to get the fuck over themselves?

Maybe a bit of self reflection would be key next time you try promoting a nameless charity with as little info as possible except for money and your company.
 
I have actually enjoyed the over the top reactions that so many of you have had over this. Whatever you all think that this thread says about me...it is like seeing all of you under one of those lighted magnifying mirrors ...and being able to see all the open pores and ugly and angry patches up close.

Relax people.
 
BENDERBOY said:
Well done for admitting your mistake straight away. :=D:

I'm sure the Mods will take that into consideration.
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Yes. As you yourself well know...this is the secret.
 
G-Lexington said:
Let me break it down. Thousand-dollar plate charities aren't at all unheard of. And to those who attend, they presumably are attracted by one of three things - the food itself, the company they get to keep, or the charity. Probably a combination thereof.
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You totally forgot the tax write-off.
 
rareboy said:
I have actually enjoyed the over the top reactions that so many of you have had over this. Whatever you all think that this thread says about me...it is like seeing all of you under one of those lighted magnifying mirrors ...and being able to see all the open pores and ugly and angry patches up close.

Relax people.
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I am relaxed. And I have slightly more than $1000 in the bank to cover such a check, if I so chose.
But in all fairness to your fellow JUBbers, you should not be surprised when some have found the request to be odd.
If any of us ever received an invitation in the mail from someone we had neither met nor knew personally, asking for our
financial support for an unnamed charity or even to inform us of what said charity did, we would likely pitch it in the
wastebasket. Why should the responsibility of following up on such a request to an anonymous charity fall on us?

I'm glad your friends have PMed you for further info. Please let us know how much your raised at JUB.
 
As I said...some of the responses have been hilarious.

And I don't care if people pitch it in the wastebasket. But I would say that when I pitch the requests to support charities in the bin...I don't stand and yell at the request before I toss it.

And I don't stand there and yell at my computer screen if I don't feel like finding out more or responding to an invitation.
 
sixthson said:
"Usually" being the key word?
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Fixed that for you....lol. the only time would have been the invites to the Tea Party Ball.

Oh. And yes. I thought I had posted the site for the charity before I had to run off last evening...but with the seething vitriol being ejaculated all over the thread by some of you...by the time I returned to HT this morning....why bother? maybe it is the oxycontin I'm scarfing back for my broken arm...who knows?
 
Can't say that I was too bothered by the thread to begin with? The amount of money being asked for is probably what people have the biggest problem with as it seems a bit forward? But either way, you could either not donate or just ask the OP considering he has been such a long time member here, I assume that is why he posted the way he did.
 
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