Uncontrollable urge: $10 (20)
Dagosto: This afternoon I was fooling around on another site; I shan't say which, but it's well-known and rhymes with LaceHook. On this other site there's a function to support various Causes. Like I said, I was fooling around there, but after a while it occurred to me I wasn't really supporting anything by clicking a button that said "Join" or "Support" or "Like." When I realized this I felt kinda guilty, and was seized by an uncontrollable urge to actually Do Something, to wit, donate real money. $10. So I did. Twice.
And now I'm gonna do it again. I'm gonna donate another $10 to the not-for-profit organization of someone's choice, maybe yours! All you gotta do is persuade me that yours is the most worthy cause. The only restrictions are it must be a real not-for-profit, and it must accept donations via credit card through its website (or some legitimate proxy).
So now it's your chance to actually Do Something, and better yet, you get to do it with my $10! Bidding will end when I choose a winner. If no one persuades me the $10 is going to PBS. (One hint on persuading me: I'm more concerned with the worthiness of the cause than its neediness. One of the donations I made this afternoon certainly did not "need" my measly $10.)
So, as they say in show biz, pitch me!
keep it and buy a new jacket.And now I'm gonna do it again. I'm gonna donate another $10 to the not-for-profit organization of someone's choice, maybe yours! All you gotta do is persuade me that yours is the most worthy cause. The only restrictions are it must be a real not-for-profit, and it must accept donations via credit card through its website (or some legitimate proxy).
So now it's your chance to actually Do Something, and better yet, you get to do it with my $10! Bidding will end when I choose a winner. If no one persuades me the $10 is going to PBS. (One hint on persuading me: I'm more concerned with the worthiness of the cause than its neediness. One of the donations I made this afternoon certainly did not "need" my measly $10.)
So, as they say in show biz, pitch me!
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swm31: keep it and buy a new jacket.
A new jacket for $10? So, you're saying I should give it to Goodwill?
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Dagosto: This afternoon I was fooling around on another site; I shan't say which, but it's well-known and rhymes with LaceHook. On this other site there's a function to support various Causes. Like I said, I was fooling around there, but after a while it occurred to me I wasn't really supporting anything by clicking a button that said "Join" or "Support" or "Like." When I realized this I felt kinda guilty, and was seized by an uncontrollable urge to actually Do Something, to wit, donate real money. $10. So I did. Twice.
And now I'm gonna do it again. I'm gonna donate another $10 to the not-for-profit organization of someone's choice, maybe yours! All you gotta do is persuade me that yours is the most worthy cause. The only restrictions are it must be a real not-for-profit, and it must accept donations via credit card through its website (or some legitimate proxy).
So now it's your chance to actually Do Something, and better yet, you get to do it with my $10! Bidding will end when I choose a winner. If no one persuades me the $10 is going to PBS. (One hint on persuading me: I'm more concerned with the worthiness of the cause than its neediness. One of the donations I made this afternoon certainly did not "need" my measly $10.)
So, as they say in show biz, pitch me!
And now I'm gonna do it again. I'm gonna donate another $10 to the not-for-profit organization of someone's choice, maybe yours! All you gotta do is persuade me that yours is the most worthy cause. The only restrictions are it must be a real not-for-profit, and it must accept donations via credit card through its website (or some legitimate proxy).
So now it's your chance to actually Do Something, and better yet, you get to do it with my $10! Bidding will end when I choose a winner. If no one persuades me the $10 is going to PBS. (One hint on persuading me: I'm more concerned with the worthiness of the cause than its neediness. One of the donations I made this afternoon certainly did not "need" my measly $10.)
So, as they say in show biz, pitch me!
As you can see, Americans can't quietly do anything. They have to blast it to the world that they've "given to charity." Someone who truly does something from the heart does not need to broadcast it for all of the internet to see.
Oh, yeah..dude...it's ALL about YOU!!!!
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Restless_Rebel: As you can see, Americans can't quietly do anything. They have to blast it to the world that they've "given to charity." Someone who truly does something from the heart does not need to broadcast it for all of the internet to see.
Oh, yeah..dude...it's ALL about YOU!!!!
Oh, yeah..dude...it's ALL about YOU!!!!
Gosh, and I thought I'd do something nice for a change, but perhaps you have changed my mind. Say, isn't Minnesota in America also?
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You have to look within your own heart for the worthiest cause.
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Dagosto: Gosh, and I thought I'd do something nice for a change, but perhaps you have changed my mind. Say, isn't Minnesota in America also?
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Hey D, I can ship you some nice Harris tweed jackets, to perk up your look!
Send me your size, and an even more size-able payment, and we'll gt you looking dapper.
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venusenvy: You have to look within your own heart for the worthiest cause.
Thank you V, that's good advice. I had already a choice in mind, as I said, but I'm willing to be persuaded by anyone who makes a better case. I know $10 ain't much, but I'm not Bill Gates, despite what some folk may think about Americans. And I thought this way, someone else could get to feel good about doing good. Maybe that was naively selfless of me.
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Dagosto: Gosh, and I thought I'd do something nice for a change, but perhaps you have changed my mind. Say, isn't Minnesota in America also?
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Yeah...and I'm Minnesota Nice..but just because I'm IN America doesn't mean I can't have my say ABOUT Americans.
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I just think we should give to charity because we are moved to. As for being "naively selfless", thats one of your best qualities Dag 
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venusenvy: I just think we should give to charity because we are moved to. As for being "naively selfless", thats one of your best qualities Dag
Awww ty.
Still waiting for any real suggestions, though. Got any ideas?
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Wow....im speechless at some of the responses...good luck D..i don't need to be on this thread..
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demonfairy: Wow....im speechless at some of the responses...good luck D..i don't need to be on this thread..
Thanks DF. Good seeing you though.
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Well, PBS is always a worthy cause so I thought Id sit this one out. But to be honest Ive devoted a lot of my life to volunteer work and charitable causes. Ive worked for not for profit etc.
Nowadays, my life is more giving on a imeadiate level, I am always charitable to my comunity, in giving to the cabbies, waiters, bagboys, the chicklet kids, the old tamale seller. My favorite is the old women selling small crafts in the streets. I never take the trinket, but donate generously and recieve thier blessings instead. I try to be charitable every day all around me.
Nowadays, my life is more giving on a imeadiate level, I am always charitable to my comunity, in giving to the cabbies, waiters, bagboys, the chicklet kids, the old tamale seller. My favorite is the old women selling small crafts in the streets. I never take the trinket, but donate generously and recieve thier blessings instead. I try to be charitable every day all around me.
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venusenvy: Well, PBS is always a worthy cause so I thought Id sit this one out. But to be honest Ive devoted a lot of my life to volunteer work and charitable causes. Ive worked for not for profit etc.
Nowadays, my life is more giving on a imeadiate level, I am always charitable to my comunity, in giving to the cabbies, waiters, bagboys, the chicklet kids, the old tamale seller. My favorite is the old women selling small crafts in the streets. I never take the trinket, but donate generously and recieve thier blessings instead. I try to be charitable every day all around me.
Nowadays, my life is more giving on a imeadiate level, I am always charitable to my comunity, in giving to the cabbies, waiters, bagboys, the chicklet kids, the old tamale seller. My favorite is the old women selling small crafts in the streets. I never take the trinket, but donate generously and recieve thier blessings instead. I try to be charitable every day all around me.
Wow, V, you seem as noble as you do wise. I gotta ask: there actually are chiclet kids? I read about them in Tom Robbins's Still Life With Woodpecker. I thought he was joking, or perhaps exaggerating wildly, at least.
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Dagosto: Ok, do the Chiclet Kids have, like, a college fund website or anything?
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Ahahahha Noooo they are just the peeps around me everyday. EG: the laundry lady at the lavenderia, she loves me, I always make sure to tip her 20 pesos, thats probably 1/2 a days wages. They dont have a very evolved social services structure here, so when I am charitable to the folks that live here, it has a positive impact on them.
I also support small business, I shop as much as I can at the local farmers market instead of say Wallymart. This really makes a healthy economy. And slipping ten pesos extra to the taco vendor makes us both smile.
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venusenvy: Ahahahha Noooo they are just the peeps around me everyday. EG: the laundry lady at the lavenderia, she loves me, I always make sure to tip her 20 pesos, thats probably 1/2 a days wages. They dont have a very evolved social services structure here, so when I am charitable to the folks that live here, it has a positive impact on them.
I also support small business, I shop as much as I can at the local farmers market instead of say Wallymart. This really makes a healthy economy. And slipping ten pesos extra to the taco vendor makes us both smile.
I also support small business, I shop as much as I can at the local farmers market instead of say Wallymart. This really makes a healthy economy. And slipping ten pesos extra to the taco vendor makes us both smile.
Actually, as it turns out, they do:
So unless I hear any more persuasive arguments, the Chiclet Kids are getting $10 in your name.
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Dagosto: Actually, as it turns out, they do:
So unless I hear any more persuasive arguments, the Chiclet Kids are getting $10 in your name.
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So unless I hear any more persuasive arguments, the Chiclet Kids are getting $10 in your name.
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Restless_Rebel: As you can see, Americans can't quietly do anything. They have to blast it to the world that they've "given to charity." Someone who truly does something from the heart does not need to broadcast it for all of the internet to see.
Oh, yeah..dude...it's ALL about YOU!!!!
Oh, yeah..dude...it's ALL about YOU!!!!
I mean it is not like he listed under occupation (Non-profit / Volunteer / activist I try and help the people who need it the most.) I mean seriously. If that is not tooting ones own horn I do not know what is
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And now I'm gonna do it again. I'm gonna donate another $10 to the not-for-profit organization of someone's choice, maybe yours! All you gotta do is persuade me that yours is the most worthy cause. The only restrictions are it must be a real not-for-profit, and it must accept donations via credit card through its website (or some legitimate proxy).
So now it's your chance to actually Do Something, and better yet, you get to do it with my $10! Bidding will end when I choose a winner. If no one persuades me the $10 is going to PBS. (One hint on persuading me: I'm more concerned with the worthiness of the cause than its neediness. One of the donations I made this afternoon certainly did not "need" my measly $10.)
So, as they say in show biz, pitch me!