Todayfm 'Shave or Dye'

brainyneuron

Am watching the Todayfm 'Shave or Dye' Live at the moment on the website. Its really mad to be able to see whats happening! They're trying to break the record for the most heads shaved in an hour. Anyone else watching or listening to this?

http://www.todayfm.com/Shows/Weekdays/Ray-DArcy-Show/Blog.aspx

BennyBlanko

No, but they have raised a lot of cash.........so, whilst the idea is cheezier than a truck loads of Cashel Blue,they've filled the charity bucket well.

Todayfm do a lot of work for Chareedy, but unlike a lot of cheezy DJ Hazbeens, they DO like to talk about it!

sorrywhat

Im listening all morning. Think they are over 280K now. I think.
They have raised some money for the Irish Cancer Society.
Fair play to them.

Also by advertising it all month they have prompted a lot of people to host their own events so I am guessing there has been thousands more raised by people all over the country.

Well done I say.

brainyneuron

Yeah sure its cheezy but they're raised something like €280,000 for the Irish cancer society so the cheese is worth it IMO.

cjmcork

I missed all but the last 30 minutes, what did everyone get done - saw that Foley got his done boy-band style............what did Iano and matt cooper get done?

Caroline_ie

cjmcork wrote: »

I missed all but the last 30 minutes, what did everyone get done - saw that Foley got his done boy-band style............what did Iano and matt cooper get done?

Matt Cooper got his hair dyed pink

Basq

Fair fecks to TodayFM.

Good cause and plenty raised.

brainyneuron

Ian Dempsey is sick at the mo so wasn't in today, will be shaving his hair at a later date apparently. Ray D'Arcy shaved his head and Matt Cooper apparently dyed his hair pink but they didn't show it. Ray Foley and JP got their hair dyed-not v impressive tho! http://rayfoleyshow.blogspot.com/
Earlier in the morning they broke the world record for the most peoples heads shaved in an hour (all shaved by one guy)-they got 60 people (the record was 44)
THey raised over 300K overall i think

sophielc

I saw Ray d'Arcy getting his head shaved: it was about time he did it, I was really getting sick and tired of listening to him being so worried about losing his hair but afraid of getting it shaved because of all the bumps he was supposed to have on it.
So he had it done at last and the result isn't that scary, even though he would look better if he shaved his dirty-looking grey beard too.
I haven't been listening to the radio this afternoon but the last time I heard the total raised was €307,000.

DISCO STEW 54

Watched the live stream today, good to see what goes on behind the scenes. Found it very entertaining, fair play forallthe cash raised.

dh0661

DISCO STEW 54 wrote: »

fair play for all the cash raised.

Fair play indeed - :mad: - supplementing the HSE budget :mad:. We pay enough tax, PRSI and a HEALTH LEAVY already, not to mention that some pay for private health insurance.

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thanks --- but I'm sorry no thanks!

bossdrum

Why do peolple feel the need to shave their head in order to raise money?

Why can't they just organise a collection without all the self promotion or do they think people get a kick out of seeing someone getting their shaved or dyed and won't contribute otherwise?

blond45

whats wrong with with ye. they raised heaps of cash. does it matter how they done it. my mum died of overian cancer. im sure all of you have some family member thats affected by cancer.

Slidey

bossdrum wrote: »

Why do peolple feel the need to shave their head in order to raise money?

Why can't they just organise a collection without all the self promotion or do they think people get a kick out of seeing someone getting their shaved or dyed and won't contribute otherwise?

What does it matter? It raises money for a worthy cause without the cost of some expensive sky dive or machu picchu trek.

Well done to all involved.

That_Guy

I think their final total after the head shave was over three hundred thousand which is a massive amount of money.

Also fair play to those women who shaved their heads.

sorrywhat

dh0661 wrote: »

Fair play indeed - :mad: - supplementing the HSE budget :mad:. We pay enough tax, PRSI and a HEALTH LEAVY already, not to mention that some pay for private health insurance.

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thanks --- but I'm sorry no thanks!

So if a member of your family or someone you knew was diagnosed with cancer you would be condeming fund raising for the Irish Cancer Society?

Thats pathetic.

Back to shave or dye.
Foley didnt do too much. All he got was some blonde in the middle of his head and JP dyed his brown! BROWN!

Didnt see anyone else's.

Yea, some balls to the women who sahved their heads. Kudos

Stargazer7

Thinking of doing it myself actually...I know it's a bit late but from what i see on the Today FM website there are still people collecting money for it so I think I'm gonna bite the bullet

Fair play to all those who took part and to today fm for highlighting and supporting the cause.

dh0661

sorrywhat wrote: »

So if a member of your family or someone you knew was diagnosed with cancer you would be condeming fund raising for the Irish Cancer Society?

Thats pathetic.

"Thats pathetic" - maybe it is.

But when I add up the amount of money hubby & me pay annually in income tax, prsi, health levy and vhi (our choice), it seems to me that any contribution to any "charity" that is doing the work of what I would presume H.S.E should be doing seems like another idiot tax. Just like the lotto.

dixierip

It will be interesting to see if Dempsey chickens out.

ShaveOrDye

bossdrum wrote: »

Why do peolple feel the need to shave their head in order to raise money?

Why can't they just organise a collection without all the self promotion or do they think people get a kick out of seeing someone getting their shaved or dyed and won't contribute otherwise?

It was done to show the people who suffer from Cancer and lose there hair that they aren't freaks . No sure but they were supposed to talk a picture of someone with cancer and who lost their hair someone who dyed theirs and someone who shaved theirs . To try and show that the person with cancer could look more normal than the ones without .

That is what was the concept behind it from what i can take .

ShaveOrDye

Caroline_ie wrote: »

Matt Cooper got his hair dyed pink

Caroline you can see some the goings on at http://www.youtube.com/shaveordye

Penny Dreadful

dh0661 wrote: »

"Thats pathetic" - maybe it is.

But when I add up the amount of money hubby & me pay annually in income tax, prsi, health levy and vhi (our choice), it seems to me that any contribution to any "charity" that is doing the work of what I would presume H.S.E should be doing seems like another idiot tax. Just like the lotto.

Then surely it should be the HSE and the Government that you get annoyed at not the charity that are stepping into the breech? Like it or not all of the tax you pay and I pay and many other people pay is not being spent the way it should be and groups like the ICS, Marie Keating Foundation, etc offer a lot of hands on practical support to people who have cancer and their families.

mouthforwar93

so whats the story like do you tell them what you want done? do you have to do certain colours? seen some guys just bleached there head which doesnt seem that crazy