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Opinions on poverty adverts?

  • 27-07-2011 1:21am
    #1
    CallMeFlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭


    So was just discussing these type of ads on another post and seen as how the post was on a different topic I thought I would make a new one about this.

    What are everyone's opinions on the matter? You know the ads for Concern and Oxfam etc.. where the children are all starving and have flies crawling on their eyeballs. I understand that yes it is sad and yes it is really happening but I also find them extremely irritating, I don't want to sit down to eat my dinner and be put off by looking at this and the music they play is even worse. Quite frankly, the ads make me want to vomit. Surely there are better ways to advertise than this? :confused:

    Anyone else agree or disagree here? :)

    P.s sorry if that sounds a bit harsh, I'm not a heartless person :o


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  • #2
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    Little known fact about charity ads:

    they are always played on tv when the average person has their dinner. eg, between 5pm - 6.30pm and especially when the news is on. To guilt and shame you into giving money. Dirty sly tactic. Dont like it.

    But lets be honest. Charity is a business. How much out of every euro goes to help people. Those wages for the staff dont pay themselves.


  • #3
    The Internet Explorer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭The Internet Explorer


    Blast them with this.


  • #4
    CallMeFlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭CallMeFlo


    I have noticed this myself, it really bugs me when I sit down to eat my dinner and one of these ads come on. It just puts me off eating all together.


  • #5
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    Not mad about them to be honest... I'd probably trust a charity more if their CEO wasn't driving an S class merc and living in a 2 million quid house.


  • #6
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    Little known fact about charity ads:

    they are always played on tv when the average person has their dinner. eg, between 5pm - 6.30pm and especially when the news is on. To guilt and shame you into giving money. Dirty sly tactic. Dont like it.

    But lets be honest. Charity is a business. How much out of every euro goes to help people. Those wages for the staff dont pay themselves.

    And one of the most expensive times to run an ad........
    Not mad about them to be honest... I'd probably trust a charity more if their CEO wasn't driving an S class merc and living in a 2 million quid house.

    Or running a charity with just their family involved in the management of the business...


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  • #7
    Kojak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    CallMeFlo wrote: »
    I have noticed this myself, it really bugs me when I sit down to eat my dinner and one of these ads come on. It just puts me off eating all together.

    They are hoping to steal your food.....


  • #8
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    I have become desensitized to them at this stage so i dont give a toss about starving kids anymore.


  • #9
    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    I shall always remember what my Dad said, and still says, about charities

    "...they've been begging since the 50s. Help the black babies. When no one here had a pot to p*ss in themselves..."

    Greed holds no bounds is a good expression.


  • #10
    joshrogan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭joshrogan


    Will never donate to a charity that has employee's earning over 40,000 a year(the top sum should be reserved only for who do it full time). The majority of the work done should be for free IMO so every cent available goes to the actual cause.


  • #11
    Tehachapi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Tehachapi


    They make me single out the specific charity and ensure I never donate a single cent to them.


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  • #12
    The Internet Explorer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 789 ✭✭✭The Internet Explorer


    While I try to give to charity if possible, I do f***** hate that Concern ad where the narrator says - " Will you stop children dying ?"

    Yeah well it's not as easy as that Mr. Narrator, the real question is, will you stop children dying, Mr. Narrator ? You cold, heartless evil man.


  • #13
    J. Marston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,266 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    You see them nearly every day, maybe a few times a day. I've just grown indifferent to them at this stage.


  • #14
    CallMeFlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭CallMeFlo


    The Internet Explorer wrote: »
    While I try to give to charity if possible, I do f***** hate that Concern ad where the narrator says - " Will you stop children dying ?"

    Yeah well it's not as easy as that Mr. Narrator, the real question is, will you stop children dying, Mr. Narrator ? You cold, heartless evil man.

    Agreed, I'm a volunteer myself and I still cannot stand these ads. Making people feel guilty in order to get money for said cause is no way of doing things.


  • #15
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭policarp


    The bit that bugs me is that there is Concern, Oxfam, Goal and many more charities all advertising for the one thing.
    Why can't they group together to minimise costs?


  • #16
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    the people that need the money never see it

    i'd guess that out of every euro about 5c goes to help the needy


  • #17
    JonathanAnon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,718 ✭✭✭✭JonathanAnon


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    But lets be honest. Charity is a business. How much out of every euro goes to help people. Those wages for the staff dont pay themselves.

    I did work for an NGO more than ten years ago and at the time about 12-14% of what they were taking in went to the staff...

    To be honest I find some of those ads sickening.. They try to make it feel like it's your fault that people are dying in Africa.. I mean they tell you about a woman who has to choose which of her seven kids she wants to save.... Seems to me like the horn of Africa is their main problem..


  • #18
    cocoshovel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Well, I'm sure some of you saw my post in the other thread. I just don't agree with charities for things like starving african kids or whatever, I mean the billions of euro that people give to them every year, for the past god knows how many years and things are still the same in those terrible terrible countries. It also makes the people living off them rely on them too much. There are many charities I do support though, stuff like cancer research, and natural disaster funds to help places get back on track and not stay a complete **** hole forever.

    The biggest joke of them all that I have seen was the one for those poor starving over worked donkeys in the middle east. Chriiiist!


  • #19
    Wetai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭Wetai


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    The biggest joke of them all that I have seen was the one for those poor starving over worked donkeys in the middle east. Chriiiist!
    Working their asses off over there, they are.


  • #20
    CallMeFlo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 111 ✭✭CallMeFlo


    policarp wrote: »
    The bit that bugs me is that there is Concern, Oxfam, Goal and many more charities all advertising for the one thing.
    Why can't they group together to minimise costs?


    Yes and if there are so many of them and they have all been around for a very long time well surely if they were doing what they say they are then the problem would be solved by now :confused:


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