Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Lot's of charities should be criticized. Much of it is just plain useless.
Many charities are very corporatised, especially ones like "Guide Dogs for the Blind", and a lot of the gap year charities (Yeah, go over to Africa and teach those black people how to build toilets, show them the benefits of Western Civilisation).
A lot of the money you donate is hoovered up by admin, are invested in the stock market. It's interesting how charities are becoming like companies, companies want to be charities, yet only "real" charities are exempt from taxation.

Btw, I would be fine with the poppy thing, if it honoured the dead from all countries, and all wars. But no, we all shed tears for the boys who were killed in a war in which nobody alive today actually fought in, and then we have the nerve to compare a few hundred volunteers dying over an eight year period with the tens of thousands of conscripts who perished in mere days in that particular war.

I don't know. But something about the way the whole thing is used and treated annoys me.