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13Yeah, you are correct.
The text messages were not charity at all.
"The Guinness Book of World Records has approved an entry recognizing the largest text-message lottery in history. Fans sent two (m) million, 60-thousand-285 text messages for a chance at 66-thousand-500 pairs of tickets."
"The text messages cost about two-dollars-and 72 cents to send, in addition to regular text charges. Part of the money will be donated to charity, while the rest will be used to stage the concert."
The text messages were not charity at all.
"The Guinness Book of World Records has approved an entry recognizing the largest text-message lottery in history. Fans sent two (m) million, 60-thousand-285 text messages for a chance at 66-thousand-500 pairs of tickets."
"The text messages cost about two-dollars-and 72 cents to send, in addition to regular text charges. Part of the money will be donated to charity, while the rest will be used to stage the concert."
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14SUGGESTION:
Calculate the percentage of the text message price that goes to charity and donate this percentage from what you get for the tickets. Keep the cash that would have gone to putting the event on and spend it on George Michael records - which I know you're going to do anyway.
It doesn't even have to be George Michael. There are plenty of other Georges out there for you to choose from:
George Formby
Les Georges Leningrad
George Best
George Bush (singing the hits of Poison)
George Lynch (guitaring the hits of Dokken)
Boy George
Or you could use the money on a trip to Cheddar Gorge, which isn't a George, I know, but it rhymes with it.
Calculate the percentage of the text message price that goes to charity and donate this percentage from what you get for the tickets. Keep the cash that would have gone to putting the event on and spend it on George Michael records - which I know you're going to do anyway.
It doesn't even have to be George Michael. There are plenty of other Georges out there for you to choose from:
George Formby
Les Georges Leningrad
George Best
George Bush (singing the hits of Poison)
George Lynch (guitaring the hits of Dokken)
Boy George
Or you could use the money on a trip to Cheddar Gorge, which isn't a George, I know, but it rhymes with it.
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15Rodabod wrote:Yeah, you are correct.
"The text messages cost about two-dollars-and 72 cents to send, in addition to regular text charges. Part of the money will be donated to charity, while the rest will be used to stage the concert."
The concert is costing at the least £20 million -that $40 million- to put it on just in London. There ain't gunna be dime left over for charrideee
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16Gramsci wrote:
The concert is costing at the least £20 million -that $40 million- to put it on just in London. There ain't gunna be dime left over for charrideee
BBC wrote:The text contest raised £3m - about half of which will go to the Prince's Trust with the rest covering the cost of staging the concerts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 084922.stm
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17Champion Rabbit wrote:Gramsci wrote:
The concert is costing at the least £20 million -that $40 million- to put it on just in London. There ain't gunna be dime left over for charrideeeBBC wrote:The text contest raised £3m - about half of which will go to the Prince's Trust with the rest covering the cost of staging the concerts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainmen ... 084922.stm
That's not what it said in The Guardian.
Most of the 150,000 main crowd, it is predicted, will end up watching the event on the big screens. The area in front of the stage has been reserved for 15,000 "gold circle" ticket holders. While some of these will be drawn from those who entered the text message lottery for tickets, most will be taken up by corporate hospitality. Companies have paid up to £799 per person, plus VAT, to impress clients at the event, with the proceeds going towards the estimated £20m cost of staging the global event.
But if it's going to the Prince's Trust that just pisses me off even more. The thing about the Prince's Trust is that it just paints over the cracks created by super-rich Tories like himself in the first place.
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19Champion Rabbit wrote:Princes trust does some amazing work for kids.
...and if the UK wasn't the second most unequal Western Country on Earth -after the USA- you wouldn't need a charity to clean up the mess. To me it just seems like putting an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff instead of a fence at the top. Plus I find the idea that that moron Charlie is going to be head of State insane.