Burgled once and that was enough. They took my son's christening presents ......... hanging's too good for the bastards ...............
I worked in a shop and shoplifters always pleaded need and desperation....their baby must be so desperate for that lipstick or pair of knickers!! That argument went down a treat with shop assistants on just above minimum wage working and raising kids in a decent manner. They'd hide things in their baby's buggies or even involve the older children...I believe in stocks. Too many human rights and not enough sense of shame.
Luke gets his pr person to do it. The price is nothing. The thought that counts? Maybe. But I will only be impressed when I hear he has given up 10% of his wage to build a hospice or start his own youth charity.
Bit harsh Spaced. It's not the first time Luke has shown a generosity of spirit that the majority of others haven't. I don't think that's come from his PR either. It's a decent gesture. It may not cost him much in the grand scheme of things, but looking at it cynically like that does no good either.
Fine. But it isn't enough for the vastly wealthy to give peanuts and receive adulation. I reserve the right to be unimpressed.
How about reserving the right to not comment when one of these horrible people do something? Some people can never see the good in a gesture.
Ah, the forum for only commenting when the opinion expressed matches yours? I am afraid I am not in that one. You are welcome to buy the idea that this lad is a selfless and most worthy gentleman. I, personally, think he is in love with being loved and has enough money to do things of genuine worth. Tell me about those - rather than the entirely pointless activity of changing a kid's shirt number (you could home a homeless person for a fortnight in Manchester for that money) and I will change my opinion. Sorry, guys, for having another opinion
You don't have to apologise for anything. What worries me is the way society has gone. A total lack of compassion. I am sure it will not be long before the workhouse concept is reintroduced and we hear the chancellor saying we should accept slavery on the basis that it is good for the economy. Socialism may be flawed but it was a force for the common good while capitalism is for the selfish and mean spirited to screw the rest.
Entirely fine to disagree Spaced, in the same way as I disagree with the target of your ire in this case.
Ire? Re-read my friend. No ire. None hinted at or felt. Merely perplexed that this is even noteworthy. Perhaps that it is noted is the true horror. Multi-millionaire Twitter obsessed child gives fifty quid to child already well off enough to have shirt of great expense SHOCKER!
Not sure I get the point about the "forum for only commenting when the opinion expressed matches yours" - is having a differing opinion not precisely what we're doing here?
Sure, I get your point. I just think being critical of something that, however you look at it, is a decent thing to do, feels a bit wrong. If he's done it because he 'loves to be loved', then so be it. True altruism is very rare in any circles, let alone in the minds of teenagers, wealthy or not.
You asked me to "reserve the right to not comment". I wanted to comment. You wanted me not to. Is that not the logical way to understand your post? Why else say it?
My point is that if he gave someone 10k, someone would say he should have given 20k... people are like that. I just like to think "at least they did something" I don't get, what comes across to me as jealousy and expectation of greater generosity, from someone based on their wealth. To me, the generosity is in the gesture, not the value of the gesture. I find it incredibly sad that a person can feel 'bad' of whatever description towards a person based on something positive they did, even if it was something small. I don't like that in society. It's like having a birthday present from a wealthy Uncle and saying, "Jeez, he's loaded and he only gave me a bottle of wine for my birthday" ... sorry spacedsaint, you are entitled to your opinion, but I don't get people who see the bad first rather than the good, or those that expect more. I am just different to you, with different values.
