Chuggers on your doorstep.

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[@fraggit]

@@stephenclarke2206 Could be worse old chap, we could all be suffering radiation burns and puking, waiting for our miserable demise.

[@fraggit]

​@@stephenclarke2206 Oh, pardon me, you're one of "those" people. Apologies, I thought I was replying to a human being.

[@fraggit]

@@stephenclarke2206 That's not how you come across. Why get abusive about someone who is trying to get across that some people in this world can't afford to give to charities and feel pressured to do so by doorstep charities. It doesn't mean it's about himself.

[@Useaname]

Throw piss over them.

[@justathought1444]

@@stephenclarke2206 because a slim fraction of what you give to this businesses actually becomes charity. Most if it goes to pay the CEOs and other stake holders. With massive venues and events with massive margins to ensure that the money is spent long before a needing person sees it. So no, most people would like to help, but as one group of elites is busy stealing our money through vaccines and the like, we get a little pissed off when minions of other elites knock on our door and try to get the remaining few cents from us…. Stop being so naive, with just a little of the time you dedicated to attacking this fella you could have researched where the money goes, and enlighten yourself to the fact your an ignorant Uranus…

[@thefox3926]

I think of Pudsey on the BBC, or Lenny Henry. And I miraculously feel less guilty.

[@amandaduggan9051]

Lenny Henry has done very well for himself out of charities.

[@thefox3926]

@@amandaduggan9051I've never understood what purpose he serves.💐

[@terrynicholson9273]

I would start donating again if we could blind Lenny Henry in one eye and tie a scarf over it.

[@keirreeves766]

Charities are first & foremost businesses set up for the benefit of those who run them.

[@jimmyjones9435]

I stopped giving when I found out Miliband was on £650k a year.

[@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool]

Yeah, but International Rescue! 🤣

[@whollyspokes3645]

Frantic hand rubbing !

[@steviestone1668]

@@AWalkontheWildSideBlackpool Chuggerbirds are Go!

[@tonyalways7174]

Anyone giving to these chuggers is a mug. Charities are grifts.

[@overlandkltolondon]

Yes ... or front organisations for actual revolutionaries.

[@stubones]

And I couldn’t give a toss about Africa or Ukraine. I feed my own kids. The end.

[@mrwhite292]

Yep well said

[@roykemp4941]

@@stubones 100% right mate look after your own first👍

[@bren70ssss94]

@@stubones proper order , well put 👍

[@EdMcF1]

There's a Mountain Rescue charity in the Lake District (Ambleside) run by volunteers, their company car is the Land Rover, their admin costs about 1% of budget and the biggest perk is biscuits for the search dogs. As for the rest of 'em....

[@leathleyg5995]

There are very few worthwhile charities, but that's one of them.

[@amandaduggan9051]

I am all for donating to small local charities run by volunteers.

[@tolkienist7905]

Whenever they try to stop me for cash i always have the same answer. "Sorry i'm white." Thanks Lenny Henry!

[@floriangeyer1]

What did that tw#t Lenny Henry say?

[@maverickhistorian6488]

I'm an oppressed minority and need the cash more than you! 😁

[@-Dash-]

My problem with many charities is they often spend the money we give them in ways completely unrelated to their supposed cause... Like the RNLI who now spend more time and money providing a taxi service for human traffickers than they do saving lives in an emergency.

[@carbon1255]

I hear they gave £1M to buy girls in Pakistan special halal swim gear. I imagine they are trying to train them to swim to make any holidays off the coast of France a little safer xD

[@amandaduggan9051]

The RNLI sent out letters to households last year asking for money by direct debit. I wrote my comments on the form as to why I did not wish to fund a taxi service for illegal immigrants and their CEOs' massive salaries and posted it back to them in the prepaid envelope. I do this every time I receive a begging letter from any corporate charity if they enclose a prepaid envelope, with my polite but appropriate comments.

[@Zippy-q1v]

I used to pay by DD to Red Cross until I found out the truth about where their donations really go.The final straw was in Haiti when they never built all the emergency shelters they said they were going to build.....I think 10 were erected in the end.They kept on phoning me and trying to guilt-trip me into donating again.

[@rb1062]

We halted our dd donations to the RNLI for that very reason.

[@pauldarlow3172]

The RNLI are complicit in destroying our country for our future generations.

[@watfordhammer6]

Charity begins at home.

[@stubones]

Begins and ends at home. The only thing I do is buy a couple of lotto tickets a week but that’s not for charity. It’s for the hope against hope I’m the lucky one that week. Someone has to win…

[@thehoodedman2963]

I can't sleep at night for the worry that some Charities chairman is going short.

[@nickjames3049]

Then you should be sleeping like a baby!

[@bren70ssss94]

😂😂 I hope you can push through dude .

[@ianhill4585]

It's Nearly £8 a gallon, that Jag is a thirsty cat.🙄

[@whitewinederarck2253]

Terrific- so funny but so true. Derek.

[@thehoodedman2963]

@@bren70ssss94 I appreciate that thanks.👍 I was going to tell you I'm seeing my GP later. But then you'd know I was lying.😁

[@bettyswunghole3310]

As a charity worker myself ( *_NOT_* a "chugger"), I kind of feel obliged to say that a lot of small, local charities do very good and valuable work, and are run by some of the most genuinely selfless and noble people you could ever hope to meet. It's the big national ones that have a lot of freeloading fat-cats...

[@robinpickett7618]

And exactly where do those national big ones come from? And how exactly do we know which is which? Where’s the line? Just because you’ve had this experience doesn’t mean your statement holds true in all circumstances. Lastly, why do these charities need exist? Why exactly do we pay taxes? Not an attack, genuine questions. Always happy to change my mind but have never trusted charities.

[@bettyswunghole3310]

@@robinpickett7618 Well frankly, I think the distinction between "local" and "national" is fairly self evident. This is rather like asking what the difference between a "town" and a "country" is. Where exactly did I claim that: a) I personally have had a bad experience with a national charity, and b) that my statement was absolutely true...(it's merely my opinion)? I've worked for numerous charities over the years, both local and national, and as a volunteer and as paid staff in a variety of capacities. I can only speak from my experience. I also keep my eye on the news. The only charities I've every seen castigated for immoral activities such as obscene bonuses for directors and otherwise inappropriate use of funds are the large "household name" ones. I'm not claiming that it _doesn't_ happen in smaller charities, but I've never known it to. Again, I can only speak from my experience. Why do we *need* charities? OK, I'm kind of guessing there are two parts to this question. Firstly: "why don't a few more of these scroungers get off their fat arses and find a job?" Yes, I admit there are a certain number of "scroungers" that abuse charities. There always have been...it's not a new phenomenon. There are also a great many genuine cases that need charity through no fault of their own...consider charities for battered women, or abused children, for example. They can hardly be described as "scroungers", I think. A common error that people make is that people who use charity shops are the _beneficiaries_ of the charity. They're not. A charity has very specific aims that it raises money for. Secondly, I guess you're asking "We pay taxes...why doesn't this pay for everything charities do?" Good question. One you'll have to put to Rishi Sunak rather than me, I'm afraid. All *I* can tell you is that a need exists for the work charities do. There are deeper societal questions, too. For example, the charity I currently work for raises money for a hospice (going back to the previous point, I don't really think the terminally ill can be described as "scroungers"). We receive a certain amount of money from the NHS, but the bulk comes from our own fundraising. But then the questions arise, "Is it the government's responsibility to care for the terminally ill...they're going to die anyway...it's far better to use taxes for the living? Anyway isn't it their _family's_ responsibility to look after them, not the state's?" The situation really isn't as "neat" or as "black and white" as we might like it to be.

[@mikeandhev]

I used to donate to the Royal British Legion but after I learned that they have in excess of £71,000,000 in cash assets and that they are not helping ex servicemen and women I had to cancel my donations

[@carbon1255]

The council does the same, buying up assets rather than spending it for the people. I get into trouble if I cancel my donations there, however...

[@amandaduggan9051]

I never buy a poppy now. I give my money to the veterans living on our streets. I don't see the RBL helping them.

[@stubones]

Just slam the door in their face. Just because they’re spewing lies, doesn’t mean you have to listen.

[@i8every1]

When my elderly relative died ,the amount of charities that had knocked on her door was astonishing . Nearly a quarter of her income was direct debited from her account every month . She lived in poverty and struggled with her bills and had forgotten about all the charities that were attached to her bank account

[@davideddy2672]

That’s just criminal … 😞

[@britgal3836]

Same thing with my mum and trying to cancel them was horrendous! But we persevered and won!

[@johntrump6526]

Disgusting bud.

[@bernardm2312]

I'm so sorry that your relative struggled so much to get by, thanks to the immoral behaviour of the charities. Perhaps they share information between themselves so they can target people more easily.

[@barbararice6650]

@@britgal3836 Takes seconds to cancel DDI with your bank, don't even think of going to the collector to cancel 👈😑

[@davidhull2060]

Fortunately I have been blessed with a mildly sociopathic personality...this means that I feel absolutely no guilt when telling these people where to go! Years ago I used to send small donations to the RSPCA...then a bloke calling himself Mr. Newman started phoning me practically every day, demanding money. I told him to 'go forth and multiply' and haven't given a penny to charity since!

[@carbon1255]

I reckon its not sociopathy - that doesn't come mild, rather I think you are just slightly more autistic than emotive. Its my perspective there is another spectrum called the emotive spectrum and those people think not with logic at all but feelings - and they are abused to hell by charity beggers and advertisements. Have you ever thought- who the hell would be convinced with these adverts? Well, I reckon a good chunk of the population can't think rationally. There is also agreeable people who really struggle to oppose someone else's will of course who get talked into it because they can't say no.

[@leojones2917]

Good man David! I too can happily tell them to foxtrot oscar with zero guilt. My charity goes to the dog we have taken into our home in the form of her food and exorbitant vet’s bills.

[@davidhull2060]

@@leojones2917 top man! I do my bit for animal welfare by taking in stray moggies...at one point we had six of the little furry monsters, but down to one now( which is no bad thing considering the current economic climate!)👍

[@Skeitintouch]

“Putting kids to bed at 7pm”!! I’d like to live in that area. The screeching is still going on at 10pm here.

[@bren70ssss94]

Classic comment 👍😁

[@mrnumbskull2048]

I used to have a DD for the RSPCA. I then found out that they'd spent around £1M on lawyers trying to get them out of paying inheritance tax on bequests. At that point I decided that they didn't need (or deserve) my money. Instead, I took some large quantities of cat and dog food to the local branch instead of cash. The CEO is welcome to eat the dog food if they wish 👌

[@jenniferblane7550]

Love it

[@carbon1255]

Part of their MO is making more money to help more, and £1M isn't very much. I respect that they always turn up if there is an animal in need at least in our experience, despite me never giving them a penny, even for "unimportant" animals. Most of their money is indeed from cat ladies who have no relatives giving their estates instead of to the church as in days of old. If you are working class or lower middle class you have no business giving them money anyway. You should give to charity when it becomes a significant tax reduction for you and you get rewarded eg invited to charity dinners etc or you own/work for the charity and pay yourself back.

[@barbarajupp1013]

I found out years ago rspca is a wast time & waste more money on staff plus put way to many animals down, I don't advise anyone to use them ever, I only support local volunteer run charities.

[@Starseed14]

Piss them off by identifying the places they say the money is going in their ads and specify it is to go there.

[@XenPsy]

You're the best kind of human.

[@davidreynolds6477]

My Mrs gave to cancer research for years and then the phone calls started once a month asking for more she told them no but they kept phoning and then one day she told the caller if they asked again she wouldn’t give at all he actually said you won’t stop so she did and now they get nothing

[@SlurpyDave254]

Somebody called round the other day collecting for the local swimming pool....so I gave them a glass of water🤣

[@tonyohalloran8817]

Don't give a penny. Charity begins at home with your kin. By the way, one guess who runs the charities...same as big pharma, big tech, big Corp, etc etc. Charities have always been a grift.

[@nojabhere]

Absolutely once people wake up to this they stop giving like i did

[@jane---489]

*_And 'Sir' Lenny Henry, the hypocrite who's made a fortune off the back of the racket ..._*

[@amandaduggan9051]

He is a disgrace.

[@bren70ssss94]

Yes he is vile just like hamilton .

[@geoffreyburton2654]

Loved the opening The Chartered Institute of Fundraisers. That said all you need to know about national "Charites" . Andrew a beacon of light.

[@london_james]

I find it very easy to turn these people away from my door

[@london_james]

I have one direct debit for Great Ormond Street Hospital because they saved my brother's life many times.

[@london_james]

@Rod Walker I actually do wear a cape

[@london_james]

@Rod Walker 🤣🤣

[@london_james]

@Rod Walker do you wanna be in my gang?

[@carbon1255]

@@london_james Come on, Come on, Come on my gang. Oh dear.

[@cannz9134]

Paying money to charity enables the government to overlook their obligations

[@iap-ug3oy]

I stopped donating when I found out that these jokers fly first class to Africa and stay in 4 star hotels when going to help the poor…Nice work if you can get it………

[@bren70ssss94]

Good God , that's obscene 😨😨

[@carbon1255]

It is far worse than that, HOWEVER the 4 star hotels are acceptable, if you have been to Africa as below that don't tend to have things like toilets. Anyway, most spend 95% on fundraising after "expenses" which includes expensive trips, dinners, and mingling in high society. Actually going to Africa is probably one of the better charities. If you want to actually help in Africa you could instead invest in businesses there which is the only long term way to help. Food packages only last a short time. Buy some stocks in a steel company or something instead. If it goes tits up you did your part. If they do well for themselves you get a dividend. Not financial advice, obviously.

[@NPC-st7zv]

With the six or seven figure wages that they pay their senior managers you'd think they would pay for it themselves.

[@terrynicholson9273]

Actually, if you follow the news that isnt shown on mainstream media they are going there to fuck the poor

[@piper081147]

I have no problem dealing with these people. Having been told in the the past that I'm an "arrogant, ignorant bastard", I merely slam the door in their faces as soon as they open their mouths to speak.

[@Les-OZZYTHEOSCAR]

Children in Need is a prime example of this

[@derekporter7658]

Nice one Andrew! Exactly!!! Just treat them the same way as tv licence scam pushers,,,it's illegal to sell door to door, so effectively that's what they're doing. Just say NO thanks or don't answer the door.

[@carbon1255]

Door to door sales is perfectly legal in the UK- there are some rules, but that is all, check the gov website.

[@derekporter7658]

@@carbon1255 yeah, the likes of betterware and Avon slipped my mind 😳 my error. Just follow the "No thanks" and close the door process.

[@terrybanks5063]

@@derekporter7658 theres more than avon and betterware that slipped your mind. windows, conservatories, sky tv, etc. etc. real door to door sales. betterware and avon are catalogues, theyre more likely to try give you a "job" than sell you something. fancy thinking somethings illegal when it aint. then sharing with the internet. fake news, buddy!

[@derekporter7658]

@@terrybanks5063 well I see your comment has been deleted. Those examples I gave were a small bit. Calm down buddy.

[@S1Rossco]

Spot on as usual Andrew. 👏👏👏I've had a young girl collecting for Great Ormond Street round twice, first time I was polite and said not to bother me again, second time closed the door in her face as soon as I saw who it was. 🤬

[@overlandkltolondon]

Seriously, I was a naive chugger once. I chugged for Greenpeace because I believed in it at the time. I was so zealous that I went on the interwebs to get more data about sea level rise for my region. Nada. A couple of millimetres if that. It led to a journey of unravelling all the global warming alarmist claims. I still feel bad about the people I chugged before I saw the light.

[@leathleyg5995]

Good for you..... You're not gonna die like Greta says..

[@billmcculloch8240]

Glad you saw the light , amuses me when I see icebergs being used to display 'global warming / climate change ' , it's a FACT if all the ice in the seas suddenly melted overnight sea levels will go DOWN ice displaces more water as it expands when it freezes . . .

[@shealdedmon7027]

Welcome to reality!

[@carbon1255]

Its so frustrating, but when you hear the 30M and 3 degrees claims and study the climatology, you realise that is the predicted in the next 100-1000 years WITH NO HUMAN EXISTENCE. In some ways it is worse, the fact is that we don't actually know what will happen to the climate with excessive carbon emitting. It might even trigger an ice age early which is worse. Lets not talk about using mean surface temperature anomalies because absolute values don't prove your position, and using a 1950s baseline, a disproportionately cool time. If you actually use a reasonable baseline that conforms to the climate model, we are actually cooler than we should be. I think the biggest factor is how much is inaccessible. If they truly believed it they would publicly publish the research. The paper Al Gore quoted still gets me. The infamous 97% media claim comes from a paper that suggested 4% of research papers supported man made climate change and 3% refuted it. I happen to know the writers of the papers in the 4% complained that their papers in fact had no suggestion of it whatsoever and it failed peer review- however the sad thing is from a very low percentage each year more and more now agree with no additional papers supporting it whatsoever. But of course, to get a research grant in climate science now you HAVE to support the agenda. For me it came as I became an Atheist and the desire to check primary sources for a foundation to my believe during university. The thing that triggered it was someone questioning al gore's CO2 to to temperature graph which quite obviously shows a reverse causal relationship between temperature and CO2- temperature very clearly affects CO2 but absolutely not the other way around.

[@chelamcguire]

At least you saw the light over time. There's still so many going about truly blind to the mess the world is in actually thinking that we are to blame for it! Those who arrive at those 'alarmist talks' fly in on private jets then afterwards they return to their sea front homes! Yip, the sea is rising - my arse!

[@royalalloy3471]

The amount of our taxes that the government give to charities in grants means we all give a large % of our pay checks every month... Its shocking

[@brick6347]

It's old ladies, and single cat ladies they prey on. They'd take one look at the apocalyptic landscape created by my kids and rightly assume I'm too broke to bother with

[@nojabhere]

🤣🤣👍🏻

[@smiffymiffed2734]

😂😂😎

[@paddymallory4080]

Spoken like a true parent! 😂😂

[@overlandkltolondon]

Simps too -- have you noticed how they recruit pretty girls to capture the simp market?

[@Catmad65]

They’ll have a shock if they come knocking on my door !

[@stubones]

Mine too. A swift “forn1cate off” and a slammed door later…

[@ALPINA527]

Remember to tell the police the bailiffs and the TV licence man same thing when they knock

[@rb1062]

We used to have a direct debit for the RNLI but stopped giving years ago when they seemed to become a taxi service for our endless stream of foreign guests arriving at Dover. I sense we weren't alone.

[@patrickporter6536]

Wise man Andrew! We help our local church who help support a number of families in our area who lost income because of lockdown.

[@lairdkilbarchan]

I feel sorry for the chuggers. Especially when I close the remote control gates and release the hounds.

[@catbreath007]

I had Greenpeace ring me last week .... Very friendly chat with the outcome of asking me for a monthly donation !!

[@johnlesoudeur3653]

And the people that phone up for Greenpeace work for a private company hired by Greenpeace.

[@anglowelshdragon4179]

My dad died recently aged 91 and while we applauded his lifetime of charitable giving it was clear that he had in his later years signed up to numerous causes many of which he’d never expressed a particular interest in. He was particularly vulnerable to being chugged on his weekly shopping trip. Very soon a £5 per month here and £3 per month there can build into a substantial sum per month for a person on a fixed income. Like credit agreements these should at least have a mandatory 28 day cooling off period so people can decide if paying towards sanitary products for Somali trans women or saving the Indonesian rainbow slug or whatever is more important than paying the gas bill.

[@jonwilkin281]

First off your an ignorant racisty transphobical fascist for not wanting to provide Somali trans with lots of free stuff at our expense and the Indonesian rainbow slug has just been found to be gender neutral and should therefore be afford all the human rights available at the cost of your own rights.its only fair guys Check your privilege!

[@royboy4743]

They should last no longer than 3 months then expire ,that’s if you want to give ,I don’t ,but the elderly should have some protection from these scams ,I’m 71

[@gooseware4937]

I am glad you have brought this up Andrew, the chuggers stand in shopping centres too, and dont like it when you refuse .

[@stubones]

Does it matter what they like? Just say “no thanks” and keep walking. They just wait for the next victim.

[@Sweetie-zf3ss]

@@stubones hehehe yep 👍

[@blahblahblah742]

I was doorstep chugged yesterday by a young woman who didn't even know what area she was chugging in, she had come from Preston to Wirral & is given different maps each day. I kept her on the doorstep for around 10-15 mins putting her straight. She wore a 'Scope' bib but said she worked for a 'third party company' called Zen. Got FA out of me!

[@overlandkltolondon]

Have you noticed how they recruit pretty ones because there's an excess of simpery going on out there?

[@stubones]

Well if if a pretty young thing turned up on my doorstep I’d keep her there as long as possible but I still wouldn’t donate 😆

[@nickmiller76]

@@overlandkltolondon Yeah, I noticed even as a lad way back in the fifties that when the Salvation Army brass band came round playing carols on Christmas Eve, they always sent the young girls round with the collecting tins. In fact, that's when I first realised women could look good in uniform.

[@greatgrandmama]

@@nickmiller76 😁😁the women in our Sally army when I was a girl, well they had better moustaches than the blokes.

[@fraggit]

All I've ever had was the "men in black" at my door, and the pretty young ones asking if I believe in Darwin. I just say, stick around, you just might find out dear.

[@j24601valjean]

How true, Andrew, how very true!

[@dontuno]

Always remember making a donation to the RSPCA and that unleashed a torrent of communication which must have cost hundreds more than I donated! As for chuggers, do they really think waving a plastic badge is proof they claim who they are. Oh look a random chugger, I'll give him/her all my bank details because he/she has got a plastic badge around their neck.

[@zibbezabba2491]

The badge around their neck has a chord attached which can be tightened to restrict the bloodflow. Don't forget to loosen it after they have passed out though or you'll be charged with murder.😆

[@stubones]

People do though. Just because some stranger starts talking to you doesn’t mean you have to listen. Keep walking or slam the door in their face.

[@maverickhistorian6488]

They're designed to break, so throttling them is no longer an option.

[@erniebertie3285]

The worst part is the hounding after you've donated, my brother got daily calls from them literally begging for more. He was up to £80 a month untill I showed him the wages of the ceos

[@clivebaxter6354]

Used to sponsor a kid in Thailand via Plan international, went there once and sent the village school a largish donation for the kids. Went back a year later they never got the money, the local office never passed it on. Having at last received it they sent photos of what they spent it on- new desks and chairs for the staff room!

[@leighwalton8190]

I used to give to Plan. They sent a photo of the child every year and every year he was still in the same rags standing in front of the same hut and looking just as exhausted and thin as he was the first year. Complete scam.

[@sh-hg4eg]

How about giving to local causes then.

[@clivebaxter6354]

@@sh-hg4eg It is local I live here, gave up on the UK years ago!

[@terrynicholson9273]

You really didnt read the guide to Thailand. You are supposed to fall in love with a young attractive girl, send her money and wonder what she does the other 51 weeks of the year and how many other mugs like you she has around the world. At least you get one week of risky sex for your ' donation'.

[@mrsthatcher9815]

@@leighwalton8190 lol

[@MudlarkDiggingUpTheThames]

As if they're not enough of a nuisance when I'm in my local town centre

[@enigma7791]

Chuggers last week! Kids with disablements charity. The guy was pleasant and rambled away for 5 minutes but his face dropped when I said "I am skint mate!" Now I don't even go the door unless it's the postie or Amazon. I am on the look out for a sign saying no sales people or charities. You are correct Andrew, the exec pay is scandalous and I have stopped ALL charity giving.

[@bren70ssss94]

They have them on eBay , cheap as chips 👍

[@wannabuyabridge]

Nice work - buying from Amazon is the exact opposite of giving to charity

[@enigma7791]

@@wannabuyabridge Yeah it’s a business selling products! Stupid response idiot

[@johnough4893]

Contact your Trading Standards department for a "NO COLD CALLING" sticker.

[@NH1973]

We should start a charity to raise money to produce "No charities" signs for doors

[@markhenry192]

I remember when Oxfam used to be a charity shop!

[@alanpearce9665]

I’ve been giving to a charity for the last 10 years - it’s called the ex wife.

[@noa-yu6vl]

🤣😂🤣🤣😂

[@bazbond6004]

Thank you for brightening up my day 🤣🤣😂😂

[@alanpearce9665]

@@bazbond6004 You’re welcome. All the best.

[@doones4649]

Ouch

[@paddymallory4080]

😂😂😂😂 you don’t want her on your doorstep!

[@Kowalski_5]

Enough money has been invested into hotels for a while. These charities should enquire there.

[@oliveringram3056]

Nice ending...👌 i used to be weak in the face of this type on my doorstep, but had enough now, I say no thank you and quietly shut the door.

[@Crosshatch1212]

Charity’s can go bolt .people have cottoned on to that one ,live aid ,hilarious

[@gmc9451]

I've had to take evasive action many a time to avoid the Canal and River Trust whilst walking in the countryside. They simply won't leave leave you alone if you engage with them and they're not interested in a one-off donation. I also had a similar experience with The Woodland Trust with some guy droning on about how much ancient forest there's left in the UK.

[@leathleyg5995]

CRT are vultures of the worst kind. They refused to help make rivers navigable and clean up after the 2015 floods. Pleading poverty with £3/4billion in the bank. Yet they managed to clear their own car park of flood mud within 24 hours.

[@sumthingwickedly]

I'm a 6ft highlander covered in tattoos and I find starting my reply with 'listen you why don't you donate the tenner an hour you get if it bothers you that much' gets shot of them

[@carbon1255]

I ask them what they are doing to oppose the reintroduction of wolves back into the UK for the first time since the 1400s and whether they will support the reintroduction of firearms if that fails. It usually gets them to go away.

[@sh-hg4eg]

@@carbon1255 Wolves don't tend to bother humans and the farmers already have guns. That said, bringing back smaller apex predators would be a better start.

[@sumthingwickedly]

@@sh-hg4eg wolves laid siege to Paris in the I think 14th century and held the city for 3 years 🤔 they like easy targets and get a taste for people

[@jules2545]

A while back I was confronted with a chugger, before he had time to open his mouth I said "no thanks". As I walked down the road he shouted at me "You dont even know what it is for". I over emphasised the shrug as I was going about my business.

[@tomhaskett5161]

I have been shouted at and insulted by chuggers simply for politely saying no and not stopping for them.

[@nojabhere]

Remeber folk's charity begins at home, something my dear old departed Ma used to say, something I've vehemently stuck to

[@SP-lw7mr]

No thanks. Goodbye! Works for me.

[@ANobodyatall]

Thing is, a lot of these chuggers aren't doing it because of love for the charity, they are paid. As little as the 'charities' can get away with, but paid nonetheless. No doubt they get some bonus for signing people up, or don't get anything if they don't. They are almost to be pitied. Almost.

[@stubones]

The concept of volunteering for a charity is vulgar while their management and directors pocket millions between them. Imagine working for free… what’s the word? Begins with a S, ends with a y…

[@petew5289]

I was told chuggers get the first 6 months of any dd they sign up

[@davidgranvillehunter6231]

I always ask them for details of charity with an address where I can send a donation if I agree with their work, funny they never have this information and just go away.

[@stevegee8010]

Those tin shakers often seen at supermarket exits, almost every penny, sometimes more than they actually take, goes into paying them to scrounge for that money.

[@solihullman5230]

Doorstep chugging needs to be outlawed.

[@martinranalli8572]

What about their managing directors getting £400 thousand a year?

[@francismadden8561]

I'm shocked at what gets advertised on Freeview tv. Talk about shake-down artists . ''Con artists at work'' should be the warning going out.. Well said Andrew.

[@misfit2022]

I revert to the time honoured technique of refusing to answer the door.

[@amandaduggan9051]

I look out the window and if I don't know the hapless person standing on my doorstep I don't answer the door.

[@misfit2022]

@Amanda Duggan Sounds good but I have blinds so too much hassle as they are closed most of the time.

[@toasterboy708]

I worked with the first direct marketing company (Cobra Group) that kicked all this off back in the late 90’s. I was part of the first team to go out and test this and work out how to sell it in the field and it went off, worldwide. The money the charities were paying us was ridiculous (at the time, around 40-50 quid+ a sign up, which was a 2 year covenant). Guy on the door got about 10-15 quid, (if you banged someone up for a triple or a quad it was a good knock) the rest, well, say no more. I’m embarrassed to look back at some of the shit we used to teach guys to say back then. I watched a lot of people in Cobra get fat off this for a few years. It opened doors for me in the direct marketing world though. Charities don’t give a fuck, and will get revenue any way they can. I cringe when I’m approached now. I feel sorry for them being part of the machine. Its fucking hideous what goes on.

[@toasterboy708]

@@dickie8918 haha…

[@barbararice6650]

@@dickie8918 What for shedding some light on the grift, I respect that 👈😑

[@NH1973]

I'd donate to Cobra Kai, but not to Cobra Group

[@DavidSmith-op8ix]

Watching the tv programme on the telly escape to the country always makes me laugh because most of the people on it say they i "work" for a charity but they can afford to buy houses in the country for £500,000 plus, so that's we're the people's donations go to then helping to buy middle class lefties their safe havens in the countryside.

[@thomasscott199]

Rich house Poor house is like that too.

[@carbon1255]

It funds their fancy dinners too xD Hard life being a middle class grifter.

[@DavidSmith-op8ix]

@@carbon1255 yep.

[@peterfield2229]

Well they’ll get bugger all just like the street ones.

[@AlternativeElvis]

This might not be the best advice but be polite and shut the door and walk away guilt free. The canvassers expect it, and they are monitored by supervisors for demoralisation and either let go or promoted sideways into another job. There’s always plenty of well-meaning, naïve twentysomethings on their gap year

[@stubones]

That is exactly the best advice.

[@sumthingwickedly]

Or if your mad pretend you're Scottish and shout NAWWWWW

[@AlternativeElvis]

@@sumthingwickedly Ha ha!

[@sumthingwickedly]

@@AlternativeElvis I am Scottish but I'd advise it 😉

[@AlternativeElvis]

@@sumthingwickedly I've lived in New Zealand for donkeys and dealing with passive aggressive/over friendly types is something that drives you mental after a while.

[@GARYBLONDER]

Absolutely 100% agree on this one 👍

[@tech10k14]

At least the directors won't have to untick any optional extras on their new luxury Mercedes now, eh?

[@pbrninja19]

Charity, done with a heart of generosity and a genuine wish for the well-being of others, is one of the most precious and beautiful activities. Anyone who would try to psychologically hack you to pervert this process is at least very confused and misguided, if not evil. We would do well to take careful note of who tries to manipulate us via our best qualities for their own gain. Let's start sorting the good and the bad more strictly, and fearlessly protecting the best parts of human life.

[@stubones]

Large charities are evil. They keep most of the money, pay the bosses millions between them and almost certainly employee people who’s sole job it it is to teach chuggers how to manipulate you. Small local charities and direct charity such as buying the homeless food are the way forward. People in foreign lands? No.

[@kevinparker461]

Never answer the door but, if i find any of these parasites on my property they better leave when asked to. All the money raised in big charity events has done bugger all because the same shit is still in trouble. Makes you think most of it is trousered before it gets to where it is meant to go.

[@stubones]

Exactly. Nothing changes.

[@sh-hg4eg]

In some cases, it wouldn't matter if it got there anyway. You can install as many water wells in Africa as you like but it means nothing when they neglect them or even pull them up to sell for scrap.

[@Beatlefan67]

Put a notice on your door 'We are naturists and do not wish to offend, but the door may be answered by a naked person'

[@cerneuffington2656]

I always carry some old buttons with me, So if some sponger waves a charity box in my face, i put the buttons in.

[@bren70ssss94]

I was told before that if they approach you to completely ignore them , don't even acknowledge their presence , they hate that , and if they knock at your door shut it in their face .

[@sh-hg4eg]

Yep. I just completely blank them when they pester in the high street.

[@bren70ssss94]

@@sh-hg4eg spot on and i forgot to mention this info came from someone who used to do it but wised up .

[@nataliejacobs3420]

Can't believe it, cancer research just knocked on my door, wanted to give him a lecture,but just said no thank you, my friend died of asbestos poisoning in April, her treatment was disgusting, good friends rallied round, we loved her and helped her.

[@thesmallnotesduo]

Let's all give more to charities so their CEOs etc can live it up in fancy offices and a few pence in the pound can reach those you thought you gave to.

[@jondingwall5941]

Always been bemused as to why Street chuggers often perform a short dance sequence immediately prior to spouting their begging spiel

[@markstarmer3677]

I never give to the big charities. Like other comments have said, the CEO and upper tiers of management all on six figure salaries. You don’t need to earn six figures to run a charity. I just give to smaller local causes, where you know 90% of the money actually gets to where it’s needed.

[@lynnepostings]

. . . Not necessarily !

[@michaeld5888]

The charity CEOs need to keep the Mercedes serviced and a roof on the mansion so business must go on.

[@chazsach6594]

On a very wet day i was stopped by a young lady who was soaked to the skin asking me to make a contribution to a charity whose CEO was on £365,000 pounds a year.

[@MudlarkDiggingUpTheThames]

You should have told her to find a proper job

[@amandaduggan9051]

She must have been a desperate mug! Hope you put her straight.

[@bruceclothier8238]

Thanks for the reminder of this tactic. I got nabbed a few times like this, but when you dont know whats happening its harder to deal with. Forewarned is forearmed., Now I'm looking forward to one of these tossers knocking on my door. First i will ask them how much their CEO gets paid and how many pence in each pound finds its way to the target. Its scary: the answer is about 5 pence per pound: the rest goes on advertising, salaries and institutional waste

[@HENDRIX77100]

I had a couple of arseholes wheel out a young lad in a wheel chair when I didn’t want to donate! Just shut my door! Lol!

[@stubones]

He could probably walk and they stole the chair.

[@bren70ssss94]

I'd have given him a puncture repair kit with the glue used up 😁

[@maverickhistorian6488]

You cruel person, couldn't you at least buy them a Pound shop puncture repair kit and then tell them to fuck off! 😂

[@loafersheffield]

Charity grifter : Don't give money directly to homeless people. They'll only spend it on drink and drugs. Response: What do you think I was gonna spend it on? I know exactly where my money is going, to this poor bloke with 3 socks and and no shoes.. ...aaaaand now it's going to the off license. - Steve Hughes

[@sadhappy8860]

And from the same routine, "don't give it them, give it to us, and.. we'll make sure they get it"

[@greatestytcommentator]

@@sadhappy8860 Like the Government and taxes

[@samfazers8818]

@@sadhappy8860 love this my brother literal said no give to registered charities and my response was this line lol

[@medler2110]

At least the homeless person is spending the money in a local business, so not only have you donated money to a homeless person you help keep people employed in your local area. 😁

[@Bacardibatman]

One I hate is atm especially British heart foundation they have a chugger sat just inside their shop door asking for donations as you enter. Really puts me off going in there.

[@MrCheswickMusic]

It could be worse I suppose, imagine having Chegger's on your doorstep?

[@nojabhere]

I'd rather that tbf someone i can relate to 😂

[@jilllawton8556]

Doesn’t he give money away

[@bren70ssss94]

As a reanimated corpse ? Horrific 😨

[@nscuthbert]

He's dead ⚰

[@chunkyedwards5381]

I love opening the door so that I can tell them I don't give a flying f.

[@MAX-tw3qz]

Just give to the poor you actually see, there's enough of them. Cut out the middle people.

[@captainboing]

I used to work in London and these charity pr1cks were everywhere, I used to ask them for their personal bank details (which they would refuse to give), then ask them why they think I would give mine to a pushy stranger with a clipboard? PhoneShop got this absolutely right. Mainstream charities only serve themselves. Find a local hospice or something and give direct, still has administrators but not on the scale of NSPCC, RSPCA etc which are just a total rip.

[@Stephen-gp8yi]

People knocked on my door and I offered them a fiver and they said we only take card payment so I said I can’t help you then!

[@chapers04]

Looking forward to seeing the RNLI knock at my door.

[@maverickhistorian6488]

They'll never come to save you if you're drowning you know.😁

[@bobbadham261]

Absolutely spot on as always and start bein rude to these door Knockin beggers!

[@stevenchandler3694]

My thaughts exactly and every pound that goes to the British heart foundation only 12 p actually goes to it that means 88 p goes in the back pocket always a great show

[@jonathanbrown4465]

I'm pretty sure it is (or used to be) illegal in Britain to solicit for money. That meant charity collectors could not directly ask for money. It was OK for someone to stand on the street with a collecting box as long as they didnt ask you to give. Be interesting to find out if this was still the case.

[@leathleyg5995]

That was my understanding too. They could rattle the tin but not directly ask.

[@carbon1255]

Often these myths get around but I believe its only the councils that have restricted things like that. The only exception is soliciting for prostitution purposes.

[@godzillas6301]

donation mate ..... it doesnt define its money even when they show paperwork saying pay a fiver and jamal can get to school or not drink pissy water or some other such heartstring puller

[@maverickhistorian6488]

I have absolutely no empathy whatsoever, so I'm immune to their bullshit.

[@brianlopez8855]

Open the door and then fix them with a glassy middle distance stare.

[@bren70ssss94]

And starkers 😁

[@amandaduggan9051]

Or ask them for a donation towards your energy bill.

[@maverickhistorian6488]

Ask them if they'd like to see your collection of shrunken heads, whilst laughing maniacally! 😂😂

[@songscoops4205]

Great advice 👍

[@orwellboy1958]

I just set my Rottweiler...... I mean wife on them.

[@59jalex]

I would consider donating to a charity again if there was a chance that I was earning more than their CEO.

[@davidgranvillehunter6231]

My area of town as a "no cold caller" policy the council placed signs in the street and the stickers we have on the back of the door tell you not to feel guilty not opening the door to charity workers , its amazing how many of these chuggers call , the usual con is sponsored activities where some people give them money to save them having to return, one told me he was doing a 3 legged run around a lake and told a neighbour he was doing a parachute jump.

[@schmoogle7853]

I have never had to deal with door knockers thankfully. However there's a 50/50 chance that when I head to my local shop to grab some milk/coffee there will be a chugger encampment right outside the door. At least it means I get more exercise by having to walk an extra mile into the village centre.

[@mikenumpty9366]

Never sign up to these direct debit - the first 3 payments is commission for the person who signs you up, then the company that employs them takes a cut, little money goes to charity - they target areas and work in groups

[@grandbleutrev]

Yes damn right Andrew! I remember chatting to an architectural technician who was leaving our Council for a job in Dr Bernardo's, charity I had always supported, but he was to get a big wage hike, a company car and many other perks. I was horrified. And the RNLI now make me sick...the donations apparently go immediately down to a Hull or somewhere head office and NOT to the local volunteer Units. F,,,, that!

[@dav01kar]

Just slam the door in their faces easy.!!

[@davelowe1977]

My energy bill is so large that it can be wielded as a weapon. As Jonesie was oft fond of saying : "they don't like it up 'em".

[@trentspackman3597]

My God people, this is true.🇦🇺