Radio ads asking you to sponsor a child
Le Cunt : Stupid radio commercials that try and make it sound like it’s a good thing to sponsor a child in the third world.
L’evidence : For a start everyone knows that sponsoring a child is not something worthy like sponsoring a donkey in a sanctuary or sponsoring little Timmy from next door when he comes around with a photocopied sheet which makes it obvious he’s not doing a 5k walk but is, instead, going to take all the money he makes and spend it on Mr Freezes and John Player Blue.
Secondly, the ads themselves are ridiculous. Take this one for example, from worldvision.ie
“My 10 year old just told me how to solve a big problem. ‘You know those kids in Africa who get sick because they have to drink dirty water?’, she asked. ‘Let’s send them the Irish rain!’.
Hahahahahaha, it rains in Ireland. LO-FUCKING-L. Have you completely missed the part where our rotting, ancient pipe systems mean we lose 70% of the water we have as it tries to make its way from reservoir to tap? Even in the wettest country on earth we have to implement hosepipe bans after anything more than three days of sunshine. So what water would you like us to send them exactly?
And has your 10 year old thought about the logistics of capturing and then transporting Ireland’s rain? I doubt it. In fact, it appears to me that your 10 year old is probably quite retarded for even considering such a plan. Maybe you ought to get that checked out instead of bleating about African kids who, despite the fact they’re starving and suffering the effects of famine, aren’t complete ‘cappers like your kid.
Then there’s the other woman who says her kids are always going on about how it’s not fair that they have to go back to school. Then she highlights the case of some kid in Africa who can’t go to school at all and how that’s not fair. Then she goes and sponsors the kid and the kid is sent to school.
Did anybody asked that child if they want to go to school? They’re probably quite content hanging around all day, scrumping whatever it is to be scrumped from African orchards and playing Playstation (admittedly it’s PS1 but that’s a damn sight more interesting than having to go to school). But all of a sudden because some do-gooder from Ireland with more money than sense wants to feel good about themselves they’re packed off every morning wearing a scratchy uniform while all their friends play three and in all day long.
Apparently when you sponsor a child they write you letters as it seems giving them money immediately enables them to read and write in perfect English. Yeah, right. The whole thing is a load of bollocks and unless you actually own the kid after spending money on it then what’s the point? If I could pay a tenner a month and have a little black kid of my own to dress up like the cop from the Village People then I’d be well on for it, otherwise I’m not interested.
Le Verdict : Sponsoring children is a dangerous practice and makes for very annoying radio ads. It’s a big pile of bleeding-heart, painful audio Le Cunt.
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