Crowdfunding - is it just game on??

57Deluxe

Got thinking after reading about this comedian who is being sued by her ex for using personal material in her act and set up a crowdfunding campaign to pay her costs? 

So, if  I have some parking fines and unpaid taxes/fines it is OK for me to attach a sob story to get these funded too??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-43139065

stickyfiddle

57Deluxe said:

Got thinking after reading about this comedian who is being sued by her ex for using personal material in her act and set up a crowdfunding campaign to pay her costs? 

So, if  I have some parking fines and unpaid taxes/fines it is OK for me to attach a sob story to get these funded too??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-43139065

It seems she has no other route if she wants to defend the case.

I can't find what she actually said, so have no idea which one of them is being a twat (or indeed, if it's both..!)

underdog

That's pretty dangerous to arts in general imo. What's next not being able to write a song about a breakup? 

guitarfishbay

stickyfiddle said:

57Deluxe said:

Got thinking after reading about this comedian who is being sued by her ex for using personal material in her act and set up a crowdfunding campaign to pay her costs? 

So, if  I have some parking fines and unpaid taxes/fines it is OK for me to attach a sob story to get these funded too??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-43139065

It seems she has no other route if she wants to defend the case.

I can't find what she actually said, so have no idea which one of them is being a twat (or indeed, if it's both..!)

And regardless the case could have implications for a lot of people, a lot of comedy is based on personal experience, as are songs - though individuals are rarely explicitly named in songs.

munckee

If I wasn't married I'd set up a crowdfunding page for "feeling a bit down lately need a week in vegas with gambling money and some spends for ladies of the night and exotic substances."  people seem to get money for everything.

RandallFlagg

Why not? Giving to some "genuine" charitable causes appears to have been funding people to sexually abuse the people they are supposed to be helping. Giving money to someone to help pay a parking fine sounds quite noble in that context.

fields5069

People have been crowd funding trips to fucking Machu Pichu for years, may as well let other people get in on the act.

guitarfishbay

The whole argument against crowd funding kind of falls apart given it's voluntary.  Of course people can ask.  Disliking that someone then received something is either jealousy and or cynicism... but the people who gave, chose to do so.  It's only really arguably wrong if people were misled and lied to in order for the donations to be made in the first place.

Alnico

I want to rid the world of kettles that take any longer than 60 seconds to boil.

It's ludicrous that in 2018 I have to wait 4m and 53 seconds for 1.5ltr water to boil and the last 50-odd seconds it's boiled anyway it's just showing off.

Fuck that.
I want everyone to have proper kettles that don't take the piss and understand how lucky they've not already been thrown out of the fucking window already.

If you say it can't be done then don't try to tell me we landed on the fucking moon 50 years ago!

I can't wait until you lot run out of steam with that shit.

Anyway, kettles.
Fuck them.

We Need new ones.
Go.........do something. .....I think......

fandango

Maybe I should get crowdfunding to help pay for new windows all round. Because not to do so would be a dereliction against global warming. Just think of the children. 

RandallFlagg

Alnico said:

I want to rid the world of kettles that take any longer than 60 seconds to boil.

It's ludicrous that in 2018 I have to wait 4m and 53 seconds for 1.5ltr water to boil and the last 50-odd seconds it's boiled anyway it's just showing off.

Fuck that.
I want everyone to have proper kettles that don't take the piss and understand how lucky they've not already been thrown out of the fucking window already.

If you say it can't be done then don't try to tell me we landed on the fucking moon 50 years ago!

I can't wait until you lot run out of steam with that shit.

Anyway, kettles.
Fuck them.

We Need new ones.
Go.........do something. .....I think......

Your little rant about kettles is all well and good but what the fook has it got to do with crowd funding?

Alnico

RandallFlagg said:

Alnico said:

I want to rid the world of kettles that take any longer than 60 seconds to boil.

It's ludicrous that in 2018 I have to wait 4m and 53 seconds for 1.5ltr water to boil and the last 50-odd seconds it's boiled anyway it's just showing off.

Fuck that.
I want everyone to have proper kettles that don't take the piss and understand how lucky they've not already been thrown out of the fucking window already.

If you say it can't be done then don't try to tell me we landed on the fucking moon 50 years ago!

I can't wait until you lot run out of steam with that shit.

Anyway, kettles.
Fuck them.

We Need new ones.
Go.........do something. .....I think......

Your little rant about kettles is all well and good but what the fook has it got to do with crowd funding?

Someone should crowd fund it?

ChrisMusic

RandallFlagg said:

Alnico said:

I want to rid the world of kettles that take any longer than 60 seconds to boil.

It's ludicrous that in 2018 I have to wait 4m and 53 seconds for 1.5ltr water to boil and the last 50-odd seconds it's boiled anyway it's just showing off.
...
Anyway, kettles.
Fuck them....

Your little rant about kettles is all well and good but what the fook has it got to do with crowd funding?

And, who the hell drinks 1.5 litres of coffee at one sitting !     :-O

munckee

ChrisMusic said:

RandallFlagg said:

Alnico said:

I want to rid the world of kettles that take any longer than 60 seconds to boil.

It's ludicrous that in 2018 I have to wait 4m and 53 seconds for 1.5ltr water to boil and the last 50-odd seconds it's boiled anyway it's just showing off.
...
Anyway, kettles.
Fuck them....

Your little rant about kettles is all well and good but what the fook has it got to do with crowd funding?

And, who the hell drinks 1.5 litres of coffee at one sitting !     :-O

Americans.

Alnico

....me. 
One cup at a time but I'll refill our kettle once and use both between 6am and 12pm.

Moe_Zambeek

stickyfiddle said:

57Deluxe said:

Got thinking after reading about this comedian who is being sued by her ex for using personal material in her act and set up a crowdfunding campaign to pay her costs? 

So, if  I have some parking fines and unpaid taxes/fines it is OK for me to attach a sob story to get these funded too??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-43139065

It seems she has no other route if she wants to defend the case.

I can't find what she actually said, so have no idea which one of them is being a twat (or indeed, if it's both..!)

The article suggests that her material implied her ex was abusive, and included naming him and showing still and video images. If that’s the case then it would seem he has some justification for being upset, potentially.

Funkfingers

The time has come, the Walrus said, to crowd fund a campaign to outlaw crowd funding.

Once upon a time, in a Britain far away, some of the non-essential things that make society work a little better were funded by the state. As the collective willingness to pay taxes diminishes, the subsidies end. Hence, the begging bowl is out again. Next thing you know, the workhouses will be re-opening. Not necessarily a bad thing. Thatcher would be proud of how we have reverted to Victorian values. Let's all go darn The Strand. ('Ave a banaaaaaaana!)

jonnyburgo

Take my wife please.

Dopesick

The ex-husband sounds like a dick tbh. Oh boo hoo my ex-wife said something bad about me, I'm going to sue her.

Octafish

57Deluxe said:

Got thinking after reading about this comedian who is being sued by her ex for using personal material in her act and set up a crowdfunding campaign to pay her costs? 

So, if  I have some parking fines and unpaid taxes/fines it is OK for me to attach a sob story to get these funded too??

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-43139065

Go for it, no ones stopping you just like no one's forcing anyone to donate money to any crowdfunding page.

BRISTOL86

Alnico said:

I want to rid the world of kettles that take any longer than 60 seconds to boil.

It's ludicrous that in 2018 I have to wait 4m and 53 seconds for 1.5ltr water to boil and the last 50-odd seconds it's boiled anyway it's just showing off.

Fuck that.
I want everyone to have proper kettles that don't take the piss and understand how lucky they've not already been thrown out of the fucking window already.

If you say it can't be done then don't try to tell me we landed on the fucking moon 50 years ago!

I can't wait until you lot run out of steam with that shit.

Anyway, kettles.
Fuck them.

We Need new ones.
Go.........do something. .....I think......

I always said if I win the lottery I’d have two luxuries in life....an instant water boiler so I never have to wait for a kettle to boil, and a new pair of socks for every day of the rest of my life!

Im a man of simple needs