Vodka and Redbull is very good. I also like the shot made with Jager and Redbull. But they are almost ten bucks at a bar around here.
They can’t do that - there already IS a Toro Rosso team, in addition to the Red Bull one. You can’t have two teams with the same name!
Red Bull and Jägermeister has been the hit in clubs over here a couple of years ago (or is it still?). However I couldn’t drink more than one of it without being in danger of a sugar shock.
Yeah, there’s also a thing called Jagerbombs that’s the hit around here, atm.
You take a glass full of beer and drop a shot glass of jagermeister into it.
You can do that with Guinness as well, using Irish whiskey of course…
Yea I"ve had that. I think they called it an Irish Car Bomb. Was very good, could only drink one tho.
Charities that are con games have been discussed and that subject is my top ranked piss me off presently.
http://gpbnews.blogspot.com/2009/03/fbi-raid-on-food-charity-raises.html
Research will uncover the founder is a convicted criminal. He and his family have been fraudulently(my opinion) paying themselves nice salaries for years. What the article does not say is food goods are donated or purchased at heavy discount then SOLD to the needy for $25. Sounds ok but after inspecting the food for my church I found quality severely lacking. For instance, steak cuts contained much bone and in some cases were 50% fat. If put in a grocery display for sale only someone with poor eyesite would purchase. The whole family should be jailed.
Related to this is the avoidance of paying income taxes. In the State of Georgia(USA) anyone can register a non-profit corporation usually a church. You are not required to provide affiliation with another orginaztion. Lets call my church Britelite Ministries Inc. My address can be my home. I can appoint anyone officers(Myself,wife and 2 brothers). Now I setup a for profit business. Any or all income from the for profit is donated to the non profit becoming a 1 for 1 tax writeoff. All the donated funds are parceled as salaries for the officers. Both business’ are now free form Federal and State income tax burdens. The officers are now responsible for personal income tax. But if I have a creative accountant all the employees become self employed and can take full benefit of itemized deductions. In the end nobody will pay income tax.
Don’t believe me? I am personally aware of a family that does this. The father operates a business grossing almost $1 million dollars yearly. Generates about $600K in net profit. Neither he nor his family have paid income tax in the last 5 years.
Legal but morally wrong. Come to think of it the tax issue just moved up to number 1 on my pissed off list.
Disclaimer: Not my family. I pay my taxes dutifully every year.
Right On!! I totally Agree with You!!.Charities are always paying fat cats to run their gig and the money you give goes for their private golf lessons. I am 1000% in agreement with you!!!
That’s about 900% too much.
I am more prone to agree with 32Bravo’s stance, that even if only 20 cents of each Dollar actually go for charity, it’s better than nothing, though I agree that charity-fraud should be considered a major offense, as the people pretty much steal twice, once from you, and once from the people who should get it.
Herman sometimes tends to understate his position. 
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Not for me.
I accept that every organisation has running costs, but if I give a dollar to a charity I expect nearer 80 cents to reach the people who need it than 20 cents.
If an alleged charity is siphoning off 80% before my money gets to the people who need it then the charity isn’t being run as a charity or for the benefit of the people who need it, but for the people who run it.
Which, oddly enough, sounds just like most major corporations run by the executives primarily for their benefit.
BAH!
So what to do?
I got it! Buy Microsoft products. IIRC, Bill Gates has one of the biggest charities, with a higher annual output than the WHO’s budget…
Say what you want about Microsoft’s other policies, but at least the guy at the top realizes he has a certain amount of social responsibility.
Well, Microsoft is a charity in its own way.
You donate money to an organisation which provides work for people who produce products which don’t work all that well for poor people who have no choice but to accept Microsoft’s charity in releasing its latest cocked-up piece of shit, which has only a few hundred thousand more faults and is twice as slow as the previous version it’s supposed to be an improvement upon and is about ten times as likely to be hacked by a sub-normal troglodyte.
Perhaps, but that doesn’t translate into making his products work properly.
If he was making bombsights in WWII, half of the bombardiers would have been looking up their own arseholes and wondering why they were in the shit when they pressed the tit. The other half would have had the same view, but no risk as pressing the tit would have given an error message.
They’d probably have to restart the engine in order for it to accept the change of opening the bomb shafts 
Just imagine, flying on a bomber mission over Europe, you’re about to drop the bombs, and suddenly a fucking Paper Clip showed up next to you, and asked you if you needed help bombing Hitler. And when you click to close, it freezes…
Seriously, be very selective and well informed about the charities to which we donate.
As a rough rule of thumb, the bigger and more international and more general they are, then the less likely they are to get more of your dollar to the intended source.
And the more local and focused on a specific form of relief they are, the more likely they are to get most of your dollar to the source.
But if they have titles like ‘Kids for Cancer’ or ‘Cancer for Kids’ and flog raffle tickets for cars in shopping centres, then almost none of your money will go past the shonks running it and, surprising though it may seem as has happened repeatedly here, the cars will be won by associates of the pricks running the raffle.
So, apart from the fact which a recent survey shows pisses off 87% of people that our knob government is now giving our bushfire donations to give increased benefits to those who didn’t bother to insure their houses and lesser benefits to the mugs who have paid insurance for years, I’m about done with giving anything to charities because I’m sick of supporting the crooks who run them and the bludgers who benefit from them.
Heartless, I know, but I’ve given more than enough to buy a front row seat in The Heartless Bastard Show to see the least competent and most selfish fritter my money away on the least deserving for the least benefit to the most deserving.
BAH!
The only charity that works towards preserving cancer in children!
That would work alright.
It’d be a lot better than the usual “You must restart your system” because you downloaded the latest target co-ordinates, followed by "loading … 45 seconds … 90 seconds … four minutes … seven minutes … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Ctrl Alt Del ----> ‘System not responding.’
Some charities give, others receive.
Ok, Ok, well for those that like to give to Charity, here is a new twist on things. You give money and the Charity collects interest on it and stock piles your donation, over many years, instead of spending it. Give me a Frigin Break!. If I donated $1000 to the Heart and Stroke Charity, I would think that I would expect my money to be put to good use like research or medical exploration to prevent or cure heart disease, BUT NO, my money sits in their bank account collecting dust doing nothing, for many years and the Charity still demands more money!! Why the hell would I give to Charity when they have $130 MILLION DOLLARS already, and their too busy to spend it so they bank it. GIVE ME A BREAK. I am 900% confident that I would be better off spending my hard earned money on Beer rather than give it to some shyster charity that only puts it in the bank collecting it like a miser! I rest my case. Beer Wins, Charity loses.
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/280925
Heart-stroke charity builds huge war chest
STEVE RUSSELL/TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO
Cyclists are seen in Toronto during the 20th anniversary of the Becel Heart & Stroke Ride for Heart event to raise money for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Has $130 million in cash as fundraising continues
November 29, 2007
KEVIN DONOVAN
STAFF REPORTER
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario has a whopping $130 million war chest of donor dollars saved up over many years.
This is by far the largest buildup of savings by a Canadian charity that raises money in the name of a disease, and the charity continues to aggressively ask for more.
Heart and Stroke donors were dismayed to learn this news.
“When I give a dollar I expect it will be put to good use,” said Joyce Brown, 67, of St. Catharines, a pensioner who annually gives $100 to the charity, often as memorial donations when a friend has died of heart disease, which also killed both of Brown’s parents.
“It’s hard for me to say that I am going to sacrifice my pension so they have more money to play with,” Brown said in an interview. She will donate again when the charity has made a significant reduction to its reserves.
The charity’s chief executive officer, Rocco Rossi, acknowledged his charity needs to spend more on good works. He said the board of directors has “internally restricted” a big chunk of the war chest (charity documents say more than $60 million) for increased spending on multi-year research efforts and other programs.
In a statement to the Star, the charity said these excess funds will be “dispensed on a yearly basis allowing the Foundation to hold recipients accountable and to ensure that milestones are met before they receive the next instalment.”
Rossi still intends to fundraise. He’s known for his personal pitches – such as riding a bike 1,900 kilometres from Rainy River to the foot of Yonge St. in Toronto and paddling a kayak from Toronto to Ottawa. Next February he aims to climb Seven Summits (tall buildings in Toronto) to raise $1 million for life-saving defibrillators to be placed in arenas and other buildings in communities around the province.
“I am desperate to raise dollars because heart and stroke is the No. 1 killer of Canadians,” Rossi said in an interview.
Heart and Stroke could easily part with $1 million to buy those defibrillators today, but won’t, preferring instead to ask the public for more money.
The charity raises about $120 million yearly, mainly from donations and lottery sales. Roughly half of that amount goes to fundraising, administration and other costs. The $60-65 million left over is available for good works, but, historically, large amounts have not been spent.
Rossi was hired in 2005, studied the issue for two years, then developed a plan that focuses on long-term medical research and campaigns aimed at reducing high blood pressure and improving the diets of Ontario residents.
I’m with Joyce, except I’d never donate to that crew again.
Bullshit!
Don’t know what you folks up the top of the planet do, but down here at a local level we have have a sausage sizzle outside various major stores (which donate the space, all cooking equipment, tent and so on) to groups like the local scouts, Country Fire Authority, Salvation Army and so on who offer store customers a sausage in bread for a couple of bucks, which costs them about a quarter of that. Apart from the cost of the food, all the money raised goes to charity.
So, how come 100% at a local level can go to charity and only half goes to it when the big ‘charities’ get involved?
Because, obviously, they’re just commercial corporations run like every other one for the benefit of the grasping pricks who run them.
Which is one of the reasons I ain’t donating to them again.
Bullshit!!!.. We all know on top of the planet here that you guys only put another shrimp on the Barbee, down there; and not sausage or hot dogs!..don’t think you can fool me into thinking anything otherwise. I have seen Crocodile Dundee and his commercials for Fosters!..He always say’s that he puts another shrimp on the Barbee, so thats a fact, we learnt about Australia, up here in the cold cold Siberian Canada!
P.S. Tomorrow it will reach 6 degrees high…I am so excited! It’s almost like summer tomorrow…yipeee!!