Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Weapons-Grade Stupid For Charity

Okay, so I'm strolling down the avenue the other day--yeah, with my shadow--when a city bus goes by with a banner announcing the next level of cattle-call stupid: Eat Two Donuts then Run Two Miles For ALS. WTF? You might as well do the cinnamon challenge first.
I'd be hurling after 200 yards, let alone two miles. But it occurred to me that the escalation of this "celebrate yourself doing something for charity" ego-stroking bullshit is not going to stop--so, we might as well drive it into the ground. I have a few ideas along those lines:
* the Smoke a Pack of Luckys and we'll have dobermans chase you a mile up hill to the ER for emphysema awareness challenge;
*the Set Yourself On Fire and Run 100 Yards to jump in the River for immolation awareness challenge, and
*the Mr. Yuck Drink Hemlock and Scale the Three-Story drainpipe for the antidote Benefit contest for the poison center
Feel free to chime in with your uggestions.
Fuck these self-congratulatory assclowns.

8 comments:

ooGcM taobmaetS said...

Um ... Bend over and fuck ourselves bow-legged for O'Bama?

Eric Praline said...

They're just raising awareness, awareness of how awesome they are and how much they care. Because acting like a stupid dick is a lot easier than becoming a medical researcher or donating large sums of money to actually accomplish something.
But how about The Adrian Peterson 5k Walk to Cut a Switch for Child Abuse Awareness?
Or the Barack Obama Kobe Beef BBQ and Cristal Pool Party for Fiscal Responsibility Awareness?

B.C. said...

The Helen Thomas/Hillary Clinton/Michelle Obama/Rosie O'Donuts Shuck, Suck & Fisting Film Festival for Blindness Research.

GOODSTUFF said...

Go ahead----drink the Kool-Aid. Drink it!

"The Pranksters were now out among them, and it was exhilarating--look at the mothers staring!--and there was going to be holy terror in the land. But there would also be people who would look up out of their work-a-daddy lives in some town, some old guy, somebody's stenographer, and see this bus and register...delight, or just pure open-invitation wonder. Either way, the Intrepid Travelers figured, there was hope for these people. They weren't totally turned off...the citizens were suitably startled, outraged, delighted, nonplused, and would wheel around and start or else try to keep their cool by sidling glances like they weren't going to be impressed by any weird shit--and a few smiled in a frank way as if to say, I am with you--if only I could be with you!" — Tom Wolfe

harbqll said...

And it's posts Ike this that make me proud to be a Soylent Greenie.

Soylent Sage said...

Dr. harbqll, I blush.

So, GOODSTUFF, what charity would the acid-eating contest--a few of which I've won in the past, I'll have you know--you propose benefit ...schizophrenia research?

BC--yes, you would have to be blind...deaf, dumb, and devoid of all olfactory sensation.

Eric--The Peterson thing is brilliant.

McGoo--Would that Obama were actually a charity case.

LC Aggie Sith said...

At first it was ok, but then it became about the person and not the cause. So, fuck it.

How about Nipple Tweaks for breast Cancer Awareness? I'm thinking of y'all ;)

Critter said...

Hully Shite! Brilliant!