Charity Wristbands C/D?

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I don't like them.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Neither do I. I prefer my charity (and others', frankly) not to be so showy.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Silly, but better than the ribbon car magnets that are this year's other big means of American self-expression.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

i have not experienced this phenomenon at all

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Also, don't they interfere with the magnetic bracelets that are all the rage this year?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

I keep thinking they must get kinda skanky after a week or so. Doesn't the rubber get all gummy?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Does this include Lance Armstrong bracelets?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Those were the first ones, yeah.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

who wears these? suburban moms? dirty hipsters? ten year olds?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

(Mancunians beware)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

WHAT wristband colours mean and the causes they support: Yellow: Lance Armstrong or supporting US troops; Blue: Anti-bullying, anti-Bush vote, tsunami relief, prostate cancer; Pink: Breast cancer; Red: Heart-disease, vote Bush, anti-tobacco, HIV; Purple: Cystic fibrosis, lupus (also orange), domestic violence; White: Jesus Loves Me, right to life; Orange: Asperger's, self-harm; Grey: Diabetes, brain cancer; Black & white: Racism in football; Green: Ecology, leukaemia, organ donor; Gold: Childhood cancer; and Black: Mourning, melanoma.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Lupus needs to figure out what it wants to be.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

Blue: Anti-bullying

WTF? and Racism in Football? Can we please be even more obscure and particular?

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

Lupus probably wants to be less itchy. So not red, then.

― C J (C J), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

I think there was a story about how kids were being bullied into giving their anti-bullying wristbands to bullys. This could be an urban legane.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

(legend, tho' I quite the word legane)

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Suggested colors for the following?

-- Think Bush is a lying jackass but not sure we should withdraw the troops just yet.

-- I'm a little afraid of Tom Cruise

-- Anti-rockism

-- Pro-crunk

-- Hollaback Girl

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Dud in most ways. Trendy, annoying, arbitrary, obvious. Classic in raising attention to an issue, but then dud in trendiness leading to a kind of competition of issues and a general overwhelming quality - charity bracelet fatigue that might wrongly be linked to fatigue re: charity itself.

I was glad to see that a friend had used her white anti-poverty ones to hold her rolled-up posters together while moving.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

Taupe: Stricter accounting regulations; Mauve: Stricter sentences for geography teachers; Chartreuse: Anti-Patchouli, Legalize Medical Catnip; Vermillion: Pro (as in professional) Blood Sports, Fathers Against Drunk Caddies, Canadian Independence Now!; Teal: Free the Otters, Organ Grinders Union; Tangerine: Liquid Suntan Awareness.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

ecru - fashion survivor, support for hummus, in favor of the Euro

― Aimless (Aimless), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Burgundy: Reality TV Participants Rights Coalition, Take Back the Hours Between 3 and 7 pm, Tigers.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Puce-pro keep the pound British, dolphin unsafe tuna, teacher's union

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

Rainbow band - defend the right to be fickle.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

I was actually just talking about these things yesterday! I hate them so much, I mean why not just take your $15 and just give it to the freaking charity instead of buying an item from them and thusly reducing the amount of money you are actually giving to the charity, cos it's not like the wristbands grow on trees you know. I mean it's nothing against the charity, do what you gotta do to get cash in but I really hate these people. A lot.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

I like the fact that they are now reduced to pink and purple scented ones that read "Hottie," sold next to the register at Walgreen's.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

The Lance Armstrong ones I guess were an OK idea, because I said "Why the fuck is everyone wearing a yellow wristband?" and then someone told me - so even though I didn't give any money to that charity (and I forget just what it is now - cancer of some kind I'd guess) I'm sure it raised awareness for some people. But then when I saw the green, white, pink, etc bands, I just thought "copycats" and didn't give a shit what they were for - so they're a huge waste of money.

The Red Cross sent one to me because I give platelets all the time... But I'm not going to wear it because they're stupid and because it's hot outside and a piece of rubber on my wrist seems like a bad idea.

Anyway, I'm more likely to give money to a cause that explains what it's going to do with that money, and less likely to give it to something that gives away shit that will go in a landfill in a year.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

Rainbow band - defend the right to be gay, surely?

― C J (C J), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

didn't give a shit what they were for - so they're a huge waste of money.

Because it's all about me. The Orange & Light Blue wristband represents that.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

When exactly did we switch over from lapel ribbons to wristbands?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

n/a, that's an excellent question. When did we switch from bumper stickers to lapel ribbons, though?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 July 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

More importantly, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO SWITCH TO NEXT!!!?

― Tech Support Droid (ForestPines), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Forehead tattoos.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

Military tattoos.

― C J (C J), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

Holographic-image implants of your charity-donation tax receipts.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Charity cockrings.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/dave225/troops.jpg

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

how can money toward cancer research be a dud. this thread is weak

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)

I thought the thread title said CHASTITY wristbands, and i thought, FINALLY a thread about Masturbands. Which I read about in Rolling Stone, and which I brought up on the Lifetime movie thread. And which nobody had heard of. But, alas, no...

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Masturbands?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Here's the article. It's pretty hilarious.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

"Your goal is sexual purity," write Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker. "You are sexually pure when no sexual gratification comes from anyone or anything but your wife." To achieve this, they argue, men must go to a kind of war. Citing Dobson, they note the "fact" that men experience a buildup of sperm demanding "release" approximately every seventy-two hours. For single men, wet dreams, if purged of sexual imagery, can act as "God's natural release valve." (Arterburn and Stoeker believe you can actually train yourself to remove the lust from such dreams.) "Your life is under a withering barrage of machine-gun sexuality that rakes the landscape mercilessly," they report. They encourage making lists of "areas of weakness." They seem particularly concerned with shorts: "nubile sweat-soaked girls in tight nylon shorts"; "female joggers in tight nylon shorts"; "young mothers in shorts, leaning over to pull children out of car seats." To avoid these temptations, men must train themselves to "bounce" their eyes off female curves. They recommend memorizing the locations of sexy billboards so that you can look away and switching your TV to ESPN or Fox News if a tempting commercial comes on the screen.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

roffle.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Why wouldn't they suggest Fox News.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

how can money toward cancer research be a dud. this thread is weak

Telephone solicitors raising money for cancer research who only give 10% of what they raise to the cause, 40% of which goes to administrative costs. There's probably a better way.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

xpost --

I'm curious what you replace the sexual imagery in wet dreams with. Surely not your parents. Or bosses. Or probably any people at all (especially not male people). But animals would seem kinda sick. Maybe just peaceful nature scenes. Babbling brooks. Waterfalls. Mighty rivers. Tsunamis!

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Geysers. The crashing of the surf on the verdant coast. Wind sweeping between swaying trees.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Or maybe you're just supposed to think of Jesus' bright smiling face. Those kind eyes. And long silken hair. And soft supple lips. Parting, ever so slightly...

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 1 July 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

Trains entering tunnels. Fireworks.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 1 July 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

I read somewhere that the Make Poverty History wristbands were made by slave labour in China.

I bought a British Heart Foundation green wristband today for a quid. It glows in the dark!

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 2 July 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

I'm so glad you you brought this up. I've been waiting for the opportunity to make this:

http://bizzybeeboutique.com/images/justgetby.jpg

It could sell.

― Stoner Guy, Saturday, 2 July 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Black: Mourning, melanoma

I read this as Black: Mourning, melodrama

― beanz (beanz), Saturday, 2 July 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I was in Cambodia a few months ago and I saw a lot of locals wearing the Lance Armstrong model. It occurred to me then that you can't get away from these things.

Has anyone seen them in Siberia? The Amazon? Antarctica?

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Saturday, 2 July 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

These things are horrible. As mentioned upthread, they're showy and trendy. And it's a little reminder of how much of the donation money DIDN'T go to the cause. ugh.

― mouse (mouse), Sunday, 3 July 2005 01:00 (twenty years ago)

I have never heard of these things.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 3 July 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

girl selling breast cancer wristbands: would you like to buy a wristband to help support breast cancer research? they're only $3.
me: no thanks but here's some money.
girl: don't you want a wristband?
me: no thanks.
girl: um...ok...

she looked confused but i didn't want to say that they're just so UGLY!

― Maria (Maria), Sunday, 3 July 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

like many others, I got a white one at glastonbury, a "make poverty history" one, I want to wear it because I enjoy glastonbury, not completely because I want a "make poverty history" wristband.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 3 July 2005 02:12 (twenty years ago)

do you want to make poverty history, though?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 3 July 2005 10:50 (twenty years ago)

It seems like a lot of them aren't even affiliated with a particular cause anymore. They're just decorative wristbands. Like the red/yellow/green ones that seem to be popular with schoolkids in my area.

― Seuss, Sunday, 3 July 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

The market in fake, for profit versions of these wristbands is huge, or at least its worth someone's while to put tens of thousands of auctions up on eBay. eg.:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=97030&item=7165752959&rd=1

― Ed (dali), Monday, 4 July 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

I have never heard of these things.

-- Trayce (spamspanke...), July 3rd, 2005. (later)

Either you are an animal that hibernates in the winter or you live in some kind of underground super-secret military facility deep underground - which is it?

― The Jaguar Who Sleeps At The Centre Of The World. (Mikey Bidness), Monday, 4 July 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

ALthough I approve, in theory, of the whole "Make Poverty History" thing, I don't wear an armband exactly because of the reasons mentioned above - they look horrible and is an extra thing to wear.I hate showing off who I do and don't suppor - it's the equivilent of a religious person brining up how saintly they are in every conversation. Unnecessary and rubbish.

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Monday, 4 July 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

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