Goes without saying considering the subject matter, but warning for those who need it, there’s some chat about depression and suicide ahead. I’ll try not to be too specific.
I made a text donation to the Samaritans yesterday. About half an hour later I got a call from their fundraising call centre. The chap went into his very clearly scripted spiel, using all the tricks I ever learned from call centre work (asking questions, getting me to say “yes”, using my first name loads, etc.). I figured I’d listen anyway, as I have been considering setting up a regular donation.
Unfortunately he quickly moved on to telling me suicide statistics in the UK, and telling a specific story of a man who had “lost his battle with depression” and how it affected his family, etc. I had to stop him halfway. I’m currently having difficulty with my own mental health (which he wasn’t to know) and discussion of suicide leaves me in a pretty bad way, particularly with its focus in the media this week, and having it described to me in such a pushy, sales-oriented tone made me feel really unpleasant.
Here’s my issue: I totally appreciate that the Samaritans is crying out for money, and maybe this has proven successful, but this form of fundraising goes against their own guidelines which advise against giving too much detail or providing melodramatic depictions of suicide or its aftermath. It also strikes me as uncharacteristically insensitive to contact somebody to talk to them about suicide when you have an agenda and absolutely no medical history of the person you are calling.
I’ve found it difficult to say anything about this because I don’t want to paint the Samaritans as a bad organisation – they’re brilliant. It was just really heavy-handed and I feel like they should know better, really. I emailed their admin line but didn’t get any response from them. I’m not sure if there’s anything else I can do; I just feel bad about doing nothing. Is there anybody else I could contact, or anything else I could do? Would this bother anybody else? Thanks.
Hi everyone i'll keep it short but last year, a close friend of the family was a victim of suicide at the age of 29. This rocked her family as well as my own. Late last year I embarked on a massive running challenge for the Samaritans and ended up raising £4.5k in total! I made a made of my longest run and just wanted to share and let everyone know that taboo is being broken and awareness is being raised.
Do your worst!
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
It really does, I swear!
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
When I got home, they were still there.
I won't be doing that today!
You take away their little brooms
This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
There hasn't been a post all year!
