Rory White tries to justify chugging, stating that it is an entry job into the third sector.
But that doesn’t mean objections to “chuggers” have disappeared. Some of the most unjust and undeserved stereotypes – that street fundraisingis the second choice trade of failed actors or the first-choice source of pocket money for students in their gap year – still abound. The myth persists that being a street fundraiser is somehow not a real job.
Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. They are still a nuisance, though. Below the line a couple of people have tried to argue that the problem rests with those of us who don’t want to give and dislike being forced to say “no”. Well, yes, but that is a perfectly reasonable reaction. I don’t want to be accosted and forced to refuse – I would prefer not to be accosted at all. I should not have to justify myself – least of all to a stranger who is attempting to sell me something; for that is what this is; selling.
And, frankly, given that a large proportion of our income is stolen from us by the state and handed over to the third sector parasites, do we really need more of the buggers?
No, chugging is a blight on our High Streets and is not a proper job. And, no, I do not give to charities that use them, just as I don’t give to charities that harass me in any other manner or take money from me via the state. And, no, I don’t feel remotely guilty about it, so that trick doesn’t work, either.
My nephew tried ‘chugging’ for a while. He decided that he didn’t like the pressure on him to target those stereotyped as ‘soft sells’.
It was also remarkable how the team leader would suddenly appear when he had managed to hold someone up for a moment.
XX those of us who don’t want to give and dislike being forced to say “no”. XX
Sorry?
“No?”
The correct wording is “Fuck right off before I break your cunting nose, arsehole!”
What makes it even MORE fun, is when the do not even take THAT as a refusal.
Blood EVERYWHERE. GREAT fun.
Yes, enough so-called charities benefit from my taxes. Many once worthy charities have become proselytisers of progressive policy. (the cumulative cucumber of conservativism)? Sometimes the act of giving can be so very selfish. ” at me, this is my third chugger this month, and I’m signing up”. I much prefer quiet, understated, selfless giving.