Especially as a lot of these be-bibbed pavement-lurkers aren’t actually charitable volunteers themselves. For some causes (Poppy Appeal, Lifeboats, Salvation Army…), the people who stand outside shops rattling their tins for loose change are, but the ones armed with clipboards asking for your bank details, and then scoff and/judge as you refuse their assult, are actually being paid around £7/hour from some agency. They’re not doing it, first and foremost, out of the kidness of their heart or because the cause is personally resonant…yet they feel it to be perfectly ok for them to judge/question/guilt random people into making donations of their own.

While I’m all for spreading the word and opening people’s eyes to the bad things that do go on and do need support, I find it hard to believe that hijacking a shopping trip is the best way to do it.

Besides, I want to take the time to look into loads of different charities, decide which ones I agreed with and which ones genuinely seemed to actually give the money on to their causes instead of boosting their Directors’ salaries, and THEN donate!

OrignauxMoose just did a series along the same lines of upcycling art, definately a different style, but still very cool.

Upcycled art by OrignauxMoose: http://orignauxmoose.com/art-design/ladies-in-type-completed/

Really? Are you really sorry for being pedantic? For some reason I doubt that.

However, I do agree with my faux pas of the apostrophe and though constantly might have been an equivalent match for consistently, I am still 100% certain about the latter.

So, to answer your condescending question, yes, I still consider myself a journalist. You might find this hard to believe but journalists, just like humans, aren’t perfect.

Thank you.

You fall in to the ‘greengrocer’ apostrophe when you write 30′s instead of 30s.
Later you refer to the protagonists in Shame arguing ‘consistently’. Surely you mean constantly?

Sorry to be pedantic..but someone has to be these days.