That's fucking stupid

I don’t want to be accused of being a bully but I have noticed that BullyingUK is currently begging for more money to keep their operation going, I can only guess because the founder and CEO & only staff member, John Carnell, has just had a large bill for his iPhone.

The bit that I am trying to work out is how they are claiming to have helped 500,000 children since they started up.  A little birdie* tells me that is the number of hits on their website since they started up.  As they have replied to 8,000 emails it would seem like they have actually only helped 8,000 people since they started because a visit to a website does not always constitute actual help (especially given their history of spamming people through social media).

They have yet to comment.

EDIT (30/06/10): Let’s clarify what I actually asked eh? 500,000 is a bold claim and if it’s based on hits or page impressions or even unique visitors then I’d like to know what was done to filter out from that number the bots, the misdirected and the donors who were on the site not looking for help. As I said lower down I’ve been on your site from at least 4 different IP addresses and from multiple browsers so how do I know you’re not counting me as one of the people you’ve helped?

And really, I am sorry, John, for the cheap shots about the iPhone.

*OK, their own accounts on the charity commission website.

First there was this wikibaiting comic on XKCD:

Of course everyone went to wickedpedophile and checked to see if the page was really there, of course someone created it and subsequently the upper echelon of the wickedpedophiles deleted it because they can.

So starts the Talk page!

Favourite quote so far:

XKCD fans seriously need to get a life

A Wikipedia Editor

Jacqui Smith is finally out of the House of Commons.

Yes!

Edit: Brown too. Let us finally rejoice!

In this lovely article where Brown was overheard to call a bigoted woman a bigot, the soon to be former Chancellor said about the current former Chancellor and soon to be former PM:

“I hope people will judge him in the round. The fact we are coming out of this recession is down to him in no small part.”

Thanks for that, Darling. I hope that people also remember:

The fact we are in this recession is down to him in no small part.

From the Torygraph:

A “puerile” Foreign Office memo which has thrown the Pope’s state visit to Britain into doubt was circulated by a 23-year-old Oxford graduate who once included “drinking a lot” among his hobbies.

That would be a normal young graduate then.