Is that actually true though? are you saying we can't emphatise with rape victims or domestic abuse or a child who has been abused because it is not our lived experience?

so you don't think Kate has raised awarenness?

If just 10,000 people gave £200 today to a foodbank then in one day

then 2 million pounds would have been raised

and all stemming from the generosity of the Princess Kate

Now that really is compassion in Action

:love:

I believe it to be true. I can't empathise with a rape victim because i haven't experienced it. I can sympathise and feel truly sorry for what they been through but I have no idea real understanding of how that would make you feel

Doesn't mean I'm a bad person - but hand on heart I can't look at them and say "I know what you're going through" because I don't. I can say - "I'm sorry for what you are going through" - empathy / sympathy

Just my opinion

This thread is nuts.

“How dare anyone who hasn't lived a dirt poor background show concern and support for those in poverty!” The patronising feckers!

Imo, as long as the person is doing it for the right reasons, are genuine and not doing it to seek attention and boost their own profile, then to me the extra injection of help and support a prominent and admired person brings to the charities coffers is a great thing.

I guess some would rather the charities lost out though! Listen to yourselves!

You don't have to totally feel it to give up your time to visit and help out a charity or click on a donation button. You just have to care.

We will have to agree to disagree on that one, I can imagine what it is like to win the lottery for instance I don't need to have won to know how it would make me feel :laugh:

Yeah I thought that was the case, thanks Rusti

Yep, I believe that Kate's mother came from a family of miners and builders. Her parents worked very hard to build their successful business.

Awareness of what? That poor people need food? Poor people exist? If you read those comments after the article you'll see people are very much aware!

Not one person has said either of those comments. That is just literally putting words into people's mouths on this thread.

Do you though? I honestly don't. I think it would make me happy but I don't know how that happiness will feel because I haven't ever won it :laugh:

I won €100 on a scratch card that my brother gave me for my birthday the other day (actually €108 over all but €100 on 1) I have to say it feels amazing :hee:

Again - who said you did have to feel it to donate? I am sure an awful lot of people, me included, make regular donations to charities that we feel strongly about. Don't understand your point there.

And note Rashford was conspicuous by his absence at that vital Welsh foodbank and being injured he had no excuse

:rolleyes:

I remember though Pyramid years ago on here saying she had won a significant amount of money - and she hated it. She felt it was cursed money and if she had the choice she would not have won it.

I would worry that I would feel proper paranoid if I won big - even if you keep it anonymous, I reckon if I suddenly swapped my car for a supercar and my house for a mansion people who click on :laugh: I'd be paranoid someone would try and kidnap my family or something

Obviously - talking millions there. I'd be splashing the cash if I won £100 :laugh:

He was probably at one in Manchester :fist:

I would move to Italy so no one would know the difference

https://media0.giphy.com/media/TJaGS...=200w.gif&ct=g

cheeky git he can easily afford to shop at even Waitrose

If you suddenly announce you're living in Italy now - we'll all know. :laugh:

Exactly
And until any of us are in these situations,we will never truly know .

Like we have Waitrose in Manchester :laugh:

Not in those exact words, no. :think: