These were all over my school for about 2 weeks, and people were selling them for upwards of £6 each...ridiculous. The hilarious thing is that the headmaster banned them because some people had been bullied for them. Was even funnier when a load of people realised that they'd ordered packs of 20 or 30 to sell and now couldn't bring them anywhere near school.
the yellow ones are actually lance armstrong the cyclist for his cancer foundation that he set up in aid of testicular cancer which he suffered quite badly from. hence why the name is livestrong, i dont agree with them being sold for stupid amounts of money on ebay, especially the ones that are being given away for free ie: blue beat bullying ones.
I have about 30 orange ones advertising Bolt. They were being used as weapons at a Reading Festival a few years back I haven't got an issue with them, it's just the same as wearing a badge/ribbon. Personal choice tbh.
The Washington Wizards for the NBA here in America wear black ones for Tsunami relief. Also in America 7-11 and other stores sell camo colored ones to benefit the military service men that have died in the war. You can even make your own now too.
i got both the blue one - bbc onelife, beat bullying (because i have a friend who killed himself due to being bullied) and the yellow one - lance armstrong cancer because im a keen biker. me and my son now use the onelife bullying band to our advantage, anytime my girlfriend (his mam) has a moan at us we shout "onelife, beat bullying" and she shuts up. works really well. edit: i also know of a lad who has made upwards of £2000 from selling these bands on ebay, but he doesnt have anybands. so there are both good and bad reasons for them
I don't see how wearing a blue wristband is meant to help bullying? Especially if no money is being made for any particular charity.
it's supposedly to raise 'awareness' i'm sure the little kids, being bullied by the big kids who want their limited edition blue wristbands, are far more aware of bullying now
tbh i dont have any idea what you guys are going on about. Ive never seen anyone wearing one Il make a note to point and laugh at anyone i see wearing one for following a trend. slater..
Doesn't really matter that much why people choose to wear them. The point is that they're buying them and raising money for charity.
That's as maybe but there are quite a number of people profiteering on the back of them. The best way to give to charity is to just donate - not to take part in a fashion fad that's become totally detached from the sentiment of the whole thing.
But most people don't care enough about charity to simply donate cash. This way the charities can take their money without requiring them to care. It's a win win situation. As for the people making profit from them. It's not the charities that lose from this, it's just the customers because at the end of the day, all the bands have been bought by the charities. Hell, the charities even sell large packs of them for this very purpose. I think it's a marvellous idea and just very lucky that it's caught on.
I'm sure there was a story in the paper the other day about a kid getting his blue band stolen at knife point in school. Ironic isn't it that the very thing designed to help stop bullying actually has become part of the problem.
