Silver foil

James Wilkinson Sword · 2017-11-08T00:19:33+00:00

Was silver foil ever made of silver, or does it just refer to the colour?

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Janet 8 years ago

My youngest son runs marathons because he likes long-distance running and can raise sponsor donations to support charities while promoting public awareness of the work they do. His next one is the Boston marathon.

His most recent London marathon run (April) raised 4,000 pounds for Guide dogs for the Blind. Since then he's done a half-marathon, a one- mile inter-island open sea swim, a triathlon and a mountain night hike. He loves the physical and mental challenge; the side benefit is publicity and fundraising for charities.

Janet.

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James Wilkinson Sword 8 years ago

I do running too, but not for charity. The people who sponsored your son would probably have donated to charity anyway. Why should the two be linked?

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James Wilkinson Sword 8 years ago

Ok, burying is maybe a bad idea, but hidden somewhere. I certainly wouldn't be giving my personal property for free to the government.

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Richard Heathfield 8 years ago

It may seem absurd to you, but it is undeniably effective.

In fact, it's triply effective:

1) by publicising a charity event of a particular type (it might be a fun run, or a tiddlywinks competition, or a bungee jump, or whatever), you attract people who are already interested in that sort of activity, and they become de facto champions for your charity, at least for a short while. Without the event, that wouldn't have happened. 2) Those people approach their families, friends, and colleagues to seek sponsorship. It is entirely possible that those people might not even have heard of the charity and thus would not have given money to it even if they thought the cause worthwhile. But now they /will/ hear of it, and some of them /will/ give money. 3) You get press publicity both before and after the event.

Yes, in an ideal world we could do without the head-shaving or the pogo-stick jumping or whatever, and just give the money directly. But then, in an ideal world, we wouldn't need charities at all!

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James Wilkinson Sword 8 years ago

Not how I do things. If I hear of an event that sounds fun, I'll join in or spectate. Just because it's for charity won't make me more likely to go. I won't watch something uninteresting because it's for charity. And I won't donate to someone else's choice of charity just because they jump off a building. I donate the amount I want when I want to the charity I feel is most deserving. anyone who does otherwise isn't helping the people they feel are most needy.

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James Wilkinson Sword 8 years ago

Sounds flammable.

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grabber 8 years ago

I think that's an overstatement, and what actually happened was that more iron was donated than could be processed. Since the propaganda value of the donation stories was worthwhile (and an admission that the steel and munitions industries couldn't keep up might have looked bad), no steps were taken to discourage the over-donation.

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Max Demian 8 years ago

So is celebrity endorsement as an advertising method, but that doesn't make it any less absurd.

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TekkieÃÂ® 8 years ago

James Wilkinson Sword posted for all of us...

aluminum foil?

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T 8 years ago

We have Tin Foil and Aluminum Foil. Both make great hats!

Maybe it is a UK slang thing.

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James Wilkinson Sword 8 years ago

On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 21:40:22 -0000, Tekkie=AE wrote= :

Aluminium.

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Whiskers 8 years ago

Which is rather surprising, as silver is known to be antibiotic and is used in medical devices for that reason.

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James Wilkinson Sword 8 years ago

Antibiotics aren't toxic to humans or doctors wouldn't give them to sick= people.

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