Equality Golbat: “When you donate hair to Locks of Love, there is an 80% chance it will wind up in the garbage.”
I can get similar odds by literally throwing my hair at a garbage can.
Statistically, a charity that uses less than two thirds of its donation money for its central mission is in the bottom 10% of charities, in terms of efficiency and fiscal responsibility. Locks of Love uses less than one third of the hair they receive. (and I’m pretty sure they aren’t using the hair to buy TV spots.)
I should also mention that they actually don’t give people hair. They sell it. What good is a charity that doesn’t give free things to people in need? That’s not a charity. That’s a for-profit business.
Wigs for kids is also great. When I donated I went through them because they were the only group that would accept donations of just 8” (and hair that was dyed.) Either way, don’t do locks of love.
Spread the word, because people still think Locks of Love is THE hair charity, when in reality, they rather suck.
Wigs for kids is who i went with when i donated. I liked them.
Thank you people for mentioning Wigs for Kids. Got a foot of hair I’ve been waiting to donate since I found out about LoL, and been trying to find a new charity to donate it to. Now I have one.
I’ve heard this before, so I gave mine to a charity done by a local hospital in the city just to the south of me that gives 100% free wigs to kids with alopecia who can’t grow hair at all.
My 7yo daughter (who is aware of Kingsman but has only seen a few stills and posters) saw a TGC poster and asked about it. So I tried to explain Statesman to her, in a way that a non-American 7yo could understand, that Statesman are kind of like a cowboy version of Kingsman. Her eyes lit up, and she said,
“So do they get to pick a pony?”
I mean GURL
WHAT IF THEY DID
They’re in Kentucky, horse country, capital of horses! They’re in the home of the Kentucky Derby! I would totes read that fic, heeeeeeeeee!
I mean, the only way they could make more money than the bourbon business would be to run a Thoroughbred stable. There’s big money in that.
Their agent names would totally be famous horses, in that case.
I’ve been really busy lately so my blog has been 99% queued, but this is important
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is this supposed to be Captain AMERICA kneeling for the NATIONAL ANTHEM? What on earth is wrong with you people? Shouldn’t he be the LAST person to disrespect his country? One would think he would be AGAINST taking something pure and unifying and tarnishing it with divisiveness and hate for short-term political posturing.
In case you haven’t seen this, I think cap’s take on the issue is clearly stated here.
Dude. Steve has rejected being Captain America before because he was disappointed in the country’s behavior. The national anthem is a song. The flag is a piece of cloth. It is not pure. They are items. Things. Actual patriotism is not idolatry. This flag worship and demanded reverence for a piece of fucking cloth is idolatry. It is deplorable. It is not honoring soldiers or veterans. It is idolatry.
Actual patriotism says it is not only your right but your civic duty to stand up when your country has fucked up and say it has fucked up and demand it does better.
No song, not flag, no ritual of standing is worth more than human lives. They are not even close. If you’re putting them in a hierarchy and if gazing lovingly at a textile is above or even close to the lives of actual living breathing human beings, Captain America is disappointed in you. You are why he’d be Nomad again.
@gallusrostromegalus I tried searching for the chincoteague horses and vernal ponds, but was unable to find anything useful. Will you enlighten me, please?
So Chincoteauge National Wildlife Refuge contains Assateague Island, which is basically a glorified sandbar of an island off the coast of Virginia, and a really nice park* to visit if you’re not deathly afraid of ticks. The thing the area’s really famous for (besides the Moneypit) is The Chincoteague Ponies, which are these very strange feral horses that are just cute as all get-out:
To keep the population stable and healthy, all couple hundred ponies are rounded up once a year and vaccinated/some of the animals are sold off to private persons/farms (they’re insanely popular as pets and work animals becuase they’re tough lil shits). It’s a whole party. Most of the animals are names and some have celebrity status.
The WEIRD thing about these horses is that they’re pretty much turning into kelpies, minus the hand-eating thing.
There aren’t any permanent sources of fresh water on Assateague island, only Vernal Pools that exist for maybe a couple months a year. The horses live there year-round, minus the three days in roundup. They drink oceanic water, eat super-salty plants grown in said water, consume salty dirt for minerals, and regularly swim around the island to get from graze to graze. Their kidneys and internal systems have undergone some really strange rearrangements to cope with the added salt, and even though most horses can swim, the ponies are extremely comfortable in the water, to the point where if startled, their FIRST inclination is to run into deep water to avoid pursuit.
The park ranger that explained all this to me says they also seem to supplement their diets with shellfish and crabs, which given that pasture horses already snack on bugs and the occasional lizard doesn’t’ really surprise me. There are other places with feral horses on similarly small islands but those have access to fresh water and haven’t developed the Chincoteague Pony’s affinity for ocean life.
Here’s another cute fucking pony:
*The park was actually established to protect THE BIGGEST, FATTEST FUCKING SQUIRRELS I’VE EVER SEEN. They’re called Delmarva Fox Squirrels. Fatass on the left, regular fox squirrel on the right.
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