# Fundraising for disability vehicle - PLEASE READ **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 19, 2014, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227 "2014-01-19T21:57:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/61 "2014-02-13T08:45:45Z")
Ahhh, shit mate. Life’s delivering you the sourest lemons at the moment. ☹ But I’d reneg on your proposed soliloquy if I were you. I don’t care how geeky the chick, or how superb the Valentine’s dinner offerings: If you spun that spiel on me, I’d chuck your arse to the gutter as quick as look atch’a! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/62 "2014-02-13T08:48:56Z")
Yeah, you’re right–it’s probably too hardcore. You have to start with a treatise on ancient paradoxes, just to soften them up first. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/63 "2014-02-13T08:55:30Z")
> [@Lobot](#): > > Yeah, you’re right–it’s probably too hardcore. You have to start with a treatise on ancient paradoxes, just to soften them up first. Such a soppy bloke you are **Lobot** …and people complain that romance is dead? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/64 "2014-02-13T08:57:55Z")
I know. It’s a gift, really. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/65 "2014-02-13T09:05:05Z")
Desisting from aiding and abetting your pathetic attempts to woo some chick with Turing Tests and Ancient Paradoxes, what’s the upcoming conference about? ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/66 "2014-02-13T09:15:22Z")
It’s on genetics, specifically in livestock. (I’m at a university with a big agricultural focus, so I kind of fell into the animal/livestock side of things.) I’m writing a major piece of software as part of the research, which I hope to have done (in a preliminary version) by Monday, then write the paper on it, which is due near the end of the month. The pressure’s on! The stuff I’m doing will hopefully have wider implications. The crux of it is I’m trying to pretty much upgrade the model genomics is based on. ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/67 "2014-02-23T00:53:27Z")
Saw that you’d topped 16k! And that you’d cobbled the old ride back together temporarily. Time for another bump and share the link around. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2014, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/68 "2014-02-23T02:01:45Z")
Hey **Sarabellum1976** , thanks for the bump. 🙂 Honestly, it was great to get out of the house. You don’t really notice how being cooped up for five weeks straight is affecting you until you actually get out for an evening. It was just so good to be out and about again, if briefly. I can’t push it, however, because I need the van in working order for my upcoming hospital visits. But just going to the movies with my fiancee was a very nice way to restore my sanity for a bit. (We saw _Frozen_, FWIW, which helped to keep things light as well.) And yes, we keep moving forward with the total! I know we’ll get there, and it’s a very exciting thought indeed. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2014, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/69 "2014-03-16T21:13:43Z")
oops, I accidentally posted to this thread, which moved it to the top of the list… ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/70 "2014-03-17T16:29:25Z")
Ouch! Stubbed my toe on this thread someone left laying around. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/71 "2014-03-17T16:35:36Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > oops, I accidentally posted to this thread, which moved it to the top of the list… Good thing, otherwise I wouldn’t have seen it (infrequent user). ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/72 "2014-03-17T17:15:16Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > oops, I accidentally posted to this thread, which moved it to the top of the list… > [@Mikkel](#): > > Good thing, otherwise I wouldn’t have seen it (infrequent user). Same here—maybe not infrequent user, but I’d certainly missed this the first time around. I’m also amused that it was someone with a username so similar to the OPs who bumped it. _I’m not_\* Lobot\*\*! I’m…er… **BObot**. Right then.\* ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/73 "2014-03-17T20:08:14Z")
Thanks for the bump, guys. The update is that… nothing’s really changed. Things have petered out and I’m waiting for a venue to be organised for the trivia night/fundraiser. Hopefully I’ll have the new vehicle for my wedding in September! ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/74 "2014-03-17T21:37:26Z")
New donation! Yay! ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/75 "2014-03-28T06:00:12Z")
Now lest we forget that **Lobot** needs new wheels folks. Keep the shares, thoughts and donations happening. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sarabellum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sarabellum/32/3492_2.png) [@Sarabellum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sarabellum)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/76 "2014-04-01T16:55:04Z")
Looks like there was another uptick in the donations for a bit, but it’s cooled off now. Still, pushing 18k. Pretty cool to see things are still moving along. Did you do some sort of trivia fundraiser to raise awareness again? ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/77 "2014-04-01T20:27:28Z")
Nope, not yet. I posted an update due to arranging for some quotes–that was enough to get it back on people’s radars momentarily. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/78 "2014-04-01T20:39:15Z")
FWIW, I should have all the necessary quotes lined up in the next week or two, which will then allow me to approach a local club as a venue for the trivia night. So a boost may be just around the corner! Thanks again for your interest and support, guys. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/79 "2014-04-01T20:51:51Z")
Dion, a lot of people use the [snopes.com](http://snopes.com) site to check the veracity of donation websites. I’d like to suggest you contact them with information verifying all your details-- whatever they ask for-- because eventually someone is going to send them a link to your site, if it hasn’t happened already, and they will have the info to say that the site is real. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227/80 "2014-04-01T21:05:26Z")
Thanks for the heads-up. I’ve contacted them, so we’ll see what happens. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fundraising-for-disability-vehicle-please-read/679227.md?page=5)