Beggars, big issues etc

[jonnybastard]

I don't mind giving them my loose change, and if they spend it on drink or drugs then I've helped make their shitty lives a little bit more bearable.

[Strontium]

Spoken by somebody who obviously isnt a parent.

 

The two examples arent even connected so not sure what your point is.

 

 

The two examples are connected because these are the two groups of people who most commonly accost me in the street. And also because today's cider-guzzling delinquents are tomorrow's bagheads, of course.

[VladimirIlyich]

 

The two examples are connected because these are the two groups of people who most commonly accost me in the street. And also because today's cider-guzzling delinquents are tomorrow's bagheads, of course.

 

And you didn't try stupid stuff like that when you were a kid? Most of those kids will just end up being normal kids whereas the beggars will unlikely change at all.

[s(k)aturation]

And you didn't try stupid stuff like that when you were a kid? Most of those kids will just end up being normal kids whereas the beggars will unlikely change at all.

 

I actually didn't, comrade. I wouldn't have thought to go behind my parents' back like that.

 

Mind you, I was allowed the very occasional small-half-a-glass of wine with dinner from about the age of 11-12ish.

[SAXON]

I do exactly what you do, say no and then offer them no more in the way of explanation.

[SAXON]

There is some tramp who stands outside the Tesco on Aigburth Road at the bottom of Lark Lane who has been there at least 10 years selling the Big Issue. He says hello and lets on to every single person who walks in and out of Tesco, but I have never given him a penny let alone bought a Big Issue of him. The way I look at it, the guy obviously has problems i.e. alcoholic, and he needs to sell the Big Issue to help feed his habit. If I buy a Big Issue of him he isn't going to go home and buy food he is just going to spend it on beer.

[VladimirIlyich]

There is some tramp who stands outside the Tesco on Aigburth Road at the bottom of Lark Lane who has been there at least 10 years selling the Big Issue. He says hello and lets on to every single person who walks in and out of Tesco, but I have never given him a penny let alone bought a Big Issue of him. The way I look at it, the guy obviously has problems i.e. alcoholic, and he needs to sell the Big Issue to help feed his habit. If I buy a Big Issue of him he isn't going to go home and buy food he is just going to spend it on beer.

 

They are supposed to hand the money over to somebody else and then be given an allowance from it arent they?

 

I've bought a couple of Big Issues over the years,the first one was actually a good read but then subsequent ones were just rubbish with poor articles.

[Strontium]

And you didn't try stupid stuff like that when you were a kid? Most of those kids will just end up being normal kids whereas the beggars will unlikely change at all.

 

 

It's not about drinking alcohol, which we all did, it's the asking other people to commit a crime and buy alcohol for you. It's the "something for nothing" attitude that is the problem. I bought my own alcohol, and if I couldn't get served, I didn't get alcohol.

[lifetime fan]

It's not about drinking alcohol, which we all did, it's the asking other people to commit a crime and buy alcohol for you. It's the "something for nothing" attitude that is the problem. I bought my own alcohol, and if I couldn't get served, I didn't get alcohol.

 

 

Fake ID was it?

[jonnybastard]

Given that the government sold council houses and didn't use the money to build more, the buy to let bastards pushing house prices to unrealistic levels, rich cunts with their second homes empty for most of the year, coupled with the closure of mental hospitals, soldiers with PTS left to fend for themselves, then it's hardly suprising that so many people end up homeless. No address means no job and no benefits- you're basically fucked, that's your place now fucking stay there. What does suprise me is not the lack of understanding or compassion- it's that so many have so easily bought the government propaganda that anyone who doesn't work like a motherfucker, for whatever reason, is a worthless piece of shit who thoroughly deserves to be abandoned by society.

[VladimirIlyich]

Yeah,the same government full of people who've never had to work as a necessity in their lives advocating others flogging themselves to death just to live.

[Strontium]

Fake ID was it?

 

 

Never needed it.

[Paulie Dangerously]

Never needed it.

 

I know that feel. I've looked about 30 since I was 15. Never been IDd anywhere except the Paradox once.

[SAXON]

I know that feel. I've looked about 30 since I was 15. Never been IDd anywhere except the Paradox once.

 

The Paradox,

 

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I haven't heard that name on proper yonks!

[Paulie Dangerously]

In an uncharacteristic show of love for my fellow man I bought an extra banana and apple for the beggar on old hall street. Thought he'd be made up with a bit of breakfast in the sopping rain and thank me for my kind nature. He said he'd 'Prefer the money for them.' Now I have too much fruit and he's got nothing.

[Lee909]

Can't be that hungry then

 

I hope you have vowed some sort of revenge

[Paulie Dangerously]

Can't be that hungry then

 

I hope you have vowed some sort of revenge

 

Going to get a wad of blag tenners and burn them in his face

[Barrington Womble]

I've not read the whole thread. I often spend working days down in London. One really noticeable thing over the last 6 months is the growing numbers of homeless and the wider area they are covering. I've been working down in London on and off since the mid-90's and its got to be said the last time there was this many beggars always the last time the Tories were in power. I walked from Regent street to chancery lane a few weeks back in the middle of the day. I must have passed a homeless person a couple of time a minute as I walked. There must be 10 times the homeless there was a couple of years ago.

[Magic Sponge]

In an uncharacteristic show of love for my fellow man I bought an extra banana and apple for the beggar on old hall street. Thought he'd be made up with a bit of breakfast in the sopping rain and thank me for my kind nature. He said he'd 'Prefer the money for them.' Now I have too much fruit and he's got nothing.

 

Crack is obviously more filling than fruit.

[A Red]

Crack filling fruit

[Flying Pig]

I have one rule when deciding to buy a Big Issue. If their trainees are better than mine I ain't buying one. I have used this rule successfully for 10 years.

[Fugitive]

I once offered a tramp a butty once but got told to fuck off. Now I'm not one to hold a grudge but I love forward to cold winters in the hope it culls the lot of the smelly twats.

[TheFridge]

I'll often help out a homeless person by throwing them a few quid, sometimes buy a big issue to but have been put right off doing that since the last time i bought one when the seller said thank-you to me in an Eastern European accent, screw that.

[Fugitive]

I'll often help out a homeless person by throwing them a few quid, sometimes buy a big issue to but have been put right off doing that since the last time i bought one when the seller said thank-you to me in an Eastern European accent, screw that.

 

I hate all homeless equally but you seem to discriminate based upon where they are from.

 

You disgust me, you EDL cunt.

[Carvalho Diablo]

I suckered a few right cheeky daft little scruffs around last Bonfire Night.

 

For ages I'd had this dodgy tenner (replete with a picture of a well known sports star who just happens to be Abi Clancy's other half on it, instead of Her Maj). It was a running joke that I used to try and buy a round with it in our local after work every Friday, without any success.

 

Anyway, this particular night I walk into this wine bar to meet some mates and there are half a dozen scruffy little twats outside giving it large with the "penny for the guy" bollocks, so I walk right past them and one of the lippy little cunts gives it some verbal. At this stage I ignore the jakey scruffbag.

 

An hour later and we're booling back out and these kids accost us again, so I go, "Looker, I've only got this tenner, give me £9 and I'll give you the tenner."

 

Presto, easy money.