Street beggers.

[Guest alex]

if you could get away with it, would you kick a homeless person while they slept?

Serious answer is no btw.

 

 

yeah... me neither...

 

p.s. you only hate students because you wish your life was as frivilous as theirs

I don't even hate them. I don't particularly miss being one though. I hated it half the time. My mam used to say 'You can jack it in when I win the lottery'

[Guest alex]

if you could get away with it, would you kick a homeless person while they slept?

Serious answer is no btw.

 

 

yeah... me neither...

 

p.s. you only hate students because you wish your life was as frivilous as theirs

 

Or just his hair for that matter.

Shut your mackem mouth

[Walliver 0]

Me mam reckoned Rome was bad for the beggars when she went there with me fatha, they're certainly not shy when it comes to asking for money.

 

A couple of mates went there recently. One of the beggars offered the girl a flower which she politely declined. The beggar insisted, saying that it was free, so she took it. He then immediately turned to her boyfriend and demanded money for the flower that the girl had taken!

 

(Are they technically beggars if they're selling stuff? Does that make them honest workers?)

[Renton 21056]

Pretty much hate beggars, although I'm certainly not including buskers in that description. Big Issue sellers are beggars mind.

 

The worst ones are the charver "lost me bus fare" brigade. Absolute vile scum they are.

Next I hate big issue sellers who actively try and sell their product. Why would I want to read that shite?

Then there's the immigrant type you get in London, getting their kids to give you a card and put you on a guilt trip. Like I'm falling for that.

Then there's the type you get in Italy, these hideous pissy knickered old crones that all seem to have polio and Parkinson's disease, holding out their cup moaning. If life gets that bad, would you want to live it? Of course, 90% of the time when you're vack is turned the mysterious shaking and lumbago stops.

 

Anyway, there's no excuse for it in the UK at least. If people unanamously didn't give these people money they's soon sort themselves out and get a job like the rest of us. Or die, whatever.

[manc-mag 1]

 

 

Then there's the type you get in Italy, these hideous pissy knickered old crones that all seem to have polio and Parkinson's disease, holding out their cup moaning. If life gets that bad, would you want to live it? Of course, 90% of the time when you're vack is turned the mysterious shaking and lumbago stops.

 

 

 

Renton sweeping the streets of this vermin with his Dyson.

[Guest alex]

I can feel the love in this thread like

[manc-mag 1]

In all seriousness, the only ones who have any excuse for being on the streets begging are the ones with genuine mental health problems as theyre unable to personally avail themselves of the social security help and support which is obviously out there for them. In these cases intervention is required. This aplies equally to the drug addict as they are obviously unable to work and fund their habit, (though at the same time I doubt begging would generate suffiecient funds to fund it either so you wonder).

 

As for any young, able bodied, able minded people, well theyre just taking the piss.

[The Fish 10674]

I don't like ones who don't make an effort.

 

the ones in Rome etc. where they just kneel, head down, hands out-stretched and (like Renton says) moan like a Nun on a tumble dryer.

 

fucking do something, have a dance, sing a song tell knock knock jokes in an armenian accent, anything to warrant my giving you, the money I worked really hard to appear like I earned it.

[Meenzer 15347]

There was a fella in Hamburg with stumps for arms who used to kneel on the pavement on one of the main shopping streets and rock backwards and forwards while moaning "Geld.... Geld.... Geld...." in a whiny high-pitched voice. Terribly unfortunate, but also spectacularly hard to take seriously. Now if he'd had a fella next to him putting a techno beat underneath it, I might have been tempted to contribute.

[Park Life 71]

There was a fella in Hamburg with stumps for arms who used to kneel on the pavement on one of the main shopping streets and rock backwards and forwards while moaning "Geld.... Geld.... Geld...." in a whiny high-pitched voice. Terribly unfortunate, but also spectacularly hard to take seriously. Now if he'd had a fella next to him putting a techno beat underneath it, I might have been tempted to contribute.

 

 

 

The art of begging encapsulated in one post.

[Jill 0]

Occasionally I'll give to someone playing an instrument - usually a guitar because that makes the nicest sound.

 

Though the last begger I gave money to had told me he was going to use it to buy drugs. I admired his honesty.

[Sima 0]

I think we should have a whip-round to buy that guitar from that useless bitch that sings outside the gallowgate end and smash it in front of her

[Renton 21056]

I think we should have a whip-round to buy that guitar from that useless bitch that sings outside the gallowgate end and smash it in front of her

 

The one that was Belinda Carlisle on Stars in their Eyes?

[Sima 0]

I think we should have a whip-round to buy that guitar from that useless bitch that sings outside the gallowgate end and smash it in front of her

 

The one that was Belinda Carlisle on Stars in their Eyes?

 

Was she? Stretching the mere definition of that "show" if true.

[Jill 0]

I think we should have a whip-round to buy that guitar from that useless bitch that sings outside the gallowgate end and smash it in front of her

 

Agreed.

 

What happened to her mate who used to sing with her?

[Renton 21056]

I think we should have a whip-round to buy that guitar from that useless bitch that sings outside the gallowgate end and smash it in front of her

 

The one that was Belinda Carlisle on Stars in their Eyes?

 

Was she? Stretching the mere definition of that "show" if true.

 

Got to the semifinals iirc.

[Guest alex]

I think we should have a whip-round to buy that guitar from that useless bitch that sings outside the gallowgate end and smash it in front of her

 

Agreed.

 

What happened to her mate who used to sing with her?

Sima's gone solo now.

[Jusoda Kid 1]

Charity starts at home for me, fuck them and their dogs I say.

 

Big Issue, Bless you, nasty cold you've got there peasant

[The Fish 10674]

don't understand homeless people having dogs, if you're that poor how can you afford Kennel Club fees?

[Renton 21056]

don't understand homeless people having dogs, if you're that poor how can you afford Kennel Club fees?

 

Most have a fag hanging out their mouths too, scrounging scruffs.

[Guest alex]

don't understand homeless people having dogs, if you're that poor how can you afford Kennel Club fees?

For company maybe? Empathy not your strong point I take it?

[The Fish 10674]

don't understand homeless people having dogs, if you're that poor how can you afford Kennel Club fees?

For company maybe? Empathy not your strong point I take it?

my post may have been tongue in cheek, flappy flaps (as indicated by the Kennel Club comment)

[Guest alex]

don't understand homeless people having dogs, if you're that poor how can you afford Kennel Club fees?

For company maybe? Empathy not your strong point I take it?

my post may have been tongue in cheek, flappy flaps (as indicated by the Kennel Club comment)

So was mine. Hence the wink.

[Renton 21056]

don't understand homeless people having dogs, if you're that poor how can you afford Kennel Club fees?

For company maybe? Empathy not your strong point I take it?

my post may have been tongue in cheek, flappy flaps (as indicated by the Kennel Club comment)

So was mine. Hence the wink.

 

Some homeless people are homeless because they refuse to take accomodation that won't accept their animal. If they're that attached, fine, but don't expect any sympathy or money from me.

[Guest alex]

That was a serious comment from Renton in case anyone's wondering.