Re: Help the homeless this Christmas
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Originally Posted by
Organ Morgan.
I remember reading a report which said a third of Big Issue sellers are Romanian. I used to give the purchase price to a seller always stood outside Queen Street station until I saw him unwrapping 20 Embassy Regal. No-one and no charity has received a bean from me since so as to guarantee I don't get suckered for a second time.
I'm with you on that one!
About 12 months ago I was working on a construction project the meant I had to walk the full length of Queen street every morning on my way to work. The bottom end was like negotiating a mine field. I had occasion one moning to feck off one beggar who was walking next to an old lady touching her shoulder to shoulder constantly asking her for "95p" for a cup of coffee.
One morning I was walking from Quay Street across high street and there was a beggar I recognised walking to the cash point on the corner of Trinity street. The place was deserted and from the angle of his walk there was nowhere else he cpould possibly have been going.
When he realised I was behind him he turned round and asked me for money, "For some food for the homelss" with his visa card still in his hand.
Bet you can guess how much I gave him!
Re: Help the homeless this Christmas
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Originally Posted by
Vimto
FFS, swap places if its all so glamourous and rewarding eh? Piece of p1ss for you - you already know so much about it.
Opinions on this topic seem to be poles apart.
I'm just questioning why someone who sits outside a high end food store can be asking for help one minute and then on her mobile phone the next.
For your information the Big Issue magazine costs £3. Sellers have to pay £1.50 for each one, up front. The organisation requires £1.50 to create and print each one.
Re: Help the homeless this Christmas
Re: Help the homeless this Christmas
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Originally Posted by
Forest Green Bluebird
Opinions on this topic seem to be poles apart.
I'm just questioning why someone who sits outside a high end food store can be asking for help one minute and then on her mobile phone the next.
For your information the Big Issue magazine costs £3. Sellers have to pay £1.50 for each one, up front. The organisation requires £1.50 to create and print each one.
Sure.
But why are you so bothered about one person, and why so interested to the point of being interested in 'watching their movements' to see if they are up to something - when there is so much shit and injustice happening elsewhere?
The people begging on the streets (of which a few rare cases might not be quite what they seem, granted. - but not the vast, suffering, bereft majority) are not the ones causing the obvious rot in our society.
They are the result of it.
Re: Help the homeless this Christmas
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
Donate to the salvation army Christmas appeal
0800 028 4000
You know it makes sense
https://libcom.org/library/starvatio...salvation-army
