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Spexxvet

03-28-2011 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 718934)

Of course it's a ruse, except for a few pros, they want cash to buy drugs or alcohol. But I feel if he/she doesn't get someone to give them cash, when the shakes get bad enough they're going to try to steal it. .

Or do something where they end up in the ER (like drinking sterno) which costs us all more than pocket change.

Trilby

03-28-2011 08:40 AM

WWJD?

infinite monkey

03-28-2011 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 718990)

WWJD?

for a klondike bar?

Spexxvet

03-28-2011 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Brianna (Post 718990)

WWJD?

At the very least, he'd change water into wine, for the winos.

Trilby

03-28-2011 09:11 AM

if someone asks for your coat, give them your cloak, as well!

(then they'll have a coat and a cloak and look stupid and greedy)

TheMercenary

03-28-2011 08:11 PM

Let's give electric koolaid to the poor. Should be interesting.

casimendocina

03-29-2011 02:40 AM

While we on the topic, any thoughts on the selling of the Big Issue by homeless people?

DanaC

03-29-2011 06:04 AM

I usually end up buying several copies of the Big Issue if I am out and about. The scheme seems to work well. I know a few people who've been helped enormously by it.

footfootfoot

03-29-2011 08:08 AM

I just read it online ;)

wolf	03-29-2011 09:57 AM

Don't feed the bears.

No money, no cigarettes, no food.

Okay, if you see the shrink first, I'll consider food.

This is a nuthouse, not a bed and breakfast.

infinite monkey

03-29-2011 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by footfootfoot (Post 719270)

I just read it online ;)

Me too. Hadn't heard of it. I looked at the history, and:

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The Big Issue was launched in 1991 by Gordon Roddick and A. John Bird in response to the growing number of rough sleepers on the streets of London. Roddick, who also co-founded The Body Shop, was inspired by a newspaper called Street News, which was sold on the streets of New York. Upon his return from America he enlisted the help of Bird, who had experience in the print trade and who had himself slept rough. The two believed that the key to solving the problem of homelessness lay in helping people to help themselves, and were therefore determined to offer a legitimate alternative to begging.

I love the term "rough sleepers." Is that a common term over there?

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Originally Posted by wolf

No money, no cigarettes, no food.

No monkey? No cigarettes? ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH. :D

wolf	03-29-2011 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 719309)

I love the term "rough sleepers." Is that a common term over there?

I know it's used in Australia ... some Aussies at the Baltimore Conference I go to remarked that they'd made friends with a fellow who was "sleeping rough" by the hotel (in February, mind you, which means it was really rough) ... and they gave him a $20. The 'Merkin's then explained as how that's not a good idea.

DanaC

03-29-2011 10:37 AM

We tend to describe them as 'homeless' rather than 'rough sleepers', but we refer to what they do as 'sleeping rough'.

casimendocina

03-29-2011 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by infinite monkey (Post 719309)

I love the term "rough sleepers." Is that a common term over there?

More as a verb (sleeping rough) rather than as a noun (rough sleepers). The term that I've heard most often is homeless.

Sheldonrs

03-29-2011 11:12 AM

My method is pretty simple. If someone asks nicely and I have it to spare, i give it. I don't care if they buy booze with it. I'd probably want to forget my situation for as long as possible too, if it were me.

I also almost always give cigarettes when asked nicely.

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