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umbroman3
from United Kingdom on 2018-06-12 19:05 [#02554024]
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How often do you give? I used to give when I was younger but now I don't. Mostly because they're high on spice. Begging is getting out of control.
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-crazone
from smashing acid over and over on 2018-06-12 19:43 [#02554025]
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Here we have community help. So I never give to the homeless: doing so will only keep them away from real durable help.
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SignedUpToLOL
from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 19:44 [#02554026]
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I don't give them anything. Too many professionals. Easter Europeans see us as fucking mugs.
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SignedUpToLOL
from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 19:45 [#02554027]
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Eastern* Eastern Europeans see us as mugs, and if anything, are more to blame for Brexit than any doddery old Daily Mail reader.
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 20:07 [#02554028]
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outside tescos is like a homeless shelter, you can tell we have a tory government. If a homeless person asked me to buy them a warm drink in the cold id consider it, usually the are looking for some change to go into bargain booze or buy spice or whatnot.
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SignedUpToLOL
from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 20:25 [#02554032]
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Being homeless is one thing. Pitching up your mattress, sitting on your arse with your legs outstretched, outside M&S, is another matter.
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SignedUpToLOL
from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 20:27 [#02554033]
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I tell you who bankroll these fucking chancers. Middle aged, middle class women. It's always the fucking same, listen to the well rehearsed sob story, hand over £20 which you can easily afford, and then have a guiltless week being fucking appalling and useless.
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belb
from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2018-06-12 20:29 [#02554034]
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every time i'm asked, cos i've actually been homeless. you lot sound like soft shite middle englanders, sorry to say
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belb
from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2018-06-12 20:34 [#02554035]
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how'd you know they're high on spice, btw? this is coming from a 30g a week smoker, when it was legal and regulated not the even dodgier shit they have now
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 20:44 [#02554037]
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the totally catatonic state gives it away, don't get me wrong I have a lot of sympathy for homeless people, its naïve to think I couldn't end up in that situation myself because of a quirk of fate.
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 20:46 [#02554038]
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seems 95% of the problem is down to inadequate mental health facilities
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SignedUpToLOL
from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 20:51 [#02554039]
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Funny you could afford that but not housing.
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belb
from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2018-06-12 21:03 [#02554041]
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the ones smoking the most spice are likely the ones with a solid tolerance, it's only those who can barely afford to smoke once a day that get smashed off it. it's not got the worst withdrawal but it does come with a tolerance. anyway the high only lasts an hour at most assuming it's similar to what i was smoking, that couple of quid we can all afford can be the difference between okish and miserable in withdrawal with nothing to eat
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belb
from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2018-06-12 21:07 [#02554042]
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it wasn't a case of affording it, there was simply nowhere available. i spent 2 1/2 years in a homeless hostel checking the listings every day
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belb
from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2018-06-12 21:08 [#02554043]
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lucky you for having a legal addiction
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 21:09 [#02554044]
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id just rather give them something that was a necessity rather than a short term fix,
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belb
from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2018-06-12 21:14 [#02554045]
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i thought you'd only "consider it"? even then it'd just be a cup of tea, what exactly are you ummimg and ahhing over?
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 21:23 [#02554046]
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depends on how I was asked, if someone said I really need a warm drink mate its freezing of course I would.
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 21:23 [#02554047]
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If I saw someone in physical discomfort id try to help
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Indeksical
from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 21:26 [#02554048]
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If they're not lying I usually give the first one change, maybe the second too. If they're one of the liars I call them out on it and tell them to try the routine on someone else.
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 21:28 [#02554049]
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in the big cities seems they have an issue with gang controlled professional beggars, don't get them so much round here
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SignedUpToLOL
from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 21:39 [#02554050]
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Sorry, I am just saying the worst thing that comes into my mind.
What the fuck is "spice"?
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 21:44 [#02554051]
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synthetic weed
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2018-06-12 22:31 [#02554053]
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i give em some change most the time. i dont care if they are using it on drugs or anything. why would i. does the problem get solved somehow by them having no money and having to suck dick or rob people instead...dont really get it
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 22:57 [#02554054]
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its your money do what you want with it
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big
from lsg on 2018-06-12 23:02 [#02554055]
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i don't either
i hate btw that i feel guilty when i give *and* when i don't give
here they have the 'homeless paper': i do buy those from them. it's a good initiative.
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wavephace
from off the chain on 2018-06-12 23:12 [#02554058]
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there mostly crazy ppl there cuz they got rid of the loony bins cuz its inhumane to provide a persons basic needs when theyre 2 messed in the head 2 do it themselves i guess throwing ppl in2 the street is a more compassionate solution
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2018-06-12 23:28 [#02554059]
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i mean unless you think these ppl are just gonna say 'looks like i cant get any drugs today - might as well go straight now'
psychosis withdrawl + flashbacks of horrible things theyve seen and done...
eating tinned peaches in abandoned stairwell under a blanket seeing visions and vomiting...
id rather give over 50p no problem. hope he has a top day.
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AMPI MAX
from United Kingdom on 2018-06-12 23:30 [#02554060]
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sry hyperflake that was not a reply to you
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Hyperflake
from Wirral (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-12 23:46 [#02554061]
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no probs
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SignedUpToLOL
from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-13 07:26 [#02554068]
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Be honest, give most of these people a home and after day one they'd have "re-decorated" it with their own faeces, sold all the furnishings for drugs and kicked their own front door in because they also sold the key for drugs.
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DADONCK
from here on 2018-06-13 15:38 [#02554071]
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this guy is great, he was homeless and drug addicted for 20 years
LAZY_TITLE
we shouldn't forget that these are real people, some are addicted, some have mental problems, some never had a real family
of course when there is a system that helps people on the street, some people use it for their benefit. that happens with every system. and I generally think there is around 10% of asshole everywhere, in every class
to put all homeless people in one pot is plain stupid. and to just give money to people that "look" homeless is also horrible, because it puts people to their place and makes them play their role
i had to deal with the jobcenter in germany, its horrible. so, i can understand even though people can get support, it doesnt mean they are lazy parasites if they don't
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DADONCK
from here on 2018-06-13 15:52 [#02554072]
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some people* (who don't deserve it)
in every class* (or any group people)
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belb
from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2018-06-13 16:26 [#02554073]
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great link man, thanks for that
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DADONCK
from here on 2018-06-14 01:00 [#02554110]
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ure welcome
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belb
from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2018-06-14 01:20 [#02554115]
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the first vid i saw on there was that 21yo from cardiff, talking about getting macdonalds shit from people and nothing else, having no money for simple things like a toothbrush, just walking and walking all day. i managed to get in a hostel quite quick but he's been out for 3wk, probably for the first time and just gets spat on in the street, heartbreaking
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2018-06-14 05:46 [#02554135]
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i drive for uber a bunch and i see the beggars a lot. they camp out at particular intersections. i always wondered -- do they fight over those spots? take shifts?
picking up citizens, the beggars come up in conversation, on occasion. a few people in the know have marked a particular apartment complex as where a bunch of them live with their huge drug habit and from there they all crawl out and hit the streets to get money for drugs.
personally, i see it as a nuisance. i have no hate for these people. they're just part of the cityscape, really... the waltz of avoiding eye contact or whatever is reliably annoying, but whatever, let them hang out their and bum change.
however, there's one guy who walks around with his little dog on a leash trying to actively engage people in order to more effectively bum change, and he is fucking obnoxious. he can fuck off
then there are the half-back, half-latino tweens who try to bum change for the fuck of it in between checking their fones
all in all, i prefer the old black cat who hustles trying to wash windows. at least he's offering a service. i am broke as shit and i spend my change on food. i can't even afford a drug habit
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2018-06-14 20:20 [#02554189]
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i agree drugs being an amplifier for mental problems, but the equation sometimes is not drugs to poverty Dan, i never heard about a cocaine addict that ended up on the street all the time i hadnt a home, and also when i did
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DADONCK
from here on 2018-06-14 23:45 [#02554194]
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i know a cocaine addict who got a heavy psychosis and was on the street for a while. then in a mental hospital. he was a nice guy before all of that. in between he called some of my friends threatening to kill them
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2018-06-15 04:38 [#02554201]
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im more inclined to believe a version where the guy callled your friends to be helped, and went nuts because he was answered no.
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SignedUpToLOL
from Zuckuss fanfiction (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-15 10:32 [#02554202]
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mohamed @ 2018-06-15 09:23 you missed one Fuck Buddy request
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DADONCK
from here on 2018-06-15 14:51 [#02554207]
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its a long story. he never had a problem with me, i wanted to visit him in the mental hospital but he kinda escaped from there and nobody knew where he was. he had a problem with his close buddies, because they got kinda famous with what they were doing, but the didn't. he never asked for help and never talked about his problems. but, yeah. his closer friends should have helped him more, thats true
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2018-06-15 20:16 [#02554277]
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such is friendship my friend
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mohamed
from the turtle business on 2018-06-15 20:51 [#02554278]
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im against the professional beggars as well, some romas have more showy nikes than mine these days, but oppose the vision of homelessness as a fault as well. kinda like throwing stones at jesus christ while walking the golgotha.
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RussellDust
on 2018-06-16 18:13 [#02554332]
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Spice as depicted by BBC Wales. It’s like taking a picture of the visible part of an iceberg because “look, it’s so big!”.
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RussellDust
on 2018-06-16 18:13 [#02554333]
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Probably an art performance.
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belb
from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2018-06-16 18:56 [#02554376]
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i've yet to see a positive report on spice, which is pretty bogus. people wouldn't take it if it wasn't pleasurable in some way, and there's a whole slew of substances, strengths and individual tolerances at play. mind you i wouldn't go back to smoking it now, i turn into a bit of a drug pig if i have them around
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steve mcqueen
from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-22 20:40 [#02554871]
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not read that article on spice, but i presume they don't miss the part about it being basically entirely profit, for the people who sell it. Buy the chemicals from china, mix it in a cement mixer full of pot purri, sell it in wraps of last weeks newspapers to homeless people for basically inf% profit. Been going on for years, and the cops do little, and the papers say fuck all. Why don't they have a little frenzy about that stuff then?
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steve mcqueen
from caerdydd (United Kingdom) on 2018-06-22 20:42 [#02554872]
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Once again, the interesting thing is not that this goes on, but rather that it doesn't get the response one might expect.
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EpicMegatrax
from Greatest Hits on 2018-06-24 05:11 [#02554987]
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i don't know what it is but the beggars have been particularly aggressive in the last few days. multiple dudes actually waving and trying to get me to roll down the window rather than just standing there politely with their signs. it's right irritating when i'm trying to keep an eye on the traffic lights
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