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           umbroman3
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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ure welcome
 
  
         
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           belb
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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such is friendship my friend
 
  
         
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           mohamed
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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
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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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Probably an art performance.
 
  
         
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           belb
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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
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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
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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
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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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