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who would like to join in with me. purchase one loaf of bread on a friday night and make some sandwiches using cheap cheese on saturday if you are going into town take the sandwiches in a back pack or other bag with you every time you pass a homeless person give him a sandwich calculations number of slices in loaf = 40 sandwiches per loaf = 20 members on board = 672 sandwiches per week = 13440 homeless people fed per year = 698,880 |
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Not wanting to sound cynical, but most homeless people in my area would prefer a beer or scotch. And they're mostly homeless because they're: a) insane, so they keep running from the institutions that try to help'em (I know, I know, but they at least feed them there) b) lazy and don't want to work (which is fine by me but I don't feel obliged to feed them) Anyway, yours is a noble idea and there ARE people who would be thankful for such a help. |
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Fuck 'em. They should get a job like the rest of us rather than basking in the sun with a bottle of cold beer all day. |
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I am not gonna touch this topic with a ten foot pole.... (thinks its too touchy) knowing how everyone is VERY touchy here...=) |
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seems that we're not that compassionate after all. Good. I hate happy endings |
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you had me going for a minute jonesy, til i saw it was you who posted it. *CLINK CLINK* |
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A loaf of bread only has like 20 slices of bread in it... |
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that's nice |
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I admit my views on the homeless are unorthodox for a Marxist but they give the working class a bad name. |
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homeless don't even belong to working class as they reject to work. Which is again fine, but why should we feed them. But there are sick, unfortunate people who only need some help and WT's idea, if a bit naive is noble at heart. |
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tsk tsk - why would a homeless person have to come from the working classes? |
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I'd imagine it would be very difficult to get back into work, as you'll need a bank account to get a job, and a job to get a bank account. Should make the fucking effort though... A lot of homeless people I see do seem very mentally unstable - I often wonder if they are deliberately trying to look totally fucked up. I work at a bar 4 nights a week (www.buffalojoes.co.uk - lol) and see tons of homeless people on my way there. Every one of them will ask for money, and I'll politely apologise for not giving any to them any. Sometimes, after saying 'sorry' (why should I be apologising?) to 6 or so homeless people, I just shake my head at any more. After doing this to one guy he gets mad at me, swearing at me etc, so I think 'what the fuck is this? Fuck you? Why should I feel obliged to give you money? Why are you making me feel guilty?' Makes me sooo fucking angry. I should say '20p isn't going change your fucking life, mate. Only you can.' But instead I walk on, grumbling angrily to myself.... |
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Well maybe not the working class. The lumpen proletariat then. How about them? |
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"...I'll politely apologise for not giving any to them any." Hahaha. |
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I was waiting outside Nottingham train station for some others to arrive and was giving leaflets about a demo against the war in London. This guy selling the Big Issue came up and started moaning that I was distracting people from buying his magazine. What a cunt! I told him in no uncertain terms to remove himself from my vicinity as he was a scar on the face of my country. |
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Nietzsche said something like "Beggars should not exist at all: if you give them something you feel guilty, if you don't again you feel guilty" But most homeless people I know actually made a choice to live that way. Not all, but most. It is another thing that most of them don't have what we'd call "right mind" but choice is choice to me. I respect free will of people we deem insane. |
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I told him in no uncertain terms to remove himself from my vicinity as he was a scar on the face of my country." Lol. I always think of great responses, then bottle out and say 'Sorry mate, I've got no change.' "Beggars should not exist at all: if you give them something you feel guilty, if you don't again you feel guilty" - Damn right. You can't win, you just feel harassed walking down the street. "I respect free will of people we deem insane." Same here, until they bug me for money and then insult me when I decline. |
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There are loads of homeless people in Nottingham. you can't walk five yards without being asked for change. I sometimes give but I can't give to everyone as I'd be out of pocket of about a tenner a week. I work in the city centre and so get asked everyday. If I gave to everyone I wouldn't be able to have caviar for tea everyday now would I? |
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Damn right!!! Socialism does not equal egelitarism: you have to work dammit!!! And he who works hard gets to eat caviar at five pm every day |
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Did I forget to mention that I will be adding laxitaves or rat poison to each sandwich. oooooh arent I evil. Ochre, You still making music ? teeth |
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In all honesty i believe we should throw the royals out of Buckingham Palace and live their ourselves. The homeless can have our houses then. |
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WT, you are a nasty basterd. Why not just shoot them, why this evil game? |
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The Queen Mother had 50 servants. I bet you I am busier than she was, I have no servants. I suppose I do not wear hats, legend has it that is takes 50 people to place the hat on each of the royal families heads. The reason for this is that each royal family member has legs made from steel (this is one defect due to the inbreeding). Therefore they are able to wear hats made from very heavy material. To keep thier friends in high places (the osmand family) happy, they wear hats made from Osmium. Osmium being the heaviest of the elements, named Osmium as it was first found inside Donny Osmand's kidney when he was rushed to hospital as a child. They now have little Donny strapped to a chair inside a volcano, with pipes extracting the Osmium from his kidneys. |
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Yeah, I'm still making music (not that anyone would know, looking at my website until recently.) I'm making an album for Surgery Records, hopefully for release in the summer. I'm also contributing a couple of tracks to Toytronic's next comp, which is cool, but I don't know anything about this release yet. It's a bit hush hush. My CPU cooler's made from Osmium, as it has very good heat conductivity. Expensive though, although I hear prices should come down with the imminent opening of The European Donny Osmond Cloning Facility. |
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after summer do you fancy having a live music night at the art centre, there is someone on here called manic miner, he makes music. all three of us could play a live set |
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I just love your outlook on life Jonesy, you really do make me smile! I really admire people who speak there mind - besides I tend to agree with you! (Shhhhh don't tell anyone else though!!) I'd like to know what you think of Meho's idea of shooting them all! I can imagine your response!! :) |
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just give a poor bastard a fucking sandwich! no matter what circumstnces, you never know what could happen and i'm sure if anything did happen to you, you'd like a free fucking sandwich! so drop all the political bullshit and put a fucking smile on a stranger's face who's been having some bad luck. it's simple so keepit that way! |
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hey meho- do you know how hard it is for homeless people to get a job?! Once your there its hard, very fuckin hard to get back into normal society, getting a job and such. Most homeless people become homeless when they are children. Without an education its nearly impossible for them to get a job, so please stop talking out of your ass. |
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and even if you don't think it's right you could at least give him a sandwich with rat poison in it that way at least he thinks you're being nice.....which depending on how you look at it, that just as very well maybe true to some extent of a certain degree. |
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It's like that saying in the Bible though isn't it? Give a man a fish, and feed him- yet teach him how to fish, and he can feed himself. Hell - what do I know, I'm not even a religous person. But then again I don't want to argue about this with anyone! |
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To clear up a few common misconceptions about the homeless: - "All homeless are insane/mentally unstable" - not true. many aren't. Drug abuse is the most likely reason people think this. - "All homeless refuse to work" - not true. Many attempt to get jobs but are turned away because of a lack of personal information - it's hard to get a job when you don't have a home address or , like Chris said, a bank account. -"All homeless are unemployed" - not true, many are employed at minimum wage jobs, but don't make enough money to pay for food, rent, and other expenses. A lack of education, experience, and job skills causes this problem. - "They should go to shelters" - Shelters are nice, but are also comptetive. People don't realize that there are often requirements to stay in shelters. Some homeless people are turned away because it's discovered by the management that there is a long lost aunt (or some other family member) with whom they could theoretically stay, even if that is impossible for family/social reasons. just some things to think about. |
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Jonesy, I thought homeless people were just archetypal working class communists, living off other people's work. ;) Seriously, I think this is a really good idea. I remeber getting really pissed off when the restaurant that I worked at stopped giving away leftovers to homeless people. |
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I don't get how people can hate homeless people or go around beating them up, it's not like anyone intends to turn out that way. One day it may be you who breaks under the strain and ends up homeless. |
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You are nearly a wizard Ceri! Post a few more times....and take your place amoung the 'elite' ! ! :) |
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I don't hate homeless people - like a great deal of people I probably just ignore them, and hope they'll go away! Granted, Jonsey would've used a lot more colourful metaphors! |
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I admit it can be annoying when they interrupt you mid-conversation. I'm far more inclined to give to parisian beggars who just sit there quietly. |
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If they're just sat there, they're not beggars 'cos they're not begging! They are tramps! |
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At least beggars have the initiative to ask for money or food. Tramps just sit there wallowing in self-pity! |
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now we know how you became a wizard so quickly, jedi chris. |
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Jealousy is a horrible thing! ;) |
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So is spamming.... |
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HA-HA! |
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You can all go to hell! |
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I'll grass you up to Phob and he'll reset your points to zero ;p |
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yeah, me too! HA-HA! |
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That sounds like a threat to me ;) |
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I don't FEED homeless people... I EAT homeless people!!! Mostly families that just had their home destroyed in a fire, that kind of homeless people... at least they're fairly clean. The bearded ones taste gross, like leather or something. Gah! |
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jk, i'm not a narc. i could do it anyways tho and just say it was Ceri JC! HA-HA! |
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Stop spamming EVOL - try sticking to the topic :P :) |
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HA-HA! |
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