Homeless people

I've been on that side myself whn i was about 20, so i can speak from experience, i have done something about i and i've got out of it and have a good job, own house, nice car and a wonderful family, that's not to say it's easy, i just got lucky i suppose, i got myself a housing association house in a rough area of Manchester and from having a base address got my life together. When i was homeless though, i would never beg, i didn't think it was moral, but i don't disagree with it, i wouldn't give a beggar money though, i'd happily go and buy them some food / a hot drink though, and have done before. The big issue is readily available for them to sell :)
 
Most of the homeless ive come in contact with have been extremely aggressive and abusive and i have no problem when i feel no sympathy for those people..

The respectful ones always make me feel bad..The worst was seeing an old lady bowing down on the subway steps...She was there on hands and knees, forehead on the floor, for hours..

Always makes me imagine their situations...and what led them to that.
 
Yamahahahahaha said:
There are free hostels and outreach programs to get people off the streets.

I have zero sympathy.

Most of them are junkies, especially the ones who go up and down on the trains talking about needing to raise money for 'a bite to eat'. I'd never heard that euphamism for heroin before.
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Are you really that narrow minded? I'm not advocating taking drugs but really it isn't that simple.
 
I always feel bad for homeless people. However, I was guilty of neglecting them last weekend in Holborn. I had been meeting my uni pals for a beers up, and we over-ordered before closing. Naturally, everyone left clutching their pint glasses. 20m down the road was a homeless man, and everyone duly donated their beersies. Sadly, I refused to donate until a guard at the tube station told me to ditch the pints. I went back and offered them to the tramp, feeling guilty for refusing the first time. He must have had a fantastic evening...
 
What Feek said. Been there myself, so I am more sympathetic towards their plight than most.

Yamahahahahaha said:
There are free hostels and outreach programs to get people off the streets.

I have zero sympathy.

Most of them are junkies, especially the ones who go up and down on the trains talking about needing to raise money for 'a bite to eat'. I'd never heard that euphamism for heroin before.
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Given that there are 1 million people in temporary housing in the UK, and that hostels are stretching to breaking point with long waiting lists, I disagree. But I suppose it is easier to say this as someone who has experienced homelessness.
 
wez130 said:
I wouldn't give a beggar money though, i'd happily go and buy them some food / a hot drink though, and have done before. The big issue is readily available for them to sell :)
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This

I try to guy a burger or drink from burgerking for someone homeless whenever I get something for myself. Its costs me an extra £2 maybe? hardly a big deal is it.

I think its all to easy to slip off the ladder. I drink and did a fair amount of drugs at uni but I have the intellect and motivation to know when i have had enough, its easy to see how some might not.
 
Azagoth said:
There used to be a guy in Hanley who sat there outside of the Boots store all wrapped up in his grotty little blanket and with the prerequisite mangy looking dog curled up next to him. He used to sit there all day with his little sign proclaiming how he was grateful for any spare change that you could throw his way.

What the people who took pity on this poor dishevelled guy didn't see was when he'd done he used to get up and stroll up the road, across the dual carriageway, by the Route 66 guitar shop, and into his car where he peeled off the layers of blankets and proceeded to drive off without a care in the World.
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To the short stay parking?

Pull the other one...
 
Completely OT, but feek, why do you insist on using that font? It's really hard to read on an iPhone without zooming in! Can you not just use the normal one that everyone else does? What is the idea behind doing it?
 
wez130 said:
I've been on that side myself whn i was about 20, so i can speak from experience, i have done something about i and i've got out of it and have a good job, own house, nice car and a wonderful family, that's not to say it's easy, i just got lucky i suppose, i got myself a housing association house in a rough area of Manchester and from having a base address got my life together. When i was homeless though, i would never beg, i didn't think it was moral, but i don't disagree with it, i wouldn't give a beggar money though, i'd happily go and buy them some food / a hot drink though, and have done before. The big issue is readily available for them to sell :)
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Great example, must have been hell and so easy to turn to drink and drugs.
 
aix0 said:
To the short stay parking?

Pull the other one...
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The Car Park by the old Route 66 is not short stay parking.
I've also seen them walk around the corner and get their mobile phones out.

My sister is the manager of the Festival Park Morrisons and every time she sees a homeless person begging outside she offers them a job.
Not once has one taken her up.
 
Some years ago, I came accorss a homeless woman in York who sat on the street playing a child like toy flute to try and get some money.

I was drawn to her and anyway, to cut the story short, I taught her how to play a flute properly and only last year she played at the Royal Albert Hall for a charity event.

The best things always come to those who try.
 
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