Quote by bailiffs
he gets on my tits because you can hear him shouting for miles im sorry but someone getting on your tits doesnt mean you dont respect them and what they do alot of people get on my tits like my mum sometimes doesnt mean i dont respect her
Perhaps if he has to shout to increase his sales and aford his rehabilitation into society its a small price for you to pay having to listen to him?
Would you rather he sat on his ass all day wainting for the benefit fairy to arrive?
Have you everr thought he might manage to get on to someone elses computer and see your remarks and he would feel, when all hes trying to do is beter himself?
so what if he got onto someones computer? personally i couldnt give a flying make out they have no choice they are homeless, everyone has a choice!!!!!!! and to be quite thruthfulli couldnt give a fuck if he sat on his arse waiting for the benefit fairy to arrive im sure him being on benefit's isnt going to effect the state of the union much!!!. plus he's doing the same thing!! he's still scrounging off people, however you look at!!!!!.
im not a heartless bitch u know u just over reacting!!! and being out of order!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you baliffs, i love it when people come on here and show their true colours.
Maybe one day when your down and need help you will remember what you have said above.(doubt it though!!)
As foir scrounging, i think if you had ever read the issue you would know that is not so but maybe it gooes over your head??
For me , one of the most moving posts that i have ever read on here is from Riff Raff and was posted just before Christmas last year on a thread i started on the Big Issue. i have copied and pasted it below because it is such a wonderful post and i doubt anyone with a heart can read it and the say they selling the Big Issue is scrounging.
Riff Raff Wrote
For a lot of people it is not a matter of choice.
I was homeless for the best part of ten years. It most certainly was not a lifestyle choice.
For only a relatively short period of that time was I actually street homeless i.e. living in doorways in Charing Cross in sub-zero temperatures.
Most of the time was spent squatting in derelict buildings, no water, no heat, no light, no furniture, etc etc
And there is the other sort of homelessness that I have experienced but which doesn't grab the headlines............sharing dormitories in overcrowded hostels run by exploitative landlords as so accurately described above by Neilinleeds. If Dickens were about today, etc.
People find themselves homeless for all manner of reasons...........abusive families, relationship breakdown, armed forces cutbacks, alcoholism, addiction, physical and mental problems, etc.
Similarly, homeless people come from diverse backgrounds.
I loathe the uninformed generalisations that are applied to the homeless.
I detest the lazy stereotyping of homeless people.
I equally abhor simplistic analysis and proposed solutions.
Try getting a job when you have no fixed abode.
Try holding on to documents that might help you get a job when you have nowhere safe to keep them.
Try keeping your body clean or your clothes laundered when you are living in a doorway.
Try to exude confidence and self-esteem in a job application or at an interview when you know you've just come from an abandoned, filthy, rat-infested building.
Before people propose their facile remedies they might like to find out what it really is like to live in grinding poverty without a roof over thier head. And I don't mean these publicity stunts that are favoured by MPs where they spend a week in a hostel. They still have well-shod feet and fine threads on their backs. They don't carry out their little social experiments long enough for holes to appear in their shoes. And they have the knowledge that their adventure will only last for seven days. I doubt if they'd be so bouyant if they had to endure those conditions day after day, month after month with no end in sight. That is spirit-crushing. Try "a few common sense rules...washing " when you are subsisting at that that level of despair, Mr I-had-to-work-bluddy-hard-to-get-where-I am-today.
There is no doubt that many BI sellers have substance misuse problems.
Just as many do not. So what. There are many actors and musicians who openly flaunt their drug-using. Am I to boycott their films and records ? But for the libel laws I would name several major retail brands that are headed by people with cocaine problems. Am I to eschew these products also?
I did not get out of my longterm homelessness predicament because I "took reponsibility for myself" or "obeyed a few commonsense rules."
I was fortunate enough to get help at a time and in circumstances where I was able to accept it. The context was important. Without going into detail, there were many times when I would not have been able to accept help even it was there. Alas, for many people the help is never available.
I am most grateful for the help I got.
It was a modest start and the timing was crucial.
I was offered a place at a half-way house from the street to what would eventually become a bedsit tenancy. Neither the half-way nor the bedsit could be described as palaces. From this base I got a place in college. And I decided to give back to society by being of use to those who were still living in circumstances like those I had recently left. That was seventeen years ago. I customised my degree to equip myself for working with the homeless and the addicted. And I'm bloody good at my job. Not so much because of my academic qualifications (though they are excellent too) but because of my experience.
Another way that i try to serve people who find themselves in situations similar to thos e that I came from is by challenging the ignorance and prejudice that many people show when discussing this issue. That's why I've taken more time in my contribution to this thread than I possibly have done for any other SH topic to date.
There is not a day goes by that I do not recall exactly where I came from.
And feel grateful for what I've got today. I am not a rich man in material trerms. I've got a modest little home now, a few possessions, nice wheels, etc. And that's about it materially. No big deal. What matters far more is the dignity that I've now got that was a million miles away and seemingly unattainable while I was homeless. That is priceless.
And I fight hard to maintain that self-respect. It's a precious and fragile commodidity for someone with my experience. There were plenty of people who tried to erode it a score or more years ago with their judgemental attitudes.
I have no more time for these people now than I had then.
I would rather spend time chatting with a BI vendor than hobnobbing with the "get a job and and get your together" crew.
And I do.
Don't be so hasty to judge people until you have walked at least a mile in their shoes.
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