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BTW, anyone ever seen that Star Trek DS9 episode where they go back in time to the 2020's and the homeless relocation camps?
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I saw a lot of beggars in Miami when I was there on business recently. But the whole city I found to be kind of dirty and scary so I guess it fit.
Come to think of it, when I was in New York this spring I can't remember seeing a single one. Maybe they just keep them out of sight somehow. |
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Did someone steal banyon's account?
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![]() I know exactly what you’re talking about, though I’d just assumed it was part of the “hippy” culture Lawrencions seem to embrace. ![]()
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It can be a very fine line between "hippie" and "bum". If it makes you feel any better, he is probably in a musical band of some sort.
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Anyway, I think the musical homeless/indigent are fine. They are at least trying to contribute something to society. It's these fake kids that bug me. I've been to Paris and had a 8 year old girl beg for one of the hamburgers I was eating saying "mange,...mange!" I've also seen the very humble Prague beggars who just have their faces to the ground, supplicating themselves to the public. (I gave the girl a burger by BTW). Compared to these real cases of abject, mostly unavoidable poverty, these bum kids should be ashamed of themselves. And if you're going to accost passersby for $, at least have a schtick. Like the one drunk indian guy that always asks me for bus fare to Topeka. He's been here for four years and could've walked back and forth 1000 times by now, but at least he's got a thing. These kids are probably from Overland Park, or its Chicago equivalent and got tired of working at the GAP.
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I love the fat beggars. There are two I regularly see on my way to and from the train station. And when I say fat, I mean these turds are fatter than I am.
How in the hell do you end up being a FAT beggar? ![]() Obviously they get nothing from me. Of course, neither do any of the rest of them. My wasted tax dollars should be enough. ![]()
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I have never given a beggar money before and I never will. There's no reason they can't get a job working at McDonald's or somewhere else if they need money so bad. I don't work because I like it, I work so I have money to support myself, and they should to.
You should have told that guy to go F himself, and if he gave you any back talk just kick him upside his head. I have a friend that lives in San Fran, and he says the place if filled with beggars because the weather is nice and the government is so liberal. Sidenote: Why can the government ban prostitution but not begging? |
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