Sleeping on the pavement
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- kidswift-
So its just got lots colder here in London with the onset of winter. I have noticed a massively increased amount of homeless people sleeping on the pavements around my day job in Bond street. These are not passed out drunks or junkies, but people that come from fucked up situations and have fallen through the gaps of life, because they are not lucky like you and me. Theres no one there to catch them. Just today I found myself transfixed staring at a sign not asking for food or for money no, this sign said please don't attack me, I am disabled..... i mean what the fuck have we let this world become?
OK so i am not here to rant about things we all see everyday in every city we wake up in. But hell what are we all doing about it? We leave these things to governments that don't seem to think helping there own people is a priortiy so don't you think we should then? Last year i volunteered at a drinkers homeless shelter for 3 days over Chrsitmas here in London. Now my family is half a world away so Xmas is no big thing when yoru away from them. So I didn't feel like i was missing out on anything but honestly it was the most rewarding and humbling experience I have ever had in my life period. If anyone is feeling sick of there attitude in life or maybe not remembering to be thankful for all the dam good things we have surronded ourselves with then maybe stop for two minutes today and talk to that guy asking for your change. Don't give them money shake there hand buy them a sandwich try and help him get to shelter or look for a job. Half these people I learnt were so happy just to have someone shake there hand and connect with them for just the briefest moment to feel that human exchange. To feel that spark that only another person gives you when they are willing to give not money but there time and understanding.
Be humble, be happy have a dam good peeps!
- mr_snuggles0
the homeless should burn other, lesser homeless, further down the food chain, for warmth....
damn, I can't feel sorry for people with no ingenuity...
fuck, get arrested then, go get a nice meal and cell and embrace the love that's in the air at your local correctional facility...
- whippits0
pffffffffft
- mr_snuggles0
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- vespa0
that's so harsh snuggles.
i know what you mean kidswift. when i first got to london i found it hard enuff just to get any old job, i still think when i see people in that situation, "there but for the grace of god go i"... if you're in a bad mental place where you also have no fixed address, haven't had a shower for weeks, who the fuck is going to employ you? dog eat dog town this.
i'd us do a gig for a homeless charity, any idea how we could go about this?
- whippits0
PppFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTTTTT
- UndoUndo0
arent charities like shelter aimed at helping ppl in this situation?
- paraselene0
that's a great idea, vespa. you must know a lot of managers at various venues right now. you could do an early or mid-december gig, seeing if you could get any places to sponsor it by giving the majority of the door take to a charity.
- vespa0
seeing as you've mentioned it, snuggles, we are doing a gig in wandsworth prison on the 8th nov.
i don't support crime at all but i do believe people who fuck up should be given the opportunity and encouragement to change for the better.
- ********0
snuggles likes it hard.
- vespa0
cool para i have to think where... do we organise it and then ask Shelter if they are interested? i guess so. would be good before xmas too.
- mr_snuggles0
vespa you are so righteous, I never knew... the world would be a much better place if there were more of you and less of me...
- kidswift-0
Def Vespa that's a dam good idea. Even if coulden't get a venue together you could even volunteer to play a gig at the Xmas drinkers shelter in Morgate where I was at last year. They get all sorts performing and seeing a high calibre band play would fuckin rock. You def get a pretty dam enthused crowd they were loving everyone playing and surprisingly the nicest drunks i have been around in ages..
If you seriously are thinking about putting on a gig at a venue to raise some cash I will help you out all i can!
- vespa0
righteous, well i don't know if you mean that as compliment or not.
i believe in doing shit rather than talking it.
how much it actually achieves can be cut down easily i'm sure but it's better than stewing in my own cynicism.
- mr_snuggles0
it is a great way to feel better about yourself...
- kidswift-0
Don't beat yourself up snuggles you can be nice and a bastard its just knowing when to be which. I generally save my hate and agro for the fuck heads out in this world that deserve my manic wrath then try and chanel the occasional nice bit of me into something good.
You can work on the door at the gig and fleece people for all they have... something tells me your sharp tonge might be put to dam fine use for this ;P
- vespa0
makes you feel better about other people as well.
maybe you should try it sometime.
- ********0
*Buys Vespa more pom poms.
A gig would be grand.
Sure there's loads of place that would give you a venue.
- soda0
good post kidswift, I get the feeling there are more people on the streets of London now than I can remember. Alot of these people have made mistakes or have just been unfortunate, you are right Vespa, you never know what fate has in store for you?
I have just started buying food for anyone who asks me for money on the street. You get the odd fuck off, but mostly it's well taken. It's only the price of a pint after all...
- ********0
I'd fear for snuggles on the door. He's only little after all.
They'd probably fleece him...
- soda0
it is a great way to feel better about yourself...
mr_snuggles
(Oct 5 06, 02:39)snuggles you bitchy cunt!
No more milk for you kitty..