Fair play for the apology.
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How do you say no to Brighton beggars?
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Fair play for the apology.
I never have a problem in admitting a wrong doing, or if I have made a quote that was said from the heart and not the head in retracting those comments.
Thanks for the plug [MENTION=28934]AmexRuislip[/MENTION]!
Tempest are a great brewery - very 'craft' with some pretty extreme beers, but also some more mainstream as well. OX184 is a great venue too - in fact we're doing a mini tap-takeover and meet the brewer event there a week on Thursday if you happen to be around then.
I don't make eye contact but I do take a gander at their footwear. Amazing the number I spot wearing harry spankers Nike trainers! It's impossible to separate the genuinely homeless from the scammers.
Give them your hard earned and are they going to use it to find a bed for the night or are they going to blow it on drink & drugs? Hmmmmm
There are plenty of registered charities that you can donate to if you want to help out the genuinely homeless.
Give them your hard earned and are they going to use it to find a bed for the night or are they going to blow it on drink & drugs? Hmmmmm
There are plenty of registered charities that you can donate to if you want to help out the genuinely homeless.
As for the chuggers, I find just glaring at them acts as a deterrent.
If that doesn't work I say I will consider it if they tell me:-
1) What their CEO's remuneration package was last year
2) What % of the charity's income is spent on "administration costs"
In the unlikely event that they are able to answer, you will be so pissed off at the amount of money that isn't actually going to those in need that you will tell them where to shove it anyway!
I like to support small local charities where you can see where the money is being spent rather than the large charities that employ the numpties to accost folk on the streets going about their daily business.
If that doesn't work I say I will consider it if they tell me:-
1) What their CEO's remuneration package was last year
2) What % of the charity's income is spent on "administration costs"
In the unlikely event that they are able to answer, you will be so pissed off at the amount of money that isn't actually going to those in need that you will tell them where to shove it anyway!
I like to support small local charities where you can see where the money is being spent rather than the large charities that employ the numpties to accost folk on the streets going about their daily business.
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'Get back to Brighton,we've got enough beggars of our own'
100% this. It's also far too reductive of people to suggest it was always drink/drugs that first got them in that situation.
No one wakes up one morning from a regular life and goes "right, I'm going to **** my life right up through drink and drugs, and go on a spiral that ends in me being likely suicidal." The drink and drugs usually turn up halfway down the spiral as a coping mechanism. They themselves aren't really the true reason that barely anyone is homeless.