Leonard Hatred 3:00 Mon Jan 8
Homelessness/folk kipping in shop doorways/begging and that
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In England.
Is it really necessary?
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Leonard Hatred
3:09 Mon Jan 8
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I am in Rio de Janeiro. There's loads of people who just live on the street. They sleep on concrete pavement, scavenge for food in bins, go back to sleep in the same spot, and that's that.
FMOB
There's a vacant look about them. They're not miserable or despondent, they're just, "well, this is it for me". Blankness.
Dossers in England look at least miserable. They've got that going for them. At least being miserable is feeling SOMETHING.
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Cheezey Bell-End
3:54 Mon Jan 8
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You don't see many actual tramps any more. They used to be filthy and unkempt and usually off their face on cheap booze.
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East Auckland Hammer
3:54 Mon Jan 8
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Very clever way of earning Zoltan points Leonard.
Speaking of Rio, great place isn't it.
Have you tried acai, a caipirinha and pao do queijo yet
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lowermarshhammer
3:58 Mon Jan 8
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Good Brazil
https://youtu.be/jx9KMhX4lzo
Bad Brazil
https://www.voanews.com/amp/rio-de-janeiro-homelessness-violence/4161572.html
Find a Wetherspoons and stay safe Leonard, that place is mental. Would have loved it in my 20's, way too old for all that shit now.
As regards to homelessness in UK it is on a miniscule level compared to places like Brazil and India. Some people will always fall into, combination of misfortune, drink / drugs, and bad life choices.
Got to be easier being homeless here than in the third world. Those poor fuckers are born into it.
"I went to the place where every white face is an invitation to robbery
Sitting here in my Safe European Home
Don't wanna go back there again." strummer/jones
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Coffee
5:20 Mon Jan 8
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Leonard Hatred 3:09 Mon Jan 8
What a post. Very observant, perceptive.
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Westham67
5:47 Mon Jan 8
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The loss of all hope will lead to apathy
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Coffee
5:53 Mon Jan 8
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Or the other way round?
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sanfrancis-co-uk
6:38 Mon Jan 8
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Fucking shitload here.
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monto
8:04 Mon Jan 8
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Was stunned at how many there were, san. That and the stench of weed in the air, which is probably even worse now.
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Side of Ham
8:52 Mon Jan 8
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Hatred Monteith.
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Fifth Column
8:53 Mon Jan 8
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The place I've felt most unsafe in my life was San Francisco with the homeless, mad people on the street. Was astonished at the number there.
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13 Brentford Rd
9:06 Mon Jan 8
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Usually, drug or Alcohol abuse.
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ironsofcanada
9:10 Mon Jan 8
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Certainly have it in Oxford
And while undergrad I worked at a place which was just beyond the 2 big homeless shelters in a city of about a million. Got to know one nice lady who I got into a routine with, she would proposition me every night and I would politely decline.
So it happens in lots of places with decent "social safety nets."
Why seemingly more now that ever? Communities and families are sometimes less than they were years ago; there are more and more people? Other than that I don't have a great answer and not sure even those that try to fix these things for a living have a lot more.
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pulhampete
9:41 Mon Jan 8
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Fewer places for people to go at night.
More people being made homeless for various reasons.
I work in social housing and my wife works in adult social services, it's all fucked.
But we're all in it together.....
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Russ of the BML
10:04 Mon Jan 8
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Heard a thing on the radio that a local MP has urged the Local Authority to make sure all the homeless people in Windsor are moved on before the Prince Harry's wedding.
Said he didn't want them to show the town 'in an unsavoury light'.
Firstly, it never occured to me that a place like Windsor would have homeless people. And secondly, why didn't the MP urge the local authority to do something about the homeless people for their sake. You know, maybe pay for a shelter to be built and help them get back on their feet.
Just a thought.
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Eddie B
10:08 Mon Jan 8
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I was in Stratford upon Avon this weekend. There were loads there, and outside Chelmsford and Liverpool St train stations this morning too.
They're everywhere.
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Coffee
10:13 Mon Jan 8
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B = Bard?
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ray winstone
11:13 Mon Jan 8
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“They're everywhere”
What, like rats and pigeons?
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Eggbert Nobacon
11:14 Mon Jan 8
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homeless bloke in Rochester this morning has been scooped up by a rubbish truck
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Johnson
11:16 Mon Jan 8
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That's right ray, rats and pigeons are everywhere too.
As are trees and dogs and clouds and cars and the sun and the moon and lorries and buses.
Stick to Sesame Street you thick mug, even this site is too high brow for you.
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