The Homeless.

brinny · Sep 5, 2015

quatona said:
There´s some kind of anniversary coming up, isn´t there? But maybe I was reading too much into it?
Doesn´t really matter, though, I think. Most towns have and want to have visitors all the time, anyway.
That´s why in many towns here there is a ban for the homeless (and other such human nuisances) around the central station.

I guess nobody wants the thought "This could be me" to creep in. It´s "them".
Hey, in my early twenties I lived among the homeless for a couple of years.

Aaah, ok, yes, the town getting visitors/tourists...thanks for the clarification....

Yes, the "them" factor....not realizing that any of us could be the "them" ourselves....and that the definition of "them" could change at any time

it's perhaps the antithesis to "we"

Maybe "we" is too threatening or dangerous?

i dunno....

seekingsolace · Sep 5, 2015

quatona said:
Everybody´s gonna get wasted, they wil urinate where they want to, and there´ll be vomit in every corner. But, alas, that´s us (the actually orderly, proper, hard working people who have earned our right to a bit of entertainment), and not them lazy failures.

quatona said:
Hey, in my early twenties I lived among the homeless for a couple of years.

Maybe I am misreading your post but to me that claim is out of order. I would expect understanding if you had experienced it and also knowledge that the homeless are not all 'lazy failures'.

quatona · Sep 5, 2015

seekingsolace said:
Maybe I am misreading your post but to me that claim is out of order. I would expect understanding if you had experienced it and also knowledge that the homeless are not all 'lazy failures'.

Sorry for being misleading. I felt it was obvious that this wasn´t my own sentiment.
I meant to describe the attitude leading towards those means and methods of dealing with the homeless.

seekingsolace · Sep 5, 2015

quatona said:
Sorry for being misleading. I felt it was obvious that this wasn´t my own sentiment.
I meant to describe the attitude leading towards those means and methods of dealing with the homeless.

Not to worry then. I did re-read your post several times as I wasn't entirely sure of the intent; easy to get mixed up over wording, sorry about that.

Brinny told someone she hated them the other day for lack of a comma

brinny · Sep 5, 2015

quatona · Sep 5, 2015

seekingsolace said:
Not to worry then. I did re-read your post several times as I wasn't entirely sure of the intent; easy to get mixed up over wording, sorry about that.

Not your fault.
To be entirely clear: It has always been my conviction, that the quality of a society can be told by the way it deals with the weakest, the most unfortunate, the outsiders...

Brinny told someone she hated them the other day for lack of a comma

That´s not the brinny I´ve come to know.

brinny · Sep 5, 2015

LOL! That must've been the "other" brinny...wonder how she shnuck back in here? i thought i banned her to the nether regions of never never land

brinny · Sep 5, 2015

The Daily Show on homelessness

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/08/daily-show-homelessness_n_6437644.html

Poor Beggar · Sep 5, 2015

brinny said:
(wasn't sure where to put this)

Are the homeless criminals?

Just respond with what first comes to mind after you read the question.

Thanks.

This conversation has potential to prove an awesome point. If laws are stupid, are people really criminals for breaking them?
Cities think homeless are unsightly so they make laws that essentially make them illegal. But they don't go anywhere!

Poor Beggar · Sep 5, 2015

brinny said:
I wasn't aware that laws were actually created with the intent to cause the homeless to break those laws....

Oh yes! That way they'll go away.
To where!

Hetta · Sep 5, 2015

It is criminal that some people are without homes, yes.

Poor Beggar · Sep 5, 2015

brinny said:
The Daily Show on homelessness

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/08/daily-show-homelessness_n_6437644.html

That's the Huffington. You can't use that. It's not really a thing. ^_^

brinny · Sep 5, 2015

Poor Beggar said:
This conversation has potential to prove an awesome point. If laws are stupid, are people really criminals for breaking them?
Cities think homeless are unsightly so they make laws that essentially make them illegal. But they don't go anywhere!

I hadn't thought of that......

the laws or the homeless don't go anywhere? LOL

brinny · Sep 5, 2015

Poor Beggar said:
Oh yes! That way they'll go away.
To where!

Yes, where? That's a bit scary, though, isn't it? Many of our vets are homeless, tragically.....

brinny · Sep 5, 2015

Hetta said:
It is criminal that some people are without homes, yes.

I agree, Yes, and it's almost criminal how many became homeless....

Tigger45 · Sep 5, 2015

Tigger45 said:
I know places if not most that create laws that cause homeless to break those laws by just trying to exist. Like sleeping on the beach or city parks.

brinny said:
I wasn't aware that laws were actually created with the intent to cause the homeless to break those laws....

brinny said:

Now we're on the same page.

brinny · Sep 5, 2015

Poor Beggar said:
That's the Huffington. You can't use that. It's not really a thing.

There's a video in there from The Daily Show where Jon Stewart speaks on homelessness

brinny · Sep 5, 2015

Tigger45 said:
Now we're on the same page.

How sad that laws would actually be created to ensure that the homeless unintentionally break them.....

Poor Beggar · Sep 5, 2015

brinny said:

Or....I can use the law to get arrested and not have to deal with the heroin at the homeless shelter. That's what they do. Get arrested and now you're not homeless. I don't know what the solution is, but these laws sure ain't it. Out here in the desert, people just camp in the giant mesquite fields behind stores. We have huge tracts of undeveloped lsnd. Pretty awesome place to be homeless!

brinny · Sep 5, 2015

Poor Beggar said:
Or....I can use the law to get arrested and not have to deal with the heroin at the homeless shelter. That's what they do. Get arrested and now you're not homeless. I don't know what the solution is, but these laws sure ain't it. Out here in the desert, people just camp in the giant mesquite fields behind stores. We have huge tracts of undeveloped lsnd. Pretty awesome place to be homeless!

I can use the law to get arrested and not have to deal with the heroin at the homeless shelter

Sounds like a survival skill.

I don't know what the solution is, but these laws sure ain't it.

No, they're not.

The Homeless.

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