04-07-2021, 12:52 PM
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Originally Posted by OldGreyFox
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Hey Dex!......Less of the unscrupulous....
04-07-2021, 02:43 PM
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Depends who's asking me. If it was a scruffy, semi-feral chav who looks like they're drunk or on drugs, not a chance. Under normal circumstances there are too many of these guys in town centres, sitting on a blanket, cardboard placard at the ready with a tatty-looking mongrel beside them to get the sympathy vote. Luckily with the local town centre pretty much closed down they have stayed away, thankfully.
04-07-2021, 03:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Artangel
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I’d promise to share the lottery winnings with you, or buy the cafe for you!
04-07-2021, 03:52 PM
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Re: If I Asked You For Quid For A Cup Of Tea? Would You Hand One Over?
Originally Posted by Pixie Knuckles
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In America, they have a pay it forward system (not compulsory) whereby they pay for the next persons coffee when they get their own. I think that is quite sweet, and wish they would do it over here. 
04-07-2021, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Dextrous63
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Wasn't there a story a few weeks back about some kid in the UK getting it going in a McDonalds?
04-07-2021, 04:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Pixie Knuckles
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In America, they have a pay it forward system (not compulsory) whereby they pay for the next persons coffee when they get their own. I think that is quite sweet, and wish they would do it over here.
04-07-2021, 04:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Pixie Knuckles
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In America, they have a pay it forward system (not compulsory) whereby they pay for the next persons coffee when they get their own. I think that is quite sweet, and wish they would do it over here.
Once, on a business trip in Sith Efrica, I was approached by a local who asked me for some spare change so he could buy some food. Yeah, I thought, smelling the beer on his breath. Anyhow, I had lunch in a sandwich shop soon afterwards and asked the lady to make up a suitable sandwich for this guy. I explained why I was buying it for him and she gave it to me despite me protesting and offering to pay for it. So, there I was, driving around this small town trying to locate this fella and eventually came across him. I stopped the car, got out and gave him the sandwich saying, "Here's the sandwich you wanted my money for." I won't assail your eyes with his response, suffice to say he just threw the sandwich on the ground and staggered off, swearing very loudly.
04-07-2021, 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Artangel
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Just testing your kindness. Or, would you be cruel to be kind and tell me nicely... No way!I knew someone who was in a cafe and was short of a pound. He cheekily went up to a table of people and asked if they could give him a pound.
Everyone on that table and others in the cafe offered or handed over a pound!
I am not talking about beggars here but someone who genuinely needed a pound.
04-07-2021, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by LongDriver
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I would have to ask you how you would differentiate between a genuine down-at-heel beggar and some of those semi smart drug addicts? Half a lifetime ago when I used to walk up to meet my wife outside her chambers in Broadway (London) for lunch, we encountered several such people, but how to tell one from another was almost impossible.
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