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   dvo4fun
   

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   Because their TV ad before Christmas was so specific - 5069 kids at risk.

   I have to admit that, with all that Turkey to cook and eat I didn't get on with it straight away and now I'm glad that I didn't. The TV ad last night STILL said 5069 kids at risk. Either they're a dodgy outfit that no-one else thinks worthy enough to support OR they are getting the wedge but aren't doing anything worthwhile with it.

   **could have been OXFAM - one of those thingys.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   godly1966
   

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   Some charity beggars accosted me whilst out shopping claiming they could feed a family in Africa for £1 a day. I suggested I give them £2 and they could feed my family as well, they weren’t interested.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   The All New Jeni B
   

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   On the 23rd, feeling full of festive cheer, I was accosted by a Big Issue seller.
   I'd already bought a copy about 200yrds previously, so cheerily, but politely said, "No thanks, I've just bought one. Merry Christmas!
   The seller yells after me, "I hope your fucking house burns down you tight fisted, miserable cunt!"

   Ah, such a happy time of year...

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Ironduke
   

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   To which of course you replied 'Back at ya' with dramatic irony...

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   godly1966
   

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   I hope you replied “I hope yours burns down to, Oh I forgot you haven’t got one”.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   The All New Jeni B
   

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   Actually, I just raised a sardonic eyebrow to him in a Roger Moore stylee.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   dvo4fun
   

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   You'd think by now Big Issue sellers would have thought of giving a colour coded sticker with each purchase. I hope you pissed on his blanket Jeni

   The last Big Issue I bought was from a guy I'd prosecuted at the nearby Magistrates Court just a few weeks earlier. There was a nod of recognition between us and I gave him a fiver, which represented a reasonable percentage of the 'costs' awarded against him. In an ideal world it would have gone towards that bill but in the real world I'm pretty darned sure it went towards his next £10 bag.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   The All New Jeni B
   

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   Thing is, I still had the copy I'd just bought in my hand, and had sort of raised it and waggled it a bit as I spoke,
   Hopefully the weather turns very cold in the next few days, and that'll teach him...

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   dvo4fun
   

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   Well, can't say you didn't follow all the accepted protocols for such a situation. At least he'll have one more spare issue to wrap himself up in when the snow arrives.

   Being more positive, perhaps he hadn't done the 'Customer Facing' training

   Posted 1 year ago #
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    godly1966
    

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    I’ve never bought a copy of the big issue does it a readers wives page, or maybe a sellers wives page?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Ironduke
    

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    I think a 'tramp wives' section would require a rather more niche publication.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    shitsu_tonka
    

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    Does anyone read the copies of Big Issue that they buy? I've tried a few times but I found it all to be utter bobbins.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    The All New Jeni B
    

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    Think I managed about two pages once. The copy which caused all the bother is still in the passenger footwell of my car, and will probably stay there until I get around to giving my car it's bi-annual clear out.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Scroat
    

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    I bought a Big Issue from a guy at Paddington Station once. A couple of minutes later he approached me in a rather menacing manner and forced me to give it to him back.

    An interesting economical concept.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    allmyownstunts
    

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    If he went to all that bother, I wonder why he didn't demand your wallet instead?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    waylandsmithy
    

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    I always ask if I can have a bit of a flick through it first, before committing to buy. A bit like in WHSmiths.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    MADJEZ
    

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    Our local Big Issue seller is usually too busy talking on his iPhone and just waves his pile of magazines at you. Admittedly he is in more of a hands-off management position since he minds several bedraggled looking Romanian women who are bussed in every day from London. I'm thinking of applying for his job since he's always well turned out in designer clothes.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    John Ffitch-Rucker
    

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    A chugger once asked me if I needed £5.00 more than a child in Africa. I replied “I need £5.00 more”. Honestly, what would I need a child in Africa for?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    godly1966
    

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    A couple of years ago I was given a card for Christmas claiming a goat had been given to a family in Africa on my behalf. Why? Surly there are only certain amount of goats to go round in Africa and by giving a goat to one family you are taking a goat from another family? It seemed to me the only value in these goats was to get stupid westerner’s to buy them so they could be given to another family who would then get another stupid westerner to buy the goat to give to yet another goat less family.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    bonjonelson
    

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    For those of you who like the quality journalism in The Big Issue, but don't like contact with poor people, you could always subscribe:

    http://www.bigissue.com/product.php?id=28

    Posted 1 year ago #

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