i just got conned by a heroin addict

Rich, you got to remember, scamming you is the closest thing that junkie gets to actually working a job. Plus, junkies make the rest of us look more successful at, um, life.

i knew a guy who went to an ATM with a cocaine dealer.

DROPPED MELLONS!

I can't think of a better use for five or six bucks than some booze. I don't understand people who are willing to help the itinerant and indigent stay alive, but simultaneously insist that they lead dull and dreary lives unbroken by even moments of intoxicated pleasure.

I suppose those are the type of values instilled by an inspiringly awful band like National Product.

Buyin' booze is probably how he got in his situation in the first place.

I'm always intrigued by the amount of people who run into car trouble, yet can't produce their car keys, or a drivers license.

yeah, but that by no means makes him fair play for degradation or humiliation. Don't give him any money if you don't want him to spend it on what he wants to spend it on. He's an adult, afterall.

as usual, aaron says exactly what I want to say, but he says it in a far superior manner.

Many, many times. And yeah, give or don't. I think what galls most people is some sort of superficial guilt that, not giving money to the starving street person is selfish. And at the other end of the spectrum theres the sort of umbrage at this person for causing you to feel this way for essentially no reason. It's like an unwinnable situation unless one can actually not be affected either way.
I try my best to not let it bother me. I get some comfort I guess from the idea that said person likewise isn't seeing me as an individual or human being either but as a means to an end.
I like hearing the stories of younger people who are intially encountering this dilemma for the first time. They start out giving money or what have you to everyone. Eventually they go to the opposite extreme. And then later on they settle into some kind of medium space.

Please, that a-hole won't even offer the space up to someone with a pure soul, who would buy groceries, pay rent on time, and do the dishes. And someone who acts as a wonderful human all around- AKA ME.

bigot pig.

The alcoholic also paradoxically HATES homeless people and pan handlers. He gets really incensed whenever he talks about them. Like how dare they ask HIM for a handout?

Oh Greg. How many times have you watched Being There anyways?

That's one thing I don't like doing, I should warn you.

Last time I got around to it I unleashed a pube tumbleweed.

But think of it this way, it could be like a toy for your cat.

That picture is nothing, NOTH-ING. Thats a mere two days worth. He was off on Tuesday and Wednesday this passed week and I can only conclude that since he was preparing to move he decided to throw the empty bottles away, finally. So whats stashed in the closet there is just what he drank on Thursday and Friday after work. Well, that plus this:

(Note: Porn DVDs)

I wish I would have taken a picture before. It was kind of pathologically remarkable. Oh well.

The swiffer was my ex-girlfriends. I forgot it was even in there. I hate that thing.

is that I have been drinking a lot of ICE HOUSE lately. That's from the PLank Road breery in Milwauakee. Best beer you can get over here i dunno why they stock it. I thought US beer was traditionllly supposed to be kind watery but this is pretty TASTEY.

STEVE!

Put down the Ice House. That is the barfingest, nastiest beer ever. Well, maybe Old Milwaukee or Keystone are worse, maybe.

This is an excellent, widely available American beer. I doubt you have access to it considering you're posting from the center of a rainforest on some remote island, but oh well.

unbelieveable. anyway, i'm ignoring this ever happened. OH, and the very next nite, my friend had to get a hobo away from him by giving him 50 cents that some other hobo gave HIM earlier in the evening.

i leave you all with this:

no but one brought up Tupac for no apparent reason.

But once you get taken, you'll never get taken again. We hope.

Next time someone asks you for some change, offer them $10 if they'll just admit it's so they can shoot up.

Making up some pathetic little sob story is for pussies.

So yeah, you can decide what they do with the money. In a sense.

hopper2k wrote:

EDGE IS DEAD LONG LIVE EDGE.

Gingers? WTF? You hate people with red hair?

The alcoholic just called. He needs 'a couple' more days before he can move into his new apartment. See, the people that he's moving in with, well they haven't given him a key yet and yeah, today is the fourth. So understandably he was upset that his new roomie didn't get him a key. He was also upset he said because the roomie had neglected to tell him that the rent was due on the 1st. "Why didn't she just tell me that before?" he asked.

you're using again?

God bless unscrupulous crackheads.