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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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So long story short'ish...whilst in the West End, last week. A chap appeared from nowhere alongside me, 'waffling' on about Ed Sheeran Or so I presumed as well the said chap was homeless and all I could keep thinking was "piss off mate and bother someone else" so anyway...he didn't and he continued to ramble along as we hastily made our way towards the tube station. He continued to chat away, until finally he was stopped by another passer by, a relief for many reasons. He then sped up behind me to point out that the tube station was across the street and to our left and to have a safe journey.
I pieced together his slurred conversation, after being out of the chaos which is London. He wasn't talking about Ed Sheeran but a man named Ed Stafford, who had spent 60 days on the streets, during winter.
I watched it over the weekend and low and behold there was Lee!!! The lovable rogue, who had indeed not been chatting shit after all.
I began to write this because I watched all 3 episodes, Manchester, London and Glasgow and it was indeed gruesome and grim but also heart-breaking in parts. It highlighted many things I knew or had assumed about homeless people already but unveiled some horrors I hadn't. The most abundant being, that I won't be using hand dryers in public bathrooms anymore!!...not after seeing Ed Stafford, wash his cock and balls plus his face, with the toilet water and then dry his bits off under the dryer
I'd like to see England apply some of what Scotland are doing for their homeless and I'd only get a ban for saying what I'd like to see happen, to those horrid creatures that be vile to people on the streets.
Did anyone watch the programmes or have felt bad at the time and after, for not wanting to be touched by people who don't have access to basic amenities, etc?
Do you think we do enough in society, for people with addiction on the streets, to get them out of the vicious circle?. Do you believe charity begins at home and money raised for charity in the UK should be used for charities within?. Or something else entirely?
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*GCSE English pass masters, I've not checked for errors, so knock yourselves out * |