[scarberiankhatru]

A street set aside where panhandlers would be the main tourist attraction? Could be the thing Toronto becomes famous for! (Thinks of ugly downtown Toronto St that could see a boost in traffic: oh got it! Dundas St West is really ugly and needs a boost. Pay 25 cents and you get to look at a homeless person; for $1 you get to speak with them; for $10 you can buy them dinner! $50 gets you a Date! Date a homeless person and take him/her off the street for a night!)

Replace panhandlers with squeegee kids and it brings a whole new meaning to 'red light district'...

 

[scarberiankhatru]

And these days, a half million dollars doesn't buy you much of a house.

You can get great houses for under $500,000, just not in the best locations.



oh, and for any moderators or forum-savvy types, how do I quote posts by multiple posters in one response?

 

[interchange42]

scarberian:

click the "+ button in the first posts you want to quote, then click on the quote button on the last one.

voila!

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[scarberiankhatru]

oh, and for any moderators or forum-savvy types, how do I quote posts by multiple posters in one response?

scarberian:

click the "+ button in the first posts you want to quote, then click on the quote button on the last one.

voila!

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I'm learnding!

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

when you're in a wheelchair, homeless people don't ask you for change anymore.
it's very depressing.

 

[Chuck]

Why not make it illegal to give money to beggars? Afer all, the only reason why people beg in the first place is because they know they are going to get something.

You don'tn see homeless people begging in the suburbs because the pedestrian traffic is so low that they may not make anything for days. If beggars had the same luck downtown, the problem would vanish - depending on how you look at it.

 

[salvius]

Why not make it illegal to give money to beggars?

Perhaps because there's no chance in hell that law would stand up in any court in Canada?

 

[fiendishlibrarian]

Don't make it illegal, just taboo, or at the very least, uncool in a you're-just-feeding-their-addictions-to-make-your-guilt-ridden-middle-class-conscience-feel-better kind of way.

 

[yin_yang]

some people cannot be saved, let them die in the street

 

[scarberiankhatru]

You don'tn see homeless people begging in the suburbs because the pedestrian traffic is so low that they may not make anything for days.

I see homeless people begging in the suburbs. Not nearly as many as downtown, of course, but they're there...

 

[Bogtrotter]

"some people cannot be saved, let them die in the street"

Which people are these?

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

"some people cannot be saved, let them die in the street"

Which people are these?

atheists.

 

[spasongs]

King and Straughn has a homless shelter. It is like Night of the living dead there. You can not get gas without them coming up to you. They lay at the entrance to the esso. They follow you on the street, and they lately come to your car window.

Who the hell wants that in their hood everyday. I know the girls in the hood are not too find of having these zomies come up to them while filling their cars up.

I usually scream bloody murder at people who give them money as I have to live with these things

 

[EnviroTO]

It wouldn't be so bad if they were all wearing colourful clown suits with painted smiley faces. When they look sickly and their clothes are dirty it is depressing. They end up looking like some of the university professors.

 

[spasongs]

LOL, I hate clowns too. I was always afraid of them as a kid.