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Describe this challenge in one word: ‘Ootrageous’.

 

We will SEE indeed, laddie!

Naw, seriously, point 3 Ye made is the most pertinent fer me. We have rolled over in recent encoonters.

 

Rangers are basically playing like their manager used to. Full on, no holds barred, resulting sometimes in great results and other times in beatings.

 

These encounters usually result in a request for money.

 

Gerrard and Rangers have undoubtedly been much better than I expected.

Hut, whilst I expect them to fall away rapidly in the new year, how much of a surprise were Hearts this season? I remember them slaughtering the Scottish Championship when Rangers were in it (the season where Rangers got walloped - by Motherwell I think - in that relegation/promotion playoff). Was it expected in any way?

 

I'm not sure Rangers will even win another match after December 1st

 

I don't think anyone really expected it, nah. But otoh hearts were the biggest wild card in august given they'd made like 12 new signings... and they did already have a decent nucleus with Naismith, lafferty etc. It seems like the combo of the severe doing we gave them at Murrayfield and their injuries has broken the magic spell tho

 

Then just give them a quid. Whether they're full of shit or not, beggars clearly need a quid more than me.

 

You'd love Walgreens on West Main St

"I broke two fingers and lost my job and I have ptsd but I need bus fare to get to the VA"

"I just got out of prison and need train fare to get to the Bronx for a job interview tomorrow morning"

Just ask me if I've got a dollar or two, for fuck's sake. If I have one on me, I'll give it to you. I can tell you've got nothing. You don't have to have some noble excuse. We're all sinners, we all fall short. I'll help you, I'm not cold-blooded. I'm a friend of St. Francis.

The ones that ask for food are my favorite because that's somebody I can help right away by just buying them something to drink and some snacks and I know it's the most basic, essential need.

What's sad is you see a lot of different people... there's not many regulars. Brutal life. There was an ancient black fellow I used to see there. Much too old to be out on the street. I fear he's died. He always wanted a Milky Way (what you call a Mars bar) and a Pepsi. Could be why he's dead!

 

Mon billeh join the huddle, it's spreading



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Billeh loves Glasgow's Green and White!

 

Tbh the ones who insist on giving you their story are the only ones that annoy me. There's one in particular here who wanders about proactively approaching people on the street with his spiel and living and working in the city centre I must've heard it 15 f'n times now. My faves are just the guys who say 'I'm dying for a drink big man, any help?'. Two quid for them.

 

LOL exactly... I'd be more likely to give a buck to a guy that just flat out said "I need money to buy whiskey" instead of "I'm an Iraq War veteran and I'm just trying to get back on my feet Blahblahblah" ... fuck off, you're practically a professional hustler

The old black chap after I'd helped him out a few times, I saw him out there one day just sitting on the sidewalk in the same old tattered clothes and I asked him how he was doing... it was hot as hell outside... "you want something to drink? You need to keep hydrated out here"... he looks up with a little grin and says "some whiskey?"... hilarious... I told him I just couldn't do that but would he settle for a Pepsi? He giggled and said that would be fine... every time he'd say "bless your heart" in this southern drawl

 

There was one that begged in the lane directly under my flat and for a couple of years I'd go in and get him his chicken pasty and latte most days....he'd repay me with various IRA pin badges I never wore, . He showed up on the main local news website in their 'Glasgow lives' series....claiming he was a former professional bodybuilder who ended up on the street a couple of years prior because he skipped rent buying steroids but that he'd turned his life around and was now finishing a bachelors degree at Glasgow uni in theology and was gonna train to be a priest. LOL. A proper hobo tall tale. Dude was 10 stone tops and hadn't left the fucking lane in three years.

 

We get Milky Way here too.

 

Shut up

 

If slice was homeless and it was winter I'd give him a Chelsea scarf to keep him warm, the saucy bollocks

 

Slice’d gie Ye a ‘Chelsea smile’!

 

Fuckin' Yanks coming here and trying to explain chocolate bars to us like we're all scotch-egg eating simpletons.

 

I would refuse it and die in the cold, smiling because my principles were intact!

 

I don't need some hotshot Limey to tell me where the bear shit in the buckwheat

 

Right. We're sophisticated & globally plugged-in here, we got milky ways. Probably had them first.

 

Pair of wankers

Describe your "Milky Way"... probably some daft snickers bar

I asked a teenage checkout girl in Carrickmacross what the fuck a "Wispa" bar was and she explained it and commented "they're nice" ... some pointless shite with air bubbles ...

 

Have some respect fer the chocolate bars SEEdog, laddie, George Michael wiz foond dead wi’ one up his bum... the police said it wiz a careless wispa.

Aye - that joke is older than dirt!

...and Scotch eggs are undooooubtedly the BEST way tae eat eggs.

 

The ones here seem to deliberately avoid pan handing near any kind of restaurant for that reason. I always find it hilarious people asking for change to buy a coffee but out of sheer coincidence they're always near a liquor store and not by one of the million coffee shops.

 

Or they suddenly don't want coffee when you offer to buy them a cup

Like I said, I'd respect it more if they just said "I'm homeless and it's awful, I want vodka to numb the pain of existing"

I'd definitely fork over a buck or two for that

 

Milky Way is like a Nougat thing. Quite nice. Fun fact - it shares it's name with our galaxy. I believe the galaxy was named first.

Wispa and Aero bars are awesome. Don't you dare knock them or I'll hunt you down and punch your cunt in.

 

Haha exactly. Not to long ago a some panhandler approached a friend of mine and gave some sob story about being hungry, hadn't eaten in a couple of days etc. Friend offered to go buy the guy a meal and the reply was "no thanks, I just want the money".

 

Milky Way has caramel and nougat, YOU MINGING TWAT

Oh, I'm gonna sort you out, you slag