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Honestly. Practically everyone on this thread is on the same page, apart from the Prancing Ninny (I infer, from your over-generous and patient reply). Unfortunately he appears to lack the necessary empathy to recognise what to do when he's more than two standard deviations from the mean. Perhaps...

Seems to ring a bell. It was tricky escaping if one of them engaged you in conversation. As I was working there it was hard to avoid. Yes, harmless.

I plead guilty, milud. :bowdown::lolol::thumbsup: There was a picture of me and the boys in the Argus in 79 when we went on strike. Mr Mace sacked us, then asked us to come in 2 days later as he hadn't recruited any replacements. Happy days.

What an absurd ignorant comment. They may be 'annoying' but the genuine homeless are tragic. I watched an ex soldier, who was clearly off his tits, refuse all help, sleeping rough outside where i worked at the time, drink and starve himself, and eventually die, having been beaten up, hit by cars...

Reasonable commentary from someone with the eye witness data. Appreciated. I worked (on the deckchairs) in 1977 and 1979 at the bottom of West Street. There was a gaggle of 'alkies' drinking 'jack' (a mix of surgical spirit and water - which will cause brain damage and blinndness). Several...

That must be it, The Tories must have changed the rules to make homelessness 'increase' to make themselves look bad, like the way they fiddled the enemployment stats to make the number artifically smaller during the Thatcher years. Oh.

I love the fact that I blocked the Prancing Ninny. How refreshing to be reminded of this from time to time.

Bit condescending buying the poor bugger dog treats, shirly? What's wrong with a packet of Wotsits? :shrug: