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What would you go for.
Tea and Biscuits or Coffee and Cake?
Alt: When did you last help a random stranger?
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:14, 148 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
Oh and tea and biscuits but coffee and chocolate.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:15, Reply)
usually tea and biscuits, but sometimes coffee and cake is just needed viscerally.
Alt Q: I help them all the time. It's annoying but a reflex kicks in and I end up helping them without wanting to. A few weeks back I spent fifteen minutes helping an old Japanese lady with her parcels at the post office. Then ended up sitting near her in Starbucks and she kept smiling and waving at me
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:17, Reply)
That's quite funny :)
Two weekends ago Mark spent 30min helping one of my neighbours to carry his new heavy sofa upstairs (5 floors). He got a bottle of wine for it :)
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:56, Reply)
Coffee and cake for during the week please!
Alt A:
I end up helping people on and off the Metro all the time and up the stairs at my stop when the lift is knackered again. I also helped Lesley Garrett with her bags off the train from London a while ago
/namedropper
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:18, Reply)
I helped an old man yesterday who fell over. I'm a fucking hero.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:18, Reply)
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:22, Reply)
I could do with a nice bit of carrot cake right about now
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:18, Reply)
He's probably read books on the subject.
And helped out on the cake stall at the MK Annual Fair.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:18, Reply)
Can't you see he hasn't said a word for a while?
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:57, Reply)
but coffee cake is wonderful stuff
I like to think I help people, but it's usually in such small ways I don't remember it
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:20, Reply)
Tea and biscuits in the afternoon
Fine ale and the carcass of an animal in the evening.
Alt: Good question. It doesn't seem to be the done thing in London as the 'random strangers' who need 'help' are just trying to extort money out of you, and I can't remember when I last had occasion to help a mother up some stairs with a pram.
Edit: And to every cunt who sat idly by and watched me struggle to keep my bass and amp politely out of your way on the 452 the other day, thanks for fucking nothing.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:21, Reply)
I've helped people in London- and I've also been helped by people on occasion mostly with directions etc
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:24, Reply)
Trouble is, it's soured me. I'm not averse to helping people get their luggage or prams down stairs or off trains, but normally when someone who seems to know you as "mate" asks if you can do them a "favour" I know damn well they're going to ask me for money. As a result, when some chap asked me the other night whether he could use my phone to call his sister, despite him not looking the sort to do so, I couldn't bring myself to trust him not to run off with it. What kind of cunt has this city turned me into?
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:26, Reply)
claiming she'd had a fight with her boyfriend and he'd turned abusive and begging train fare home.
She's since tried the same line on me three more times.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:54, Reply)
to a man who'd been dumped by his wife, no money, no house, no nothing, so he could go to his mother's for the night.
I've seen him several times on the same corner, telling the same story.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:00, Reply)
Give her something real to cry about*
*probably best if you don't
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:00, Reply)
no more money for her.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:04, Reply)
or she really is in an abusive relationship and desperately needs help...
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:06, Reply)
I no longer care either way. THIS IS WHAT LONDON DOES TO YOU.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:13, Reply)
If I finally move to London we two have to meet for a proper beer session, and I'll break my diet that day, just for you.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:58, Reply)
so i'll have the biscuits and the cake, please.
assisting randoms - on here, with free legal advice, on a fairly regular basis (different randoms though)!
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:21, Reply)
Too busy scoffing the cakes to care I don't wonder.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:22, Reply)
My only delight in being tall.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:22, Reply)
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:23, Reply)
Have you tried bending one? It's virtually impossible.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:24, Reply)
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:27, Reply)
alt: I gave a homeless man some money a while back but that's about it.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:22, Reply)
I've had some who practically back me into a corner pleading their sob-story case for a few quid and then have the nerve to say "Thank you, I'll pray for you."
Look pal, I'm sure you mean well, but you've practically mugged me at whinge-point, you could at least not fucking insult my intelligence afterward...
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:31, Reply)
express their religious views, EVEN if it is meant in a nice way?
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:33, Reply)
Thinking about it, it has more to do with the fact I just find it an incredibly condescending thing to say.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:35, Reply)
and therefore that you are in some way deficient in their eyes. In all my years of being dragged to church, I never heard an intercessionary prayer along the lines of "so-and-so is a lovely chap, please make nice things happen to him" it was always "is dying of the plague" or "has behaved in a way contrary to our teachings and needs to be brought back into the fold".
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:58, Reply)
And I claim my free lesbian sex.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:04, Reply)
Stop making references to things I don't know or care about. In this case I am referring to whatever "Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit" is, as I have spent countless hours researching lesbian sex on the internet.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:12, Reply)
As I don't believe in God, and debates of this nature always turn into arguments.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:36, Reply)
I know how I feel and that's all that matters to me.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:51, Reply)
I've got pretty fixed views and I'm not looking to get into an argument or debate over it.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:58, Reply)
I respect your right to believe whatever you believe. It's your business, none of mine :)
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:03, Reply)
since it always feels like you're saying something controversial when you admit it these days
mind you - I'm not going to have a god/no god debate on here. People always assume too much and listen too little (on both sides)
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:40, Reply)
have a rocky relationship.
For my part, I don't care if other people believe in God or not. It only gets my back up when people tell me that I should.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:42, Reply)
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:50, Reply)
feel the need to assume what I believe (ie they assume I hate gay people or some such shit) and rant about how I must be an idiot.
As I say, there are twats on both sides of the argument
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:45, Reply)
I hate that the most. I don't force my views on anyone, yet most people here like to jump down your throat about theirs. Who asked you anyway? I don't tell you what to believe.
They don't even know anything about my feelings on religion.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:50, Reply)
You hate muslims and gays and pinko leftists.
Obviously.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:51, Reply)
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(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:47, Reply)
Because I often feel like I'm treading on thin ice when I admit I'm atheist. In fact, on here is the only place where I don't feel this is the case. (Indeed, that we have both used the word 'admit' implies there's a discernible social stigma with having come down on one side of the fence or the other)
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:47, Reply)
It's only a crime when yours is the wrong opinion.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:51, Reply)
The only acceptable option is to shrug your shoulders and grunt in indifference.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:51, Reply)
You've gotta have an opinion Marvin!
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:52, Reply)
We find it hard to understand how you can believe in a God and you probably find it hard to understand how we can't.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:52, Reply)
I can understand why religion might have come about, and why people might have begun to believe in a deity, but with all due respect to Crunchy and Kristine, I really do struggle to understand how people can believe in one these days.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:56, Reply)
it's a very personal thing which can only be answered by the individual.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:57, Reply)
when you're calling someone names for something they personally believe in then it's a problem
if I were to say "I don't actually believe 2+2=4." then call me an idiot, because it's proven to be true
you cannot prove there is not a God anymore than I can prove that there is
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:57, Reply)
/internet lolfatty blog
A tiny old woman asked me to walk her across the road the other day, because last time she did it she fell over. So I said yes, got her to the middle, pushed her over and ran away.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:28, Reply)
out of admiration. "If only I'd thought of a jape like that" they were thinking.
Well they didn't. I did. Suckers.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:33, Reply)
Alt: I helped a guy with a wheelchair onto the bus last week. I don't know if he wanted to get on, but it's the thought that counts.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:29, Reply)
you're fooling no one.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:30, Reply)
i had a tenant called mr noone once. i was a hairsbreadth away from making a total tit of myself and asking to speak to "mr no-one" but my colleague pointed out how stupid that was and saved me.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:51, Reply)
Bets on if he got called Cross in school?
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:55, Reply)
She's a Chef. I think someone might be taking the piss...
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:57, Reply)
Pretti Dhull
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:58, Reply)
nahida mann. say it out loud.
and several michael hunts. none of them went by the name mike, strangely enough.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:59, Reply)
Every time I laugh and laugh AND LAAAAUUUUUGH
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:05, Reply)
or the first time heartily, the second time less so, and the third time in wry acknowledgment that this is as good as your day in the office is going to get?
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:05, Reply)
After preparing his accounts I continue laughing through my working day, during the commute home, during my evening meal, I go to sleep laughing and wake up laughing. At some point the next day I forget why I was laughing, and then I remember "P. Quick" and it starts all over again.
But then I am quite mad.
Wibble.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:10, Reply)
it's, erm, good advice for life in general is his name, i suppose.
another tablet? good boy.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:25, Reply)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_O%27Nions
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:03, Reply)
Cuh!
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:07, Reply)
Also until now I had no idea what their bass player was called. So there.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:11, Reply)
'Cause I'm nice like that, and 'cause I get bored easily.
I care neither for tea or coffee, but sometimes just take whichever one I'm offered.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:34, Reply)
Even though:
It was 8pm.
He interrupted my enjoyment of Fallout: New Vegas.
I had to turf my scatty cat off my lap, which meant that when I sat down again she had to go through her usual sitting-down routine of waving her arse in my face while she proddy-prods my lap with her clawed feet.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:42, Reply)
Beefy-tea, full of football win!
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:51, Reply)
It then became a 'must-do' away fixture, purely for the food.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:01, Reply)
I drink green tea or masala chai at work as they don't need milk and regular tea at all other times.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:00, Reply)
Oh, I want tea and biscuits so badly now!
I don't know, I usually help people with big bags or buggies to get in and out of the train, and pick things if they have dropped them on the floor (and give them back) Does that count?
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 15:55, Reply)
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:08, Reply)
I've just seen a trailer for www.channel4.com/programmes/beenys-restoration-nightmare on the telly.
To quote Beeny, 'If we don't get this restored, we could go under'
And if someone does go under financially you usually hear that they've 'lost their shirt' maybe it'll be this series that Sarah Beeny gets her tits out?
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:04, Reply)
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:08, Reply)
But I'd imagine they were all well fed.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:09, Reply)
/I thought this should be recorded somewhere on the internet for the future.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:10, Reply)
Though the lack of herpes is a plus. How the hell do you know that about Beeny?
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 17:26, Reply)
I like helping random strangers, they look so relieved when I don't mug them.
(, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 16:12, Reply)
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