London desensitises one to the plight of beggars somewhat.
The ones that walk through the tube carriages make me fucking angry.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 10:46, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Quite. Maybe they wouldn't need "a bit of change for a cuppa"
if they hadn't already blown what they had on a fucking travelcard.
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 10:51, Reply)

i saw one with a filthy baby round her neck once, begging
she was holding up a card that said "from somalia, please help"

as she got off the train, some guy opposite said in a loud essex accent, "she should just be fucking glad she's not there any more, innit".

i was really horrified and shocked. i mean, NOBODY speaks on the tube.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 10:56, Reply)

hahah

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 10:58, Reply)

Haha
She does sound like she works off the same template as the beggars in Brussels - every beggar I passed seemed to be a woman in a shawl carrying a baby and a paper coffee cup with some coins in it. I honestly thought it was the same woman drifting round the city until I turned one corner and bumped into about three or four of them waving their paper cups at me. Do the Belgians offer a standard issue "begging kit" replete with shawls, babies and paper cups?
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 29 Nov 2010, 11:02, Reply)