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On the subject of tramps and time...
What the hell is it with tramps and time?

I noticed someone told a story of a tramp asking for the time while standing under a hucking fuge clock.

Walking to the station this evening, a tramp asked me for the time outside Woolies at Town Hall Station.

Why the fuck would you want to know the time, if you were a homeless hobo? Time for Tramps Anonymous? Happy hour at the pub?

WHY do these useless pieces of human trash want to know the time?

I don't wear a watch, I don't need one with mobiles, outlook and an alarm clock at home, that's all I need.
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:13, archived)
Fuck off, you piece of shit.

(I helped save b3ta! Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:13, archived)
Tramps are quantum fluctuations.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:14, archived)
I don't wear a watch,
I don't need to, because it doesn't matter what time it is.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:18, archived)
What if you need to be somewhere?

(I helped save b3ta! Bats, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:18, archived)
I go there.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:19, archived)

er, you go there, when you need to.

People survived for several hundred thousand years without watches. Why suddenly need them now?
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:20, archived)
"approximately morning", "approximately afternoon" and "approximately evening" are good enough for me, anyway.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:21, archived)
Do you not feel bad if you are late somewhere
And leave people waiting for you?
(I helped save b3ta! Pickle Fairy is clumsily dancing away this fear, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:25, archived)
no,
everyone I know is usually equally late.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:26, archived)
Meh, now that everyone has a mobile
as soon as you are one minute late, they ring you up. Pillocks.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:27, archived)
I don't have one.
double win.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:28, archived)

Excatly. Sun up = go to work. Sun down = go home. No need for extra clock-on-hand to shown I can spend $5,000 on small clock-on-hand.
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:26, archived)
You know you're not forced to spend 5 grand on a watch, don't you?

(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:27, archived)

No, not forced to spend that much. Some people do, of course, to show that they are fancy people from magazine ads, who wear a watch from a company that sponsors frikkin' airplane races to show how important they are.

I guess people like that need to know the time, frequently.

What the hell is it with knowing the time? Seriously, is it that bloody important?
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:32, archived)
Shut up Adrian.

(I helped save b3ta! WHARRGARBL, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:35, archived)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uouDt_LQTy0
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:36, archived)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS5P6GcUC4s&NR=1
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:41, archived)
No. It's a status symbol, or more often, an aspirational gesture expressed through consumption.
Your argument could just as well be about big fancy cars or large houses. Mostly unnecessary, but some people like them.

However, you have chosen to dress up your argument with strange, obscure insults directed at the homeless, the majority of whom have mental problems. Is it any wonder they ask the time? They're probably just grateful for the human interaction. Except with you, you disgusting lizard.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:37, archived)
Clickedy click.

(I helped save b3ta! Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:48, archived)
To catch a train, or a plane, or know when something's on the telly, or so that they have a concrete argument
against the landlord when he tells you to drink up. You wannabe-maverick.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:26, archived)
all rare occasions for me,
but I know how long it takes to get places, so I just look at the time of my last b3ta post and work from that.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:29, archived)
Is this the transcript of Piston's stand up?

(I helped save b3ta! Edd: The Unfunny Try-Hard Edgelord, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:14, archived)
CORINOCO
pushing me down the board so you dont have to since 2009
(UnstableDan Bah, Humbug! ooooh, humbugs, nyom!, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:15, archived)
Maybe they need to know what time to be there so they can annoy you.

(I helped save b3ta! Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:15, archived)
GET OUT

(I helped save b3ta! WHARRGARBL, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:16, archived)
corinoco down in acapulco

(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:16, archived)
Pink bird fits w/ seal and diver.

(I helped save b3ta! LimeyTreat Bitch. Lover. Child. Mother. Sinner. Saint., Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:28, archived)
so it does
i've got the bull, go karter and lady on a sunbed attached to each other now too
(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:34, archived)
You were imagining the tramp
On account of you being too pissed to realise that you were in fact talking to yourself in a mirror.
(Purple_Monkey_Jingles Purple Monkeys need love too, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:16, archived)
Wow.
This must be the 'I Love Tramps' side of b3ta. How odd.
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:22, archived)
No.
It's the 'corinoco is shit' side.
(I helped save b3ta! WHARRGARBL, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:23, archived)
Why are tramps "useless pieces of human trash" exactly?

(I helped save b3ta! Edd: The Unfunny Try-Hard Edgelord, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:24, archived)
He's just jealous because they always wear hats and he has a funny shaped-head that looks like a bell-end.

(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:25, archived)

Why are they NOT?
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:25, archived)
Wow.
That's impressive.
(I helped save b3ta! WHARRGARBL, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:27, archived)
You're right. There's no such thing as victims of circumstance.
They chose to live on the streets because, fuck it, it's a laugh. No bills. No chores. And there's always a divvy cunt somewhere who knows the time.
(I helped save b3ta! Edd: The Unfunny Try-Hard Edgelord, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:30, archived)
What he said.

(I helped save b3ta! WHARRGARBL, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:32, archived)
Yep,it's as I suspected.
You're a wanker.
(I helped save b3ta! Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:31, archived)
Oh, by the way...
nice comebackery. I haven't heard that since I was about 5.
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:25, archived)
i'm going to go ahead and assume that was more recent for you than any of the rest of us

(I helped save b3ta! manolith hooray for me, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:37, archived)
You were pissed when you were 5?
Suddenly this all makes sense.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:39, archived)
what?
fuck off!
(I helped save b3ta! jenpots, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:19, archived)
all tramps are actually time travellers

(I helped save b3ta! VampireMonkeyOnSpeed a super sexy sexual sex terrorist sex, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:22, archived)
they all know a lot more about theoretical physics than you'd expect.

(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:23, archived)

No, only ones called 'Catweazle' with pet frogs called 'Touchwood'.

Oh, Worzel Gummidge probably counts, too.
(corinoco is waiting for the revolution., Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:28, archived) 



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(I helped save b3ta! Edd: The Unfunny Try-Hard Edgelord, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:28, archived)
hooray for tramps
and there but for the grace of "insert deity of choice" go you!
(I helped save b3ta! Zank Frappa Who let the lefties in?, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:29, archived)
I just typed, to say I
wish a rain of pestilence and face-aids upon you.
(Turn that bloody gramaphone down has incorrect spelling in her username *WINS*, Fri 3 Jul 2009, 14:45, archived)