S2 foodbank collection at WBA game

[HighfieldBlade]

If you donate a tin of beans you will be providing to the needy a hot meal on Saturday and a bubble bath on Sunday.

Or maybe combine the two?
After all those beans, there'll be plenty of bubbles in that bath. (And yes, that is Roger Daltrey)...

 

[BushBlade]

Or maybe combine the two?
After all those beans, there'll be plenty of bubbles in that bath. (And yes, that is Roger Daltrey)...
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It didn’t occur to you to use a photo of Ann Margret (from the film Tommy) rolling around in beans? You had to use Daltrey.

 

[HighfieldBlade]

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It didn’t occur to you to use a photo of Ann Margret (from the film Tommy) rolling around in beans? You had to use Daltrey.

Oh yes, Ann-Margret- that's a much better call!

 

[Tezza1889]

I get the obscenity of it all, but sadly not donating out of principal won’t help the needy, regardless of the political standpoint of how millionaires co exist right next to the poverty stricken, they’ll go hungry without the food..

I’m not a big fan of London, but last time I was there was in a really posh area, with Grenfell tower in the background, yes it’s obscene how the mega rich rub so close to those with nothing, however when you help people directly like this its always worth it to the person at the end picking some food up.. I can’t imagine how it would feel..

My stomachs turning as I write this and.... it’s wank isn’t it..

 

[I should coco]

My niece is a nurse in London and shares a nice flat with another nurse in a decent area and when not working they’re out partying.

Does she have to dress in the nurse's uniform when she comes round to see 'Uncle' Sean?

 

[alcoblade]

I do give to charity, for the last few years we haven't bought Christmas cards and instead we will buy food that is donated to a food bank, but there's something fucked with this world where that needs to happen.

I give to charity, and also manage to find an extra £3 for Christmas cards.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Someone has already mentioned that this day and age, not 1 person in the UK has any need for food banks.
This is theoretically very true. I used to work in the Housing Department many years ago and there was 100’s of properties standing empty that no one wanted. I used to hear the arguement why not let the homeless use the empty properties, experience showed that homeless people wouldn’t pay any bills, council tax or water rates. So it was only a matter of time before they were evicted.

The people requiring additional aid from food banks tend to be:

1: People suffering from alcolhol or drug addiction, they choose to spend their DWP money on their addiction instead of buying food.
2: People with temporary or permanent mental health and/ or learning difficulties who can’t manage/ budget their income.
3: People with gambling addictions and debts.

The issue with some of the 3 groups above is that some of their downturn in fortune could be considered self inflicted.
One person could consider them a victim deserving of help and support whereas another person could say they are choosing the easy life of avoiding responsibility and choosing to be the victim.

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

I get the obscenity of it all, but sadly not donating out of principal won’t help the needy, regardless of the political standpoint of how millionaires co exist right next to the poverty stricken, they’ll go hungry without the food..

I’m not a big fan of London, but last time I was there was in a really posh area, with Grenfell tower in the background, yes it’s obscene how the mega rich rub so close to those with nothing, however when you help people directly like this its always worth it to the person at the end picking some food up.. I can’t imagine how it would feel..

My stomachs turning as I write this and.... it’s wank isn’t it..

Some people were paying nigh on £24,000 a year to rent a 2 bed flat in Grenfell Tower.

 

[TJB.]

A good few recipients of these kindly donations are known to sell their haul round the corner from said establishments for funds to partake in certain illegal substances.
A bag of groceries for a bag of brown, for those who dont read shorthand.

So addicts are taking donations, presumably not worth a great deal, and then selling them on to people who could have got them for nothing in exchange for enough money to buy some heroin?

That is fucking superb business acumen. This is why University should be free for all. These people could be the next generation of Apprentice contenders. Bravo.

 

[blackydog]

Thanks for the OP blackydog . You've flushed out a couple of plutonium enriched throbbers as well as highlighting a need.

"plutonium enriched throbbers" - Lost me there mate.
"highlighting a need" - Yes needed to get the stocks up before my next visit. Some twat chucked a Jonathon James shoe in my last free parcel.

 

[knowsnowt]

So addicts are taking donations, presumably not worth a great deal, and then selling them on to people who could have got them for nothing in exchange for enough money to buy some heroin?

That is fucking superb business acumen. This is why University should be free for all. These people could be the next generation of Apprentice contenders. Bravo.

Not quite as not everyone is entitled to free food from there.

 

[Robby Blade]

The quickest way to not need foodbanks will be to elect a Labour government.

 

[Harrisblade]

The quickest way to not need foodbanks will be to elect a Labour government.

Especially if they decide to build a substantial amount of social housing

 

[I should coco]

The quickest way to not need foodbanks will be to elect a Labour government.

Way off topic for 'SUFC General chat'.

If you want to talk politics do it in the right place.

 

[Hodgesleftpeg]

I do not mind if Charities ask for donations. I do not mind if people donate to Charities. I don't like football clubs playing look at me me me with my big bollocks & how worthy I am. Just cross the ball to the back post, get a good leap in & try to direct it towards goal. Food needs to be bought by money earned by the people consuming it. If that is not possible, food needs to be bought by money provided through tax for the social security of those who can't afford to pay. Money provided anonymously & fairly - not by rattling a tin. I am proud to shout - I try and help as many people as I can through taxation - as I myself was helped by the midwife, doctors, nurses, teachers and even Coppers paid by the taxation of other people.
Grotesque....
Too many Halos
Not enough Heroes

So you’re saying that if a charity needs a push/support and there is a willing public figure or company to help promote that charity the company or public figure should say no?

 

[United Aren't Back.]

That's the problem with the food banks now, they've been taken over to a large extent now by the owt for nowt mob. Sure, we all want to help the needy but these guys will suffer due to people's reluctance to donate thanks to the scammers.

If everyone did want to help the "needy" there would be no '''needy."

 

[United Aren't Back.]

Oh bugger I was going to put my thread bare clothes on and blag the cavier

You need to be able to spell the food you request.

 

[BigBed]

We are supposed to be something like the 5th richest economy in the world and we have bloody Food banks.

Pre 1979 (what a crap year that was in so many respects) most homeless people in Sheffield were known by their name. Nowadays there are so many homeless people you just couldn't keep up with knowing them by their name.

In the 1960's the word 'benefit' was an alternative name for a testimonial game. Now it's taken on a whole new meaning.

We are supposed to live in a democracy and yet just over 2 years ago we voted to leave the EU and there are those who won't accept the result and want another vote.

The Prime Minister (whether you like her or not is irrelevant) wins a vote and there are those who still want her to resign. Where's the democratic logic in that?

What a bloody mess we've made of this country.

We've not made it shit, the elderly government has, they have no idea of the real world, they have no idea how to progress and are making things worse by being so stuck in their ways.
We need a younger government, or atleast more members from the real world!
I was born in 79, my dad worked at pit, my mum looked after us, it was the time of the strikes, and my dad had to go to work to support his family, I was a new born, and we didn't have much, but he did his best for us, and is still working 12hr nights every week now at 64!
My parents brought me up to work hard, and look after my family and save, but the younger folk of today have no clue whatsoever!!, all they seem to do, is float through life, playing game boxes, smoking, eating shit n generally being losers.
And when did common sense cease to exist!?? It seems that everyone I meet under 30, is totally void of any common sense whatsoever.
I'd like to understand better, how these homeless people find themselves homeless in the first place, I understand that there are many reasons, but I know of people that have become homeless, just because they're lazy, useless, idle twats, that don't want to work n think the world owes them a living!
And the amount wasted on foreigners is disgusting!!
If you were born here and work/worked and contributed, you should get benefits, if you've come from overseas for an easy ride, fuck off back, you get nowt, simple, and then it should work on a scale, if you've worked for 10, 20, 30 etc years and contributed, you get a percentage and that's it.
Same goes for NHS, foreigners should pay for the service, the same as every other country in the world.
We need a government with bollocks n backbone, it's time we took our country back and made it great again.

 

[Mendi]

1-1 Gareth Barry scored a screamer.

 

[blackydog]

Spotted. Was it Keane Bryan collecting the food donations on John St?