Big Issue Etiquette

I bought a Big issue today. I gave the guy 1.50. As I walked off I noticed it was 1.70. I was only 5 ft away so i turned round and said sorry i didn't see the price and gave him 50p. He said "1.50 would have been fine". which made me feel bad for patronising him. I'm all for working not begging, but it does my head in. I'll buy one but there's so many hurdles for an englishman.

Do you take a copy or not? they've only got a few, but on the other hand, you don't want to make out like its a charity.

Also 1.70 is such a problematic amount. As if you're gonna ask for change.

They get some good writers in the big issue now days, but I never see anyone buying one, I never see them anywhere apart from in a sellers hand. I think it's a problem.

No, I don't because I don't want to read it ... though one guy was rapping the content of the magazine on Poole Highstreet, so I gave him a fiver reckon he deserved it as he was making a proper effort, this was about 6 or 7 year ago... my girlfriend at the time was mega pissed off.

Why is she a better rapper?

Because the fiver I gave to the guy meant that she had to pay for the coffee in town ... I thought I had another tenner in my pocket ...

Bit tight ain't she?!

It was another time (in my life) mate ... I was earning £200 pound a month while studying and got fuck all loan, and she had two jobs, we both used to sleep in a single bed and I used to make money on the side downloading films and converting them to DVDs and selling them on campus for a fiver a go (this was back in 2002).

I like the "(in my life)" qualifier. You could of put it anywhere

yes, reflecting back at the comment it was rather pointless ... booze and the internet do not mix well.

I cross the street when I see homeless people. Fact.

chris you've changed

I cross the street when I see homeless people. Fact.

Nice.........

I don't buy Big Issue.

I'm frightened of catching poor off their dirty poor hands.

I'm terrified that I'll come down with a nasty dose of homeless, and I'll end up living under several pages of Big Issue.

I'd rather just throw coins at poor people's eyes to keep them away, then run screaming into oncoming traffic.

chris was homeless only a few years ago
i think he might be joking ?!?!

He has changed tho'... He's a proper douchebag now... God bless him...

really, i know he has taken up reading " the chap " magazine ... thats a bad start

"Knock knock"

"Who's there?"

"Big ish"

"Big ish who?"

"Sorry mate not today"

gets coat

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thank god for that... reads like a failed attempt at a rant.

One of the sellers that I knew in Exeter used to hold up a toddlers shoe and drum up trade by calling out "Little shoe, Big Issue". Served him well for a while. This was the same guy that I got to deliver it to my house (in all fairness it was on his way to his pitch). In return I'd give him his quid, a coffee and a doughnut when I saw him in town. I realise I was being a bit of a middle class cock at the time but... ah fuck it, I'm still a middle class cock, always have been always will be. I like to touch the poor, it makes me feel I'm doing something worthwhile with my life.

I'm pretty poor.

This may come as a shock H, but you ain't pretty.

Are you saying you're not going to marry me?

That depends on whether you'll inherit money.

Wait, I thought this was already a marriage of exploitation. I want your bike bits, you can have any coffee and doughnuts I convince TSK to buy me.