Would you survive on the street?

egret

Imagine for a minute, through addiction or bad family vibes you had nowhere to go ?.Could you handle sleeping in a porch ? I think I would be in a constant blur from alcohol or drugs just to cope with it. Doing this would prevent you from gtting out of the **** you are in...Vicious circle and all that. Jaysus mon thats a non runner for me, the folks etc....But say NOBODY is talking to you !!

AlmightyCushion

I slept on an escalator once (I was hammered), I imagine a porch would be a bit more comfortable so yeah I reckon I could do it.

orestes

I got stranded in Kilkenny once and had to sleep in a field for the night. I learned that night that there is no way I'd survive long term homelesness.

Biggins

Yes. Over many, many years I have had to sleep in the strangest of places and in all weather conditions.
It all helps to put a different perspective on life.

Captain-America

Who the bollocks is Yor?

Mr Benevolent

Dunno.

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tony1kenobi

I'd survive.....I'd sleep on Mr Drummonds porch in the 80s.....then he'd let me move in with him,Arnold,Willis and the jailbait whore Plato......and I'd live a long happy life pooning my new sister and having my 2 new brothers happy to make me fried chicken with gravy and some watermelon......and no one would bat an eyelid at the over the top racist stereotype or misogynist tones because it's the early 80s and in them days everything was just peachy......till aids fcuked it all up.

egret

Fck this I had to sleep out one night, I am talking HOMELESS, months years etc...........

AlmightyCushion

Captain-America wrote: »

Who the bollocks is Yor?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yor,_the_Hunter_from_the_Future

D.Q

i slept on a bench one night. NEVER again hopefully.

I still have serious problems with my knees after that night. Whenever it gets cold my knees are in agony. Dunno how people do it every night.

Captain-America

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yor,_the_Hunter_from_the_Future

Well that backfired.

orestes

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yor,_the_Hunter_from_the_Future

That looks pretty awesome actually!

shenanigans1982

DieselQueen wrote: »

i got rode over a bench one night. NEVER again hopefully.

I still have serious problems with my knees after that night. Whenever it gets cold my knees are in agony. Dunno how people do it every night.

Some smartarse is gonna edit your post.:pac:

I sat on a wall one night on my way home and woke up on my back in someones garden....I think the alcohol made it tolerable....wouldn't fancy it all the time but I think most people would manage it people have a way of adapting to survive.

galwayrush

Suppose so, they have wireless internet in most towns now.;)

tony1kenobi

egret wrote: »

Fck this I had to sleep out one night, I am talking HOMELESS, months years etc...........

...yea I get it...but you weren't faced with dinosaurs, or killer robots or werewolves or anything........it's only homeless.......there are worse things......only homeless people feel sorry for themselves....real people don't feel sorry for them...they're grand......if they weren't homeless where would all the blankets and change go?

FruitLover

Captain-America wrote: »

Who the bollocks is Yor?

Not sure, but previous experience browsing After Hours leads me to believe his second name is "Ma".

Latchy

Perhaps the stores will start renting out the shop doorways soon ? A good earner

I have slept in the odd field ,haybarn, park bench in my time and put a few friends up at home for a few days to , here and there .

But a cold winter nights in shop doorways doesn't appeal to me at all .

AlmightyCushion

orestes wrote: »

That looks pretty awesome actually!

Yeah it does look pretty cool. Must track down a copy and give it a watch some time.

The weather would be the big thing that would get to me. If it wasn't so cold and wet here it would definitely be a lot easier. Scraping some money together would be a bitch as well.

Saibh

Not too sure, but like anyone else who was made homeless, you would have to adapt and survive to the best that you can.

D.Q

tony1kenobi wrote: »

...yea I get it...but you weren't faced with dinosaurs, or killer robots or werewolves or anything........it's only homeless.......there are worse things......only homeless people feel sorry for themselves....real people don't feel sorry for them...they're grand......if they weren't homeless where would all the blankets and change go?

Damn those fake homeless

orestes

Captain-America wrote: »

Well that backfired.

And the sneaky bugger edited the thread title too so now you look crazy. Of course he will edit this post too in order to remove any trace of his meddlesome ways, but you and I will know the truth. Or maybe you really are crazy and myself and AC are in this together and it's all an elaborate plan on our behalf to slowly drive you more and more insane. Maybe you're already insane and this is all a hallucination. Maybe this isn't real. Maybe this is the Matrix and we are all living in a simulation and you are really just a brain in a jar in a real world bing stimulated to believe that you are a full person living in a real world. Or maybe we are computer programs like characters in the sims and part of our programming is to believe we are real and autonomous entities in our own rights when in fact our every move is controlled by our creators and we can never know the world outside of their creation. Maybe free will doesn't exist, maybe everything is pre-determined and the universe is playing itself out on a repeated loop like a dvd that just plays through to the end and then restarts itself again instantly as soon as it ends, over and over in an endless ccle of eternity where we can never escape. Maybe there is no meaning to our lives outside of the meaning we can give it ourselves through our actions and every action leads to a reaction and every cause has an effect so every action is just one link in a chain of infinite regress and we are all part of the same entity, all neuronal impulses in the living collective brain of the universe as it expreiences itself through introspection and self-reflection and we are colectively God.

Or maybe I'm just drunk and bored.

Who knows?

DenMan

When I was living in Malta, I slept in a cave. I had missed the boat back after partying and decided to chill in a lovely warm and snug cave. Best decision I ever made. I could have swam after the boat and got life rafted aboard, but that was too much effort as I had a bottle of rum with me and my then gf. Good times.

magenta73

DenMan wrote: »

When I was living in Malta, I slept in a cave. I had missed the boat back after partying and decided to chill in a lovely warm and snug cave. Best decision I ever made. I could have swam after the boat and got life rafted aboard, but that was too much effort as I had a bottle of rum with me and my then gf. Good times.

Hey..........are you captain Jack Sparrow............:D

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No.

DenMan

magenta73 wrote: »

Hey..........are you captain Jack Sparrow............:D

Certainly felt like it at the time.

Come to think of it I miss that cave. Must get back to it soon.

Captain-America

You're drunk right now aren't you?

SoWatchaWant

What I wouldn't give for a nice, cuddly porch to curl up on. Those homeless don't know how good they have it.

magenta73

No- I colud'nt cope with being homeless as I am a creature of comfort,

but I would live on a boat! and am considering doing so:)

dr.bollocko

Absynthe helps.

Capt'n Midnight

I've done an all nighter then gone to a police station the next night and crashed out in a Guards front room, the following night I ended up in a field. It was a long weekend.

The scariest thing about the street is other people, I'd rather be a castaway than that.

phasers

No, I'd kill myself

johnny_knoxvile

Well i'd be like Mc Guiver, i'd take down loads of ellection posters and build a make-shift two bedroom duplex.

Mossy Monk

Slept in two empty wheelie bins once. With a mattress and a pillow it would have been ok.

ejmaztec

I'm sure that most of these people are waiting for that elusive bargain in the January sales, then compare the misery of home life with the fun-packed japes of bum-world and decide not to go home.

Biggins

I've slept in the strangest of places and the best thing you can have with you when sleeping rough besides a blanket, is a heap load of newspapers.
They make great insulation if stuffed inside your coat or clothing at night. At least the tabloid rags are useful for something!

CreepingDeath

Why sleep on the streets.... watch a few Bear Grylls episodes and survive in the wild. There was one episode where he was surviving in the west of Ireland, skinning a sheep and turning it inside out for a sleeping bag.

Wasn't there a guy living rough in the hills near Tallaght recently?

Mr.Lizard

Survive on the streets? No problem! I'd just don my cowboy boots & stetson, give a few blow-jobs for cash and I'm back under a warm roof again.

Yee-haw!

ejmaztec

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Why sleep on the streets.... watch a few Bear Grylls episodes and survive in the wild. There was one episode where he was surviving in the west of Ireland, skinning a sheep and turning it inside out for a sleeping bag.

Wasn't there a guy living rough in the hills near Tallaght recently?[/quote]

No, that was a Japanese soldier who didn't know the war had ended.

Rabies

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Absynthe helps.

Use absinthe. Better quality :P

Rented Mule

johnny_knoxvile wrote: »

Well i'd be like Mc Guiver, i'd take down loads of ellection posters and build a make-shift two bedroom duplex.

Just think of the extension that you would have had if Mary Harney was running in this election.

Although the thought of her running brings images of Godzilla terrorising downtown Tokyo to my mind.

genericguy

tony1kenobi wrote: »

I'd survive.....I'd sleep on Mr Drummonds porch in the 80s.....then he'd let me move in with him,Arnold,Willis and the jailbait whore Plato......and I'd live a long happy life pooning my new sister and having my 2 new brothers happy to make me fried chicken with gravy and some watermelon......and no one would bat an eyelid at the over the top racist stereotype or misogynist tones because it's the early 80s and in them days everything was just peachy......till aids fcuked it all up.

Absolutely brilliant!

RaverRo808

Slept rough afew times,once for along time,just for the experience more then anything else,and be honest,it was something I'll never forget,good and bad but mostly bad,the feelings of pointlessness and worthylessness you experience are immense,your day comes down to most fundemental and primal of things,wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy

Biggins

tony1kenobi wrote: »

I'd survive.....I'd sleep on Mr Drummonds porch in the 80s.....then he'd let me move in with him,Arnold,Willis and the jailbait whore Plato......and I'd live a long happy life pooning my new sister...

If its the girl that played Drummons daughter your talking about - your too late sadly.
She later on appeared in playboy (I have the issue - seriously) and after that she sadly died of a drug overdose.