Hookers in Red Square

thomasm

Loads of them, wearing yellow shirts. Approached earlier by one with the line 'hello darling where have you been all my life' and caught by the hand and invited for a chat where I was asked for money and told I would feel good if I handed it over. Not like the old days though, she wanted me to pay via direct debit..

Finnbar01

thomasm wrote: »

Loads of them, wearing yellow shirts. Approached earlier by one with the line 'hello darling where have you been all my life' and caught by the hand and invited for a chat where I was asked for money and told I would feel good if I handed it over. Not like the old days though, she wanted me so pay via direct debit..

What 'charity' were they working for?

JenniFurr

Finnbar01 wrote: »

What 'charity' were they working for?

Amnesty International. They don't seem to be as well trained as Concern. Concern must be trained like army cadets. If you try evasive manoeuvres another jumps from behind a pillar to get you.

Be thankful though! In Dublin they have to avoid so many more of them looking for fresh meat almost everyday, as well as junkies and beggars.

nice_very

thomasm wrote: »

Loads of them, wearing yellow shirts. Approached earlier by one with the line 'hello darling where have you been all my life' and caught by the hand and invited for a chat where I was asked for money and told I would feel good if I handed it over. Not like the old days though, she wanted me so pay via direct debit..

I had a nice chat with the same girl (english accent) about human rights, the 3 punk girls in Russia, and clitoral mutilation...

Jason Todd

nice_very wrote: »

I had a nice chat with the same girl (english accent) about human rights, the 3 punk girls in Russia, and clitoral mutilation...

Charming!

Britain has just brought in new laws to scale back how the 'chuggers' operate, hasn't it? I wonder will we follow suit?

fricatus

nice_very wrote: »

I had a nice chat with the same girl (english accent) about human rights, the 3 punk girls in Russia, and clitoral mutilation...

Bring up circumcision and you'll see how committed they are to human rights, as opposed to following a safe "a la carte" list!

Chuggers bug the crap out of me. I make regular small donations to a few charities that I've researched, so I don't appreciate the guilt-trip when I'm just down the town having a mooch around.

BBM77

I usually just laugh at these people. Anybody who thinks I am going to hand over my bank account details to a complete stranger on the street only deserves to be laughed at.

thomasm

I'm always surprised by the amount of people who actually look like they are signing up to something.

Partizan

They are Chuggers.

Charity Muggers and they are a nuisance. Get them the whole time in Dublin.

dazftw

Ireland is the 2nd most charitable country in the world compared to the US which is how much bigger?

Those 'chuggers' are on pretty good money though I hear.

JPA

dazftw wrote: »

Ireland is the 2nd most charitable country in the world compared to the US which is how much bigger?

Those 'chuggers' are on pretty good money though I hear.

2nd most charitable per capita.

Kitty_Ears

I've done the job myself and yeah, it's fairly ****e, but it's better than being on the dole and it helped my loads with getting other jobs.
The charitys benifit too so it's good for them I guess.

The ones that jump out at you are annoying though. I never bothered with that cos I didn't feel like being given out to :L

danjo-xx

dazftw wrote: »

Ireland is the 2nd most charitable country in the world compared to the US which is how much bigger?

Those 'chuggers' are on pretty good money though I hear.

I reckon anyone that is that pushy must be making a good crust.

Kitty_Ears

Concern lads are anyways.
The one I was working for you got 320 a week but you'd be away from home all week and working 9 am - 8pm most nights.

tobey

waterford hospice gets my money every week, **** te rest of em

membersonly

Kitty_Ears wrote: »

Concern lads are anyways.
The one I was working for you got 320 a week but you'd be away from home all week and working 9 am - 8pm most nights.

Did you have weekly targets so? How did it work in that way?

Fair play to you for doing it.

Kitty_Ears

Yeah you had to get 3 a day, I got my targets most days and they where wgrand enough to work for. I can see why people hate them but I couldn't stand being on the dole haha.
Opened the door for lots of other dead end jobs also :P

gscully

Anyone who starts a thread with a title like this deserves to be relieved of all their money for getting my hopes up like that.

Fcuker

sandin

Kitty_Ears wrote: »

Concern lads are anyways.
The one I was working for you got 320 a week but you'd be away from home all week and working 9 am - 8pm most nights.

320 a week to do that - no thank you.

but if unemployed I suppose its better than the dole and for a good cause and I suppose nice to see that they don't overpay or pay by commission.

But the inane happy greeting has to change - it is sooooo false.