Dublin City is now ''Tap'' Central

w/s/p/c/ · 06-09-2019 11:06am

Anytime I am approached, I just give them the death stare and walk on by!

Hotblack Desiato · 06-09-2019 12:42pm

nthclare wrote: »

A lazy fiver and I'll work it for you, gotta give it to him for being philosophical, funny and balsy

Nah, he's just an arsehole.

mcmoustache · 06-09-2019 2:15pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Yeah and if fecking eejits people stopped giving them money it'd become a less attractive thing to do, too...

100% this. They only do it because it's profitable.

Wtf ? · 06-09-2019 3:53pm

gmisk wrote: »

I thought this thread was going to be about using the tap function to pay.

Actually thats probably the next phase of begging....
"spare a euro for a hostel?"
"I dont have any change sorry"
"No worries...I accept contactless...you can tap if its under 30 euro you are giving me"

Get with the lingo(Man)

Woke Hogan · 06-09-2019 4:50pm

greencap wrote: »

If you really think Im not willing and able to tell a skanger who tries some ridiculous 'borrow yer phone' scam to fck off, then you need to think again.

Ha ha ha. Yeah. Right.

Mrcaramelchoc · 06-09-2019 4:51pm

Its a ****hole .what can one expect.

Hotblack Desiato · 06-09-2019 6:23pm

Mrcaramelchoc wrote: »

Its a ****hole .what can one expect.

Tell us where you live

BTW a lot of the street dwellers in Dublin aren't from there

Kermit.de.frog · 06-09-2019 9:45pm

Correct, most of them are from Kildare.

pinkyeye · 06-09-2019 10:05pm

I don't know what the problem is. If anyone asks me for a smoke I'll give them one no problem cause I know what it's like to be gagging for a smoke and it's no skin off my nose to give one away.

I'll even give them a light (shock, horror).

When it comes to cash if I've any on me I'll probably give it away because why not? It doesn't hurt my pocket to give an odd fiver away. If If I don't have any on me I'll just state politely that I don't have any cash.

Fail to understand why people get so stressed over these things.

Hotblack Desiato · 06-09-2019 11:44pm

You're making panhanding profitable. Enabling self-destructive lifestyles. And they must think you're completely soft in the head if you're handing out fivers ffs. But I presume you're referring to the junkies, not the professionals.

There's a Romanian beggar back now this week to her usual spot she's had for years near where I work, her summer holiday back home is over, there is no way she is homeless but some saps still give her money. There used to be an Irish lad there but "they tuk his job" lol

nthclare · 09-09-2019 3:26pm

Hotblack Desiato wrote: »

Nah, he's just an arsehole.

He's great craic seriously, worthy of a fiver.

he's a funny guy,and he's old stock

greencap · 15-11-2019 12:51am

Woke Hogan wrote: »

Ha ha ha. Yeah. Right.

Fúck off.

(Bring on the card)

Canis Lupus · 15-11-2019 12:59am

greencap wrote: »

Fúck off.

(Bring on the card)

I'm impressed it took you two months.

mgn · 15-11-2019 1:08am

As the approach you take the box out and offer them one before the ask you, bet the will avoid you because the think your after something.

greencap · 15-11-2019 1:10am

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I'm impressed it took you two months.

I recall the day in question i was pre-occupied by a particularly hearty turkish.

It was the choice of to respond or to toilet myself.

Priorities.

Canis Lupus · 15-11-2019 2:22am

greencap wrote: »

I recall the day in question i was pre-occupied by a particularly hearty turkish.

It was the choice of to respond or to toilet myself.

Priorities.

Some might have said you were scared.

greencap · 15-11-2019 8:53am

Canis Lupus wrote: »

Some might have said you were scared.

Some might have been told to fůck off.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 15-11-2019 10:39am

greencap wrote: »

I recall the day in question i was pre-occupied by a particularly hearty turkish.

It was the choice of to respond or to toilet myself.

Priorities.

Two months on the toilet? Must have been one hell of a dump.

(I know, I know; "**** off"....)

greencap · 15-11-2019 10:45am

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Two months on the toilet? Must have been one hell of a dump.

(I know, I know; "**** off"....)

I logged off that day.

Edgware · 15-11-2019 10:46am

Welcome to Tap Quarter

Doop · 15-11-2019 10:56am

pinkyeye wrote: »

I don't know what the problem is. If anyone asks me for a smoke I'll give them one no problem cause I know what it's like to be gagging for a smoke and it's no skin off my nose to give one away.

I'll even give them a light (shock, horror).

When it comes to cash if I've any on me I'll probably give it away because why not? It doesn't hurt my pocket to give an odd fiver away. If If I don't have any on me I'll just state politely that I don't have any cash.

Fail to understand why people get so stressed over these things.

You're the reason the rest of us get hassled so..

Pleanty of problems with it...
- Its intimidatory to lots of people.
- Its ****e for tourism
- You never know how some will react..ive had some yoke scream and shout at me because I said no I'd no cash while standing outside a pub at 3 in the afternoon.
- These people get plenty of my money as it is (tax)

The Nal · 15-11-2019 10:59am

pinkyeye wrote: »

I don't know what the problem is. If anyone asks me for a smoke I'll give them one no problem cause I know what it's like to be gagging for a smoke and it's no skin off my nose to give one away.

I'll even give them a light (shock, horror).

When it comes to cash if I've any on me I'll probably give it away because why not? It doesn't hurt my pocket to give an odd fiver away. If If I don't have any on me I'll just state politely that I don't have any cash.

Fail to understand why people get so stressed over these things.

Very good chance its for drugs

It means they see the city centre as a supply zone and hassle tourists

No one wants junkies dotted all around the city 24/7

There was a similar thread about this and the issue for me is having all the methadone clinics and needle exchanges in the city as opposed to where the people who need it are from. ie if they live in Kildare, go to Kildare.

suicide_circus · 15-11-2019 11:04am

I was asked for change for a "warm bed tonight" by a girl on south william street last night. i felt bad for her as it was a cold night but i'm not handing out drug money.

can anyone answer this conclusively - do homeless people need to pay for their hostel beds? if so, presumably they have to beg for cash. Are there free hostel beds? do they get the dole ?

TomSweeney · 15-11-2019 11:10am

Mark Rippetoe wrote: »

Not a problem for me. Then again, I have the appearance of somebody looking for spare change.

That's a good idea!! - I must stop wearing my armani suit and rolex when I go strolling along the boardwalk*

*Sarcasm, please don't try this - you WILL be robbed!!

Woke Hogan · 18-11-2019 5:19pm

Canis Lupus wrote: »

I'm impressed it took you two months.

Typical quick witted Dub.

corner of hells · 18-11-2019 5:28pm

suicide_circus wrote: »

I was asked for change for a "warm bed tonight" by a girl on south william street last night. i felt bad for her as it was a cold night but i'm not handing out drug money.

can anyone answer this conclusively - do homeless people need to pay for their hostel beds? if so, presumably they have to beg for cash. Are there free hostel beds? do they get the dole ?

Around 50 euros a week for an STA bed ,as far as I know all ONO or CWI are free.
STA is Short Term Accommodation, ONO is one night only and CWI is cold weather initiative.

Nearly everyone has a welfare payment of some sort.

Dublin City is now ''Tap'' Central

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