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Twitter · Aspiring Calnite Joined: 05 Jun 2008 Posts: 66 Status:

Without wanting to make a "big issue" of it I am getting slightly fed up with the chap outside the closed card mart hassling me with his BI rags...it wouldn't annoy me as I fully support what they are doing BUT I find it slightly insulting that two seconds after purchasing one (at £2 so he can have extra 50p) he's asking me again...should I stop tipping him?

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Ps the female one infront of Sainsburys used to be much more subtle.....& grateful!

abitmuch · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:18 am Post subject:

the lady selling them in Chippenham is legendary.
How she gets the sound of desperation in her call is quite unique.....Chippenham high street wouldn't be the same without her.

Local lass · Calnetalk Mayor Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 3093 Status:

I would never bother buying them.they should be banned from the streets all together.

GTB · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:15 am Post subject:

Why?
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Kizzy · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:07 am Post subject:

I don't mind them and the more cheeky and entertaining ones (you know the ones who actually put the effort in to selling them) are the ones I normally buy from as they are more grateful.

I am concerned that the sellers in Calne and Devizes (don't know about anywhere else) I believe are from the same family and they rotate round every few months. The woman who used to be outside Sainsburys in Calne, is working the streets in Devizes. My concen is that, surely not all members of the same family are "homeless" ex druggies or in shelters. And I have seen the woman with a child in Devizes.

Good on them for trying to make their life better, but I think some of them need to be checked out by the Big Issue organisers as I think they are pulling a fast one.

And if you ban Big Issue sellers then you would have to ban all charity collectors from the streets - cause that's what they are a charity
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Block67 · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject:

Never bought one myself, but surely the sellers would be better off getting a "proper" job, instead of boosting their dole money for beer of drugs?

Geddi · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:16 pm Post subject:

"Working not begging" is the motto of Big Issue Sellers. It has nothing at all to do with drugs or drug users, and is a magazine (an excellent magazine in fact) for the homeless to sell. That's it. It's a way of homeless people earning an income. I can not imagine why anyone could possibly object to someone working for a living. Those who think it is easy ought to try it one day.

I have found it irritating when people offer you the magazine more than once in a day, as if they should take a proper look at the face of the person buying from them, and remember it. Then again, I get irritated when middle aged couples sit smugly in the door way of local supermarkets chiming out "Cancer Research" and waving a collection tin at me, for the second time in 10 minutes, with a waxy smile between them like they are sanctioned by gods to do so.

I also agree that the Romanian girl who used to stand outside Sainsbury's was very polite and quiet and intelligent. I gave her a bag of hot chips one very cold day, and she never forgot it or me. The reason the BI sellers can no longer sell on Sainsbury's land any longer is because some few nasty minded locals complained!

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Local lass · Calnetalk Mayor Joined: 05 Jun 2007 Posts: 3093 Status:

there used to be a guy in chippenham who used to have a dog .often wondered why the dog was never taken away after all how could he satify the dogs needs.
i absolute hate them with there ringing out big issue all the dam time.
why not busk give the people some entertainment .there has been some fantastic buskers about, i give to them for they supply a service.
not only that i find sainburys own toilet paper cheaper than big issue .

Block67 · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject:

Hearing the chimes of "beeeg eeshoo plsss" does not warrant any favour from me, and standing around muttering that does not constitute work, its tant amount to begging. And before you say anything, yes I have been homeless in the past, and I got off my backside, used a "care of" address to get work.