What would you do if a scraggly homeless person knocked on your door, and all he asked was for a sandwich, a bottle of water, a bath, and perhaps a beard trim?

over_clox@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 170 points –

I've actually skipped work just to help a homeless guy get his beard trimmed. Bought him pizza too. Kinda hard to get anywhere in life when you look like shit.

Be kind to the homeless, they just need a helping hand here and there.

What would you do?

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I remember a skit by the late George Carlin where he suggested that instead of calling them homeless, that we should call them houseless instead, so yeah I get what you mean there.

Plow the golf courses and cemeteries! Give these folks a place to live!

Ah, I see you're a fan of the late George Carlin as well.. 👍

This is the first time I'm hearing plow cemeteries, and I'm not sure I'm on board with that. People usually spend time there to deal with grief and losing a little bit more of a dead loved one would be incredibly painful for a lot of folks

Fuck golf courses though

It's a joke from George Carlin. I wouldn't advocate for plowing old ones (although dead stuff makes fertile soil). Personally, I wouldn't make new ones, but perhaps a middle ground is to make mausoleums wbere people can be burried vertically.

Fair, never heard that one, but I can agree with not making new ones