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Inspired by this thread http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=482014, cos' Cabra-West fooled me into thinking it was about hobos!
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There were calls for a thread about hobos so I have gone ahead and made one. Kind of appropriate as my name is Hobovillia.
:)
Anyway whats your opinion on hobos?

Some of the finest people on the planet. How much a man earns is not the measure of his worth, but rather how much he truly enjoys freedom.

I like them, particularly when they're nice & round & pert.

Some of the finest people on the planet. How much a man earns is not the measure of his worth, but rather how much he truly enjoys freedom.
I love you now :fluffle:

I love you now :fluffle:

Hooray! :D

Quite a few hang out on campus a lot...when its cold, they sometimes stay in the library. To my knowledge, its never been any kind of problem, as they seem to be less rowdy and generally tidier than most undergraduates...

Hoboes are great. They just seem so happy to jump from boxcar to boxcar, dodging the police, and trying to bum a dollar off people.

Just offer a different POV

I think they should all be forced into Labour Camps where they can be concentrated in one place for safe keeping. Then we can put the healthy ones to work, while the unhealthy ones can take a nice shower to start their medical treatment off.

Hoboes were meant to run free! Not be imprisoned and have to work!

Cheap Sex!!! :) :fluffle:

Hoboes were meant to run free! Not be imprisoned and have to work!

Oh, so you are one of them? You will join them.

Cheap Sex!!!
Always remember: Use a condom.

Cheap Sex!!! :) :fluffle:

Have you ever seen one?

Isn't a hobo like a bassoon, but shorter??

I like the saxophone better.

It's a shame that people in developed countries do not have the universal right to shelter. No-one should be homeless.

Some of the finest people on the planet. How much a man earns is not the measure of his worth, but rather how much he truly enjoys freedom.
I've never met any of the homeless who enjoyed their freedom from shelter, or who thought that money didn't matter.

I don't agree that anyone deserves admiration for enjoying freedom either. The dictator of North Korea seems to thoroughly enjoy his freedom (at the expense of others, of course).

I would consider those who devote their lives to helping other people to be the finest on the planet. Simply lacking possessions is not worthy of admiration (just as simply owning a lot of stuff is not worthy of admiration).

I like hoboes and copious hobo signs.

Who wouldn't love these? :D

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Our campus newspaper did a story about our local hobos a couple of months ago. Pretty sure they can make about $40-50 an hour from begging. Sadly they are all winos...

Hoboes are relatively tasteless and far too tough for my tastes. Though they are easy to get ahold of in big cities, and (due to their tendency to gather around burning trash cans) preparation is relatively quick and painless.
All in all, Hoboes are the McDonalds of cannibalism: its not very good, but for some fucking reason everyone I know has eaten one at some point.

It's a shame that people in developed countries do not have the universal right to shelter. No-one should be homeless.
This has been brought up a number of times and leads me to believe that in Europe the homeless do not choose to be homeless. In America, the bums out on the street with their twenty-eight year old K-Mart shopping karts filled with their possessions choose to live that way. Figured that out volunteering in soup kitchens. There are actual homeless folks - those people are not hoboes. Anyhow they - hoboes - tend to occur down South or in metropolises, where it does not snow or where there is easily accessable shelter to squat in.

This has been brought up a number of times and leads me to believe that in Europe the homeless do not choose to be homeless.
I am of course referring to the homeless who don't choose it. Those who choose it, I have neither sympathy, admiration or disgust for them.

I am of course referring to the homeless who don't choose it. Those who choose it, I have neither sympathy, admiration or disgust for them.
Perpetual victims if there ever were any. They deserve what they get.

They deserve what they get.
Don't we all?

Don't we all?
I won't disagree there.

I won't disagree there.
Well, I'll qualify that. We all get what we deserve, provided we personally work for it. Fruits of our labour, and all that.

For example, I don't think the children of the wealthy really deserve what they're getting. Not 'til they earn it themselves. Being deserving doesn't automatically pass from generation to generation.

Don't we all?
Nobody deserves anything (good or bad), such a statement would require there to be a higher order to things. Since there is no evidence of any such order, we just get what happens.

Well, I'll qualify that. We all get what we deserve, provided we personally work for it. Fruits of our labour, and all that.

For example, I don't think the children of the wealthy really deserve what they're getting. Not 'til they earn it themselves. Being deserving doesn't automatically pass from generation to generation.
I concur wholeheartedly.

Hoboes are relatively tasteless and far too tough for my tastes. Though they are easy to get ahold of in big cities, and (due to their tendency to gather around burning trash cans) preparation is relatively quick and painless.
All in all, Hoboes are the McDonalds of cannibalism: its not very good, but for some fucking reason everyone I know has eaten one at some point.
Do you use a deep fryer?