Famous Rich And "homeless", Willie Thorne What A Wimp!

[ToraToraTora]

2 nights in a hotel, part time homeless, at least the others did it!

[MargoTester]

Divebunny - which was exactly my point. We are all, I would hope, clever enough to realise that what these 'celebrities' experienced was not a true situation, but a opportunity to raise awareness.

[mccfluff]

just to put a different angle on it, we were talking about this, this morning and it ended up in a massive discussion about homelessness and how many people are just a couple of paydays away from being homeless, not much time was spent discussing the "celebs" (apart from googling nick hancock as we couldn't remember the name of the sports quiz show).

[Mamyalynne]

Andy whilst I don't exactly care much for this type of approach to this subject , I think you are overreacting somewhat and it has as said achieved the object of discussing homelessness.

[MargoTester]

Mccfluff, exactly so perhaps the programme did achieve awareness of the problem, and got people talking about it, which can't be a bad thing surely.

[andy-hughes]

divebuddy - I am only ever expressing my opinion, and although obviously I believe my view to be correct - otherwise why bother to express it? - that does not mean that I think I am right, and that is the end of the argument.

If I thought that, I would only ever post on every thread just once, with the 'definitive' answer, and then no-one else need bother!

It is because I am open to debate and other opinion that I continue to exchange views with people - something which you criticise me for on a regular basis.

You can't have it both ways!

[Hypognosis]

@T3

Shame on me for watching a recorded programme instead. Emerged from that to the sight of a close up of a swollen leg but not the perdon it was attached to, then a bit with W.Thorne reminiscing some unpleasant aspect of his childhood. Some of these documentaries you can 'get' entirely from the summing up part, at the end but I get the impression that I should watch the repeat(s).

I like to believe I should be able to rely on my imagination to empathise with the homeless, so was this programme really pitched at the hard-hearted?

@SandyRoe

//Remember the MP who spent a week living on the money he'd have go on the dole? It's not a few days being homeless or poor that grinds people down.//

An MP could probably live off his fat reserves for the week and not feel hungry, on the sparse diet benefits would buy. JSA is supposed to cover travel expenses to job interviews, not food, so how people on JSA get to interviews *and* evade starvation mystifies me.

[MargoTester]

A-H - did you actually watch the programme?

[Hypognosis]

@andy-hughes

Which celeb had the 8-figure salary? Was that a typo? (8=Tens of millions)

[Hypognosis]

@andy-hughes

//The grinding endless futility of homelessness is cumulative - you don't experience it after a few days, or even a few weeks. //

This is a fair point but programmes like this usually take time out to say to the audience what a feeble approximation of the reality of the situation it is. Did they omit that, this time?

So, speaking of the grinding down process (per Sandy's post), I've always wondered what they do for hope? In spite of everything they must see some
light at the end of the tunnel and manage to keep going.

You'd think they'd be pestered by god-botherers, all day. There's nothing solid for the Witnesses to knock on but what's keeping them away from such obvious convert-potentials? The fact that they lack money?