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Written by The Boxman
Sunday, 08 March 2009

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This is Tim. He is a bum. He is on the internet. He lives under a highway overpass. He thinks he is the first bum on the internet. Tim does not know about www.street-people.com.

It seems that someone else has our idea of posting stories about bums on the internet. In this case it is a web marketing company that wanted to demonstrate how cleaver they are by posting YouTube videos about Tim the bum who panhandles by their office. I guess they would have been cleaver if we had not been doing it since 2006.

Thinking they are some sort of marketing geniuses the creators of the site talk about how their site uses insensitivity to address the issue of homelessness because feel good stories don’t get media attention. Image that we have only been preaching that for three years. I guess the creators behind pimpthisbum.com are such internet marketing geniuses that they forgot to check and see if someone else was already doing their “unique concept”

Pimpthatbum.com is doing something slightly different in that they are asking for money to send one bum to rehab. Our idea is a little larger in scope, stop giving bums money and they won’t have the money to buy drugs, beer, or what ever other substance they are using to scramble their brains. It called cold turkey – maybe a little pain and suffering will teach you that you don’t want to mess with that stuff again.

Although they are not the marketing geniuses they think they are Street-people.com celebrates another voice, or site, talking about the need to stop giving money to street people and start doing something to get them off the street. Raising money to send a guy to rehab seems about as good in the odds department and investing your money in the stock market. Why don’t you just save it instead for the pending collapse of our society when coffee will be $15 dollars a cup and you will need an MBA just to get a job at Wal-Mart

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Facebook | Stop the Use of Live Dogs as Shark Bait

Innocent stray dogs are being skewered alive and being dragged behind boats as shark bait. Help Animal Rights and sign a letter to the French government to ask for an end to this inhumane practice in Reunion Island (French-controlled). We are asking the government to make sure this never happens again. You can WATCH THE VIDEO that shows the poor dog being rescued — see below. Here is the petition:
http://tinyurl.com/SaveDogs

Here’s how YOU CAN HELP:

1. Invite all of your friends to this group and ask them to do the same – you can do that here: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=34948192471#/groups/edit.php?members&gid=34948192471

2. Sign the Animal Rights petition if you haven’t done so already: http://tinyurl.com/SaveDogs

3. Add the application to send along to your friends to sign: http://apps.facebook.com/fightabuse/

Here is a piece of the National Geographic article:
“Live and dead dogs and cats are being used as shark bait by amateur fishers on the French-controlled island of Réunion, according to animal-welfare organizations and local authorities.

The small volcanic island off Africa’s east coast is bursting with stray dogs—upward of 150,000, says Reha Hutin, president of the Paris-based Fondation 30 Millions d’Amis (the Thirty Million Friends Foundation).

Hutin sent a film crew to Réunion this summer to obtain proof that live animals were being used as shark bait. The goal was to expose the practice on the animal rights group’s weekly television show.

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Facebook | facebook,myspace,bebo alliance against government access

Every one every where should stand up and say no to this, where ever you are take to the streets meet at your towns biggest governmental place showing placards saying ‘we dont like this, keep out of our private lives youve got too much already’. Make the event Gandi Style, Passive Residence, We need numbers so pass this event to ALL YOUR FRIENDS ACROSS THE GLOBE PLUS SPREAD IT IN MYSPACE AND BEBO and we can create an event just to say please enough is enough with a voice that will certainly heard.

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…apart from to tell one stupid girl I love her; but I hope she already knows it!

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Tim thinks that psychiatrists are that mad they must surely weigh themselves before and after each shit, just to ensure they hold on to a decent amount, so as they can speak for the following period. Certainly one that I know!

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Bravo mi amico Nick. Right you, you bunch of tight bastards and invited guests reading my blog just for entertainment – read this:

This Easter a group of seven cyclists will be riding the Lon Las Challenge in five days. That’s three mountain ranges and 250 miles of cycling. It is known as one of the toughest long distance routes on the UK cycle route, starting in Hollyhead and finishing in Chepstow.

And like certain people I know that weekend, they are not going to stay in bed ’til 1pm, be off in the Alps snowboarding, nor drink beer all weekend (am I right in saying that Nick?), and they are all doing it out of the kindness of their own hearts for children they don’t even know!!!

So show them A BIT OF RESPECT please – YOU can donate any amount you want (no amount is too large OR too small, and it takes just two minutes).

You even get your name and comments on their website – FAME

Donate NOW at http://www.justgiving.com/lonlaschallenge

The crazy cyclists too skint to go snowboarding, and with nothing else better to do are:

Cenydd Richards
Natalie Hemingway-Main
Juliet Milne
Nick Tallis (anything to get out of decorating)
Ffion Hayley Liles
Steve Heyes
Nerys Evans

“BRAVO!”

So don’t forget, you can donate NOW at http://www.justgiving.com/lonlaschallenge

They kindly ask that you donate what you can to sponsor them, otherwise they will all have extremely sore arses for nothing (haha Nick). Your kind donation will go to a charity called LearnAsOne who are working towards a sustainable education for children in Africa.

Please, donate NOW at http://www.justgiving.com/lonlaschallenge

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