Why Don't More People...
... buy the Big Issue?Beside the fact that it's a good magazine as they can write about anything they please, without having to live up to the editor's ideals, writing what the government/public want to hear etc, it's really nice to actually buy it.
It's a nice experience -- they guys (they're always male, for some reason) that sell them are always really friendly. Today when I bought it he didn't have the right change to give me, so I just said that £3 change was enough. He was so grateful for the extra 60p that that gave him, it was almost heart-warming. That's only just a can of coke.
It gives you a nice feeling, in a selfish, 'I'm glad my life isn't that bad' kind of way, which is what the feelings boil down to in the end.
In conclusion, more people should buy the Big Issue.
You'd do it if it saved poor, black, starving children in Africa (mainly because Bono would beat your ass if you didn't.)
posted by eriu @ 7:23:00 PM
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TBH I get the nice, selfish "I'm glad my life isn't that bad" just by looking, and sometimes actively laughing or kicking, at a homeless person.
Yeah but you have more money than sense. You were going to just randomly throw away like £10 worth of pound coins just because you couldn't be arsed to carry them :P
It's also called a tip.
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