Buying food for homeless

[crazy canuck]

I've never seen a professor sleeping on a grate covered in newspaper.

I have.  There was a crazy law prof who decided to take a one year sabbatical and live as a street person playing for money outside liquor stores.

I can see Meri's quandry.  But I would solve it differently.  She should give the guy the food.  If it is a professor then he will get the hint that he needs to up his game and should be grateful. If he is homeless (and not a prof) then he will most certainly be grateful.

[Eddie Teach]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2up7su7CeMU

That song is even weirder now that I've managed to pick up some of the words.

[CountDeMoney]

I've never seen a professor sleeping on a grate covered in newspaper.

Only if they're caught fucking their 19 year old students.  Their delicious, soft-skinned yet hard-bodied, unwrinkled and incredibly flexible 19 year old students that smell soooo good.

[CountDeMoney]

I know it's personally more satisfying to give a hot meal to a specific person, it's generally much more socially beneficial to give the money to your local food bank / homeless shelter.

Yes, nothing like seeing your contribution going to "overhead costs".

[mongers]

I see Tricky has already alluded to the sartorial elegance of a certain type of British person.   

[Admiral Yi]

Only if they're caught fucking their 19 year old students.  Their delicious, soft-skinned yet hard-bodied, unwrinkled and incredibly flexible 19 year old students that smell soooo good.

No grates in the Rockies.

Might not be any newspapers either.

[Barrister]

I know it's personally more satisfying to give a hot meal to a specific person, it's generally much more socially beneficial to give the money to your local food bank / homeless shelter.

Yes, nothing like seeing your contribution going to "overhead costs".

Food banks and soup kitchens are the ones most likely to be run by volunteers and religious organizations.

Not every charity is Susan G Komen.

Besides, this way Meri's paying the overhead costs of the restaurant.  Oatmeal doesn't cost $2 per bowl.

[merithyn]

Food banks and soup kitchens are the ones most likely to be run by volunteers and religious organizations.

Not every charity is Susan G Komen.

Besides, this way Meri's paying the overhead costs of the restaurant.  Oatmeal doesn't cost $2 per bowl.

It's a food co-op, not a restaurant.

[Richard Hakluyt]

When you guys say "oatmeal" is that the same as porridge?

[Barrister]

When you guys say "oatmeal" is that the same as porridge?

Yes, but only made of oats.

[viper37]

I prefer direct aid, just like Meri.  Then again, I don't meet many homeless people.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Thanks. Perhaps because we are so close to Scotland "porridge" and "oatmeal porridge" are more or less synonyms here.

[The Brain]

I don't care much for homeless people. That may be because many of them stink.

The good kind of homeless you can't really tell from a norm just by looking at him. There is no law that you have to stink just because you're homeless, there are homeless people who shower at work etc.

[Eddie Teach]

There's no law that you have to shower regularly either. 

[Ideologue]

I've never seen a professor sleeping on a grate covered in newspaper.

Yeah?  Five years.  That's all they've got.