The last two cartoons hit home,the idiocy of sexual identity nonsense(species identity OK!),and,the guy sleeping on the sidewalk.I do realize most of the homeless have mental health/substance issues ect. but also believe that many fell victim to a illness ect.and lost their job/insurance if they had any ect. and chewed thru whatever savings they had.
While it would not solve the problem help friends/family any way you can while not jeopardizing your own life,would go a long way towards solving issues with citizens in our country.
99% of homeless have mental health issues. Imagine if your home burnt down or you lost your job for a prolonged period of time. How many people could you stay with temporarily or count on to help you get back on your feet? The homeless generally have been such dicks to people that they have noone left.
Greetings,
If you are not crazy at the moment of becoming homeless, a few months on the streets will turn you batshit crazy.
I live in SoCal in a place where it might rain twice a year and the temperature is a balmy 72 degrees every day of the year. As you can well imagine, homeless from all over the place are bussed in from other communities that didn’t want them and dumped here as at least the weather wont kill them. Anyway, as someone that walks around in their “zone” each and every day, I have a good clue as to who is new and I get an opportunity to watch it go downhill month after month.
Being homeless here in SoCal must be very similar to being a ghost. There is a whole bubbling world in front of you but you, yourself, are invisible to it. Watching tourist families enjoying themselves at the beach or seeing couples march on in to restaurants to enjoy food from a table instead of a dumpster drives them crazy. By the third month, most are withdrawn and wild eyed and by month 6 they are about as functional as a feral cat.
My next door neighbor is a lunatic leftist writer and he thought he might do his part by taking in an elderly homeless lady as he thought his good leftist intentions would somehow turn her life around. It didn’t. Once inside his home, she began breaking everything and he had to flee his own home and it took him 3 days and several bottles of vodka to get her out. I know this because I caught the tail end of it with her being tricked with vodka and the door locked behind her. She was shrieking in the street with a bottle of vodka in each hand when I stumbled upon the situation. Fun stuff.
James: “While it would not solve the problem help friends/family any way you can while not jeopardizing your own life,would go a long way towards solving issues with citizens in our country.”
We used to have that — they were called churches. Anyone who really needed help could get it, whether they had family /friends who were capable of helping or not. Communities came together to take care of people in need and it worked well, with no one carrying undue burden. Government wanted more control, however, and sought to undermine the role of churches in our communities and social fabric so that more people become dependent on government.
I’ll call this one “Sunday’s Giggles” instead of the JOTW…all word plays, really.
Creative, though.
Back in 2005, the local Chevron gas station in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood converted their auto repair shop into a convenience store. Their outdoor sign, once used for service promotions and store specials, became redundant with the inside of the store already plastered with signage. So the owners decided to have fun with the outdoor sign instead, and the Wallingford Sign was born. This weekly sign message has become so popular, it has become a more effective marketing tool for the gas station than anything prior.
Some samples…
“IF ATTACKED BY A MOB OF CLOWNS, GO FOR THE JUGGLER”
“BAN PRE-SHREDDED CHEESE. MAKE AMERICA GRATE AGAIN.”
“THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE WALK INTO THIS BAR.
… IT WAS TENSE.”
“BUY ONE OR TWO WHILE YOU STILL CAN. THEY’RE NOT GONNA MAKE
YARDSTICKS ANY LONGER.”
“PRACTICE SAFE EATING. . . ALWAYS USE CONDIMENTS.”
“I CHECKED INTO THE HOKEY-POKEY CLINIC, AND TURNED MYSELF AROUND.”
“WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU GET SCARED HALF TO DEATH? TWICE???”
“THIS IS MY STEP LADDER….I NEVER REALLY KNEW MY REAL LADDER.”
“I WANT TO GROW MY OWN FOOD, BUT CAN’T FIND BACON SEEDS ANYWHERE.”
“IF YOUR CAR IS RUNNING….I’M VOTING FOR IT.”
“I WENT TO THE AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, BUT THERE WAS NOTHING THERE.”
“MY WIFE SAID I NEVER LISTEN TO HER…OR, SOMETHING LIKE THAT”
“FROG PARKING ONLY!….ALL OTHERS WILL BE TOAD”
“I JUST DID A WEEK’S WORTH OF CARDIO, AFTER WALKING INTO A SPIDER WEB.”
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Cheers, Monkeys. Enjoy your Sunday.
LGR
June 24, 2018 2:06 pm
Hey…all these made me think of Stephen Wright. Where is he now?
I miss him.
The last two cartoons hit home,the idiocy of sexual identity nonsense(species identity OK!),and,the guy sleeping on the sidewalk.I do realize most of the homeless have mental health/substance issues ect. but also believe that many fell victim to a illness ect.and lost their job/insurance if they had any ect. and chewed thru whatever savings they had.
While it would not solve the problem help friends/family any way you can while not jeopardizing your own life,would go a long way towards solving issues with citizens in our country.
99% of homeless have mental health issues. Imagine if your home burnt down or you lost your job for a prolonged period of time. How many people could you stay with temporarily or count on to help you get back on your feet? The homeless generally have been such dicks to people that they have noone left.
Greetings,
If you are not crazy at the moment of becoming homeless, a few months on the streets will turn you batshit crazy.
I live in SoCal in a place where it might rain twice a year and the temperature is a balmy 72 degrees every day of the year. As you can well imagine, homeless from all over the place are bussed in from other communities that didn’t want them and dumped here as at least the weather wont kill them. Anyway, as someone that walks around in their “zone” each and every day, I have a good clue as to who is new and I get an opportunity to watch it go downhill month after month.
Being homeless here in SoCal must be very similar to being a ghost. There is a whole bubbling world in front of you but you, yourself, are invisible to it. Watching tourist families enjoying themselves at the beach or seeing couples march on in to restaurants to enjoy food from a table instead of a dumpster drives them crazy. By the third month, most are withdrawn and wild eyed and by month 6 they are about as functional as a feral cat.
My next door neighbor is a lunatic leftist writer and he thought he might do his part by taking in an elderly homeless lady as he thought his good leftist intentions would somehow turn her life around. It didn’t. Once inside his home, she began breaking everything and he had to flee his own home and it took him 3 days and several bottles of vodka to get her out. I know this because I caught the tail end of it with her being tricked with vodka and the door locked behind her. She was shrieking in the street with a bottle of vodka in each hand when I stumbled upon the situation. Fun stuff.
James: “While it would not solve the problem help friends/family any way you can while not jeopardizing your own life,would go a long way towards solving issues with citizens in our country.”
We used to have that — they were called churches. Anyone who really needed help could get it, whether they had family /friends who were capable of helping or not. Communities came together to take care of people in need and it worked well, with no one carrying undue burden. Government wanted more control, however, and sought to undermine the role of churches in our communities and social fabric so that more people become dependent on government.
I’ll call this one “Sunday’s Giggles” instead of the JOTW…all word plays, really.
Creative, though.
Back in 2005, the local Chevron gas station in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood converted their auto repair shop into a convenience store. Their outdoor sign, once used for service promotions and store specials, became redundant with the inside of the store already plastered with signage. So the owners decided to have fun with the outdoor sign instead, and the Wallingford Sign was born. This weekly sign message has become so popular, it has become a more effective marketing tool for the gas station than anything prior.
Some samples…
“IF ATTACKED BY A MOB OF CLOWNS, GO FOR THE JUGGLER”
“BAN PRE-SHREDDED CHEESE. MAKE AMERICA GRATE AGAIN.”
“THE PAST, THE PRESENT, AND THE FUTURE WALK INTO THIS BAR.
… IT WAS TENSE.”
“BUY ONE OR TWO WHILE YOU STILL CAN. THEY’RE NOT GONNA MAKE
YARDSTICKS ANY LONGER.”
“PRACTICE SAFE EATING. . . ALWAYS USE CONDIMENTS.”
“I CHECKED INTO THE HOKEY-POKEY CLINIC, AND TURNED MYSELF AROUND.”
“WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU GET SCARED HALF TO DEATH? TWICE???”
“THIS IS MY STEP LADDER….I NEVER REALLY KNEW MY REAL LADDER.”
“I WANT TO GROW MY OWN FOOD, BUT CAN’T FIND BACON SEEDS ANYWHERE.”
“IF YOUR CAR IS RUNNING….I’M VOTING FOR IT.”
“I WENT TO THE AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM, BUT THERE WAS NOTHING THERE.”
“MY WIFE SAID I NEVER LISTEN TO HER…OR, SOMETHING LIKE THAT”
“FROG PARKING ONLY!….ALL OTHERS WILL BE TOAD”
“I JUST DID A WEEK’S WORTH OF CARDIO, AFTER WALKING INTO A SPIDER WEB.”
V
V
V
Cheers, Monkeys. Enjoy your Sunday.
Hey…all these made me think of Stephen Wright. Where is he now?
I miss him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ciHpT4WuM
He got one of those circular driveways, and can’t get out.
Wow, is it Sunday already? Funny stuff.