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belfast city centre, gone to pot

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Saturday October 01, 2005 23:08

by rattle your tins elsewhere - make poverty collectors obselete

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give it a rest

Belfast city centre, tin rattlers are wrecking it for people who want to shop!!!

I may be cited slated and dehumanised as a monster or a cummudgen. But Belfast city centre must be the tin rattling capital of Europe. Lately thing's have gotten worse.
You can't move 10 yards without being assaulted by a charity collector. There is no problem with different charities being on the same street, and i do give of my own free will. But the make poverty dissapear and everyone gets a bunny rabbit campaign or whatever it's called which took place in septemeber really took the piss!!!..
They put me off going into shops as they roamed the streets in their hundreds!!. They could make more money putting collection tins into the shops people frequent..I'm sure i'm not the only one who feels like this.
But on a more important note why don't the clipboard holding market research wasters do everyone a favour and just fuck off!!!...Its warm i'm tired, i'm trying to shop kids are screaming everywhere my head is done in. And some asshole wants to ask me a few questions. I actually preferred the city centre when i was being searched at checkpoints and being tapped by wino's every 10 minutes.
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I mean like c'mon fer facks sake i can't even go into gresham street for a wank mag without being approached by market researchers, or help the aged

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Comments (11 of 11)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	where have all the wino's gone?	give it a rest	Sat Oct 01, 2005 23:23
2	goths	give it a rest	Sat Oct 01, 2005 23:42
3	belfast gone to pot	sickened newtownabbey	Sun Oct 02, 2005 01:29
4	shop shop shop till we all drop	rikki	Sun Oct 02, 2005 02:19
5	shopping etiquette...?	harpy	Sun Oct 02, 2005 02:47
6	well	...	Tue Oct 04, 2005 21:16
7	Shut up, Goths are allowed!!	Leigh	Tue Nov 15, 2005 14:35
8	RE: goths	emo	Fri Jan 13, 2006 20:06
9	City Centre	gooner	Mon Feb 20, 2006 14:23
10	Lár na Cathrach	Duine	Mon Feb 20, 2006 14:29
11	Goth contd	Leigh	Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:28

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