Really Interesting Story

[lothofkalroth]

I used to do a crappy two-bit webcomic on this forum, and I realy love OOTS as well as Erfworld, so when I ran across this website I thought maybe fellow gamers would enjoy it as well. It's a site where a guy writes a blog for a homeless man. Since he has no way to do it himself, the homeless guy tells the blogger what to write, or else the blogger will just transcribe conversations between the two of them. Here (http://homelessmanspeaks.wordpress.com/)'s the link if you're interested. I think it's a really neat way to ge tpeople involved in helping fight homelessness.

:smallsmile:

The guy has some scool stories.

[Stormthorn]

Thats cool.

Its sad how many pages those Random Banter threads to increase post counts get while no one stops by to simply say "thats cool" to something as awesome as this. Real shallow folks. Real shallow.

[Rettu Skcollob]

Heh, those stories are great. My experiences with homeless people have shown me that they're usually completely awesome, or totally crazy. Sometimes both! Tony sounds more like the former, which is cool.

[Player_Zero]

Thats cool.

Its sad how many pages those Random Banter threads to increase post counts get while no one stops by to simply say "thats cool" to something as awesome as this. Real shallow folks. Real shallow.

What are you doing here? Why aren't you out helping in a homeless shelter?! Shallow man. Think of someone else for once.

Yeah, I wouldn't go around judging people for no particular reason. That is what we call 'being a jerk'.

And on topic, that blog is fairly interesting, yes.

[Stormthorn]

What are you doing here? Why aren't you out helping in a homeless shelter?! Shallow man. Think of someone else for once.

Yeah, I wouldn't go around judging people for no particular reason. That is what we call 'being a jerk'.

And on topic, that blog is fairly interesting, yes.

Its almost midnight were i am and there are no homeless shelters near my home.

But your right, i should be doing something more productive that simply talk here. But just because IM shallow doenst make you NOT shallow.


Im just judging your threads as an example, being the largest offender i happened to notice.
I also looked at the random thread first and, finding nothing, have asked people to justify it.

[Seffbasilisk]

That's nifty. The homeless people in my town mostly just grumble or go on rants.

Thought one of them was speaking via divine inspiration, then he asked me my name, thought it was 'Self' and went on a rant about how being your 'self' is all you can be, and that's mumblemumblemumblegoaway.

[Stormthorn]

A homeless man often hangs near the gamestop. He holds a sign that says he can cancer and cant work.

I was the only one amongst family or friends willing to go talk to him.

Poor man. I dont know if its cancer but he certainly has something wrong with his CNS. Nice guy though. He thinks it was smoking pot that caused his condition.

[evisiron]

Yeah, I wouldn't go around judging people for no particular reason. That is what we call 'being a jerk'.


Quoted For Truth.

Although maybe we should avoid feeding the trolls...

Anyway, the link seems pretty cool. Thanks for posting!

[averagejoe]

This is great. I'm trying hard to study, but this is pulling me away.

Thanks, lothofkalroth. :smallannoyed:

:smallbiggrin:

[Recaiden]

That's pretty cool that he's doing this blog for him.
I try to help out people when I can, but you won't always or even most of the time be out helping the homeless.

[late for dinner]

I like it a lot. A great win for you for bringing something this interesting into my life

[lothofkalroth]

Im glad everyone actually thinks this is interesting! If you like it, and want to help, spread the word. There's also a completely cool, but totally unrelated charity organization called kiva.org (http://www.kiva.org), where you loan people in third world countries money at no interest instead of just giving it away. That way you can reuse the same donation over and over again- great for those of us with lighter wallets. :smallsmile:


Just thought I'd mention it, since this thread seems to have attracted a few humanitarians.

[Fri]

Cool stuff. Are there any cast page? Tony seems interesting and I wonder how did he turned to be a homeless like that.

[lothofkalroth]

I'm not exactly sure what a cast page is. : P

[Mauve Shirt]

That's really neat.
We don't have too many homeless people in Ellicott City, at least not homeless people on the street, but in F-burg it's rather surprising. There are a few dozen of them that all know each other, and they've memorized the bus schedule and will ride around all day until the driver kicks them off.

[randman22222]

I used to do a crappy two-bit webcomic on this forum, and I realy love OOTS as well as Erfworld, so when I ran across this website I thought maybe fellow gamers would enjoy it as well. It's a site where a guy writes a blog for a homeless man. Since he has no way to do it himself, the homeless guy tells the blogger what to write, or else the blogger will just transcribe conversations between the two of them. Here (http://homelessmanspeaks.wordpress.com/)'s the link if you're interested. I think it's a really neat way to ge tpeople involved in helping fight homelessness.

:smallsmile:

The guy has some scool stories.

That's quite a find.

..Now I'm a bit pissed off at how many people/shops/organisations frequently manipulate this guy. :smallmad:
Or maybe that's just my first impression.

[lothofkalroth]

I need to amend my earlier statement that kiva doesn't charge interest. Apparently their field partners doing the actual lending in the impoverished areas do charge interest, but kiva doesn't profit from it, and won't loan through borrowers with unfair interest rates.

My apologies for the confusion.