There aren't too many homeless people begging around here, but there are plenty of people who sell the Big Issue. It's a magazine which they employ homeless or otherwise destitute people to sell, and the sellers write some of the articles themselves. I know a couple of the guys who sell it, and frankly it's a complete con. One guy (that I'm actually trying to avoid, cause he keeps hitting on me) was telling me about how he's just bought himself a new computer, and a few weeks before that it was a new TV. I'm like, what the fuck? This Big Issue thing is supposed to give them enough money to get food, clothes and pay bills, not to get fucking plasma screen TVs! So no, I don't give money to those people. I do give money to buskers though, if I like what they're playing. There's this one really pretty girl who normally plays the flute close to where my boyfriend works, and she plays it really well, so I normally give her some of my spare change.