I'd have to be starving before I'd...

...get on the Interwebs and beg strangers for shit, but there is apparently plenty of idiots who do!

I was reading some of the other threads about the begging that goes on during the holidays and just for shits and giggles Googled cyber begging. Who knew there were websites devoted to begging strangers for cash/gifts? A good 90% mention their single parunthood to try to tug at the heartstrings, which only serves to piss me off and wonder why they continue to squat and drop more than the first one if they can't pay for them without begging on the Internet. I've had my generous nature abused one too many times to think only a few of them are legitimately in need.

I'm also amazed these idiots wait until the last possible minute to beg other to provide for their crotchfruit. Christmas comes on the same day every.fucking.year. Skip a couple of lattes and ciggies so you can save a few bucks up each week instead of begging.

But that would require thinking ahead!

Which breeders have proven incapable of doing.

So glad I don't celebrate this over hyped holiday. If it only lasted a couple weeks, it would probably be better. But now it's two and a half months of commercialism. Gross.

At least candy goes on sale right afterward. Now there's something to celebrate!

Our broke ass family NEVER begged anyone for anything.

I still don't beg. Well, I might ask if it's a freebie someone might be able to grab for me somewhere or someone can help me find a cut-rate.

The fave tactic I learned from the Step Dad for the stuff grab was to buy AFTER Christmas. We went when everyone else was dumping the unwanted shit. The refurbs (what stores can't call new) hit the market and the mark downs are STEEP! I got my air purifiers that way, three for the price of one and a half years ago, and they are the type with out filters.

Now tho with the illness, it's a bit harder as I don't have family and the buys I make are to support the needs. I still chase refurbs when filling my insurance donut holes. (Equipment)

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Excuses!

This might sound crazy but I get a whole lot of shit for being a young, relatively attractive female engineer. Just the other day I had to buy a new calculator for my licensing exam and I was complaining about it and the checkout guy grabbed a handful of Lindor truffles from next to the cash register and threw them in my bag. I didn't ask for them or anything and when I tried to give them back he smiled and said that I needed them and how he wishes his kids were like me. I turned bright red...

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This might sound crazy but I get a whole lot of shit for being a young, relatively attractive female engineer. ...

You aren't begging for it. If someone wants to give you something, nothing wrong with it.

This one burned me, though! Scroll down to the 323 area code post and then Google that number and you'll find this gem. Note the dates on each post.

I frankly have a tiny bit of respect for the ones who don't go into some drawn out, bullshit/beg-a-thon.
The only thing I'd be willing to buy any of them is some strong rope to keep their legs tied together, some grammar, spelling and punctuation lessons, and maybe I'd be willing to pay them if they'd stop using the words deserve, baby girl/boy, awesome and God bless. The worst scammers almost always sign their screeds with God bless, and that I learned from reading Craigslist rentals wanted.

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mistress rotwang
This might sound crazy but I get a whole lot of shit for being a young, relatively attractive female engineer. ...

You aren't begging for it. If someone wants to give you something, nothing wrong with it.

This one burned me, though! Scroll down to the 323 area code post and then Google that number and you'll find this gem. Note the dates on each post.

I frankly have a tiny bit of respect for the ones who don't go into some drawn out, bullshit/beg-a-thon.
The only thing I'd be willing to buy any of them is some strong rope to keep their legs tied together, some grammar, spelling and punctuation lessons, and maybe I'd be willing to pay them if they'd stop using the words deserve, baby girl/boy, awesome and God bless. The worst scammers almost always sign their screeds with God bless, and that I learned from reading Craigslist rentals wanted.

I am slightly learning disabled and probably have a touch of dyslexia. My grammar sucks I know so I cheat. There is a program for folks like us called After The Deadline that can spell check on Firefox and on all your text programs.

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Excuses!

The only thing I would ever do for these begging assholes is send them on a personal finance management course and to a debt counselling service.

Lots of poor people here in the UK have got themselves in bother using payday lenders (who are also the scum of the earth for lending large sums of money that they know their customers can't pay back because they don't actually have jobs). Many of these stupid famblees who didn't understand how interest on loans worked took those loans out to pay for Christmas shit for their brats, so we are supposed to feel sorry for them because they were just trying to treat the kids at Christmas.

My parents didn't have a lot of money when I was little, so we didn't have a big extravagant Christmas. Christmas was from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day and that was it, and it was mainly family meals, playing games and watching Christmas movies. I got presents, but was always told firmly that "Santa" would only give you a few things, so choose wisely. These days, parents think they have to give their kids the moon on a frigging stick for Christmas otherwise they're being terrible parents.

OK, I might stretch to a course in "Learn how to say no to your kids".

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Our broke ass family NEVER begged anyone for anything.

I still don't beg. Well, I might ask if it's a freebie someone might be able to grab for me somewhere or someone can help me find a cut-rate.

My parents are of the generation who grew up during the Depression. One of my mother's favorite stories to tell if we kids whined for anything was about the Year Your Grandpa Shot Santa Claus. Seems that one year (probably more than one, but all it took was once for the kids to get the picture) Mom's parents had no money for presents; barely enough for food. Instead of explaining the situation to them, on Christmas Eve Grandpa got out his shotgun, stepped outside, and fired a round. Then he came in and told Mom and her siblings that there would be no Christmas presents because he shot Santa Claus.

That was a fairly hard-hearted generation. What was drummed into them, and passed down to people of my age was "you don't take charity." Gov't handouts are charity, asking other working people to buy your kids stuff is charity. If your parents couldn't provide it for you, you did without and kept your mouth shut.

Even when my father was injured on the job and couldn't work, it shamed him and Mom because we had to go on food stamps. Mom would do the shopping, but took one of us kids along so she could hand the food stamps to us to hand to the cashier.

I understand that is a flinty way of thinking, sometimes shit happens and it's not shameful that you have to ask for help, but I would never take more than the necessity of goods or services. It's just too drummed into my head that you are a puling beggar if you do.

I would help the guy who spent his rent money saving his dog's life. https://begslist.org/begging-for-money/please-help-me-not-get-evicted-dont-want-to-lose-my-place-by-xmas18

Holy shit, the 323 chick is a hooker, who still needs to beg for money? She is looking for a girl to pimp out, but still needs to beg for baby clothes?

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I want to pick up a bus full of unruly kids and feed them gummi bears and crack, then turn them loose in Hobby Lobby to ransack the place. They will all be wearing T shirts that say "You Could Have Prevented This."

The things that stood out to me were how many of them claimed to be single moos with multiple brats who "deserved" a good Christmas, and the other strange thing was how many of those people also claimed at least one of their sprogs had birthdays between Thanksgiving and New Year. I'm sorry, call me cynical as hell, but that seems rather suspect to me.

I'm not that hard hearted, and I agree with the OP above who said they'd give to the guy with the sick animal if said person could document it to my satisfaction, but many of those stories have to be fake just to take advantage of the kindness and generosity of others.

Anyway, even if some of the appeals aren't fraudulent, their kids need a place to live, heat, clothes and food, but they don't need a bunch of expensive (or cheap) plastic crap.

And if any of them truly are having a tough go, why wait until the last minute? I believe you have to sign up for those charity giveaways in advance and I think they vet the recipients to determine eligibility. The Internet beggars can bypass that. They have excuses why they want gift cards and cash via PayPay and Western Union, too. Whatever. I think most of them are just scamming shitbags. If you did send things, they'd probably end up on Ebay as soon as they arrived.

Did anyone see the supposed 23 y.o. asking for a gaming system for his 14 y.o.? At least try to make it plausible!

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I'm not that hard hearted, and I agree with the OP above who said they'd give to the guy with the sick animal if said person could document it to my satisfaction, but many of those stories have to be fake just to take advantage of the kindness and generosity of others.

That falls under the 'shit happens' category for me, but so many of those others ... damn. Especially single mothers with kids.

Life just doesn't happen to people, there are choices. Multiple kids to a single mother infuriates me. Oops once, learn how hard it is, and don't do it again, they'll get something of a pass from me. Keep having kids and make your life exponentially worse, I don't give a crap, you brought it on yourself.

I've also never begged for a thing in my life, even when I was sick, on disability and literally starving. What did I do? I started volunteering and eventually returned to the workforce. I've been working ever since, even with my disability.

These breeders have no shame and no sense of pride. Begging on the web for shit is just as bad as panhandlers who stand out on the streets and harass people for money. They get NOT A CENT from me. Earn your way like I did.

When they drag several bastard children into their impoverished situations, no fucks are given here. I'd much rather donate to a worthy cause, such as an animal shelter.

I don't know if it's posted in the list in the op, but I remember reading about one where the moo cow was begging for $5,000 for Christmas presents for her kids. Thankfully, no one had donated any money at the time I read it. WTF could you buy your kid with that kind of money? All these begging moos are just going to use any money they get on themselves.

Internet begging should be banned.

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They would fucking get a pack of condoms from me.

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I miss my little feather baby.

I don't donate to these things because parents get more help than everyone else. I donate to those who need help but don't get help because of how society thinks.

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So.. We know that food and water are running out, with overpopulation and all... Yet people keep on poppin' out those babies! I guess they want to have their baby and eat it too...

My top reason is that parenting gives you a free license to be selfish based purely on the fact that you're being selfish for an emanation of your own self. The illusion that what you do to benefit your children benefits them solely is a fallacy. Every parent benefits from the benefits that their children receive. Henceforth, it gives one a license to perpetuate a dog-eat-dog mentality that I perceive to be amoral. Parents say that their children are their greatest loves, what they forget to add is that they are their ONLY loves and only because their children are a reflection of themselves. I prefer to be able to love multiple people and have lasting relationships of many types and possess the essential core value of empathy for all than to restrict myself to an echo chamber of ego-masturbation and self-serving chicanery.

In short: Not parenting makes you a better person.