Has anyone noticed the Flock of Sea Gulls in Civic?

Bosworth said :

What is the relationship between mineral makeup sellers and israel/palestine?

The Palestine leader uses products from Mineral Makeup, he swears his skin has never felt smoother.

What is the relationship between mineral makeup sellers and israel/palestine?

Moving back to Barton for work has been great. I’d forgotten just how nice it is not to have to put up with these people and their bullshit stories everytime you walk somewhere in Civic.

My favourties were the ones who’d accost you on the way out of the office, and on the way back, but with 2 different stories. Smooth. In the end I got sick of the one woman who seemed to tell me a different story every time, and I told her to stick with a story, because her credibility was at stake.

#11= ‘mossad mineral makeup’ – very nice.

Friend of mine shuts them up by telling them (loudly) she would only consider buying their products when Israel stopped colonising the West Bank and ethnically cleansing Palestinians.

I walk through ‘Civicastan’ on the odd occasion, in uniform (jeez I look dead ard’) and the seagulls never bother me, or any of my peers.

Do we not look like charitable souls?

If you are continually being pestered by them I recommend you take a good hard look at yourself because you must look like a soft target. The moment thier precious bottom lip starts to move as they launch into thier speil you should pre-empt them with a loud and clear “F*ck off!”

They’ll leave you alone after a while.

When you see them coming up to you – before they can ask anything ask them :

“Can I borrow a cigarette mate?”

And then start going on about how you only want one and you have no money and they leave you alone.

A flock of seagulls?

Did you run?

I did. I ran so far away, but couldn’t get away.

Dammit I only came to this thread to do a Flock of Seagulls joke…

Well I’ve brought food and offered it to beggers before, and the genuine ones gretfully take it. But yeah, I’ve had a guy with a mobile phone in his hand ask me for money to use the phone. Not too bright. Still, a few dollars generally won’t be missed.

Those mineral salt make up people annoy me too. I had one ask me:
Can I ask you a question?
I replied “You just did.”
So they asked “Can I ask you another question?”
I replied “You just did.”
Ahh, they got smart. “Can I ask you some more questions?”
So I replied “No, three’s the limit.” Then walked off.

Why would I want to buy some over priced product anyway? I mean I’m not trying to be mean to them, but honestly if their product was well priced and proven to work they would not have to do the hard sell on it.

On the other hand I do feel for the people who sell at those stalls. I once saw a young woman, probably a tourist, selling clothing in one of those stalls. She must have been in her early 20s. She looked really unhappy. I imagine that she must have sold very little that day, and would probably be paid only on comission. Poor woman.

indigoid said :

What’s with the gold buyers everywhere anyway? Was there some law recently removed or adjusted that had been preventing their operation?

Gold is expensive at the moment, makes it a cost effective business to run.

screaming banshee said :

Jethro said :

Or we could show a bit of compassion for the less fortunate.

Offer to buy them lunch next time they ask you for money for food and see what they say.

Why would I do that? They want alcohol or drugs. So would I if I were them.

This is such a put down of sea gulls, have you never read Jonathan Livingston Seagull, written by Richard Bach. If you had, you would realize that not all sea gulls are low life scavenging scum.

I liked the one who rushed up to me and told me she’d had a fight with her boyfriend and needed 10 bucks to put petrol in her car to get away. I told her I’d walk her to the petrol station in Braddon and buy her a jerrycan but she told me that wasn’t good enough. She needed another 10 bucks on top of that to get a taxi to Lyneham because that’s where she’d left her car. Then I noticed the gold chain around her neck and told her it looked like one I used to own before my house was robbed and she ran away. Odd.

The mineral make-up stand people
“Can I ask you a question?”
“‘You just did.”

Next time it happens – reach out a hand and touch their face, they’ll slowly disappear from your view. If this doesn’t work, don’t try again, otherwise you could end up floating in a beam of light with this person. Sounds like you have enough on your plate without being stuck in a beam of light, levitating in the interchange … you might miss your bus.

To the one who claimed he had been at the Civic Pool and had his wallet and keys stolen and needed $20 to go and pick up his daughter from school at Yass:

1. dont ask when you have a set of car keys in your hand
2. dont ask when its school holidays
3. why are you asking in Marcus Clarke St (given where the pool is)
4. why havent you asked the cops to help you out, such as calling their counterparts in Yass

Well, it amused me that he was so incompetent.

Jethro said :

Or we could show a bit of compassion for the less fortunate.

Offer to buy them lunch next time they ask you for money for food and see what they say.

Ahhh the mossad mineral makeup sellers. I stumped one the other day. I told her that by offering me the product she was insinuating I had bad skin and that that was an insult. Certainly stopped her.

What’s with the gold buyers everywhere anyway? Was there some law recently removed or adjusted that had been preventing their operation?

Don’t let them venture north of lake Burley Griffin. Simple as that.

You should mention the people from gold buyers and the mineral makeup stands in the canberra centre. Man those people are annoying.

A flock of seagulls?

Did you run?

I did. I ran so far away, but couldn’t get away.

the more you live, the more you love – mebbe the op should adopt this as a motto

Hey AGELESS, you must be either quite young or quite new to Canberra to only have realised this issue now… As Eyeball In A Quart Jar Of Snot has pointed out, this has been going on in some shape or form forever in Canberra.

Your best response is none at all. Just ignore them, don’t make eye contact and keep walking past. They’ll eventually recognise you as someone not worth wasting their time on (assuming they’re not off their face on something and they can actually remember anything at all).

I propose we use the old British system of putting these people on hulks (preferably ones plagued by typhoid and dysentery). A possible location for the hulks is the West Basin of Lake B.G, since I rarely go near there. They could then be transported somewhere like Nauru, which is in desperate need of some more unfortunate souls to lock up.

Or we could show a bit of compassion for the less fortunate.

Either way.

I saw them when I was walking along the avenue, but I never thought I’d meet a girl like you.

Meet a girl like you

Undoubtedly these people will read this post and amend their ways accordingly; Chalk One Up for the Good Guys.

They’ve always been in the ‘city’.

This is hardly new.