There is no fitting insult for this thing of a person. Seriously there is not.

[TheBigotBasher]

The other night, I found myself homeless. It wasn't the sort of homelessness that meant I was fleeing an abusive home, or had found myself unable to cope with normal life due to drugs or drink. But I was still cold, stranded, ostracised. It was the Monday before Christmas and I'd caught the train to London for work.
Knowing I had to be in town the following day, I turned up at the fairly cheap hotel in Shepherd's Bush I always stay in for work. They know me here: they valet-park and clean my BMW and understand I require soya milk with my cornflakes.
As I handed the bellboy my Prada suitcase, the man at reception asked for a credit card. It was declined. I gave him another one. Declined. I offered him a debit card but he said his machine wouldn't take it.

Of course, cheap hotels have valet parking and bellboys. Just make sure they do not kill too many cockroaches with your Prada suitcase.

The wind whipped around my legs and it was suddenly very dark. I had been tossed on to life's rubbish tip. For the first time, I felt what it must be like to be homeless, to have no money, no one to turn to.
I realised that this was about the worst thing that can happen to you. Your humanity is stripped away and you become something to be moved along, stepped over, ignored.
I had reached my low spot through my own stupidity. I had spent too much money and was temporarily broke (my agent eventually turned up to bail me out).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1238565/LIZ-JONES.html


Minutes afterwards she posts this


I climbed a ladder once, so I understand how exciting space travel is.

I have read many many stupid things online, but this gets near the top.

[Berry Cool]

1. Jeez oh man.

If all else failed, she could've gone to another hotel and hung out in the lobby all night. Not fun, but it would've kept her safe and out of the elements. Homeless my ass.

(ed. to correct pronouns--you mean, a woman is this insensitive? Yep.)

[TheBigotBasher]

3. Liz Jones is a woman

who used to be editor of Marie Claire and has spent her way through life, not even having saved for a pension.

She can not tell the truth about anything, even her age it seems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Jones

[TheBigotBasher]

9. To a great extent her sex is immaterial.

Except, that being a homeless woman in London is probably far far more dangerous than being a homeless man, especially when you do not have "an agent to sort things".

[HeresyLives]

2. Then you missed her whine about being alone at Christmas.

After you read it you know why her several brothers and sisters don't invite her for a holiday visit. :rofl:

[TheBigotBasher]

4. I tend to avoid the Daily Hate.

It was linked to on Reddit, I just kept thinking who the fuck is this person?

As if homeless people can boast about running up debts of £150k and having Prada bags that would probably house them for a year if traded in.

[HeresyLives]

10. They often have great space stories and photos,

so I often check them out. I just skip the Beckham bunion stories and other trivia. :)

[Donnachaidh]

5. oh boo freaking hoo.

She looks as if her next investment should be in a 6 hour coffee enema. Calling herself *homeless* because her credit card was declined (she admitted she had spent too much) is ridiculous.

[Berry Cool]

7. Yeah. She even complains about having to walk to the "cashpoint" (ATM?) in her "difficult shoes."

And just whose fault is it that she wears difficult shoes?

Nah, all she really learned is what it was like to not get credit extended to her for a hotel night's stay. She didn't really learn what homelessness is like.

If she really wanted to learn that, she should have at least tried hotel lobby-hopping. Stay in one until they ask you to leave, then move on to another, and somehow make it through the night. SHE could probably have gotten away with that. She would have been able to get away with staying in each one a considerable amount of time simply by virtue of being clean and dressed (and not, I presume, like a hooker), especially if she made a show as if waiting for someone. A truly homeless person off the street couldn't have. The clothes and smell alone would give her away.

[TheBigotBasher]

8. She may face it it at some point though.

No pension, £150k in debt, axed out credit cards and no longer on the beauty market.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1229399/LIZ-JONES-What-happened-I-tried-live-65-week.html

One week on the "poverty level" is doable. Try a month or year, or more.

[varelse]

6. I'm with Ellie on this one

Is this woman winding us up??
- Ellie, London, 28/12/2009 23:04

:rofl:

[gratuitous]

11. Don't all the homeless have agents?

Gee whiz, they'd all be just fine as soon as their agents turn up to bail them out. Wow. Hard to fathom how self-involved someone would have to be to feel this, much less actually write it down (or type it out) for public consumption. Although it does suggest a Twilight Zone episode, and it wouldn't end particularly well for Ms. Jones.

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Unfortunately, Rod Serling

is no longer in charge of the universe.

[gratuitous]

13. Oh come on . . .

"You unlock this door with the Key of Imagination." What would be a fitting circumstance for Ms. Jones to find herself in?

[Berry Cool]

14. She wakes up one morning on the street, with nothing but raggedy clothes.

She then tries to figure out how she's going to survive. Panhandling? Begging for food? Find a cardboard box? Go to a shelter, hope it's not full up for the night, and hope it's not too bad?

That would be what would happen to her on the Twilight Zone.

[Jackpine Radical]

15. Yeah, that's about what I was envisioning.

I loved Rod Serling.

[hunter]

16. There's a Republican politician somewhere in the U.S. looking for his Appalacian trail.

Good luck, dear.