Bums don't like to be called "bums"

[Polishprince]

Little known fact here, the term is considered to be "derogatory" by Bum-Americans.

My New Years Resolution is to call these Americans idlers, slackers and winos to avoid the offensive terminology.

Don't call homeless `bums'

We feel compelled to write a response to Karen Champion's ``Homeless not just victims'' on April 29. She stated that it used to be the case that ``bums, derelicts, hoboes, winos and drifters,'' as she called them, ``suggested some degree of responsibility'' for the condition they found...

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[Concerned American]

Little known fact here, the term is considered to be "derogatory" by Bum-Americans.

My New Years Resolution is to call these Americans idlers, slackers and winos to avoid the offensive terminology.

Don't call homeless `bums'

We feel compelled to write a response to Karen Champion's ``Homeless not just victims'' on April 29. She stated that it used to be the case that ``bums, derelicts, hoboes, winos and drifters,'' as she called them, ``suggested some degree of responsibility'' for the condition they found...

www.deseret.com

Call them Schumers. The name translates in middle German to "good-for-nothing vagabond (bum)"

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[Anathema]

I try to avoid calling them anything by avoiding them as much as possible and ignoring them when I do encounter them.,

 

[Donald H]

Can America afford to ignore them?

I think that would be ignoring a problem that must be eventually addressed.

At least before it leads to murder by gun being the only solution remaining!

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Bout the same as all the leftie groomers on here. They hate being called that

 

[1srelluc]

They get the "bum's rush" outta my town.

 

[Mac-7]

Bums used to maintain some measure of self respect when they stayed outside of town and away from good citizens

Now the word “bum” is too good for the human trash littering most major American cities

 

[BackAgain]

Liberals and progressives hate being called socialists and communists by and large. Truth in advertising offends them.

 

[Innocynioc]

If bums don't want to be called bums then they should quit being bums.

 

[Sunni Man]

Decades ago homeless people with no money were called Hobo's, but still had some self respect and would work for food.
Today they are mainly drug addicted and alcoholics, many with contagious diseases, that aimlessly wander the streets committing crimes to pay for more drugs.

 

[Concerned American]

Decades ago homeless people with no money were called Hobo's, but still had some self respect and would work for food.
Today they are drug addicted and alcoholics, many with contagious diseases, that aimlessly wander the streets committing crimes to pay for more drugs.

KING OF THE ROAD
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let 50 cents
No phone no pool no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes

 

[Polishprince]

KING OF THE ROAD
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let 50 cents
No phone no pool no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes

Sung by the King of Cool

 

[Concerned American]

Sung by the King of Cool

I liked the Roger Miller version

 

[my2¢]

The way I learned it back in the 50's, tramps were willing to do odd jobs for a meal while bums relied solely on handouts.

 

[Unkotare]

The housing challenged.