TheDerminator
22nd February 2002, 22:04
Mind the Gap! Mind the Gap!
Yep, you learn something new every day!
Apart from several years staying in Edinburgh, and London, I have stayed in Glasgow as my residence for most of my life, but I never heard of The Gap until today.
I was in a filled car on my way back from a pool tournament, and I cannot recall the name of the man who started The Gap, and it was only mentioned once so it did not stick in my mind. This man has long since passed away, I will edit this when I find out his name early next week.
This man was a working man, without great riches, and The Gap started off as his own home. He simply invited homeless people to stay overnight in his own home, and from this basis he started a refuge for the homless called The Gap.
Why was it called The Gap?
Well more than a few of the homeless people in Glasgow can be suffering from addiction to drugs or alchohol, or have depression or a combination of these ailments. It can lead to suicides or accidental overdoses.
The Gap was intended as a bridge, a bridge between life and death.
Yep, you thought the only organisation with the word "gap" in its title was a massive multinational clothing owned by the Hoover Corp! So did I! More fool me, and more fool you!
Could there ever be a profounder irony? The Gap Inc.
The Gap! It says a lot about values despite the fact Hoover have a non-profit Foundation linked to scientific research.
Two very different ways of looking at The Gap as a concept. Ofcourse, we all know which one the bourgeoise prefer.
The wish to maintain the mindblowing gap between super rich billionaires and the homeless.
Mind the gap! Mind the gap!
Extremely different value systems?
Vive la difference?
Only to the extent that it shows the greater ethos of what is the socialist spirit, because that is what the creator of The Gap refuge for the homeless possessed, socialist spirit!
However, we should not celebrate obscene inequalities so, no my friend, no great vive la difference as yet, though we it would be one hell of a celebration, if or when we can end the difference.
"Mind the gap! Mind the gap!"
If you ever visit London, and go on the Victoria Line of the London underground it is what the English announcer says very loud and very clearly.
I recall the first time I heard "Mind the gap! Mind the gap!" as I was about to leave a busy underground train. The platform was busy, and being Scottish I was not used to this particular English accent it was not the Received Pronunciation that they once used on the BBC news.
I thought the announcer was saying
"Mind the cat! Mind the cat!" Nearly the last words that I heard, since I nearly fell through the gap between the train and the platform. "What fucking cat?" was nearly the last statement in my consciousness.
"Mind the gap! Mind the gap!" Mind the gap between your ears!
Now there's the rub. The super rich are too busy minding their pet cats, to be minding the real gap!
There is gap in their humanity and it is a gaping fucking hole!
They are minding the cat whilst we are minding the gap and the cat at the same time! We are not forgetting the cat either!
It is a bit of a weird society, I mean all these people walking about wearing "Gap" on their clothes, all striving to be cool individualists!
Mind the Gap! Mind the Gap!
Is it the gap between the ears or is it the gap in their value system, since they know not many homeless people can buy designer stuff, and the label says they can afford to be "cool". All that "cool" shit leaves me cold, just like Gap Inc, leaves the homeless cold! Except it is not really just like it, there is coldness, and coldness, it is a freezing Winter's day in Glasgow, and it has snowed for the first time in Glasgow this Winter, the homeless have been left very cold this evening.
Mind the The Gap! Mind The Gap!
I would rather have found The Gap refuge centre, than your whole fucking Hoover Corp, never mind The Gap Inc.
Mind the gap! Mind the gap!
I fucking mind the gap alright!
I fucking mind it!
It fucking matters.
The bastards are supping on the back of their wanton neglect of poor people, and when poor people take their own lives due to that neglect then it is an act of cannabilism. The bastards love it too, so you can throw in necrophilia!
Mind the Gap or Mind the Gap Inc.!
Fuck your Inc!
Mind the Gap!
Mind the gap!
Mind the gap in your sorry "humanity" if you support the fucking gap!
Mind the gap!
derminated.
Yep, you learn something new every day!
Apart from several years staying in Edinburgh, and London, I have stayed in Glasgow as my residence for most of my life, but I never heard of The Gap until today.
I was in a filled car on my way back from a pool tournament, and I cannot recall the name of the man who started The Gap, and it was only mentioned once so it did not stick in my mind. This man has long since passed away, I will edit this when I find out his name early next week.
This man was a working man, without great riches, and The Gap started off as his own home. He simply invited homeless people to stay overnight in his own home, and from this basis he started a refuge for the homless called The Gap.
Why was it called The Gap?
Well more than a few of the homeless people in Glasgow can be suffering from addiction to drugs or alchohol, or have depression or a combination of these ailments. It can lead to suicides or accidental overdoses.
The Gap was intended as a bridge, a bridge between life and death.
Yep, you thought the only organisation with the word "gap" in its title was a massive multinational clothing owned by the Hoover Corp! So did I! More fool me, and more fool you!
Could there ever be a profounder irony? The Gap Inc.
The Gap! It says a lot about values despite the fact Hoover have a non-profit Foundation linked to scientific research.
Two very different ways of looking at The Gap as a concept. Ofcourse, we all know which one the bourgeoise prefer.
The wish to maintain the mindblowing gap between super rich billionaires and the homeless.
Mind the gap! Mind the gap!
Extremely different value systems?
Vive la difference?
Only to the extent that it shows the greater ethos of what is the socialist spirit, because that is what the creator of The Gap refuge for the homeless possessed, socialist spirit!
However, we should not celebrate obscene inequalities so, no my friend, no great vive la difference as yet, though we it would be one hell of a celebration, if or when we can end the difference.
"Mind the gap! Mind the gap!"
If you ever visit London, and go on the Victoria Line of the London underground it is what the English announcer says very loud and very clearly.
I recall the first time I heard "Mind the gap! Mind the gap!" as I was about to leave a busy underground train. The platform was busy, and being Scottish I was not used to this particular English accent it was not the Received Pronunciation that they once used on the BBC news.
I thought the announcer was saying
"Mind the cat! Mind the cat!" Nearly the last words that I heard, since I nearly fell through the gap between the train and the platform. "What fucking cat?" was nearly the last statement in my consciousness.
"Mind the gap! Mind the gap!" Mind the gap between your ears!
Now there's the rub. The super rich are too busy minding their pet cats, to be minding the real gap!
There is gap in their humanity and it is a gaping fucking hole!
They are minding the cat whilst we are minding the gap and the cat at the same time! We are not forgetting the cat either!
It is a bit of a weird society, I mean all these people walking about wearing "Gap" on their clothes, all striving to be cool individualists!
Mind the Gap! Mind the Gap!
Is it the gap between the ears or is it the gap in their value system, since they know not many homeless people can buy designer stuff, and the label says they can afford to be "cool". All that "cool" shit leaves me cold, just like Gap Inc, leaves the homeless cold! Except it is not really just like it, there is coldness, and coldness, it is a freezing Winter's day in Glasgow, and it has snowed for the first time in Glasgow this Winter, the homeless have been left very cold this evening.
Mind the The Gap! Mind The Gap!
I would rather have found The Gap refuge centre, than your whole fucking Hoover Corp, never mind The Gap Inc.
Mind the gap! Mind the gap!
I fucking mind the gap alright!
I fucking mind it!
It fucking matters.
The bastards are supping on the back of their wanton neglect of poor people, and when poor people take their own lives due to that neglect then it is an act of cannabilism. The bastards love it too, so you can throw in necrophilia!
Mind the Gap or Mind the Gap Inc.!
Fuck your Inc!
Mind the Gap!
Mind the gap!
Mind the gap in your sorry "humanity" if you support the fucking gap!
Mind the gap!
derminated.