On Fri, 28 May 2010, MIG wrote:

On 28 May, 12:30, Chris Tolley (ukonline
really) wrote:
eastender wrote:
I don'd think Oxford
Circus is a barrel of laughs.

Has the sandwich board man given up then?

I thought he died years ago.

Since then the scouse megaphone man has come and gone (I think he was
given an ASBO a couple of years ago).

(Are you a winner or a sinner? Be a winner with Jesus.)

I was thinking the other day how much i missed that guy. London doesn't
have enough established nutters any more.

tom

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On 28/05/2010 12:37, MIG wrote:
On 28 May, 12:30, Chris (ukonline
really) wrote:
eastender wrote:
I don'd think Oxford
Circus is a barrel of laughs.

Has the sandwich board man given up then?


I thought he died years ago.

Since then the scouse megaphone man has come and gone (I think he was
given an ASBO a couple of years ago).

(Are you a winner or a sinner? Be a winner with Jesus.)

That wasn't the one spouting ultra-left drivel, was it? Or do I have
that confused with someone else?

On 30 May, 00:14, "
wrote:
On 28/05/2010 12:37, MIG wrote:

On 28 May, 12:30, Chris (ukonline
really) *wrote:
eastender wrote:
I don'd think Oxford
Circus is a barrel of laughs.

Has the sandwich board man given up then?

I thought he died years ago.

Since then the scouse megaphone man has come and gone (I think he was
given an ASBO a couple of years ago).

(Are you a winner or a sinner? *Be a winner with Jesus.)

That wasn't the one spouting ultra-left drivel, was it? Or do I have
that confused with someone else?

I can't recall any of them spouting anything with any meaningful
content at all that could be recognised as having a political stance.

The one I was thinking of certainly never said anything with any
content.

There's one or two more boring ones still around. One particularly
boring one who stops at different points along Oxford Street and a
woman who usually stands at Oxford Circus.

But as I said, no meaningful content.

On 30/05/2010 00:53, MIG wrote:
On 30 May, 00:14,
wrote:
On 28/05/2010 12:37, MIG wrote:

On 28 May, 12:30, Chris (ukonline
really) wrote:
eastender wrote:
I don'd think Oxford
Circus is a barrel of laughs.

Has the sandwich board man given up then?

I thought he died years ago.

Since then the scouse megaphone man has come and gone (I think he was
given an ASBO a couple of years ago).

(Are you a winner or a sinner? Be a winner with Jesus.)

That wasn't the one spouting ultra-left drivel, was it? Or do I have
that confused with someone else?

I can't recall any of them spouting anything with any meaningful
content at all that could be recognised as having a political stance.

The one I was thinking of certainly never said anything with any
content.

There's one or two more boring ones still around. One particularly
boring one who stops at different points along Oxford Street and a
woman who usually stands at Oxford Circus.

But as I said, no meaningful content.

I recall seeing some bloke around Piccadilly Circus a few years back,
say in 2004, going on about socialism or communism. At one point, he was
on a bus ranting away. When somebody challenged him, left-wing nutter
started to target the day, saying something along the lines of: "Look at
him, he wants freedom of speech!"

Other passengers had decided that they had had enough of him at that
point and started to scream at him to shut the f* up.

At one other point, when there was a crowd gathering around one of the
escalators deep within Piccadilly Circus, the above-mentioned nutter
started making announcements to passengers about train service.

A nearby station attendant practically jumped on him and told him that
he could actually cause a stampede, the way he was doing it.

Speaking of Piccadilly and nutters, I also recall seeing on several
occasions, a bloke wearing a triangular frame on his head passing through.

On 30/05/2010 12:15, wrote:

I recall seeing some bloke around Piccadilly Circus a few years back,
say in 2004, going on about socialism or communism. At one point, he was
on a bus ranting away. When somebody challenged him, left-wing nutter
started to target the day, saying something along the lines of: "Look at
him, he wants freedom of speech!"

Other passengers had decided that they had had enough of him at that
point and started to scream at him to shut the f* up.

At one other point, when there was a crowd gathering around one of the
escalators deep within Piccadilly Circus, the above-mentioned nutter
started making announcements to passengers about train service.

A nearby station attendant practically jumped on him and told him that
he could actually cause a stampede, the way he was doing it.

This is news? It's well known that Ken uses public transport.

On May 28, 12:37*pm, MIG wrote:
On 28 May, 12:30, Chris *Tolley (ukonline

really) wrote:
eastender wrote:
I don'd think Oxford
Circus is a barrel of laughs.

Has the sandwich board man given up then?

I thought he died years ago.

Since then the scouse megaphone man has come and gone (I think he was
given an ASBO a couple of years ago).

(Are you a winner or a sinner? *Be a winner with Jesus.)

Megaphone man was given an asbo for the Oxford Circus area. Apparently
he now irritates the crowds out at Stratford. One of his younger
'disciples' has now taken his place. Latter is often seen at
Paddington Station blocking the up LU escalator under the Lawn, or at
the Bakerloo exit in Praed Street. But he's only there when there's no
Transport Police around usually on a Sunday evening. Funny the BTP
(whatever) never seem to be around on Sunday evenings. CJB.

On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 01:03:25 -0700, CJB wrote:

Megaphone man was given an asbo for the Oxford Circus area. Apparently
he now irritates the crowds out at Stratford.

Really? I've not seen him in Stratford, and it's not as if he's hard to
miss. When I lived near Highbury, he would regularly wander up and down
my road on matchdays attempting to offer his wisdom. Though I first
encountered him about 10 years ago, not long after I first moved to
London, and he wandered up to me while I was stood around waiting for a
train on the concourse at Euston, made a number of (inaccurate)
wisecracks about my preferred football team, and finished off with some
religious babble before wandering off.

Martin Petrov wrote:

Megaphone man was given an asbo for the Oxford Circus area. Apparently
he now irritates the crowds out at Stratford.

Really? I've not seen him in Stratford, and it's not as if he's hard to
miss.

He's not been there lately. However if you go the other side of the shopping
centre on a Saturday morning you can find other evangelists demonstrating
that no-one ever taught them how to make a speech with such equipment.

On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Tim Roll-Pickering wrote:

Martin Petrov wrote:

Megaphone man was given an asbo for the Oxford Circus area. Apparently
he now irritates the crowds out at Stratford.

Really? I've not seen him in Stratford, and it's not as if he's hard to
miss.

He's not been there lately. However if you go the other side of the
shopping centre on a Saturday morning you can find other evangelists
demonstrating that no-one ever taught them how to make a speech with
such equipment.

Where was one at it in Peckham (just up the road from Peckham Rye station)
a few months ago. Outside a Macdonalds, ISTR.

tom

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