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.