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MissDirect	people you always see round town posted on: 10/3/2003 4:14:37 PM -really tall black man who carries a basketball, usually stuffed down his clothes. We call him 2-bums. He's usually around the Ramp area or Corporation Street. -really small man, undetermined nationality. Wears a green jacket, and a tea cosy on his head. Mutters to himself, runs along the street. - middle aged Albanian man, short, with a hugly impressive mullet, wears trouser braces and fancy shirts. Often seen on Broad Street. Girl who sells the Big Issue on the corner of Corporation St and High St, has very high pitched voice "BBBIIIIIG ISSHOOOOO thank yooooooo!!!" Teenage girl, usually by the library, approaches you with these words-"I'm not a tramp or anything"..then a long story, culimating in that she needs some money, every single time you go past there.
LAW	people you always see round town replied on: 10/11/2003 2:05:25 PM I had that with the girl asking for 20/70p, I also know others that have obliged her. Good scam really, considering she's only got to successfully ask three people for 40p and she's made more than a pound. So if she asks three people every five minutes or so, that's £12 an hour. I think. Eight hour day £96. Five day week £480. Tsch.
Mittonsmate Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 10/21/2003 9:01:17 AM by Mittonsmate	people you always see round town replied on: 10/21/2003 8:56:44 AM Miss Notatramp accosted me on Colmore Row last night, asking for £2.90 train fare to get to Leicester. Her one-woman street theatre mini-drama now involves a story about her car breaking down ("it's just round the corner if you don't believe me"), and the props department has given her a bunch of keys to display for added realism. So impressed was I by her virtuoso Method acting technique that I very nearly applauded, and handed her all the change I had left in my pocket (about £1.50). As I was doing so, however, a gang of girls approached, one of them mocking her with a cry of: "Still not got your train ticket then, you scrounging slag?" Theatre critics can be so cruel at times.
NH350Ariel old hand Rank: Ozzy	people you always see round town replied on: 10/21/2003 6:04:23 PM Giving direct to the destitute is far more cost effective than via taxation or charitable donation. it involves no administration costs, however only the most vocal benefit leaving many of the needy without.
racheymaus old hand Rank: Chinny	people you always see round town replied on: 10/24/2003 8:50:27 PM Certain friends of mine always seem to be in town. Usually when I've arranged to meet them. In town. Anyone else experience these strange coincidences?
rotunda pants villa, but nice with it Rank: Ozzy	people you always see round town replied on: 10/25/2003 2:54:57 PM No. I've never met your friends. In town.
Mittonsmate Rank: Jasper	people you always see round town replied on: 10/26/2003 10:48:25 AM I'm always in town because that's where I live. In town. Except when I go to work. Out of town.
DrVeraJenkins old dear Rank: Jasper	people you always see round town replied on: 11/7/2003 12:11:30 AM It's a shame they've mucked about the Bull Ring area isn't it? That's where you'd get a lot of the 'interesting' folk. Where have they gone to now? Wondering around all disorientated? Like when you upset a web full of tiny spiders and they all disperse and then when you go back an hour later they've all come back together again? Will all the Bull Ring nutters all reconverge in about six months time? The 60 year old cockney wide boy with the bad breath? The Jewish woman with the large transvestite-like head and the short skirt? The fat gypsy in the caravan? We need to round them all up again.
Gravy Hole Rank: Oddie	people you always see round town replied on: 11/7/2003 11:04:27 AM quote: Giving direct to the destitute is far more cost effective than via taxation or charitable donation. it involves no administration costs, however only the most vocal benefit leaving many of the needy without. I don't believe in giving to beggars, it only encourages them. Some are quite intimidatory, such as the Irish gypsy woman who used to hang around by the Queensway underpass with a drugged out baby. If you didn't give, she'd spit curses at you. However, if you think the tramp/down and out is really genuine, then you could consider doing what I do. Make the beggar do a little dance, act the fool or sing a song on the pavement in front of you. This means he/she will have earned their "donation" and thereby maintained their self respect.
LAW	people you always see round town replied on: 11/7/2003 12:56:26 PM 'Do a little dance'...Ahaha ha ha.
nrk100	people you always see round town replied on: 11/7/2003 5:07:43 PM There's the guy who hangs around between the bottom of Bennets Hill and Corporation Street often shouting, I saw him in a fist fight with a passer-by a few weeks ago. He should really be somewhere safe for his/our protection.
Mittonsmate Rank: Jasper	people you always see round town replied on: 11/9/2003 12:49:01 PM Had another encounter with Miss Notatramp last night. She was in Centenary Square and, being very drunk, I offered to take her for a ride on the big wheel, but it had just closed for the night. I also had quite a long conversation with her about her life in general and why she finds it necessary to beg, but I was so drunk I can't remember what she told me. I kinda got the impression I was starting to frighten her and she eventually ran off. I may well have given her a twenty pound note.
Mittonsmate Rank: Jasper	people you always see round town replied on: 11/10/2003 10:14:26 AM Should have got her to do a little dance, shouldn't I.
sheldonphil	people you always see round town replied on: 11/11/2003 12:31:33 PM but why do beggars hang around cashpoints asking for change surely if u had change yopu wouldnt be going to the hole in the wall?
falsedog Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 12/9/2003 7:02:39 PM by falsedog	same old faces.... replied on: 12/8/2003 11:49:10 PM New St. regulars... smallish bearded guy with permanently extended praying mantis hands muttering for money. I think this guy has surely put the most hours into New St begging. Incredibly he appeared in a film made by Santiago Sierra at the Ikon last year in which he was taught to read the sentence "My participation in this piece could generate a profit of 72,000 dollars. I am being paid five pounds". Rather than haggle, he accepts the dough and the film ends. Makes you think... Scouse beggar, occasional Big Issue vendor if he can stay off drugs long enough to commit himself: "I'm not a druggie!" I was asked by shell suited girl for 20p to call her boyfriend as she was locked out of her flat. Giving her the the benefit, I coughed up. She rejoined "Thank you.Now can I have £20 for some crack?" Scientology clipboard weirdos: "Can you answer three quick questions?" (Inform them about Week 456 of their indoctrination: The Truth - We are all the ghosts of Aliens! if you can be bothered) Jason Kent: alchoholic library / Electric Cinema based weirdo. Albanian Mullet man. Leather pants, bow tie, yellow waist coat. Assumed a Cyber Punk look when he first arrived c.1999. 5' 0" in his socks, must believe Brummies are such jolly folk as they are always creasing up with laughter where ever he goes. 50 route regulars might know the "I want a pint of Lager!!" cretin... that's his bellowed call between Moseley and Kings Heath anytime between 5pm and 11pm. Aged 60 ish, smallish, bad cardigans... repeats his catchphrase to anyone who will lisaten at 45 second intervals until he reaches his destination. I once followed him into the Hogshead (RIP) Moseley where he politely asked for a small, dry sherry.
NH350Ariel old hand Rank: Ozzy This message was updated on 12/9/2003 12:17:38 AM by NH350Ariel	same old faces.... replied on: 12/9/2003 12:14:19 AM Mr Mantis is a pain. No matter how many times he asks for cash and you tell him to bugger off he still asks next time you see him. He must be the most cheerless beggar in Brum. Is the black bloke with the booming voice still about? He is full of G-d and gloom and tells you how much time you are going to spend in hell. He is prone to wear a roadworkers florescent coat covered in biblical quotes and hangs about with a fat lady with leaflets. Andy Gail is another New St regular, Afro Caribbean sax player who freezes his nuts off in all weathers and pisses off the owners of hotels and shops with his playing. Nice bloke deserves a gig with warm hands. I assumed the Albanian mullet guy was a male prostitute on the cruse, was I wrong?
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