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When did football shorts and top hats become a cool combination?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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A few years ago I worked in High Holborn – a place I found to be grey, overcrowded and depressing. My time there was made more entertaining by daily sightings of a colourful character I’d see walking around the area. It was this wee guy’s clothes that made an instant impression – he’d a...
Has anyone else seen the 'off' man?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Riding up on the Wimbledon branch of the District Line every morning is essentially a tedious experience, as is trying to get off the train at Earl’s Court when it’s typically rammed. But, occasionally at least, the journey is made more enjoyable by a middle-aged man who, when wanting to leave the train,...
Has anyone else seen the man with the enormous finger on the Victoria Line?
Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Has anyone seen The Man With One Huge Finger who used to ride the Victoria Line quite regularly (well, to and from work each day, at any rate)? He resembles a startling cross between the actor Christopher Lloyd & Karl Marx, with long grey hair, an unkempt beard and spends his journey reading The Times held up h...
Has anyone seen the lady with the cat round her neck?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Has anyone else seen the lady on the tube (seen at Westminster station changing between the Jubilee and D&C lines) who travels with her cat draped on her shoulders, or was I hallucinating? The lady was glaring at people, but the cat seemed perfectly at ease… And does one have to purchase a ticket to tak...
Who is the 'radio man' at Mansion House?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
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Who is the strange looking hairy man who always stands around manor house with a small radio, shouting about Arsenal and worryingly sometimes brandishing a baby’s bottle? Everyone who has ever passed through manor house must of seen him! talkative
Has anyone been accosted by Captain America?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
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Has anyone else been accosted by ‘Captain America’ outside The Dog and Duck in Soho? Apparently he’d just defrosted and was desperate for some ‘lovin’. magico72
Has anyone else seen the wheelchair death wish guy?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Has anyone else noticed the remarkable one-legged gentleman in the fluorescent yellow jerkin who sits in his wheelchair in the middle of traffic in Bethnal Green, and misses death by inches? He stares at the oncoming cars through wrap-around shades, and smiles serenely at the hooting. Or shouts obscenities, dependin...
Does anyone know anything about 'the wheelie man'?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active over 2 years ago
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Those of you who live near Brixton Hill might be aware of the phenomenon known as ‘the wheelie man’. This is a bloke who basically performs a wheelie on his mountain bike, very fast and with scant regard for his own safety, down what would appear to be the entire length of the hill. We used to see him...
Do you secretly enjoy traffic cone 'par-rumping'?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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Does anyone share my guilty pleasure in listening to a rather grubby gentleman “par-rumping” seasonal tunes using a traffic cone? I heard him this morning at Bond Street tube broadcasting “Silent Night” and it filled me with seasonal cheer. Does he perform anywhere more regularly? J-Lo
Should I have said 'happy birthday'?
Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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I was trotting down the escalator at Shepherd’s Bush the other day, and overtook a curious looking gentleman with slicked hair and a sort of sideways tilt to his head. As I passed, he said: “it’s my birthday”. He said it quite loudly. There was no one else on the escalator: he was speaking to me. B...
Has anyone seen the Pooh-man?
Posted by whenthiswasfields about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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A friend of mine loves the sound of his own voice. No, really loves the sound of his own voice. I mean, it’s nice enough, but you know, get-over-it-kind-of-thing. A few years back, when he could be quite legitimately called a functioning alcoholic, he would travel to work every day on the tube reading aloud fr...
Who has seen that bloke who cycles round Ealing in a Penny Farthing?
Posted by unknown about 1 year ago
Last active 11 months ago
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Heard he is an Ealing eccentric…
Has anyone heard of a Jumbo Jet restaurant?
Posted by whenthiswasfields over 2 years ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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A few years ago I remember and Indian Restauranteur had bought an out of service Jumbo Jet and was planning to turn it into a (static) Restaurant. Now I am an absolute sucker for gimicks so this really appealed to me but I’ve heard nothing since. Does anyone out there know if he ever got his business ‘...
Choked goat - we want the truth
Posted by Galvatron about 1 year ago
Last active about 1 year ago
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From today’s Standard… “Man widowed after goat dies A goat who married a Sudanese man has died after swallowing a plastic bag. The beast became famous and was named Rose after elders ordered Charles Tombe, who had been found having sex with her, to “marry” him in order to shame hi...
