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it's gotta be between the oxford circus 'don't be a sinner, be a winner' guy and the socialist revolutionaries opposite the dominion on TCR. yesterday evening i was waiting for the bus by these latter, and dude's insanely annoying voice was so annoying that i had to get the tube instead.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 11 November 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

but on the tube you get this weirdo who keeps telling people "MIND THE GAP. MIND, THE GAP"

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 November 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

Oxford Circus dude is entertaining when you can hear what he's saying. He is always there.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 11 November 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Why not take a trip to Bedlam? I hear there are plenty of loonies there that you can laugh at and point at and even play with to your heart's content.

― Stress Pig (kate), Friday, 11 November 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

oxford circus is closer?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)

I think there are two of him.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:18 (twenty years ago)

The guy with dredlocks outside the National Gallery who thought I was Lauryn Hill and kept shouting "LAURANILL LAURANILL" at me while I was waiting for the nightbus.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

what *was* he shouting?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

oh sorry i got confused a minute there.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Why not take a trip to Bedlam? I hear there are plenty of loonies there that you can laugh at and point at and even play with to your heart's content.

But the whole point is you don't need to go to Bedlam to laugh and point at loonies, look out any window and the streets of London are teeming with them

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm not pointing and laughing at the loonies, Kate. I actually think the Oxford Circus guy is interesting and I disagree with him. If I thought he were mentally ill I wouldn't have mentioned him.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

i think he's mentally ill.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

and that's ok.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Eat Less Protein. RIP.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

OPO: one-legged Vietnam War vets

Laughing at people with disabilities that make them behave funny is fun!

Sorry, this is a bit close to home right now. (It's hard for me to see people like that and not think "there but for the grace of SSRIs and several years' worth of psychological care go I".)

But, you know, carry on with the funnies.

― Stress Pig (kate), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Laughter is the best form of medicine... he said unconvincingly

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Friday, 11 November 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/MMPH/222306.jpg

― lol @ gary sinise, Friday, 11 November 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

the sinners not winners bloke used to operate on Kensington high street and followed me down there one day past about a dozen shops despite me saying a polite nothanks, it was only when I turned round and told him to fuck off before I twatted him that he gave up. He's not a loonie, he's an arsehole.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Friday, 11 November 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

xpost

is that kirk hammett?

― splates (splates), Friday, 11 November 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Having been trapped on an escalator with Sinner-winner man, listening to him rant and accuse me of lying when I bloody wasn't, I concur with Porkpie's arsehole-not-mentalist view.

But we are forgetting ... Golf Sale!

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 11 November 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

I've seen Sinner-winner man at Covent Garden lots of times and even outside Wood Green tube once. He gets around.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

sinner-winner man was briefly jailed for assaulting someone who argued with him. i walked by him yesterday as he was in mid-diatribe about all of the people that god hates, and i really wanted to ask him how god feels about people who get done for assault.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:49 (twenty years ago)

He was working the crowd at Live8 apparently.

― chap who would dare to tell uninteresting celeb spotting stories (chap), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

he and Bono are like 'that' (does hand thing).

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

mentalism and arseholity aren't mutually exclusive.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Interview with winner/sinner guy.

― Venga (Venga), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

The gays should give women a go

ha ha! what a character!

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

hehe hehe heheh
So you've always been interested in the spiritual side?
Back then I mainly had an interest in money. I used to do the lovely old lady next door's back garden and throw soil over the weeds so I didn't have to pull them out. She used to pay me a fiver a time, and I just buried the weeds until I ran out of soil.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

gosh i have a dirty mind

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

he sounds technically sane. but to go from smug arse with lots of money to smug arse with (presumably) far less money doesn't strike me as real progress.

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

thinking like that is why you're a sinner and not a winner, stevem

coming footie later?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

i was at the front of the 88 in camden this morning and this other guy went on also on the other side at the front, and was having an animated conversation/argument (with lots of hand gestures and body language) with his reflection, in a foreign language (i think), all the way to euston road (he was still going when i got off the bus).

he didn't have a bluetooth mobile earphone thing (which was what i initially thought)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 15 December 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

The "Be winner, not a sinner" man has been given an Asbo to stop him using his megaphone.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 5 May 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

hah!

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Friday, 5 May 2006 07:09 (nineteen years ago)

Good.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 5 May 2006 07:13 (nineteen years ago)

I interviewed him and then for the next few months every time he saw me he pointed at me and made up a funny little rhyme about 'Taking Time Out for God' so everybody stared and thought i was one of his crazy friends. Now whenever I go near Oxford Circus I have to cross the road like Frogger to make sure he doesn't see me.

He is an Everton fan.

― Pete W (peterw), Friday, 5 May 2006 08:20 (nineteen years ago)

I have never seen Sinner-Winner Man and no doubt I ever will do. Golf Sale, on the other hand, must be rooted to that spot now. He's been there at least four years.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 5 May 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

I had the misfortune of being stuck in traffic on a bus next to sinner/winner man. He doesn't need a megaphone, he's loud enough. :-(

― Here I Go, Higher! Higher! (kate), Friday, 5 May 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

He is an Everton fan.

Ha ha ha Everton fans are mental!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 5 May 2006 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ed "Stewpot" Stewart to thread.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 5 May 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

Possible gambit: yes, fella, the Lord might be your saviour but you support Everton and are therefore going to Hell, it's bloody obvious (apols to Steady Mike).

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 5 May 2006 09:27 (nineteen years ago)

have they definitely got the asbo? all i could find was this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4969450.stm

i find it astonishing that you've never seen him, matt, it feels like he's always there.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's in today's Evading Standards, page 20.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:37 (nineteen years ago)

why are Evertonians hellbound? some may feel they are already there.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I thought it said "deadly megaphone sermons", not "daily".

If they are going to shut him up, they should shut everyone else up as well, notbaly the Krishnas and the "Do you like hip-hop and R&B" brigade. Although perhaps I am upset with the latter because they never ask me.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

In all my years of living in London, I've never got off the Tube at Brixton without a wobbly white guy with chunky dreadlocks trying to hand me a flier while mumbling "Aba Shanti, drum and bass" over and over again.

I swear, he was there at 8:30 on a Wednesday morning once.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

If they are going to shut him up, they should shut everyone else up as well, notbaly the Krishnas and the "Do you like hip-hop and R&B" brigade.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a29/Mega91/e83ae5e1.gif

― the Enrique who acts like some kind of good taste gestapo (Enrique), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

would be funny if the Krishnas had ever used megaphones.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

There used to be an older black guy at Finsbury Park shouting "Aba Shanti, Brixton drum n bass" he was always there at odd times too. Aba Shanti - the promoters who never sleep.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Drum sound travels further than megaphone outporings, surely?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.drudgereport.com/siren.gif he wasn't there yesterday http://www.drudgereport.com/siren.gif

― Enrique IX: The Mediator (Enrique), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

I saw sinner/winner guy at Piccadilly Circus a few days ago, being chatted up by a brace of police. He didn't have a megaphone. He had a microphone plugged into an amp, yay.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 18 May 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

He's been asboed, according to pub gossip yesterday.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Poor Phil.

I wonder if he'll go to the World Cup? He was at the Sydney and Athens Olympics.

― Pete W (peterw), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

There must be a God--bcz divine protection is the only way the sinner/winner can have avoided being killed yet. I hate him.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

He's been in the papers loads recently.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

A second asbo? Motherfuckers.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

There was another guy at Oxford Circus at the weekend. Much quieter, lacking in charisma, facing away from the junction so you couldn't really hear him - there's no way he'd have converted me.

― ledge (ledge), Thursday, 18 May 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

'Don't go to hell, you really ought to be behaving well'

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

A church sign near me: "Trust in God, to believe isn't odd"

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

'Don't you understand, if you're a bad person you'll be damned'

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

'Stay on the level so you don't meet the devil'

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Do other religions have these sorts of characters with 'sinner/winner' equivalent, practically light-hearted catchphrases?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

"reincarnation, it's better than tarnation!"

― The Minimal Criminal (kate), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

The Lubavitch movement has spawned some musical offerings like Uncle Moishe & the Mitzvah Men who released records when I was a kid which our religious cousins would send us sometimes.

Ain't gonna work on Saturday
Ain't gonna work on Saturday
Double, double, triple pay
Ain't gonna work on Saturday

etc

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Probably the bethnal Green Rag and Bone market dudes. That's the best market in the world.

I bought a wooden statue of a drunken crazy from a drunken crazy.

― ZOT! (davidcorp), Thursday, 18 May 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

GOOD IDEA

― Roughage Crew (Enrique), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

sinner/winner dude appears to have moved to piccadilly circus, so now i have to put up with him rudely interrupting whatever cd i'm listening to every day. i think his head should be stamped on.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 17 July 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah he is always at Piccadilly Circus now. I wonder if it's due to the terms of his ASBO? He uses a microphone & speaker instead of a loudhailer now as well, presumably also because he's banned from using a loudhailer?

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Monday, 17 July 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.myspace.com/sinnerorawinner

― Masonic Boom, Friday, 7 September 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

Oh dear lord.

― marianna lcl, Friday, 7 September 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

have you guys met angel nigel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWSwdg40GQc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbIF1fqGgEY

he lives near me i think. seems nice enough but totally nuts. was at the bus stop and the college kids all took the piss out of him, pretend to want to play football with him and then hoofing it across the road. horrible.

― ken c, Friday, 16 November 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

I have still never seen Sinner-Winner man! I must be the only person in London in this situation.

― Matt DC, Friday, 16 November 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

apparently he was given an asbo. i haven't seen him in a while.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 16 November 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

I saw/heard him around Oxford Circus again within the last month.

― G00blar, Friday, 16 November 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

There's a new lady with a walking stick who stands at Oxford Circus and yells semi-comprehensible god stuff. She looks ANGRY. I reckon she could take Sinnerwinner in a straight fight.

― chap, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://movies.infinitecoolness.com/15/ghostbusters14.jpg http://www.ectozone.com/images/weaver.JPG

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

I think I know the woman you're talking about - her voice isn't up to the job, you can't hear what she's on about even if you want to. She needs to borrow Sinnerwinner's loudhailer.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

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