....'Can you spare a penny please sir?'...

[Mackenzie]

The huge parka wearing polite stalker beggar? Is he still around?

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

I think he died a while back.

We always used to call him "Gottapenny"

Was a gent - anyone know his story?

 

[Tricky Dicky]

My favourite line to a beggar from a frind of mine once ...

Beggar : Have you got 50p for a cup of tea mate ?
Friend : Have you got change for a quid ?
Begaar : Yes
Friend : Then you don't need my f*ck*ng 50p then do you.

 

[Badger]

My favourite line to a beggar from a frind of mine once ...

Beggar : Have you got 50p for a cup of tea mate ?
Friend : Have you got change for a quid ?
Begaar : Yes
Friend : Then you don't need my f*ck*ng 50p then do you.

I had quite a good one the other day:

Beggar: Can you give me some money to phone for a taxi?
Me: If you can afford a taxi then you don't need money to phone for one.

She promptly went away

 

[pasty]

I remember seeing a beggar sat at the bottom of the toilet stairs in Victoria station. He had a cardboard sign which ran something along the lines of "Penniless. And why lie, it's for lager"

I gave him 50p for the cheek of it.

 

[Buzzer]

At the risk of incurring the wrath of Alex Dawson, I see that old fat bloke at Brighton Station still sells the Big Issue. Must be - what - at least 10 years he's been doing it?

 

[glasfryn]

"Got a penny" was always hanging around Lewes Road(we had a cafe there) and very often he would poke his head through the door and ask the customer nearest the door the dreaded question,I asked him once if he wanted a cuppa and he stayed and had one .....but never took the preverbial piss by coming every minute of the day just when he was passing and he was never any trouble.

If he has passed away its sad ........but then maybe with his life he is in a better place.

 

[ROSM]

changing the subject slightly - what about wavey davey, the man who used to wave at buses and bus drivers?

A true Brighton character

 

[Munkfish]

Is the happy man by waitrose still there? i remember walking past one day and in one hand he had a babys shoe and it went along lines of...

"heres a little shoe" *held out the shoe on the palm of his hand*

"and heres the big issue"

I liked what he did there!

 

[Les Biehn]

There used to be one outside HMV on Western road who would do little songs and other stuff. My favourite was 'In the words of Gareth Gates, b b b b b, b b b b b, b b b b b BIG ISSUE!'

 

[Deleted User X18H]

What about the big guy with all the black sacks and the crook see him all around Brighton never begs though.

 

[Badger]

The guy who used to dress up as Santa at Christmas and stand on Western Rd playing (or at least that's probably what he was trying to do) the accordian, he made me chuckle despite being painful on the ears.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Am assuming this is not the same guy who used to ask for 10 pence and roamed around the Ship Street, Lanes area in very smart trainers, in the 80's?? Anyone know what happened to him??

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Who is the bloke who always wears a green Snorkel parka done up -even In Summer- to the top,with a rucksack on and carrying a stave often seen by me striding really fast at the Coldean lane end of Ditchling Road?

Every time I see him he is heading North, never seen him coming the other way, and at different times of the day.

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

Am assuming this is not the same guy who used to ask for 10 pence and roamed around the Ship Street, Lanes area in very smart trainers, in the 80's?? Anyone know what happened to him??

Yes I remember him "Just 10 pence please" reverting a couple of years later to "just one penny please".

 

[NMH]

I remember seeing a beggar sat at the bottom of the toilet stairs in Victoria station. He had a cardboard sign which ran something along the lines of "Penniless. And why lie, it's for lager"

I gave him 50p for the cheek of it.

So YOU are the one in every crowd who admires that 'cheek'!

Give me £50. It's for me to spend on myself.


Honest.

 

[seagully]

After a booze fuelled night taking in the sights and sounds of Coventry's fine night life, my friends and I were staggering home. A tramp wandered up to my mate and asked him for some change. My (bespectacled) friend told him, politeley but firmly, to f*** off. The tramp then responded in kind and as an afterthought shouted 'and you should've gone to Specsavers mate!' A tramp who manages to keep up to date with slogans from television commercials. I never knew those cardboard boxes they lived in had tellys in them.

 

[Mackenzie]

....also, does anyone remember the (mad?) old lady who used to try and put a carrier bag in front of your windscreen when you were driving? She was usually found loitering in Tenantry down Road (the cut through at the top of Bear Road).

What about the well dressed lady who swore at everyone she walked pass. I think she lived in Lower Rock Gardens, as I remember her shouting at me from a balcony there. She usually wore a black/dark brown trouser suit and a hat.

Brighton was full of characters (or nutters as I prefer to call them).

 

[nobody's dupe]

Am assuming this is not the same guy who used to ask for 10 pence and roamed around the Ship Street, Lanes area in very smart trainers, in the 80's?? Anyone know what happened to him??

He lost his sponsorship off of Adidas and resorted to begging to make a crust.

 

[Alonso Moseley]

The frizzy haired deadpan American comedian Steven Wright uses this response to being asked for spare change
'I dunno, I haven't lived all my life yet'.