gjhardwick wrote:let's not forget about Whycliffe - this guy had it all (including Danni Minogue as a girlfriend), then the dreaded crack took hold.

Can now be seen wandering around Nottingham, asking random people if he could sing them a song and shouting at moving traffic...

http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/id/401

His story is a fucking nasty one. Wish he'd pull his trousers up too.

Hey gjhardwick, sumlin etc - do you remember that guy in Nottingham, kind indiscriminate age somewhere between 30-50, that used to walk with a massive limp almost exclusively down the middle of the road, especially main roads. Cars swerving all around him. This is maybe 5 or 6 years ago. You could see him everywhere in Nottingham..... Forest Fields, city centre, Sneinton, Radford, Trent Bridge, he must have walked non-stop, at like half a mile an hour. Someone once told me that his parents had died in a car accident and he was looking for them......... Dunno if he got run over or what (it would surprise me if he didn't) but I don't think you see him anymore. Not the weirdest guy ever, but another in an endless stream of Nottingham based strange people.....

Guy Forks wrote:Hey gjhardwick, sumlin etc - do you remember that guy in Nottingham, kind indiscriminate age somewhere between 30-50, that used to walk with a massive limp almost exclusively down the middle of the road, especially main roads. Cars swerving all around him. This is maybe 5 or 6 years ago. You could see him everywhere in Nottingham..... Forest Fields, city centre, Sneinton, Radford, Trent Bridge, he must have walked non-stop, at like half a mile an hour. Someone once told me that his parents had died in a car accident and he was looking for them......... Dunno if he got run over or what (it would surprise me if he didn't) but I don't think you see him anymore. Not the weirdest guy ever, but another in an endless stream of Nottingham based strange people.....

hmmm, i've only lived in Nottingham for a year and have never seen the guy - the story rings a bell though...

Guy Forks wrote:Hey gjhardwick, sumlin etc - do you remember that guy in Nottingham, kind indiscriminate age somewhere between 30-50, that used to walk with a massive limp almost exclusively down the middle of the road, especially main roads. Cars swerving all around him. This is maybe 5 or 6 years ago. You could see him everywhere in Nottingham..... Forest Fields, city centre, Sneinton, Radford, Trent Bridge, he must have walked non-stop, at like half a mile an hour. Someone once told me that his parents had died in a car accident and he was looking for them......... Dunno if he got run over or what (it would surprise me if he didn't) but I don't think you see him anymore. Not the weirdest guy ever, but another in an endless stream of Nottingham based strange people.....

You mean THE WALKING MAN? I think he passed away last year. He had a condition where it was more painful for his legs to stay still than to walk so he circumnavigated the city daily, swearing as he went.
My mate Thrash suggested we pay him to put gig posters on his back

"It's fucking well better than advertising on a bus mate"

Don't forget Afro Woman - the little be-afro-ed tramp lady who's well aggressive. My mate Neil told her he had no money once and she tried to get him to arrange to meet her the next day to give her money once he'd been home.

Then there's "I'm stuck here and I need to get back to Leicester" girl. Always well dressed (possibly on the game) and always says she's stuck here after a night out and needs two quid to get back to leicester. She's been trying to get to Leicester since 1998. Must be the crack.

and! Mr Potato Head. The bald guy who sleeps on the empty stalls on the market on a friday and a saturday...

actually, wait a second...thats Stevie from Heresy.

honeyisfunny wrote:
Then there's "I'm stuck here and I need to get back to Leicester" girl. Always well dressed (possibly on the game) and always says she's stuck here after a night out and needs two quid to get back to leicester. She's been trying to get to Leicester since 1998. Must be the crack.

easily spotted as she usually wears a bright pink hat...

don't forget the homeless guy who walks around with the broken Shure SM57 microphone and reels off the same jokes in order to try and get money...

or the albino woman

There's a guy that walks through a neighborhood near downtown. He looks like a character from Dungeons & Dragons.

He has a really puffy, curly mullet, shaved on both sides. He obviously has some sort of degenerate bone disorder in his legs; they're kind of bowed inward which causes him to hobble from side to side considerably.

He walks with a staff. Not a cane, not a crunch, but this huge wooden fucking staff.

He wears crystals and gaudy, pewter jewelry. I've seen him wearing chainmail.

Oh, and a cape. Did I mention he wears a cape?

It's like Middle-Earth deep in the heart of Texas.

this friend of mine:
- he´s a big big nerd that loves computers , tanks, war machines, trying to program in assembler (despite not having skills for that, or maths) and furries.
- he likes heavy metal, all things metal, escept one band: black box recorder. don´t ask why.
- he´s gay / bisexual.
- he doesn´t like oranges. WTF?? oranges are awesome!!