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This is going back about 10 years ago, but who remembers these?:

The skaggy girl who used to sit next to the ATM near Devon Savouries begging for money. She called me a tight cunt once for not giving her anything and so I told her to fuck off, especially considering that a couple of days before I saw her in a shop buying 10 fags and X large rizzlas.

The nutter who used to walk through town talking to himself VERY LOADLY about horses and racing.

The young bloke who used to "Dance" outside Burger King, he had a small stereo with him and just could not dance, he ALWAYS drew a crowd though. I heard that he died.

kuzeeee with his ghetto blaster.
the demented dancer who looked like adrian mole.
the 20p begger who always had a can of tennents super in his hand(steve)

Eh? Homeless people need fags and large rizzlas as much as anybody else. Possibly even more.

I don't really remember an of them. Booo.

Anyone seen the guy with the cowboy hat who makes cuckoo noises?

Also the poor guy that died with the massive thumb  :(

I remember him, Skinhead use to prey on women and children, generally keeping clear of blokes.

and the oold fella who used to go barmy and fight himself or shout at his imaginary foe or friend(mad rad i think he was called)
also the fella who used to sell the advers by primark where the bogs used to be was a bit of a legend.yab yab yab yab.i think he fathered a kid in his 70s

thats sid the kid.he has a hockey stick as his walking stick.he used to watch the moonies on a sunday and wroughton on a saturday.
he lives in wroughton

I remember him, he was ace. Yab yabba yabba yab yab yabba.

Think he relocated to Yeovil and now calls himself herthab.

I reckon that the yab yab man if he was about today would be one of the biggest hits on youtube of all time.

On the other hand he would of been a prime target for happy slappers

Haha, I know him.

I walked past him once as he saw a polo on the floor. He bent down and picked it up and yelled "Polo - the mint with the hole!". Funny as fuck.

He is quality sam, lives in wroughton and gets a lift in town everyday of random people

Yep - fathered a kid in his 70s with a woman in her 20s at the time. Think he's dead now but deffo an overriding memory of Swindon when I was growing up.

ahhh, the yip yap man! Brings back memories!!!

Funniest one at the moment has to be the small chinese dude on crutches!

In Bath we have the Jamaican Jester who sings nothing but "no women no cry" Even has his own facebook group  8) http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2258524895

 8)  I remember him!  I also remember asking my mum what he was saying...   :oops:

20p steve asked me for - surprisingly - 20p at the bus station once.  I had my hair tucked into a cap that day and he thought I was a boy until I tuned round...He was so embarrassed he ran away before I could refuse to give hm money!  That was ace.

Ha he is mad. He Used to live in the flats on radstock avenue so we used to egg his windows and sing ching chong china man through his letter box.He used to chase us as he had no crutches then

whoah lets go back........ so your a girl

You are so mean Macca.

I remember in Sydney we were on the bus and this bloke came running on shouting Yeeehaaaaa and galloping up and down the Isle.  After a couple of minutes he just galloped off!  Was hilarious.

Sometimes he goes to Nam too!  :soapy tit wank:

What about the bloke with the HUGE ears who went busking near macdonalds. I remember he found himself a girlfriend once and she used sit next to him shilst he was busking, they looked so proud and happy together, and they where both absolute monsters to look at.

Even I remember him, There used to be a tunnel thing next to Primark where he used to stand? He used to scare me  :oops:

hahaha i forgot about them.fucking takes mongers to another level them two

The crying boy neees a good kicking

As for the beggers not one of them is homeless from what I gather

they all live in your flats, i've heard.

i nearly ran that crying boy twat over the other day.he had a small child on his handle bars of his bike and rode straight infront of me.
should have been put down along time ago that cunt

One hostel does not house them all, which once gone im totally private tenants, ps next time you want free work done do one  :D

I know wayne rose (crying boy) very very well .Up until the age of 17 one of the nicest lads i ever grew up with. Something terrible happened and it all went downhill for him from then on.

Still see him about and still talk to him

he might have been alright once macca but he's a cunt now.
and to think that scumbag has children?
beggars belief.

hehehe forgot about them two! Used to play some crap on a crappy electric keyboard! :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Good pun :D  . I agree mate just For me it’s a shame as I know what he was like before

Love you really x

How's Mooney doing?  8)

He died!

was he the one with the welded together fingers, a bit like an early version of the man from atlantis ?

Calne had a bloke called physical phil must of been aged around 25-30. He would wear a take that cap and try to break dance at youth club discos.

 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  Physical Phil - oh my god what a throwback - whatever happened to him? didnt he live up Quemeford and people used to say he didnt have a bed he slept on hay!

wheres Jan aage? he'd remember!

Sid the Kid was a bit of a legend, used to do some bottling up at the Moonies about 15 years ago.  I was doing some contract work in there about 11-30 one morning, some young lad came in and started taking the piss out of Sid.  Last seen running down Clive Parade with Sid chasing him!!  Understand he was a bit of a hard man in his younger days. :soapy tit wank:  :soapy tit wank:

He is getting there thank you

:D

I remember the cukoo man, he was always outside the savoy when we were in town having just finished college at regent circus.

Once I deciced to squak at him as he was cukooing and he threatened to kill me.

I've also encountered the crying boy, what a twat!

I don't know why but that name has just make me laugh out loud

Iv'e never had the pleasure of seeing this "Crying boy", whats his story then? He obviously cries alot.

http://www.adver.co.uk/mostpopular.var.2039354.mostviewed.crying_boy_gets_further_begging_ban.php

To be fair he is a fucking great actor

haha ledge. I've never met any weirdos, but i saw a bloke in town talking to the pigeons once.

:oops:

I don't know who physical Phil is but have heard of him and think he still resides in Quemerford

Physical Phil still lives in Quemerford with his mum, he was also the Burger King dancer from the orginal post. His mum is a bit 'touched' and spends all day walking up and down the London road with Phil following her to make sure she is ok.

Maybe not town centre, and I don't know how many on here have ever been to cavendish square.

But Cavvy square was frequented by a religious bunch (Probably Mormons) who would just turn up and start preaching from their bible.

Quite an odd bunch considering that EVERYBODY walked right past, I don't ever recall them having ANY audience whatsoever.

Reg might remember or Power 2 the People as they are/where from that neck of the woods.

not that I agree with mocking the afflicted, but he sounded like he should have been in crash test dummies.....the band before anyone asks

Heh! heh!




Freaks 8)

I would pay good money to see a man with a giant thumb. WTF is that all about?  My nomination would certainly be the 'Jabber Man' (i.e Jabber=Adver) I seem to recall him fathering a child at the age of 75 or something like that. I think he died at least 10 years ago.

Did you read this thread?

Well I thought I had but your response would suggest I have missed something. Please fill me in big boy.

I'm sure I just read the fact about the old man having a kid with a young woman from about 3 different people.

Well let me just check that out.....

It'd be quicker just to tell me to fuck off. I'm pissed, I won't mind.

There was another chap who I remember.

He lived out of a shopping trolley and was often seen outside Brunel Rooms at kicking out times for whatever reason, maybe he slept near there as he was proper homeless.

Whilst at college and working at Burger King I remember well him coming in and asking for "Cofftee", basically a cup of coffee with a tea bag in it.

The thing about this chap is that he was very very well spoken and dead intelligent, quite posh in fact yet he was homeless. He was easy to talk to yet anybody who tried to ask "What the fuck is a bloke like you doing on the streets" would simply have the subject of coversation quickly and smartly changed.

Anybody know who I am talking about?, I wouldn't be surprised if nobody does as he kept himself to himself.

No, I prefer not to if it's all the same to you.

Terry Tibbs mentioned that facinating fact in post #13 of this thread but it was quite easy to miss. I almost missed it second time around in fact. He was the only one to do so during this whole thread apart from myself.

Any way, let's move on. I am desperate to know more infomation about this man with the massive thumb. Does anyone have any dimensions? Height? Weight? Girth? How did this happen? Please help me here - I can think of nothing else right now!

The Beehive used to be a great place to go for top quality loons.

He was unmissable really OST, big ears, big thumbs, big girlfriend and played an electric organ very badly outside McDonalds.

He reminds me of the monster form the recent Beowolf (Sp) movie.

In that case you have my sincerest apologies for my pedantry.

Unfortunately I have not met 'Thumb Man' so I cannot offer any more information.

I really want to try that now. Might have one in the morning.

He sounds absolutely fantastic. The truth is though, I've spent virtually no time in Swindon town centre during the last 15 odd years. Some misguided people would say that was a good thing. I, on the other hand would say I've been missing out 8)

Seem to remember some guy who used to play the bagpipes at the top end of Regent Street. Also, what about the guy who used to wander through town with a shopping trolley looking for bits of scrap metal that he took to Coopers.  Anybody remember him?  He used to frequent Nottons Cafe at the Manchester Road/County road junction, he got banned for swearing at all the other customers!!

I have a tenant at teh moment who is in a shared house, for the past week he has woken people up at 1am arguing with his self, he seems to have a split personality, called me a wanker then told himself off in front of me! shot

i've mentioned him previously but not in as much detail as you.he was mad rad.i think bancock is on about the same guy.
he would have mental arguements with himself and at other times was almost normal.was always pushing a trolley about.he lived in toothill but must have died years ago

noel at the beehive was a bit of a loon but always let me in on christmas day.

Is Noel still alive? I always thought he looked like he could keel over at any moment. And that was years ago. The last I heard he had a pub in Oxford.

Last I heard of him he was living at a council run home in Moredon but he got kicked out of there for being so anti-social!!  Apart from swearing at the staff and other residents he had a flat on an upper floor and took all his gear and trolley up there, throwing it about in his flat.  That was about 8 years ago, no seen him since then!

Him and his Mrs were mentally retarded.

I was once upstairs in McDonalds when they came in and sat opposite me.  He then started touching her up and putting his hand down her skirt.  I didn't finish my meal.  He's dead now I think.

Andy and dawn were their names. andy died about 7-8 years ago now from some infection in his stomach from what i remember.
Now yes he could not play for toffee with his webbed hands and dawn would sit there like yoko ono at his feet but andy would often come into the music shop where i worked and we would have to tune his guitar for him.
He would have the guitar tuned/restrung to an open chord as his fingers would obviously not stretch to play open type guitar chords.
Andy had whats called "perfect pitch" which not that many people have.
You would tune the guitar for him and he would say it's still not right, you would move the string and he would be right everytime.
Not the most pleasent person to have in your shop but someone who was probably more rock n roll and musical than alot of the musicians in this town.

if you want another there is fred who just says "yeah yeah" and there was this guy who used to come in and just say "i love 60's and 70's music me"
and no word of a lie i saw him coming out of the tent market one morning with a t shirt which read
"I LOVE 60'S 70'S MUSIC!

adver man is the only bloke i remember, he was always there until a year or two ago - what happened to him? used to be on the corner next to devon savouries and sounded like he was speaking in tongues.

I think the bloke you're talking about is called Tony.  Not seen him for years, but I often used to an Adver from him at lunchtime when I worked in Swindon in the late 1990s.  Nice chap.  Always ready to chat with his customers.  I think I gave him a Christmas card once.

didnt he have a baby when he was about 75?

That would be original!!  I thought it was only the she version of humans that had babies!

Yeah he's a LegendI actually gve him money now and again untill I saw him in the bookies making rather large bets on th raing think he may be part of an undercover triad gambling ring. Papa Chan I think he's called.

*bump*

has no-one mentioned the town end tramp? Was walking around at the end of the game today picking half empty bottles of coke up from the floor and puting lids on them and then putting them in a bag. I felt well sorry for him, he must be our most diehard fan yet people just shouted at him  :cry: