Local Characters - guy with hat

[BarryRoad]

He's probably already been mentioned with another 'name', but I refer to him as 'faggot boy man' (read why). He was in front of me using the cashpoint by the Co-op pharmacy. I had my headphones on and was in a world of my own. It was clear the cashpoint wasn't working for him and he put his card in two or three times. Once he gave up, he turned around and shouted "alright faggot booooyyy?!" really loud at me. Before I worked out what just happened, he was about 50m down the road on his bike. I'm baffled.

I've also seen him outside the police station making siren noises in reply to real sirens during an open day for kids.

[Jimmy Mac]

Hey faggot boy!

Only joking BR, but I think I may have encountered the same gentleman. I was walking from goose green swings about a fortnight ago with my 3yr old son and a chap went past us on a bike and said quite loudly "you dirty little pervert". I didn't want to get "bladed" and I restrained my son who was tempted to give him a good kicking with his crocs...so I let it pass.But I too was baffled like you...but sticks and stones and all that.

All good wishes

JM

[mightyroar]

Hey Crash & Monica I know who you mean that guy who directs traffic, He's bonkers!

Domitianus I have never seen this worm. Green AND wormy you say? what part of Lordship does he frequent?

[fractionater]

he could have tourettes you know

[mightyroar]

Domitianus do you have some form of wormettes which means you cant go more that 3 posts without mentioning it?

[Domitianus]

He?...Mighty Roar...he? If you have been able to sex the Green Worm you too must have seen it! I rest my case. Also, I have indeed seen many rather worrying looking Tourettes around ED. I would steer well clear of them if I was you.

[JoeChuff]

I know this guy as "Prince Charles Man": I first met him on a P13, Prince Charles Man was welcoming everyone onto the bus as though it were his: "Hello, welcome, come on to my bus, have a seat." People getting off the bus, by contrast, would be shouted at: "Get the f*** off my bus!! Go on, get off, you can't stay on my bus!" He clearly decided that I looked like a trustworthy type, because after a while he sat opposite me and admitted that it wasn't really his bus, but people still listened to him because he was "a big black b*stard". He then explained that the bus actually belonged to Prince Charles, and went off on a lengthy monologue about the relative merits of Diana and Camilla, and the parentage of Prince Harry.

Since then every time I see him, the subject of Prince Charles seems to come up.

[bawdy-nan]

What about the "dapper bums".

They're often to be seen enjoying a carrier bag full of super strength something at the top of Landells Road of a morning. They are always smartly dressed and very polite. The older man has grey hair (and occasionally a t-shirt from a West End show). His compadre is a bit more Friar Tuck - ruddy of face and wide of girth.

I've seen them sometimes in the charity shops presumably restocking their wardrobes.

[Domitianus]

Worm! Green Worm!!! Oooops!

[mightyroar]

slithering along northcross today was he?

[Rubby Chuckers]

bawdy-nan Wrote:

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> What about the "dapper bums".

>

> They're often to be seen enjoying a carrier bag

> full of super strength something at the top of

> Landells Road of a morning. They are always

> smartly dressed and very polite. The older man has

> grey hair (and occasionally a t-shirt from a West

> End show). His compadre is a bit more Friar Tuck -

> ruddy of face and wide of girth.

>

The fellow with grey hair often greets me of a morning. He is indeed very polite, and always stands aside for me to pass.

[Keef]

http://bradfitzpatrick.com/stock_illustration/images/cartoon_worm_01.jpg

[gunnersmith]

I'm responding to an old thread regarding the White Woman. In the 90's I was the Parcelforce guy for Camberwell, and regularly delivered to the Maudsley Hospital. She was we'll known there, and had (from memory) been the victim of a racial attack or possibly rape. She is a black lady, and after the ordel suffered a severe mental disorder and took to wearing white. I first glanced her briefly in Denmark Hill and thought nothing more of it, then one morning I actually delivered a parcel to her flat. Put bluntly, she scared the sh*t out of me; white bandages wraped arount her torso, what looked like EMULSION paint on her face and hair, white knickers over the bandages, a Madonna stlye white pointed bra and, to top it all, a white tail draping along behind her! Her piercing red eyes done it for me, a sight I shall never forget! Her flat had white paint smothered on all the windows (both front and back), and apparently everything in the flat was painted white also.

Further threads here say she's cured and living a now normal life, and I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else knows of her now, or if anyone had a similarly surreal experience.

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

No love for "Mouse man"? He's about 50 I suppose, wears one of them tweed jackets and is often seen walking around Camberwell with at least 2 mice sitting on his shoulder, in his top pocket and sometimes on his head! The mice really seem to love him and I've seen them nibbling on his ear and they sometimes appear to be sleeping on his shoulder..

[Zebedee Tring]

Are you sure that this wasn't the Worm of Ambridge, much foretold by Joe Grundy, who terrorised that Midlands village this summer and who may have subsequently migrated south-east ? What, are you really telling me that Ambridge doesn't exist?

[martinchiversfanclub]

Im always seeing a woman who is always dressed in a vivid pink coat. she has a cleopatra type hairdo and she talks very loud and seems to cajole the poor man who accompanies her. I've seen her down North x road and LL at lunchtimes. Seems very friendly and always saying a cheery "Hello" to everyone. However she likes to use the 'F' word a lot. anybody know who she is? I feel sorry for the poor fella who's with her. usually has a haunted look on his face.

[rifleman harris]

So we now have a 'Pink' lady as well as a 'White' lady?

[hello_sweaty]

Yeah, me and my mate, imaginatively, call the guy from the DIY shop "Hair." If you're a fan, check him out in the summer - in that basketball outfit he looks a million dollars. Also anyone clocked that Andy Warhol is running the Vale these days?

[hello_sweaty]

Does anyone remember that geezer in the Vale who took his trousers off, shouted "YOU'RE A BANKRUPT CUNT!" at the landlord and then got nicked when he was thrown out the boozer?

[stench]

yea you want to check Hair out in the summer-summer-time, relaxing in his deck chair out the front of Terry's, Chicago Bulls gear on.... liek a cross between Boyz n the Hood and Carry on Camping

[rifleman harris]

Hasn't Terry's DIY closed? I haven't been down to that neck of the woods for a while.

[stench]

No, no, they're going strong. Was in there last week getting some paint / paying my respects

[hello_sweaty]

Anyone remember Marlon Brando who lived at the Vale. Wicked. they had to get the fire brigade out to winch him downstairs. and that is no lie.

[rifleman harris]

There's another couple of local celebs; two women, short stocky could be sisters who usually get about down LL. One wears her hood up and wearing large earphones. They are the shouty "Who the f*** are you looking at?" type. Ive stared danger in the eye many a time and tweaked the nose of peril, but i would not like to meet these two on a dark night. Or a light night for that matter. Anybody know who they could be?

[Jah Lush]

I saw Mr "Hair" this very morning on his way to work. He gets a P13 most mornings on Underhill Rd and is a regular in the EDT. I've always thought his hair resembles a Second World War German helmet.