Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse?

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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby robertpool » Sun Jun 01, 2014 12:15 am

the way Macaulay Culkin plays the kazoo beggars belief ..... does that count :-)

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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby bAzTNM » Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:49 pm

moonbeam wrote:Which is the worst beggar playing a musical instrument? Or perhaps which beggar tries to play a musical instrument the worst? There are quite a few.

Some wee guy seems a bit off key on his guitar outside the Shopping Centre thing on Rutherglen Main Street.
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby Fat Cat » Sun Jun 01, 2014 9:18 pm

jodieohdoh wrote:Bloody beggars, eh? Why don't they get a proper job and stop making the place look untidy and bothering the strivers as they're busy doing their striving.


The guys on the streets of Glasgow are extortionists, meanacing and aggressive. Seriously, you think the want a job? They have one, stealing with impunity off our citizens.
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby moonbeam » Sun Jun 01, 2014 11:08 pm

A guy at Clydebank who plays a solid violin "thing" with a brass horn attached. He is never in tune. Plus the two stringed guitar "virtuoso" who could only pluck one string badly in Argyle Street on Saturday. Does anyone recall a guy who used to sing about out side the Rogano in Exchange Sq. He used the sound effect of the buildings to produce quite a unique sound.
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby Lucky Poet » Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:22 am

moonbeam wrote:A guy at Clydebank who plays a solid violin "thing" with a brass horn attached.


Would it be one of these (and could it be the same guy)?
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moonbeam wrote:He is never in tune.

Ach, being in tune is a burgeois concept :)
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby banjo » Mon Jun 02, 2014 8:27 am

same instrument different guy in clydebank.three tunes played over and over for hours on end.nae offence to the bloke but it is a bloody insufferable noise.
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby busdriver » Mon Jun 02, 2014 9:42 pm

banjo wrote:same instrument different guy in clydebank.three tunes played over and over for hours on end.nae offence to the bloke but it is a bloody insufferable noise.


The instrument appears to be a Romanian horn-violin.

there is an article about them here Wikepedia
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby Lucky Poet » Mon Jun 02, 2014 10:37 pm

From the article: "It is generally used sparsely as the grating tone can irritate after a while." QED :)
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby moonbeam » Mon Jun 02, 2014 11:49 pm

Agree with Banjo. Same instrument different bloke. Terrible scraping noise. Has he only got three (out of) tunes! I actually saw a bloke in a Ford Ka drop of two women at Partick retail park who set up "begging" positions to-day.
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby robertpool » Tue Jun 03, 2014 12:35 am

Lucky Poet wrote:From the article: "It is generally used sparsely as the grating tone can irritate after a while." QED :)


'irritate after a while' l take it you mean 2 seconds :-)
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby Targer » Tue Jun 03, 2014 1:35 am

Can we ban this instrument from coming into the country?
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby puddlesplasher » Tue Jun 24, 2014 8:27 pm

banjo wrote:same instrument different guy in clydebank.three tunes played over and over for hours on end.nae offence to the bloke but it is a bloody insufferable noise.


Would you be old enough to remember Jaimsey "Boy" Barr who used to jump on and off the buses through the Clydebank to City centre route, particularly the number 63 and 64. I always remember him getting on around Yoker and believe he stayed in Langholm St (now Speirshall Terrace) He must have been around 20 year old then so if hes still around could be about 60.

He was of limited intelligence and always played his "mouthie" out of tune whilst begging for a couple of pence. This must have been around an easy 40 years ago but hey, the guy was a pest but he always gave a tune to anyone that shouted, "Hey Jaimsey, gimme a wee tune".
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby mercury » Tue Jun 24, 2014 9:13 pm

I think the guy with horn( 8O )fiddle has moved to Blantyre.
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby Delmont St Xavier » Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:23 am

puddlesplasher wrote:
banjo wrote:same instrument different guy in clydebank.three tunes played over and over for hours on end.nae offence to the bloke but it is a bloody insufferable noise.


Would you be old enough to remember Jaimsey "Boy" Barr who used to jump on and off the buses through the Clydebank to City centre route, particularly the number 63 and 64. I always remember him getting on around Yoker and believe he stayed in Langholm St (now Speirshall Terrace) He must have been around 20 year old then so if hes still around could be about 60.

He was of limited intelligence and always played his "mouthie" out of tune whilst begging for a couple of pence. This must have been around an easy 40 years ago but hey, the guy was a pest but he always gave a tune to anyone that shouted, "Hey Jaimsey, gimme a wee tune".


James was Down Syndrome and he was the object of taunts and slurs. He lived with his sister in Langholm St and used to be found outside the County Bingo in Crow Road or in the Rosevale Bar with his cigar tin and collecting pennies that he would play in the fruit machine. He was looked after by the staff and regulars in the Rosie who would feed him and then try and get him on a bus. He later moved from mouth organ to pocket radio and often used it as a weapon to batter you over the heid if you didn't put pennies into his tin.

Conflicting reports have him as bed-ridden others claim he died some years ago. It's difficult to verify the true outcome but he was a local character and as 'beggars' go he wasn't in the same category, he was just a 'wee boy' trapped in a body of an older man who had learning difficulties.
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Re: Aggressive Begging in Glasgow City Centre. Getting worse

Postby moonbeam » Wed Jun 25, 2014 9:36 am

I remember James around the Partick area-Rosevale Bar- used to slip him a few bob. Maybe just to get rid of him. He was a sort of likeable "pest". A lot of people knew him in the Yoker/Partick area.
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