Sinners vs Winners

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aka the scouse preacher at Oxford Circus tube every day - classic or dud?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Not only at Oxford Circus tube. Sometimes he wanders up as far as RIGHT OUTSIDE MY OFFICE so he can yell at me when I go out for lunch that if you swear, you are going to hell. SHUT UP. grr.

― Emma, Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

ARGH - what a fuckwit

Dud dud dud

I've seen him chasing people down the road with his megaphone. And surely he can find an area with a greater number of "sinners" than Top Shop

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

He got as far as HMV this lunchtime thus prompting this thread. I hate him and so does God.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Everybody hates him. You'd think he'd choose to inspire more Christian emotions

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

HMV has far more sinners than TopShop. Maybe if you bother to listen to him he says good stuff like 'anyone who buys One True Voice singles is going to hell. anyone who buys those awful naff satin ruche bottomed combat kecks is going to hell'.

― Emma, Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I do wonder if anyone ever actually talks to him. Maybe he'd turn violent if you tried. I have heard him actually pick on individual people who are obviously particularly not listening.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I like to close my eyes and pretend that he's Lily Savage.

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 17 July 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

oh come on he's great. all i see when i walk past him is people grinning. he has the best catchphrase of any street preacher ever.

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

he followed me all the way down Kensington High street once (ages ago, when his megaphone wasn't so big) until I turned round and gave him the biggest mouthful. I thought he was going to belt me for a second and then he just turned away and pestered someone else.

He is a full scale tw@t though.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

you all obviously only think this because you are sinners.

― pete b. (pete b.), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

we need an additional commandment "thou shalt not pester commuters or shoppers"

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"tourists however are fair game"

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never actully listened to what he's said, all I hear is like a scouse version of the teachers in Charlie Brown.

It's not that I'm a sinner as such, it's just that I hate Frikkin' god-botherers, all the mormon zombies in Walthamstow can piss right off as well, and that bloke who walks up and down Victoria line carriages handing out leaflets, all of them just F*** off!!!!

― chris (chris), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

You are also a sinner as such though Chris.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i want another demented Christian to come along and battle him. can't we get the Hare Krishnas who used to parade up and down OXford Street to sort him out? When did they actually stop doing that? They were fantastic.

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the Oxford Street Krishnas actually released a single if i recall right - called 'Govinda', beating Kula Shaker by several years. lets hope this doesnt give the manic oxford street preacher any ideas...

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

sometimes there are scary Men In Suits on Wimbledon Broadway who try and stop people to tell them about how great their cult is

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

do they talk about how they make good use of the things that they find, the things that the everyday folk leave behind?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

aww, i like that cult

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"...and season tickets in Milton Keynes are only £46"?

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

stevem are you a furry or a plushie?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 17 July 2003 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Or an otherkin!!!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Thursday, 17 July 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i worship the Flump God

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 17 July 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

When I went out for lunch today the bloke was outside Cecil Gee and was quoting the Black Eyed Peas: 'as the BEP say, where IS the love?'. But I was too hungry to hang around on the street to wait for the answer.

― Emma, Thursday, 25 September 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Excellent! I've not seen him for weeks. This reminds me that the new HMV sale is starting today, pity I'm at home.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 September 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been already, the Uxbridge one is quite poor*, but I have high hopes for the HMV on and the Virgin one on my way home.

*I still came out with three albums though - for 15 quid

― chris (chris), Thursday, 25 September 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I got stuck on an escalator with him behind me (and a million Italian school children blocking all escape routes in front.)

He started waving a Gideon bible at me shouting: "Have you read the book? Do you even have this book in your home?"

Mistakenly I said: "Yes, that exact edition, we were given them at school."

At which he reached full non-megaphone volume: "Don't lie young lady. LIARS ARE DAMNED IN THE EYES OF JESUS!"

Thing is I wasn't lying, so much for the holy virtue of trust. Anyway a group of teenage boys on the down escalator started shouting "cahhhm down cahhhm down" and doing Harry Enfield Scouser motions, so he turned on them instead. I think God finds it amusing to put these people on earth, it's his version of letting your mates take the piss out of you.

Search: The golf sale man and the rather attractive young man who used to talk about some cod-Eastern religion outside HMV.

Destroy: The "20p, 20p, have you got 20p, 20p." man who will bark at you and then vomit everywhere if you say no. He got my friend Paul's shoes once.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 25 September 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The barking man sleeps in a flowerbed outside our offices I fear. At least thats his daytime bed.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 September 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I love London.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Search or destroy: the man with no legs who sits in his wheelchair outside John Lewis and plays the same note over and over and over and over again in the name of busking? I sympathise with his limblessness but really he could at least try to play a bit of a tune.

― Emma, Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I've been tempted to give him the sheet music for "One Note Samba".

― Alfie (Alfie), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

My God, I want to move to London NOW.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 25 September 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I will report on the findings upon my return.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned we will specially track down Sinners vs Winners man for you.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I am most grateful. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 25 September 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

we should follow him around with megaphones shouting inspirational slogans at him:

"PUSH THE JESUS ENVELOPE"

"WORK THAT DOGMA"

― chris (chris), Thursday, 25 September 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

and on that note I'm off to see him, well via the HMV and Virgin sale anyway

― chris (chris), Thursday, 25 September 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

we should follow him around with megaphones shouting inspirational slogans at him:
"PUSH THE JESUS ENVELOPE"
"WORK THAT DOGMA"

-- chris

I really want to do this now. YOU'RE IN GOD'S BALLPARK!

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 25 September 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Or we ought to get a bigger megaphone and have a PREACHER SOUNDCLASH!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 September 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

What? YOU SHALL NOT BE SAVED UNTIL YOU BLOG AGAIN! BE A POSTER, NOT A BOASTER! THAT'S RIGHT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, TAKE THE INTERNET INTO YOUR HEART AND SAVE YOUR IMORTAL SOUL. BE A POSTER, NOT A BOASTER.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 25 September 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

remind him of that saint who was beaten to death for preaching too much, I think it starts with an A.
I'd love to go up to one of those guys with a megaphone and have a shout off, then we could breakdance.
I wonder what makes someone decide to become a manic street preacher? What's the motivation?

― Nellie (nellskies), Thursday, 25 September 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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