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• This was a while back (around 2002) but I got tapped by some ned kid who started a cry story about how he'd ran out of money and needed to phone his mum or something and needed to get some money so he could get a taxi back to Kincorth. When I gave him 50p he said 'is that all!!!', the ungrateful git, the waterworks stopped and he sodded off. Little sod tried the same story with me two seperate times. And I was walking from Froghall to Torry most days around then. If I could walk it then he could.
• noddy, shaky head man, dress man, i 4get his real name, gordon maybe? anyways, hes dead. he killed himself this year(2009).
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• The shakey head guy who wanders up and down George Street, last time I saw him he was dragging a vacuum cleaner and a record player he'd found outside a charity shop.
• Some auld wino has a nose like a tattie,and you can veiw the nose most days in union terrace gardens.
• Am very glad to have seen comment on the 'mini-kilt' man, as I thought I may have just hallucinated him during one of my vicks-induced hazes (whilst a Aberdonian yoof. Come on kidz, we all did it!). He came into Boots in the towncentre about ten (!) years ago and I almost fainted, as did just about everyone else in there. That is one MINI kilt. Oh well, if you're going to be an exhibitionist, you may as well go the whole hog...
• DRESS MAN. he doesnt wal he bounces, and suprisingly, is usually seen wearing a dress. when i first saw him i though it was someone dressed as "anne" from little britain, but know, this guy is for real, and guranteed that the majority of aberdeen citizens know and love him silently. there is also the guy who sings italian opera outside burger king...and he is actually really good

• CLAIRE JENNINGS HOWLING LIKE AN AMATEUR PORN STAR WHILE GETTING BANGED BY ANYONE WITH MORE THAN 3 INCHES IN HIS POCKET. SHE CAN USUALLY BE HEARD AROUND UNION TERRACE GARDENS MOST SATURDAY NIGHTS. CLASSY BIRD!!! LOL
• the best busker/steet entertainer of all time has to be the guy who stand in the doorway to the trinity centre, i have had many a dance to his music...which is very good.
• There are two people who always busk as the pubs are closing on the weekend, one plays guitar, and the other tambourine in a doorway on Union Stret, they alway attract a group of drunken dancers, all too pissed to realise that the guy can't really play guitar that well! Street Entertainment on a weekend is going to Burger King at 3am, as there are always, always fights, rumour has it that the staff keep a bucket of water handy every weekend night to wash blood off the pavement outside as it puts people off going in! There's a black guy who only pops up a couple times a year and stands outside Gap playing Bob Marley covers absolutely perfectly, I could stand and watch him for hours.
• John the greeter as broidge of don asda couldnt meet a cooler guy
• Cove Mary and Snuffy Hardy are pretty famous in Aberdeen but You would struggle to meet anyone who has ever met them.
• The drummers, i love the drummers! and there used to be a statue person outside st Nics, where'd they go?
• the guy with gray hair, straight cut jeans looks a bit tinky with his acoustic, have seen him outside the ST.nics centre and the bon accord, plays older stuff, like Sweet home alabama, is very good i always give him a bit of spare change as he cheers me up.

• D HOMELESS GUY WIT D BRITE PINK BLANKET WHO WE GAV A PAIR OF JEANS 2 DAT WE NICKD FRM A SHOP
• O the man outside the chinese restuarant across fae the music hall dressed as a bear is well funny at nite, he even tried to grab my m8. jis give him a kisk in the balls as u go past.
• The "packet of fags and an irn-bru" lady who hangs about on King Street near Merkland shouting "AYE AYE" at the top of her voice and then running after you to tell you about how she used to get just enough money from her mates/the council/the social for a packet of fags and a bottle of irn-bru and you should therefore give her exactly £5.74. Always nice enough, but gets on your tits when you've walked to work up King Street for 7 years and get the same shit EVERY day, twice and day
• In aberdeen, you must have noticed the guy that walks up Great Western Road with the "mini" kilt on? He has the hariest legs in the world, and I mean the kilt is mini!! aberdeen - The woman the seems to hang around on various spots on Union Street, she is an older woman, purple anorac, but always has bandages wrapped up to her knees under her tights. She is normally chewing on something as well. Probably her gums, as she has no teeth! Aberdeen - That guy who walks around talking to himself, with the leather skin, broken glasses, and ruck sack? Beleive it or not he lives in the wooods off of Countesswells Road. Bless.
• The wire maker on union street (he moves about though). Makes trendy little things which people buy when they've forgotton someone's birthday.
• when i was 8yrs old i walked past queen street wioth my older sister and saw a crazy woman pick lavender and then at a later date she screamed at me to pay a pound for it!Like fuck!i think she may be dead now!
• The busker named River who used to busk on union street is now a well known breakbeat dj sometimes featured on annie nightingales Saturday show, goes by the name DJ ILL-Versed and now lives in Florida
• Unfortunately the buskers have gone and made way for the scum that claim they are beggars..and frankly it does beggar belief that they all own a mobile phone and always seem so have a cigarette..oh and they seem to treble in numbers on a friday & saturday night! There is a very old couple of drunks(man & wife) who wander about the Castlegate, whom never bother anybody and always say hello!! They stink to high heaven but i would rather give thos two happy bodies my spare change than the junkie scum that has taken over Union Street doorways at nights
• the guy outside markies at the weekend who has the sound system that bombards people with christian songs. he seems to be the only guy left. there used to be the guy who sniffed glue who hung around old aberdeen. and who can forget the man insane man who peak was after dunblane set up a stall outsude waterstones with a union jack and wore a scout uniform - whatever happened to him?
• the 20p lady is a bit of a fruit loop, she only ever asks for 20p's we think she collects them!!
• the big issue dude with no eyes is pretty hardcore, also dibba and donut are quality entertainment if your looking to get stabbed with a needle.
• Bloke in Tartan Trousers and eyeliner playin' the bagpipes.
• Crazy Martin! yo yo! hey people, watch your bags when this mo' fo's around.
• mushy john, everyone knows who you are.
• Beverly Watson from Torry excellent rendition of How Desperate Am I. Whilst at Newburgh
• that indian guy who wore pink sunglasses was always entertaining
• St Nicholas Square occassionally hosts some decent drummers or guitar-wielding buskers, but often just militant right-wing christians with microphones.
• There's a saxophonist busker dude who's really nice if u talk to him. He comes out at nite and hangs around on Union St
• There used to be good ones - Those drummers are really good
• The crazy lady who hangs around Union Street in the summer months trying to hoist 'Lucky White Heather' on unsuspecting tourists. As soon as they accept the gift she harrasses them for payment. Amusing to watch for 2 minutes
• Lots of pisshead brawls at the weekend to watch for free!
• There is often a rare selection of buskers to be found on St Nicholas square, some of them are pretty mediocre, but occassionaly there is someoe so good you have to stop and watch for a while. The bagpipes guy is really good.
• THE HOMELESS PEOPLE SELLING BIG ISSUE, THE GUY WHOS ON THE RANDOMLY PLACED PAPER STANDS, THE SAXAPHONE GUY(WHOS REALLY GOOD) I SAW ONCE AND ASKED HIM TO PLAY PINK PANTHER, HE SAID FUCK AFF YE DRUNK BASTAD!
• BOY WHO WALKS UP AND DOWN WITH SANDWICH BOARD- PROTESTING AGAINT POLICE BRUTALITY - HE LIVES ON HOLLYBANK PLACE AND HAS A BOTTOM FLOOR FLAT HIS FRONT WINDOW IS COVERED IN POSTERS HAVE A LOOK
• THE OLD MAN WHO SELL THE BIG ISSUE BETWEEN, THE CROSSING OF ST NICHOLAS CENTRE AND BON ACCORD CENTRE AND THE FAT WOMAN WITH THE ANNOYING VOICE THAT CAN BE SPOTTED ON EVERY BUS ROUTE!!! U CANT MISS HER!!!
• The boy wi the bagpipes is rare, and the auld mannie wi the accoridian on School Hill
• that guy that plays the guitar, i once saw him walk down the middle of union street palying it!
• They are all crazy. Don't encourage them.
• Don't see a lot of street entertainment in Aberdeen....unless you classify the crud you see outside tesco metro.....
• best entertainment is going for a piss on the Christian bus at midnight on Saturday. Especially after you've drunk their tea and eaten their biscuits. Does the White Heather Lady qualify? Kharim in the Aan Noor kebab shop has entertained drunken punters for 15 years. Cheers mate! There a guy with bag pipes but he's shite.
• The mintal robot wifie outside St Nicholas. How somebody can take that much abuse and keep coming back is beyond me. There is a guy who is absolutely brilliant on the bagpipes. And there is occasionaly a coloured guy who plays Bob Marley songs on the guitar, he is very good.
• What ever you do, don't come all the way to Aberdeen just to see the clown/robot chick, for she is no more!! No more squeeking that thing in her hand at you and no more waving at all the kiddies very robotically - what shall we do without her?? I know we will listen to the bible man, wwho shouts at us all as we walk by - even though he has a microphone and can hear him from Holbun Junction!!
• Bams are street entertainment, especially on fridays, go and follow a group of bams to see how many clubs they get turned away from before settling for DeNiro's
• That mad clown woman who stands in St. Nicholas Street - she's bonkers
• The talented man who blows a whistle in your face in the name of musical integrity.
• Plenty of big issue vendors everywhere to keep you entertained with new fangled methods of crying "BIGGY SHOE" and expecting a quid for it
• Around the entrance to marks and crabby spensers.
• Look out for the homeless guy on Union Street who juggles. He is very good at it, and deserves one of your quids just for actually learing to juggle. If a strange looking old woman with heather in her hand approaches you, either walk away or you will be tricked into pating for a bit of weed she just stole from the nearest bit of grass.
• Loads of mentally insane people demanding money - joke!
• The best street entertainers may be the "Big Issue" vendors who seem to outnumber the number of Aberdonians who are employed!

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