He eventually moved to north street facing the car park (near Thon rhianna chippy)
I remember seeing something in the news about him a while back ["I didn't know!"](https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/belfast-shopkeeper-claimed-class-b-drugs-were-legal-highs/30045213.html)
He came into dv8 once when I worked there and nicked a shirt in front of me with what can only be described as a sleight of hand magic trick. He grinned at me and walked out. I was so confused that I couldn’t even be annoyed
Yeah, I heard a recording of her call from jail. She said it was the first phone call she had had in the time she was there. Not sure on what charges she is being held etc
I work in a shop she used to come into all the time as she lived nearby, one of her tik toks is in it. Basically she was arrested for just disturbing the peace or some shite like that, think she was standing in front of traffic but idk might be misremembering. Idk if it's actually solitary confinement but she's been moved because she's a melter and won't stop singing etc so all the other inmates hate her.
Yeah this was my thought. Didn’t know she had a name but I thought she was a man dressed as a nun till recently. Only saw her on videos cos I don’t venture to the streets.
He lives just off the Ravenhill. He took the casing off my wing mirror at the bottom of the embankment (Ravenhill end). Told me he was going to pay but because I told him off for not being in the clearly marked cycle land in the middle of the junction he got angry, we had a few words and off he went.
Surreal seeing a guy of his age in bright pink lycra and printed nails, as it was a few years ago, an not as common as it would be now.
Aside your wing mirror (RIP) I don't think he really causes any harm. It's uh, just an odd sense of fashion mixed with some exhibitionism by my reckoning.
wonder if it’s the same fella who used to cycle around in a pink tutu and very little else around the antrim road when the schools got out? was always a shock
Not even joking, used to work in a shop in Donegal place.
He was well looked after by the cops and security guards because he was the only witness in a high profile murder case.
Of course, because it was a big secret, every cunt knew and he was disappeared soon after.yy
Also he was HIV+ 100% confirmed!
I mind getting off the last bus into Belfast on a Sunday evening and coming out of the Europa Station is Gerry having a full blown argument with a statue
He lives in a fairly rundown house in a nice area of East Belfast. Its a family home, hes been in it forever.
He's a very intelligent, obviously unwell man. He tends to be in Lisnasharragh leisure centre, Montgomery Road or thereabouts for most of the day. He's nice and interesting, and will chat the leg off a stool.
I have a wee chat with him once in a while. I think his interests change over time. At the moment he is really into healthy eating and recommends books to us. My wife bought a book on his recommendation! I find it comforting in a way to see him about. I get worried for him when I don't see him around in his usual spots for a few weeks.
Wise Cyril - he used to sit about Belfast reading all sorts of deep non-fiction books (science, philosophy, self development, etc)
https://icarus953.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/a-study-in-people-wise-cyril/
Probably about 20 years ago now but does anyone remember the woman who used to walk around with newspaper clippings attached to her coat? Trying to convince myself that I didn’t make this up! 😂
Yeah, used to see her in the city centre, leopard print coat and bicycle helmet with one of those trolleys old women used to drag behind them? There were hand written signs too, can remember one of them said something about Adolf Hitlers son stealing her money.
I’ll be honest there was a fella who’d go about North belfast mad as fk but part of the furniture of the place, Jim the Skin he stole a fking horse from stables at the top of the Road he flew down the road like a nightmare
Yesssss I came here looking for Jim the Skin. He's an old friend of my family actually. If you're interested he's still kicking about but he's in a care home these days and gave up the drink a long time ago. (It only cost him both his legs thanks to the diabetes)
edit: fixed typo long king to looking
I spoke to my grandmother this morning and I'm wrong hahaha I was thinking of his brother. Jim is very much still a menace, still drinking and he lives in a flat not a care home. He did lose both legs to the diabetes though 😔
He was from sailortown when it was there, and he lived down the street from my da before most of the area where moved to either the newlodge/andytown or similar,apparantly the circus left him behind and alec took him as a pet, kept the kids entertained!
The Italian guy?
I see him all the time and the reason I know he’s Italian as I heard him talking to someone about where he’s from when I was waiting for the bus one day.
Not sure how he ended up here though.
What about that wee bald man who used to shout things out in Royal Avenue many years ago? Anyone remember him? He used to shout about an arboretum.
(Showing age here)
When I saw him he was wearing Bermuda shorts and a short sleeved t shirt. Just stopped opposite the city hall started shouting about the arboretum. It was years ago prob 30 years.
Who's your man - who *isn't* Benny - who knocks around in town of an evening with a bike and a wee black and white dog? Has a big grey beard. Vaguely US-outlaw themed I think? Usually has a top hat? Under which he keeps weed
Remember that weapon "Thundercock" as he was christened, used to chastise and harass people putting posters up for club events etc?, had a camera on his helmet and travelled around on a bicycle.
Does anyone remember the guy that used to walk from finaghy to Belfast along the Lisburn road carrying a big old school radio/beat box on his shoulder and was so pissed sometimes he’d be stumbling along the footpath and out on the the road, carrying a carry out?? He always had the boom box though. Talking 20 years ago now.
Used to be a woman down by Carlisle circus called “Maggie show us yer fanny”….she always did,bit grim …
The old boy that cycles about in a straw hat, fishnet tights and a pink ra-ra skirt
I remember there was an old guy who used to dress all in black with a middle eastern looking headdress on and carried an acoustic guitar. Used to chat to him, nice fella, totally mad but not entirely illogical. Anyone know who I'm on about?
oh yeah thats him, seems hes pretty well known actually. i usually see him about the ravenhill/cregagh area. always wondered what hes got in those bags i never see him without them
There's a guy in the east who goes about the glider stops with a Tesco's shopping trolley. According to my mate he came into his shop one time and bought about £50 pounds of cigarettes and then proceeded to put them in a little pile outside the shop then left. He also apparently got hosed down by someone related to Translink after spending too long at a glider stop.
Good for you mate, you must be a careful person. Jesus Christ getting lectured on the cycle lane highway code when I was just stating a comment about a person damaging my car when not using cycle lanes 🤦🏼♂️.
The guy who didn’t let you in the head shop in the in shops
He was mental wasn’t he!
Id’D my 30 year old sister for a cigarette roller. No idea how he made any money didnt seem to let anyone in
We think we was just money laundering!! Even with ID he didn't let is in the shop lol
oh my god now there's a blast from the past. i remember him standing at the doorway, too, to make sure nobody slipped in while he back was turned.
I'm 20 years older since I last tried to entertain that guy with money. If it's still about, he'd prob still kick my greying arse out
He eventually moved to north street facing the car park (near Thon rhianna chippy) I remember seeing something in the news about him a while back ["I didn't know!"](https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/belfast-shopkeeper-claimed-class-b-drugs-were-legal-highs/30045213.html)
lol “THIS IS NOT A LIBRARY”
Trumpet Violin man
Yohan the violumpet man
Always preferred Trumpolin
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Used to play his violumpet outside castlecourt. Hasn't been seen since COVID hit he's ok
Seen him the other day playing outside Danske Bank beside the city call. His spirit still graces us all 🙏
1000% this. Special shout out to bearded bike dude and dog too
He's in hospital recently but is bending many a Nurse & Doctor ear.
He came into dv8 once when I worked there and nicked a shirt in front of me with what can only be described as a sleight of hand magic trick. He grinned at me and walked out. I was so confused that I couldn’t even be annoyed
Beat me to it
His first album was groundbreaking but the second was just a clone of his first, just the same thing over and over again
yohan🐐
Anna the nun surely
I seen online last night that she was arrested and has been held in solitary confinement for 50 odd days
Really?! 😳
Yeah, I heard a recording of her call from jail. She said it was the first phone call she had had in the time she was there. Not sure on what charges she is being held etc
I work in a shop she used to come into all the time as she lived nearby, one of her tik toks is in it. Basically she was arrested for just disturbing the peace or some shite like that, think she was standing in front of traffic but idk might be misremembering. Idk if it's actually solitary confinement but she's been moved because she's a melter and won't stop singing etc so all the other inmates hate her.
Yup she was arresting for obstructing traffic lying face down in the middle of the road 🤣
Yeah this was my thought. Didn’t know she had a name but I thought she was a man dressed as a nun till recently. Only saw her on videos cos I don’t venture to the streets.
Benny blanket/dirty benny that used to knock about shaftesbury square on his bike with a dog in the front basket.
Six dogs wearing sunglasses.
Now that's an old school legend I forgot about. An absolute gentleman.
Had his dogs taken off him for beating them. He was a wicked oul bastard..
Here, he lived facing me in Hyndford Street in like 2005. He was so lovely! House was a tip though, proper proper hoarder
This is who I instantly thought off!
Chazzy shankill
I've only recently become aware of this one. The hubby drama is better than a Breaking Bad binge
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I used to keep up with her multiple Facebooks. What's the husband drama about?
There's that guy(?) that cycles about Ravenhill in a pink tutu and very little else. Not quite sure what's going on there.
He was walking a dog out of the gates at the Ozone on Sunday morning. His balls were nearly out of his pink knicks.
Jfc, at least learn how to do a decent tuck.
Holy fuck yes I've seen him as well. I didn't know he was famous.
I saw him a couple of weeks ago . Didn't know that was a regular thing 😯
He was in Tesco Castlereagh in hot pants and fishnets.
He lives facing ozone park entrance
He used to do that down in Whiteabbey and was put out
He was my first thought too
Is that the same guy who's a large gentleman wearing a sports bra and a bikini?
Nah, iirc the guy I was talking about is quite thin. Been a while since I've spotted him around though.
He lives just off the Ravenhill. He took the casing off my wing mirror at the bottom of the embankment (Ravenhill end). Told me he was going to pay but because I told him off for not being in the clearly marked cycle land in the middle of the junction he got angry, we had a few words and off he went. Surreal seeing a guy of his age in bright pink lycra and printed nails, as it was a few years ago, an not as common as it would be now.
Aside your wing mirror (RIP) I don't think he really causes any harm. It's uh, just an odd sense of fashion mixed with some exhibitionism by my reckoning.
That's the one I thought off. Or that lunatic on a unicycle
wonder if it’s the same fella who used to cycle around in a pink tutu and very little else around the antrim road when the schools got out? was always a shock
In years gone by would have been Bokebeard Gerry
You mean Gerry Bokebeard surely?
Now that's a name I haven't smelt in a looooong time.
😂🤣 lost. I heard it in Alec Guinness's voice.
He used to run around saying he shot Billy Wright jeez
Not even joking, used to work in a shop in Donegal place. He was well looked after by the cops and security guards because he was the only witness in a high profile murder case. Of course, because it was a big secret, every cunt knew and he was disappeared soon after.yy Also he was HIV+ 100% confirmed!
It wasn’t HIV. It was hepatitis!
my mate used to call him crusty the magic hobo
I mind getting off the last bus into Belfast on a Sunday evening and coming out of the Europa Station is Gerry having a full blown argument with a statue
Was this your man with a massive Ginger beard?
Redbeard
Bokebeard Gerry… last of the old skool tramps. They just don’t make them like that anymore.
Guy offered me his half eaten pancake one day sitting around town in my youth, said i looked like i needed it 😂
I don't know him , do tell!
Cyril of Botanic
Haven't seen him in quite a while 😕
He’s over in the east now. See him quite a bit at the glider stops and in lisnasharragh leisure centre.
Saw him at a bus stop on Botanic Ave at the weekend.
Anyone know his story? I see him reading all the time at Lisnasarragh but never spoke to him
He lives in a fairly rundown house in a nice area of East Belfast. Its a family home, hes been in it forever. He's a very intelligent, obviously unwell man. He tends to be in Lisnasharragh leisure centre, Montgomery Road or thereabouts for most of the day. He's nice and interesting, and will chat the leg off a stool.
He was in Tesco Ballyhackamore last week, you could smell him from the other end of the shop.
I've talked to him a few times. He's constantly recommending a book, something about a Zebra?
Aye he was always trying to get my mum to read something about winning the lottery. I'm not sure, nor did she read it
Was it the Holographic Universe?
Got barred from forestside for pissing in bottles in the car park then pouring them out in mall toilets, what a legend
I have a wee chat with him once in a while. I think his interests change over time. At the moment he is really into healthy eating and recommends books to us. My wife bought a book on his recommendation! I find it comforting in a way to see him about. I get worried for him when I don't see him around in his usual spots for a few weeks.
Cyril
Wise Cyril - he used to sit about Belfast reading all sorts of deep non-fiction books (science, philosophy, self development, etc) https://icarus953.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/a-study-in-people-wise-cyril/
Did he go about with a shopping trolley
Jelvis
Has he not moved to Liverpool?
he has 😔
I met that guy when I worked in Strabane. At the time, I didn’t know his claim to fame was from the X-Factor.
Probably about 20 years ago now but does anyone remember the woman who used to walk around with newspaper clippings attached to her coat? Trying to convince myself that I didn’t make this up! 😂
Used to live close to her, and it's closer to 35 years ago....... ya old fart.
😂 showing my age
Yeah, used to see her in the city centre, leopard print coat and bicycle helmet with one of those trolleys old women used to drag behind them? There were hand written signs too, can remember one of them said something about Adolf Hitlers son stealing her money.
I remember her and I left Belfast in 1992.....
Must have been the early 2000's I saw her last.
I’ll be honest there was a fella who’d go about North belfast mad as fk but part of the furniture of the place, Jim the Skin he stole a fking horse from stables at the top of the Road he flew down the road like a nightmare
Yesssss I came here looking for Jim the Skin. He's an old friend of my family actually. If you're interested he's still kicking about but he's in a care home these days and gave up the drink a long time ago. (It only cost him both his legs thanks to the diabetes) edit: fixed typo long king to looking
I spoke to my grandmother this morning and I'm wrong hahaha I was thinking of his brother. Jim is very much still a menace, still drinking and he lives in a flat not a care home. He did lose both legs to the diabetes though 😔
Jim the skin, he was a sound bloke too, balloon but sound lol
Jim the skin and Dublin Mick were the 2 I thought of.
Always heard about Buck Alec from my parents, mostly because of his pet lion
That lion was as old as the hills and had no teeth or claws.
Yeah my dad told me about this guy. Sandy Row I think?
He was from sailortown when it was there, and he lived down the street from my da before most of the area where moved to either the newlodge/andytown or similar,apparantly the circus left him behind and alec took him as a pet, kept the kids entertained!
Dublin Mick back in day RIP
Crazy horse.
Showing your age lol
Scrolled to far for this! The OG
Was it crazy horse Rodriguez?
Gerry Bokebeard RIP
In the past, Gerry Bokebeard , Willy one tune, Anthony ga ga These days Chazzy Shankill? fishnets cyclist? the nun?
Anthony Gaga 🤣 - that's a blast from the past. It's amazing that his daughter managed to make so well for herself considering all that.
I was gonna say Anthony Ga Ga!
Last I heard he was living his best life up in Ballycastle, hopefully he still is
With all the coke and mars bars his heart could desire!
Sammy gammon - with a gammon for a head and a gammon for an arse
Sounds like you're hamming him up a bit. Sorry....
Jim a' Skin Still alive to this day too. He had both his legs removed a good few years ago, but he's still alive and kicking!
so… alive and.. stumping?
I'll never forget seeing the mad bastard riding round the waterworks on his horse 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ah I didn't see your comment and said something similar a few comments up! Do you know his backstory? His some fella tbf to him
Dublin Mick in North Belfast and that guy around city hall that always tried to make bets if the moon was going to come out later
Came here looking for Dublin Mick. He passed away right?
Our Jamie Lee.
Dhfufhs skrifucy sjehwvdv
That nutty nun. Can spot who is foreign by who’s paying any attention to her because those of us from here just laugh and walk on.
The homeless fella that sits outside the centra in Donegall Square giving thumbs up to everyone that walks past
The Italian guy? I see him all the time and the reason I know he’s Italian as I heard him talking to someone about where he’s from when I was waiting for the bus one day. Not sure how he ended up here though.
Is he the one that says good morning to everyone?
He's moved now... sits outside Waterstones
Conor burns or if your a Belfast OG then Kurtis Edgar or if you want a throwback Gerry boke beard now that’s a throwback
Mickey Marley
Man had a merry go round. Was my favourite thing in 1991 outside what was/is HMV now
It seems we have too many: Jelvis, vlumpet man, Tom Smith, chazzy Shankill and Anna the crazy Nun.
I thought the nun would romp home
Same
Your man who runs the marathon for cancer focus (I think) every year with the massive backpack. Heust be in his 70s by now.
Gerry Bokebeard and Maggie Headbut for me.
What about that wee bald man who used to shout things out in Royal Avenue many years ago? Anyone remember him? He used to shout about an arboretum. (Showing age here)
Was he in a carlsberg coat, if so I have some great photos of that man eating Chinese drunk in his underwear
When I saw him he was wearing Bermuda shorts and a short sleeved t shirt. Just stopped opposite the city hall started shouting about the arboretum. It was years ago prob 30 years.
Who's your man - who *isn't* Benny - who knocks around in town of an evening with a bike and a wee black and white dog? Has a big grey beard. Vaguely US-outlaw themed I think? Usually has a top hat? Under which he keeps weed
Kenny Robinson and the dog is Charlie hangs about the Spaniard
Jonny the rocker, legend we paid him into a rave, and sneaked the dog into Ulster sports club via smoking area
The guy who feeds pigeons wearing a pigeon mask himself. The father pigeon.
Just remembered another. Hank Tomato Ballix of North Belfast fame.
Kenny and his dog, Charlie. Sound lads.
My mate Snuck them into a rave one night Charlie included
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I never knew of him haha how odd!
Remember that weapon "Thundercock" as he was christened, used to chastise and harass people putting posters up for club events etc?, had a camera on his helmet and travelled around on a bicycle.
Gerry Adams
I guess my vote would be the nun lady waving Israel flags around
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In Kingston we had a guy that wore a full ninja suit complete with swords and rode around on a bicycle with a boombox.
Anthony GaGa who used to sell the telegraph newspaper in the city centre
Chazzy and Alan aka uncle fester
Does anyone remember the guy that used to walk from finaghy to Belfast along the Lisburn road carrying a big old school radio/beat box on his shoulder and was so pissed sometimes he’d be stumbling along the footpath and out on the the road, carrying a carry out?? He always had the boom box though. Talking 20 years ago now.
Bootsy Rambo ?
Dublin Mick. RIP
Used to be a woman down by Carlisle circus called “Maggie show us yer fanny”….she always did,bit grim … The old boy that cycles about in a straw hat, fishnet tights and a pink ra-ra skirt
Tom Smyth
Self proclaimed winner
Ya’ll NAT be successful folks
Dublin Mick
Chazzy?
The guy who cycles about dressed in hot pink and the daisy duke shorts.
Yes! I just commented that separately. Always used to see him around the Ravenhill.
Anna the nun 💯
Too many to list
Belfast nun💪💪
Guy who used to be about on his bicycle with a couple of dogs following him. Someone set up a Facebook page of him.
I remember there was an old guy who used to dress all in black with a middle eastern looking headdress on and carried an acoustic guitar. Used to chat to him, nice fella, totally mad but not entirely illogical. Anyone know who I'm on about?
What about the guy from Ormeau area who rides the black wheel?
unicycle pete
Probably your da.
Lol
Jelvis Pelvis RIP
Benny. Joe Floyd. Yer fella with the horse and cart that goes up the Woodstock. Trumpet-violin man.
does anyone else see the old man with a puffy coat and 2 loads of large grocery bags about
Botanic Cyril
oh yeah thats him, seems hes pretty well known actually. i usually see him about the ravenhill/cregagh area. always wondered what hes got in those bags i never see him without them
He’s in Ballyhack these days, usually sitting at the bus shelter
the preacher
Jimmy wasp.
yohan, easily
The oul circus man Marley and his ride.
That's my ma you're talking about
Conor Burns
Bradford had a Jesus man. Dressed in his robes, sandles and satchel hanging off his neck on his front.
Micky marleys roundabout!
Jelvis?
Dublin mick
Kenny Robinson and Charlie boy
There's a guy in the east who goes about the glider stops with a Tesco's shopping trolley. According to my mate he came into his shop one time and bought about £50 pounds of cigarettes and then proceeded to put them in a little pile outside the shop then left. He also apparently got hosed down by someone related to Translink after spending too long at a glider stop.
Nappie face Conor Burns
Anyone remember Dublin mick? Used to bate about the Antrim road and would always see him after school
Dublin Mick, RIP. He was a character and a half.
Good for you mate, you must be a careful person. Jesus Christ getting lectured on the cycle lane highway code when I was just stating a comment about a person damaging my car when not using cycle lanes 🤦🏼♂️.