A genuine question
Walking through town yesterday I spied a group of people watching a so-called street entertainer.
It begged the question, ‘What makes a man decide that juggling basketballs while peddling a 12 foot tall unicycle is the way he wants to make a living?’
November 5th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
It beats the shit out of working
November 5th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Ah, I saw him after he was finished. I noticed that his unicycle had two separate chains. Interesting, I thought, to have a double safety feature like that, while perched on top of a 12-foot tall pole in a city that is hardly renowned for being a safe place to be.
November 5th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Well at least he’s got 2 skills that could be employed in a circus. It’s the ones that paint themselves gold or silver (or like fat band conductors) and stand like statues that I don’t understand. But worse again, what’s with those weirdos who squeeze themselves into a box 2′ x 2′ x 2′?
November 5th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Because he can… or probably because he spent so much time learning how to ride a unicycle while juggling basketballs that he never learned to read.
Still at least he wasn’t David McSavage. (The marmite of street performers.)
November 5th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Is he the cunt who strums a guitar and then tries, and fails, to make smart but funny comments about passers-by?
November 5th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
The very one Twenty. About as funny as a small white coffin and about as original as he is funny.
I’m not a hateful man but I hope he dies in about 12 different hospitals.
November 5th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
I’m with you. Had to spend some time waiting around the mouth of the Stephen’s Green centre last week and had to listen to the cunt. I was thinking of throwing some coins at him but there were too many people in the way.
November 5th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
‘What makes a man decide that juggling basketballs while peddling a 12 foot tall unicycle is the way he wants to make a living?’
Probably just making ends meet while he finishes his novel. Speaking of which…
November 5th, 2007 at 2:08 pm
Speaking of which I’m still awaiting editorial notes on the 2nd draft. Come on Ed, don’t leave me hangin’.
November 5th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
Last week the same guy juggled my nuts in his mouth for a tenner, the unicycle was nowhere to be seen. Frankly I think he’s come a long way in a week.
November 5th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
He’s most probably the child of incredibly high achieving parents and has worked out it’s a great way to piss them off.
November 5th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Blame it on the mother…they all do.
November 5th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
..mostly failing the leaving cert probably…
November 5th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
…because every decision he has ever made in his life has been very, very wrong.
November 5th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
i keep on linking my gay old site.
November 6th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Typical! All the street “performers” you could have attacked, and you go straight for the jugular.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:00 am
OK, I’ll get me coat.
November 7th, 2007 at 12:24 am
eric y says that jay whitlow once tried the unicycle thing but lasted only a few seconds and sammie has verified that whitlow has no skills in this area.