I had to look it up:

Busking is the practice of performing in public places for tips and gratuities. People engaging in this practice are called buskers.

Yeah, sure he's a hero subby. Let's see why he's homeless before we call him that eh?

meekychuppet: Yeah, sure he's a hero subby. Let's see why he's homeless before we call him that eh?

FTA: Hirte used to be a professional lorry driver before he fell into a two-month-coma after a traffic accident in 1991.

Since then he has been blind in one eye and had to file for personal bankruptcy two years ago.

That probably had something to do with it. Anyway, he's pretty damn good. The YouTubes has some clips of him.

Lionel Mandrake

That probably had something to do with it. Anyway, he's pretty damn good. The YouTubes has some clips of him.


Having also read the article, the guy doesn't want to be homeless again, he just wants to busk. As soon as I saw it was the Star I smelt a rat. He's not a hero and subby is an idiot.

He's got nothing on Wesley Willlis! Who could forget a gem like I Whupped Batman's Ass (ignore the stupid video and just listen to the song). Apparently he was some homeless busker who's just a little crazy. Some record exec heard him and basically said, "Holy shiat, I gotta get this guy in the studio!" The rest, as they say, is history.

You all must watch the movie Once. You can thank me later.

CtrlAltDelete: I had to look it up:

Busking is the practice of performing in public places for tips and gratuities. People engaging in this practice are called buskers.

You had to look that up? We have a busker festival in Halifax each summer and it's always great times.

I've even performed a few times for beer money... drunk tourists can be very, very generous.

You got a Benz, I got a busket! Gimme a dollar!

ScreamingInDigital: You got a Benz, I got a busket! Gimme a dollar!

Great movie - Leary ftw

Being poor is horrible. They should feel ashamed of themselves.

ScreamingInDigital: You got a Benz, I got a busket! Gimme a dollar!

I'll buy your busket for $100. Give me the busket!

/or something like that. First thing I thought of too.

NoLiving: Being poor is horrible. They should feel ashamed of themselves.

4/10

Phideaux: ScreamingInDigital: You got a Benz, I got a busket! Gimme a dollar!

I'll buy your busket for $100. Give me the busket!

/or something like that. First thing I thought of too.

Don't even mention footwear to me again

/google stingray boots and you'll see why he was upset
//would be more upset if I had to wear them - they're rather ugly

jjs1978: NoLiving: Being poor is horrible. They should feel ashamed of themselves.

4/10

I'm not even trolling dawg. Poor people are parasites on humanity, they consume more than they contribute and overpopulate more than productive people.

Hero?

NoLiving: jjs1978: NoLiving: Being poor is horrible. They should feel ashamed of themselves.

4/10

I'm not even trolling dawg. Poor people are parasites on humanity, they consume more than they contribute and overpopulate more than productive people.

See..you should have started with that, I'd at least have given you 6/10 then...

Why not buy a little home in Kartzow, and be a busker with a house?

NoLiving: jjs1978: NoLiving: Being poor is horrible. They should feel ashamed of themselves.

4/10

I'm not even trolling dawg. Poor people are parasites on humanity, they consume more than they contribute and overpopulate more than productive people.

"If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."

jjs1978: See..you should have started with that, I'd at least have given you 6/10 then...

Really? After he used dawg? You're a much nicer person than I am.

lurkster: ScreamingInDigital: You got a Benz, I got a busket! Gimme a dollar!

Great movie - Leary ftw

Especially his toaster beatdown of the child abuser.

ScreamingInDigital: You got a Benz, I got a busket! Gimme a dollar!

Dammit, late again.

meekychuppet
...He's not a hero and subby is an idiot.

Worth repeating.

Someone say Busket?

NoLiving: jjs1978: NoLiving: Being poor is horrible. They should feel ashamed of themselves.

4/10

I'm not even trolling dawg. Poor people are parasites on humanity, they consume more than they contribute and overpopulate more than productive people.


Oh dear, a productive member of society has used the word 'dawg' in an attempt at serious dialogue about the poor and poverty.

I don't know if the "hero" tag is appropriate, but "awesome" would be. Some people (i know, it's hard to imagine) actually don't have the self-centered conceited personalities required to be famous. Re: Kurt Cobain

kellynoel: You all must watch the movie Once. You can thank me later.

This movie has nothing on August Rush!

:)

to quote marketa: my fadder was a mudder.

San Fran Bush Man (new window)

Best Busker EVER!

So, homeless guy gets rich, then biatches about being rich?

why doesn't he just give all his money to charity and go back to being poor? Oh thats right, because he's a damned liar, he likes being rich. If he didn't want to be rich anymore im sure theres plenty of people who would take his money. Guy is a dumbass, not a hero.

NoLiving: jjs1978: NoLiving: Being poor is horrible. They should feel ashamed of themselves.

4/10

I'm not even trolling dawg. Poor people are parasites on humanity, they consume more than they contribute and overpopulate more than productive people.

Yes, so that we can eat them.

"A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout."

He could just go to the various busker festivals around Canada.

GoofyTigre: San Fran Bush Man

Best Busker EVER!

He's definitely up there. He's even won legal battles to do so.

NoLiving: I'm not even trolling dawg. Poor people are parasites on humanity, they consume more than they contribute and overpopulate more than productive people.

No one's explained to you that living in that trailer in your parents' back yard pretty much works the same way, have they?

I don't see how this guy is a hero in any way at all. Tag is vastly over used.

NoLiving: jjs1978: NoLiving: Being poor is horrible. They should feel ashamed of themselves.

4/10

I'm not even trolling dawg. Poor people are parasites on humanity, they consume more than they contribute and overpopulate more than productive people.

Lots of people are parasites.
But, the guy who asks me for a buck, because he's saving up for some Night Train, is a less onerous parasite than any of the millions whining for a "bailout" simply because we are in a recession.

HMS_Blinkin

I don't see how this guy is a hero in any way at all. Tag is vastly over used.


Submitter has doubtlessly failed at life. Such people believe that they are working class heroes because they haven't sold out to the man.

rumpelstiltskin: NoLiving: jjs1978: NoLiving: Being poor is horrible. They should feel ashamed of themselves.

4/10

I'm not even trolling dawg. Poor people are parasites on humanity, they consume more than they contribute and overpopulate more than productive people.

Lots of people are parasites.
But, the guy who asks me for a buck, because he's saving up for some Night Train, is a less onerous parasite than any of the millions whining for a "bailout" simply because we are in a recession.

Riding the train to nowhere... Link (new window)

meekychuppet: HMS_Blinkin

I don't see how this guy is a hero in any way at all. Tag is vastly over used.


Submitter has doubtlessly failed at life. Such people believe that they are working class heroes because they haven't sold out to the man.

According to your bio, John Steinbeck is one of your favorite authors.

I just find that funny.

A HOMELESS busker who won £85,000 on Germany's version of Britain's Got Talent has said he wants to go back to the streets.

So go back to the streets already, moran, and STFU.
See...Downward mobility is easy.

mikec2003
why doesn't he just give all his money to charity and go back to being poor? Oh thats right, because he's a damned liar, he likes being rich. If he didn't want to be rich anymore im sure theres plenty of people who would take his money. Guy is a dumbass, not a hero.

What he said.

meekychuppet:

Submitter has doubtlessly failed at life. Such people believe that they are working class heroes because they haven't sold out to the man.

Get over yourself.

In any case:
"Celebrity is conferred upon on by the mediocre and the rogues, with whom one is then bound to share it." - Camus

NoLiving: jjs1978: NoLiving: Being poor is horrible. They should feel ashamed of themselves.

4/10

I'm not even trolling dawg.

My facepalm has a facepalm.

NoLiving: jjs1978: NoLiving: Being poor is horrible. They should feel ashamed of themselves.

4/10

I'm not even trolling dawg. Poor people are parasites on humanity, they consume more than they contribute and overpopulate more than productive people.

If there were no poor people, there'd be no rich people.

ScreamingInDigital: You got a Benz, I got a busket! Gimme a dollar!


I'll give you $500 for that busket. (new window)

Ashtrey: ScreamingInDigital: Gimme a dollar!

"King, I need my b'itch back." *offers cigarette*
"F'uck you, gimme a dollar!"

NoLiving: jjs1978: NoLiving: Being poor is horrible. They should feel ashamed of themselves.

4/10

I'm not even trolling dawg. Poor people are parasites on humanity, they consume more than they contribute and overpopulate more than productive people.

That's just beyond stupidity. And it's not funny in an offensive way. You should be ashamed of yourself for posting this statement on fark

Constance Velocity: If there were no poor people, there'd be no rich people

That's just plain dumb.

fatassbastard: Constance Velocity: If there were no poor people, there'd be no rich people

That's just plain dumb.

If there were no cheap labor, there'd be no rich people.

I defy you to disagree.

Doesn't make the rich evil. It's just life.

Marla Singer's Laundry: If there were no cheap labor, there'd be no rich people.

I defy you to disagree.

Doesn't make the rich evil. It's just life.

"I disagree." So there. ;)

Humans being what they are, I think there will always be poor people (and rich people). However, I don't believe it's a necessity that there are working poor in order for people to be rich.

Also depends on how you define "rich" (I think "poor" is a bit easier to define).

And I certainly don't think people who are wealthy (better term, IMO) are necessarily evil at all. In fact, I hope to be (relatively) wealthy myself someday, provided the whole Ponzi Scheme isn't about to collapse entirely, of course. :)

fatassbastard: Marla Singer's Laundry: If there were no cheap labor, there'd be no rich people.

I defy you to disagree.

Doesn't make the rich evil. It's just life.

"I disagree." So there. ;)

Humans being what they are, I think there will always be poor people (and rich people). However, I don't believe it's a necessity that there are working poor in order for people to be rich.

Also depends on how you define "rich" (I think "poor" is a bit easier to define).

And I certainly don't think people who are wealthy (better term, IMO) are necessarily evil at all. In fact, I hope to be (relatively) wealthy myself someday, provided the whole Ponzi Scheme isn't about to collapse entirely, of course. :)

It's certainly an interesting thing to bandy about.

Marla Singer's Laundry: fatassbastard: Constance Velocity: If there were no poor people, there'd be no rich people

That's just plain dumb.

If there were no cheap labor, there'd be no rich people.

I defy you to disagree.

Doesn't make the rich evil. It's just life.

Another way to look at it would be from a global resource perspective (all of the glaring morality issues aside); that the world can't sustain the wealthy lifestyles of the first world without the abject poverty in the third world. There simply isn't enough to go around, and so no, we can't all have nice things.

/slight threadjack maybe, but in talking rich and poor you have to remember you are part of, and reliant on a global power structure.

andynz81: Marla Singer's Laundry: fatassbastard: Constance Velocity: If there were no poor people, there'd be no rich people

That's just plain dumb.

If there were no cheap labor, there'd be no rich people.

I defy you to disagree.

Doesn't make the rich evil. It's just life.

Another way to look at it would be from a global resource perspective (all of the glaring morality issues aside); that the world can't sustain the wealthy lifestyles of the first world without the abject poverty in the third world. There simply isn't enough to go around, and so no, we can't all have nice things.

/slight threadjack maybe, but in talking rich and poor you have to remember you are part of, and reliant on a global power structure.

With regard to the musician, he probably missed the simplicity and excitement of what he was doing. Success brings a lot of hassles. From most accounts, fame is pretty alienating...not that I would know firsthand, mind you.