How do we deal with these people?

[mt774]

How do we deal with these people?

Those people that will random approach you and say some annoying stuff to you such like "in the time you have been standing there, the earth atmosphere has been polluted beyond repair"

or they will say "a thousand babies could be saved from starving by your signature being signed on paper" i don't want to be harassed by these when doing my walking in street.

so what must we do as best way of dealing with these fanaticals?

[Deadite]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PQ6335puOc&feature=player_embedded

[Yoda]

I've never been approached this way. If I were, I'd probably argue with them, and presumably they'd get tired of it and leave me alone.

[Oktober]

Every time I get off the train in the city someone tries to give me a 'free' magazine, & I don't mean 'The Big Issue'. Usually it is some dodgy promotion of something or other. When you refuse they seem perplexed that you wouldn't possibly want a free magazine.

[wintertriangles]

Are you a real person?

[Oktober]

Is that a real question?

[ollanik]

lol

[wintertriangles]

Is that a real question?Yes, because I don't know where you can live other than deep city NY or Southern California where someone like that could come up to you. And those people don't even notice those people.

[Oktober]

Yes, because I don't know where you can live other than deep city NY or Southern California where someone like that could come up to you. And those people don't even notice those people.

I don't even live in America.

[wintertriangles]

I don't even live in America.What you're talking about and what the thread starter is talking about are two very different things. "Entrepreneurs" exist everywhere, but they usually understand they won't get whatever it is across to you if they immediately threaten your comfort zone. They usually don't get across to you anyway but that's besides the point.

[Golgot]

I think they might be talking about 'chuggers' ('charity muggers'). We get them here in the UK, people paid to try and stop you in the street and get a donation pledge out of you.

If one manages to stop me (normally by being unfairly attractive) I settle for asking a few questions, before honing in on how much of my money would go on admin & promotion. It's always over the 10% that groups like Oxfam seem to manage, so then I tell em to sling their hook.

In the nicest possible way.

If they're attractive ;)

[Nausicaä]

^ I just ignore them if they start walking towards me, like I'm in my own little world. If they are just standing there and catch my eye I just say a polite no and then move on ignoring them if they continue asking.

[Oktober]

What you're talking about and what the thread starter is talking about are two very different things.

Oh, OK. It must have got lost in translation.

"Entrepreneurs" exist everywhere, but they usually understand they won't get whatever it is across to you if they immediately threaten your comfort zone. They usually don't get across to you anyway but that's besides the point.

I'm just not interested in being given free glossy magazines that I have no interest in.

[Golgot]

^ I just ignore them if they start walking towards me, like I'm in my own little world. If they are just standing there and catch my eye I just say a polite no and then move on ignoring them if they continue asking.

But what if they wave a placard bearing this?

http://images.mirror.co.uk/upl/m4/aug2011/2/9/two-year-old-chimpanzee-do-do-feeds-milk-to-aorn-a-60-day-old-tiger-cub-pic-reuters-187012874.jpg

[ollanik]

ahahahahahahahhaaha

[linespalsy]

I've seen this in plenty of places. They're not just in major cities but infest Public University Campuses, and many down town/Main Street areas as well. I actually don't mind them all that much, especially if they're trying to get you to join a crazy cult. My favorites are the Lyndon LaRouche guys who are always waiting outside the DMV (anything that makes the DMV less boring) and the Fire-and-Brimstone-spewing Christian lady I used to see ranting up and down the sidewalks of Princeton (I stopped to chat with her a couple times but she seemed very evasive and withdrawn, like she's not comfortable interacting with people unless she's damning them to hell and giving them written messages from Jesus).

[Golgot]

Ahh, the forthright holy. I almost miss the crazy voodoo lady who lived on the circle line in London, spitting on the evil. Almost ;) (Tube preachers are a whole art unto themselves. My least favourite was a guy who'd bounce a pingpong ball as he spoke to passive-aggressively get your attention. Arsehole.)

Semi-cruel as it is, I've turned to the 'but couldn't Jesus have been an alien' line of dismissal for some regulars. Only if they were over insistant tho. (Or spooky, like the cyclist girl with the 1000-yard stare and a vague moustache who would slam on her brakes to try to convert me).

What they need is a soundtrack...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQGfk73jWzQ&start=60

(Just found this :D. Actually looks like a pretty cool doc)

[earlsmoviepicks]

When i lived in NYC, if someone tried to hand me a pamphlet on the street, I would take it and immediately hand it to the next person coming towards me. Almost always they would grab it without hesitation. That would crack up my out-of-town visitors.

[wintertriangles]

There's a lot of christians on my university campus telling me I need to save my soul. An iconoclast's restraint is immeasurable.