Chuggers.

[Dr Mindbender]

What is your opinion on chuggers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_fundraiser)? I find them mildly irritating, on a par with preachers and other forms of charitable emotional blackmail where i'm made to feel guilty for bourgeioise crimes.

Annoyingly, they've taken to the supermarket tills in a bid to secure loose change for interfering with my purchases. What i do is grab one of the 5p bags and immediately insert my purchases so i can walk off without feeling guilty.

Works a treat! :D

[Redmau5]

I don't mind the ones that simply ask for loose change. However, there are loads around Belfast these days that want bank details so they can withdraw like a £1 a week from your account. They're annoying fuckers, and I think they get paid to do it as well.

Luckily they're all usually dressed in some brightly coloured coat, and can be identified and avoided.:thumbup1:

[Invincible Summer]

I always tell them I'm in a rush, but if they'd give me their website and e-mail address I'd read about them and possibly contact them.

[NecroCommie]

It is horrible here! Everytime I go to Helsinki central, I cant walk two blocks without getting stopped by numerous greenpeace/amnesty I/Hare Krishna/other religious fundie activists. But it matters not for I have found out a way to counter their tactics... ;)

Everytime I hear some moron following me for more than two meters and repeatedly asking me to join greenpeace for example, I turn to them and start converting them to the communist party. Then they try some lousy argument against communism and puff! A debate starts. They just cant match me in a debate, and when they realize they are defeated, they go away without saying anything. Afterwards I feel like I had achieved something important.

[Angry Young Man]

Like everyone else, I duck and sway. However, I was so pleased with myself when I got collared by one in Cardiff and spoke very bad pidgin French - the fucker was only convinced, wasn't he! Plus I nearly gave myself away when he said 'au revoir' and I looked a bit blank, then it twigs, and I just avoided saying 'alright, ta-rah.'

Next time, I'ma try Spanish. Bit more of a challenge, seen as I'm blond.

ED: Ooh, plus, I met a lovely Action aid chugger once - stereotypical anarchist student (dreads and absolutely gorgeous despite the possibility that the last time he had a bath was before puberty). I just says how I'm sceptical of charities because I'm a Marxist and he says he's an anarchist who was throwing stuff at coppers at Gleneagles. Lovely lad, he was.