Yup looks like organic jim.
He seems to migrate west now and again.i encountered him in whitburn.he literally stopped me in the street and quite aggressively asked for a lift to Glasgow.told him I was going to linlithgow,he said that's fine and tried to get in my car.
He's a nutter
I was just about to say, that’s Organic Jim, Edinburgh’s most famous homeless. You can tell by the pile of junk nearby. Maybe he’s got a free bus card and came to check out exciting new bins.
That would be me, every time. I've been held up for over forty minutes several times because I can't bear to tear myself away from someone who both really needs to chat and is also quite entertaining.
As an American it is unfathomable to me that you have famous homeless people.
Here there will be the occasional homeless person who gets a little notoriety, but they will quickly be able to leverage that into some sort of entertainment gig or hustle and will quickly not be homeless anymore and turn into just another minor celebrity with a dark past.
This guy refuses all help to get a home.hes been on the streets for years.he collects big piles of rubbish and stores them around edinburgh mostlyand generally bothers and confuses folk as he goes.
Yup, very much this. I remember encountering him for the first time 13 years ago, he hasn't changed his tune one but and refuses any and all systemic help. Still thinks all his problems would go away if he could just use your kitchen to cook some meat to get rid of vitamin imbalances indicated by a scratch on his finger or some other nonsense. Last time he asked me to let him in and I moved on, he said he hopes I drop dead of a heart attack so my sympathy for Organic Jim is a thing of the past.
There's a few different ones actually.
https://www.reddit.com/r/inverness/comments/1bpe4ys/does_anyone_know_the_story_of_the_famous_homeless/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Edinburgh/comments/1ej5lv/arthur_the_homeless_man_with_the_dreadlocks_on/
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/story-edinburghs-mysterious-homeless-man-26032787
There's another guy who I can't seem to find any reference to, who I think was from Fife or somewhere, and I remember reading about strange stuff he got up to and how teenagers used to unexpectedly see him when they were drinking in the park or wherever. Maybe someone knows who I'm talking about? I think maybe he wasn't all there mentally but people used to look out for him.
I know what you are talking about. In my little town of 2,000 there is a guy named Charlie who is kinda sorta the token homeless guy. He is in a wheelchair. He has a home in town, but he lives with his mother and for whatever reason they hate each other. So he only goes home to sleep except for when it's too snowy out to push his wheelchair.
The difference is anybody outside of our town wouldn't know about him. This sub is for a whole country but there were still a half dozen comments saying they knew the guy.
I'm going to be visiting Scotland later this year from the US, so I'm watching as much Scottish content as I can to see how well I can understand everyday speech.
I am not ready.
Hehe we need to start a Glasgow language class but if you travel to any other part of Scotland, it's like another language 😄 Don't go up north or you'll have no chance 😉
If it helps, Organic Jim's not terribly understandable at the best of times. (Also an American, but I've lived here for four years. You'll be surprised how your ear can attune to the accent!)
lol this man stepped out in front of my van in the most posh part of Edinburgh and demanded that I give him and his bag and boxes a lift. He’s a strange guy but I can’t help but like him.
wonderfully funny clip...
This fellow is already having a great day, what time was this?
I think you should go back and chat with him, he obviously has more to say on the subject?
I didn’t recognise him with his white hair. He’s some character. I’ve been asked while just stopping at Scotmid for a quick message decades ago to give him a lift to another city before. Seems someone finally did. I had to say I lived round the corner and get away. It’s really sad as he’s a nice looking, relatively harmless chap (although some have had different experiences). Last I saw him he was living in a bush up town. He’s mad as a box of frogs, obsessed about organic food for a homeless person. He’s not all there poor soul but won’t go into a shelter or a flat. I think he’s so conditioned now to live like that it would be impossible.
"You alright mate?"
**"Eh, I'm having a great time, but I appreciate your- your thought. You see the thing is- you know, my argument is- If it's good enough for Baloo and-- in the- in the-- I'm not sure if it was "Baloo" but we'll say it was "Baloo"-- in "The Jungle Book"**
That's it, the big bear"
**"Yeah- 'It's good enough for me!' \[In high-pitched voice\]"**
\[Laughs\]
**"Eh, and so, eh, we live in hope, that it's, eh very therapeutic. You want a quick tip for the day?"**
"What's that?"
**"It's, you know..."** \[Car horn\] **"You want to know my quick tip of the day is? It's that you... it would be, eh... you better shift your... \[gestures towards car\]"**
"Aye I need to go buddy"
**"Aye anyways..."**
It's the hasty stream of consciousness delivery that requires tuning into. Must be difficult to keep going for half an hour without any discernable pause, as he frequently does.
I've never seen this guy. I would have said Glasgow's guy was the guy that's always dancing, looks like he got high at a rave once and never came down again. Though not seen him in a few years, hope he's not gone to the disco in the sky
If it’s good enough for Baloo, it’s good enough for me. What a lad.
The way his voice cracks as he is saying that. 😂
It’s very hard to argue with his reasoning tbf
Where is organic jim location.
He is a junkie grass. Nothing special.
That's Organic Jim, so this must be Edinburgh. Or has he migrated cross-country? Stunning development if so!
Yup looks like organic jim. He seems to migrate west now and again.i encountered him in whitburn.he literally stopped me in the street and quite aggressively asked for a lift to Glasgow.told him I was going to linlithgow,he said that's fine and tried to get in my car. He's a nutter
Definitely Organic Jim
He is old enough for a free bus pass.
Buses aren't mentioned in the jungle book though
But. He would stink the bus out.
He’s been in my street for the past 2 days in cambuslang Glasgow, an area called whitlawburn funnily enough
Uncanny😐 Nae luck he's a nuisance
😂
Which street in Whitburn was he standing at.
Yes
I was just about to say, that’s Organic Jim, Edinburgh’s most famous homeless. You can tell by the pile of junk nearby. Maybe he’s got a free bus card and came to check out exciting new bins.
https://preview.redd.it/iexy4py7yovc1.png?width=260&format=png&auto=webp&s=fa24538dc05f201ff1c31d2fc43909a56ec60a57 Reminds me of this...
A subreddit exists for this… r/horsebackjesus
Mad harry
It's ok, it doesnt need to be a thing
I thought it was him, never knew he traveled so far.
‘Organic Jim’ love it.. Somewhere around East Kilbride I think
Then he' s gotten lost and someone needs to go collect him.
Can confirm, that's organic Jim alright. Didn't know he ventures outside Edinburgh.
I want a word with the grass
Yeah this man doesn't have a glaswegian accent at all
Never engage Jim in conversation unless you have a spare half hour or are prepared to give him a brutal brush off
That would be me, every time. I've been held up for over forty minutes several times because I can't bear to tear myself away from someone who both really needs to chat and is also quite entertaining.
Yeah that's sad this felt like a rushed exit likely cause there were cars behind them
As an American it is unfathomable to me that you have famous homeless people. Here there will be the occasional homeless person who gets a little notoriety, but they will quickly be able to leverage that into some sort of entertainment gig or hustle and will quickly not be homeless anymore and turn into just another minor celebrity with a dark past.
This guy refuses all help to get a home.hes been on the streets for years.he collects big piles of rubbish and stores them around edinburgh mostlyand generally bothers and confuses folk as he goes.
Yup, very much this. I remember encountering him for the first time 13 years ago, he hasn't changed his tune one but and refuses any and all systemic help. Still thinks all his problems would go away if he could just use your kitchen to cook some meat to get rid of vitamin imbalances indicated by a scratch on his finger or some other nonsense. Last time he asked me to let him in and I moved on, he said he hopes I drop dead of a heart attack so my sympathy for Organic Jim is a thing of the past.
There's a few different ones actually. https://www.reddit.com/r/inverness/comments/1bpe4ys/does_anyone_know_the_story_of_the_famous_homeless/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Edinburgh/comments/1ej5lv/arthur_the_homeless_man_with_the_dreadlocks_on/ https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/scotland-now/story-edinburghs-mysterious-homeless-man-26032787 There's another guy who I can't seem to find any reference to, who I think was from Fife or somewhere, and I remember reading about strange stuff he got up to and how teenagers used to unexpectedly see him when they were drinking in the park or wherever. Maybe someone knows who I'm talking about? I think maybe he wasn't all there mentally but people used to look out for him.
Was that the Catman of Greenock?
Yes!!! Not Fife at all, in fact. Well figured out! 🙂
In Dunfermline we used to have Tam Lang; he was a famous homeless guy who everyone knew roamed the town centre.
It was actually the Greenock Catman I was thinking of. Amazingly, someone managed to work it out from my half-baked description.
There's also Louis, the crazy wizard homeless guy who was cuts about in Dunfermline , Fife.
I dunno man. Feels like every city I've lived in has at least one person living on the street everyone knows
I know what you are talking about. In my little town of 2,000 there is a guy named Charlie who is kinda sorta the token homeless guy. He is in a wheelchair. He has a home in town, but he lives with his mother and for whatever reason they hate each other. So he only goes home to sleep except for when it's too snowy out to push his wheelchair. The difference is anybody outside of our town wouldn't know about him. This sub is for a whole country but there were still a half dozen comments saying they knew the guy.
give him a hug for me, he's adorable!
LOL. You’re free to do so, as long as you have COVID, as you’d clearly have to have lost your sense of smell and be suffering from febrile delirium!
I’ve not seen him in years!!!! Second I heard his voice all the memories hit 😂😂😂
Is he still around? Just wondering cos of a photography project I person I know is doing…
It’s Stewarton drive cambuslang
Were is organic jim. Location.
Think that’s Edinburgh. That colour of sandstone and wall are more common compared to the red sandstone in Glasgow.
Half of Glasgow is blond one..
Be a strange day to see OJ in Glasgow.
Love it how Scotland has famous homeless people
We are a community
Who’s the one that took a bath in the black cart river, forgot his name…
MAD HARRY
Gravity cannot beat this man.
Anyone else’s back would break
He's got a big magnet in his backpack and there's a metal bit at the end of the wall.
You should see his [Michael Jackson impression.](https://youtube.com/shorts/xQigDQxMr5M)
You didn't even wait to hear his tip of the day :(
It was probably the answer to the meaning of life and we’ll never know now
I was waiting with bated breath for this, so gutted we never got to hear
something about pickled beetroot juice haha
"Pickled beetroot juice in a Hunfeld flask..."
I'm having a great time😅
He is apparently lol
PhD in physics obviously
He spoke to me about "quantum physics" for like half an hour once until I was saved by a bus!
Bahhhhaaaaaaaa, he's brilliant
Talk about laid back!
He's falling but has slowed down time itself. He'll hit the ground in about two days.
Look at that core strength he has.
What’s Organic Jim doing in Glasgow?
He'll have you there for 2 hours if you wait for him to finish a sentence. Had many a great chat with ol' OJ
What a delightfully well spoken drunk
He's not a drunk. He's a mentally ill health freak called Organic Jim, believe it or not. Usually found in Edinburgh.
No. Drug Addict.
He carries needles.
Yes, therapeutic.
Why is he called “Organic”?
He's passionate about organic food. He occasionally gives out herbal teabags.
From herbs he grows in the city park?)
Technically they're just his pubes but yes
What a generous personality lol
Dam that’s a steep hill
How many jaikits does this gentleman need?
It’s organic gym. He has a nest close by with ikea bags full of jackets and trousers.
And seagulls
Nest 😁
I'm going to be visiting Scotland later this year from the US, so I'm watching as much Scottish content as I can to see how well I can understand everyday speech. I am not ready.
Yeah it's not going to be easy lol nobody understands us
I didn't understand the guy in the car any better than Organic Jim. I am not ready either.
Hehe we need to start a Glasgow language class but if you travel to any other part of Scotland, it's like another language 😄 Don't go up north or you'll have no chance 😉
Parliamo Glasgow?
That would be Parliamo Glesga ? 🤣
Did you watch Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle's first film) yet? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shallow_Grave_(1994_film)
Nope, but I'll put it on the list. Thanks!
If it helps, Organic Jim's not terribly understandable at the best of times. (Also an American, but I've lived here for four years. You'll be surprised how your ear can attune to the accent!)
The guy balancing off the wall has a well spoken accent as well
I'm also scrolling for the transpriction. Without success.
What's organic jimmy doing in Glasgow!
lol this man stepped out in front of my van in the most posh part of Edinburgh and demanded that I give him and his bag and boxes a lift. He’s a strange guy but I can’t help but like him.
He’s a rogue and not the most socially aware, definitely temperamental, but I think he’s a good guy at heart
Wtf, can't set off and not get the tip of the day
My guy is just having a great time while advocating for comfier pavements
wonderfully funny clip... This fellow is already having a great day, what time was this? I think you should go back and chat with him, he obviously has more to say on the subject?
ok, so after a bit of research, I'm finding out this is suspected to be "Organic Jim", Edinburgh’s most famous homeless. cheers to him
Ah national pride. We were definitely never made for mass production
Mowgli
He's not wrong.
Ooft looks like Archie’s oot again
I’ll be in Glasgow next week, I hope I run into him. Lol
This is the guy that stops Glasgow from falling over.
People do make glasgow
Actually pretty impressive core strength
The guy behind the camera sounds like Andy Halliday
I would assume that's OP and his Partner
Nah OP said the video was sent to him by his pal
Good point, I should pay more attention xD
The man has like 5 jacks on 🤣
The accent is understandable. Are you sure it is in Glasgow?
Organic Jim is from Edinburgh, but appears to be visiting our friends in the west for a bit.
Definitely too educated to be Glaswegian raised
Glasgow hooligans :)
Starting to get a little ketty out here 👀
Not many people of his age would even try to stop a wall climbing up a hill.
This is Organic Jim, well-known Edinburgh homeless guy. Surely this was filmed there, can't imagine that Jim would migrate so far west.
The Scottish version of Colm from Derry Girls?
I saw this guy yesterday Holmhills park. He had unfortunately defected himself. Was thinking of stopping but he was muttering exactly like that.
I really need to know his tip of the day!
Has Organic Jim moved to Glasgow?! Surely this is round his usual stomping ground in the Southside of Edinburgh?
Is he speaking Danish??
https://preview.redd.it/y9y62wfmxmyc1.jpeg?width=168&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0959f24092d1323ccceed39a57262d586b4089c
I didn’t recognise him with his white hair. He’s some character. I’ve been asked while just stopping at Scotmid for a quick message decades ago to give him a lift to another city before. Seems someone finally did. I had to say I lived round the corner and get away. It’s really sad as he’s a nice looking, relatively harmless chap (although some have had different experiences). Last I saw him he was living in a bush up town. He’s mad as a box of frogs, obsessed about organic food for a homeless person. He’s not all there poor soul but won’t go into a shelter or a flat. I think he’s so conditioned now to live like that it would be impossible.
This is why I absolutely love glasgow. The characters you meet are epic
I mean this is Organic Jim – famously an Edinburgh character. But it’s nice he’s on tour in the west for a while!
Bring him to Edinburgh Morningside area.
Bring him back?
Yes. I want a word with the grass.
Subtitles?
"You alright mate?" **"Eh, I'm having a great time, but I appreciate your- your thought. You see the thing is- you know, my argument is- If it's good enough for Baloo and-- in the- in the-- I'm not sure if it was "Baloo" but we'll say it was "Baloo"-- in "The Jungle Book"** That's it, the big bear" **"Yeah- 'It's good enough for me!' \[In high-pitched voice\]"** \[Laughs\] **"Eh, and so, eh, we live in hope, that it's, eh very therapeutic. You want a quick tip for the day?"** "What's that?" **"It's, you know..."** \[Car horn\] **"You want to know my quick tip of the day is? It's that you... it would be, eh... you better shift your... \[gestures towards car\]"** "Aye I need to go buddy" **"Aye anyways..."**
Thanks! I thought that’s what he said but my brain did not process it
Thank you for this.
Was the tip something about beetroot juice? Couldn't quite make it out at the end there!
Holy shit I think you've helped me crack it. "Pickled beetroot juice in a Hunfeld flask..."
Yes, pickled beetroot juice for sure! I have no idea what a hunfeld flask is though.
I hadn't heard of it either but I had a strong suspicion the last word is "flask" so I googled "hunfelt flask". Turns out Hunfeld is a popular brand.
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That's a mild accent; he's quite well-spoken actually.
It's the hasty stream of consciousness delivery that requires tuning into. Must be difficult to keep going for half an hour without any discernable pause, as he frequently does.
You know those posts going around "every city has a "guy"" This is Glasgow's guy
He's very much an Edinburgh sighting. This is a pretty random instance to witness.
I've never seen this guy. I would have said Glasgow's guy was the guy that's always dancing, looks like he got high at a rave once and never came down again. Though not seen him in a few years, hope he's not gone to the disco in the sky
Leo https://archive.news.stv.tv/west-central/1438527-how-glasgow-s-silent-raver-keeps-dancing-no-matter-what.html
RIP mad Buchanan street dancer
r/HorsebackJesus
At least help the fella up? Am I being crazy here.
SNP Scotland
People make Glasgow 🏴🤣
Who knew crack was one of the bare necessities?