To be sick of misogynistic aggressive male chuggers?

A lot of people sign up, that's why it's still a trade.

There are other jobs rather than harassing strangers for money.

When chuggers were still a relatively new thing (so ages ago now) I was accosted by one in central London. He wanted me to sign up for a charity for the blind, so I agreed to a small monthly sum, and went on to give sundry personal details - except for my age and phone number. which I refused because a) I didn’t want them ringing me, and b) it was none of their business,

About a week later I received a letter from the charity, saying they were ‘unable’ to process my ‘application’ without this information!
The cheek of it! Anyone would think I was asking them for money.
The letter went in the bin, but needless to say, the money started coming out of my account anyway.

No I just think they have a shit job. Nobody signs up and they make no money. Standing in the rain all day. And everyone hates them.

I haven't said anything about them that makes them sound angelic. It's their employers who are at fault.

Completely agree. Thankfully we don't have this problem where I live, but it's a disgrace that it's allowed to happen anywhere.

I'd be tempted to carry a personal alarm and sound it whenever you are being harassed in this way.

I am, thank you.

I don't see it as gainful employment, you seem to see the chuggers as angelic activists.

I always have my phone jammed against my ear and am deep in an animated imaginary conversation when walking through streets at risk of having chuggers.

Only once have I had to say to my imaginary friend "Hang on a sec, I just need to tell a chugger to fuck off."

One I save for phone scammers, “Is this really what you wanted to do with your life? I think you could do better.”

Omg if that was me I would have turned around and shouted “ya what? What did you say? Come on say it again! You’re working for a children’s charity let’s hear what you got to say about my children”! I would have said it pretty loudly to draw attention to them and show them up. There is absolutely no way I’d have left that disgusting comment there

I do think that you need to reframe it. This is not about you or your behaviour, it’s about them being arseholes and/or criminals. They don’t care about you and they don’t see you as a human being with feelings. Don’t give any headspace to anything they think or say. Just do what you have to do to get on with your day.

“No, get out of my way.” On repeat. Ignore any backchat and then just forget about them. I guarantee you that they are not giving you a second thought once you have walked by.

Steely shark eyes on full as soon as I see them out the corner of my eye, I stride past like the gestapo, awful fuckers.

I did tell one that asked me if I like animals "Yes, roasted with Yorkshire puddings and gravy." once. Think I'd seen it or similar on a sketch show a few days before so surprised he was asking that question really as I can't have been the first. He wasn't particularly aggressive, though, he just turned away to pester someone else.

There was a particularly annoying chugger who used to chug outside the McDonald’s in Greenwich on Eltham High Street. He was trying to procure donations for some animal charity. One day, I was coming out of McDonald’s with a bag in my hand, and he tried to reel me in by asking me if I liked animals. I told him, no, not really (the truth), and he had the nerve to point at my bag and say in a sneery tone, “Well, you like eating them, don’t you? Bastard.

Yes. I think several hundred extra benefits claims is a relatively cheap way of massively improving the areas where they are aggressive and abuse women.

Yeah I agree with you on that. Cics are a bit murky to say the least. Or they can be.

You shouldn’t have to put up with this. If they are harassing you or abusing you, report it to the police and the charity (if they’re a proper one). Film them if necessary.

But don’t be nice to these men. Just tell them to fuck off, as brusquely as you have to. They get the message, they trade on women being socialised to “be kind”.

My problem with chuggers is that their prevalence has opened the door for profit-making "Community Interest companies" like Inside Success and the knife crime one to pose as charities and obtain donations by using the same pressure-sales methods.

Back in the day my home town had a woman in a nun's habit who used to go around the shops rattling a tin around Christmas. She was reputed to be an imposter who performed her scam at Christmas because there were lots of charity collectors in the shopping area at that time of year and people didn't differentiate, just gave all of them a quid or whatever. The Community Interest companies are basically the modern version of that.

Just get noise cancelling headphones

I think they must get ignored outright, more than they get people who engage with them. So the rare few of you who do speak to them to say “sorry” or whatever, are just setting yourselves up for failure. The rest of us ignore and carry on as normal, not giving them an opportunity to say any retorts

OP I feel like maybe you need an air horn, or a speaker to aim at them with idk music, or a recording of "No! go away!" on repeat or something.
It's clearly intimidating and they are picking on people they think can't do anything back.
Ideally, someone should be doing a panorama on it, or even a tiktok would help.

I agree with you Op, and there is no excuse calling you names. Keep reporting them.

I know a couple of words of Mongolian 🇲🇳: to say go away you can say Цаашаа бай! Tsaashaa bai! That'll puzzle them! 😆

My local chuggers always open with "You look friendly..." They must be all trained to say it, it's certainly not my resting bitch face that's prompting it!

Tell that to the thousands of charities who employ chugging companies. They obviously think it's valuable.