AIBU in thinking living statue people are wasting their lives?

[TiggyD]

They probably think what they're doing is art. I dare say they wander round beforehand trying to get into character or some such bollocks, but all they do is stand still and hope people look at them. Well I don't like them. Can you imagine meeting one at a party?
Worthwhile human: "What do you do?"
Worthless entity: "I stand very still. The other day I stood very still for 4 hours. The stories I could tell you about standing still...Where are you going?! Come back!!!"
They're sad attention seeking people with no skills.

Ignore them!

How rude!

You don't have to look at them just get on with your life and let others do the same.

Reminds me of Hot Fuzz (the greater good). We had one the other day who didn't even stand still. He'd just painted himself white and stood on a box, having a good look around.

You don't know what they are doing mentally while standing still. I think I would benefit from having four hours of paid work, which I could use to plan, think, contemplate, meditate etc.

It isn't necessarily a waste...

HOW do they not get itchy arses?

I wonder if they have partners they live with. Would you want them to walk in your house shedding paint flakes everywhere? and how long do they spend in the shower cleaning it all off? or do they wrap themselves in clingfilm so they are ready for work the next day?

How uncharitable.

I agree.

I also imagine them to be horribly full of themselves. "Do you know how much skill it takes to do what I do? I'm like... Superhuman"

I imagine them as out of work drama grads trying to make a crust. Was I wrong ?

I think they're creepy.

I wonder about such rubbish as "Do they come on the bus dressed like that?" or "Where do they put the metallic paint on?" as there never seem to be any lavs close at hand

It must be incredibly boring but they must make a fair but if money or they wouldn't bother.

There are an awful lot of people who move around frantically "chasing their tail" every day (probably me and countless others out there doing mad things to earn a living) who could be classed as equally pointless in their pursuits!

Art is very subjective, so I am sure lots of people enjoy watching the living statues in Covent Garden and places like that.

I just hope they use lots of cleanser and moisturiser afterwards, it must play havoc with their skin.

If squirrels get called tree rats, pigeons are called sky rats, and rats are called...er...land rats, we should call living statues 'still rats' or 'plinth rats' or something.

at itchy arses! I'm going to think that every time I walk by our resident statue man in a sheet.

At least every other type of street performer has bothered to learn how to unicycle.

I hate them with a passion.
I'm sure that makes me a terrible person (they're just trying to make a living blah blah) but it's true.

They give me the heebee jeebees.
Plus they look so fucking chuffed with themselves.

Didn't Amanda Palmer used to be a living statute? She's done alright fo herself...

I like the silence. Some people yap far too much.

Ours really is a man in a sheet who stands outside Claires Accessories handing out lollipops. He fell off his stack of yellow pages last week and his lollies went everywhere

For not fo.

Fo shizzle.

I assumed they were all across between jobs, musicians who haven't been "discovered" etc. Not that was their career cove, just a way to get food on the table.

Ours like to scare people, they always have an umbrella which they use to rest on but every so often they bang it loudly on the box they are standing on, making people jump.

Everything Randall said.

Creepy, smug, painted , pointless twats.

Too Old That actually made me laugh out loud

I'm with Vetinari on this

'Leant the words'

I used to invigilate exams and that was pretty much the same as standing still for 4 hours. Standing still and sometimes giving someone a protractor. What you do is calculate things - they may look like they're doing nothing but actually they're calculating what percentage of the people passing by are left-handed.

And the living statues who are also levitating on a stick (which I don't understand) - they're magic. They're not wasting their lives.