Popular Post Genie Posted January 27 Popular Post Share Posted January 27 Tamworth’s local jacket potato seller has hit it big on tiktok (Spudman). Today he is doing an “event” giving away free jacket potatoes and the word is that people were queuing up from 3am, tents and all. The council have had to erect fencing and the queue is currently snaking all around the town centre. At 7am he’s chatting to people in the queue, in the dark. They’ve travelled from Birkenhead, Skegness, Bristol, Northamptonshire. Imagine being filmed at 7am a hundred miles from home just to get a free potato from someone off tiktok. It’s a shame that will never go away. 2 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 11 minutes ago, Genie said: Tamworth’s local jacket potato seller has hit it big on tiktok (Spudman). Today he is doing an “event” giving away free jacket potatoes and the word is that people were queuing up from 3am, tents and all. The council have had to erect fencing and the queue is currently snaking all around the town centre. I won’t link to the video on facebook as I got a slap last time. At 7am he’s chatting to people in the queue, in the dark. They’ve travelled from Birkenhead, Skegness, Bristol, Northamptonshire. Imagine being filmed at 7am a hundred miles from home just to get a free potato from someone off tiktok. It’s a shame that will never go away. I have seen his videos on YT Shorts, if I said to my wife let's head over to Tamworth for a jacket potato, she would have me sectioned. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 22 hours ago, Xela said: The Octopus Energy radio adverts. **** off. Nearly as bad as "football legend, Jamie Rednapp". Sketchers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 40 minutes ago, Genie said: Tamworth’s local jacket potato seller has hit it big on tiktok (Spudman). Today he is doing an “event” giving away free jacket potatoes and the word is that people were queuing up from 3am, tents and all. The council have had to erect fencing and the queue is currently snaking all around the town centre. I won’t link to the video on facebook as I got a slap last time. At 7am he’s chatting to people in the queue, in the dark. They’ve travelled from Birkenhead, Skegness, Bristol, Northamptonshire. Imagine being filmed at 7am a hundred miles from home just to get a free potato from someone off tiktok. It’s a shame that will never go away. Country is full of thick words removed. Like people who paid hundreds of pounds from Wakey Wines for Prime drinks, and people who queued for ages at Binley chippy. Is it a desire to fit in, get on TikTok, or are they simply that easily led? i struggle to see how these people can maintain jobs and live a normal life. Fair play to Spudman, take advantage of it while you can and keep taking the suckers money. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 17 minutes ago, Xela said: Country is full of thick words removed. Like people who paid hundreds of pounds from Wakey Wines for Prime drinks, and people who queued for ages at Binley chippy. Is it a desire to fit in, get on TikTok, or are they simply that easily led? i struggle to see how these people can maintain jobs and live a normal life. Fair play to Spudman, take advantage of it while you can and keep taking the suckers money. At least with Wakey Wines and Prime they are selling something that was rare (at a huge mark up). There’s some sense in that for people with more money than sense. Why go out of your way to get a potato from this fella when there’s probably 5 other places within 200m selling the same thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 27 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27 1 hour ago, Genie said: Tamworth’s local jacket potato seller has hit it big on tiktok (Spudman). Today he is doing an “event” giving away free jacket potatoes and the word is that people were queuing up from 3am, tents and all. The council have had to erect fencing and the queue is currently snaking all around the town centre. At 7am he’s chatting to people in the queue, in the dark. They’ve travelled from Birkenhead, Skegness, Bristol, Northamptonshire. Imagine being filmed at 7am a hundred miles from home just to get a free potato from someone off tiktok. It’s a shame that will never go away. It's not so bad. It's a easy trip over to Binley Mega Chippy so you can take in 2 legends in one journey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 27 Moderator Share Posted January 27 1 hour ago, Genie said: Tamworth’s local jacket potato seller has hit it big on tiktok (Spudman). Today he is doing an “event” giving away free jacket potatoes and the word is that people were queuing up from 3am, tents and all. The council have had to erect fencing and the queue is currently snaking all around the town centre. At 7am he’s chatting to people in the queue, in the dark. They’ve travelled from Birkenhead, Skegness, Bristol, Northamptonshire. Imagine being filmed at 7am a hundred miles from home just to get a free potato from someone off tiktok. It’s a shame that will never go away. This spudman was interviewed on 5Live about this earlier in the week (along with some other potato person for balance ) He was worried then that he wouldn’t have enough spuds… don’t go on the radio to publicise it some more then… Doh! From what I could work out from the interview, it’s kids using Tik Tok that are the main people driving this, so all those hundreds of people really should learn to tell little Johnny to do one and buy some baking potatoes, baked beans and cheese themselves if he wants a baked potato. The other thing I couldn’t understand was the toppings, to be generating this much attention I thought they must be something amazing and revolutionary, nope, beans and cheese, chicken curry… bog standard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brumstopdogs Posted January 27 Popular Post Share Posted January 27 Really annoyed at the problems parking the car today in Tamworth - it took ages and after a long drive I thought it would be easier. Anyway, I hope this potato is worth it... 3 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 4 minutes ago, bickster said: This spudman was interviewed on 5Live about this earlier in the week (along with some other potato person for balance ) He was worried then that he wouldn’t have enough spuds… don’t go on the radio to publicise it some more then… Doh! From what I could work out from the interview, it’s kids using Tik Tok that are the main people driving this, so all those hundreds of people really should learn to tell little Johnny to do one and buy some baking potatoes, baked beans and cheese themselves if he wants a baked potato. The other thing I couldn’t understand was the toppings, to be generating this much attention I thought they must be something amazing and revolutionary, nope, beans and cheese, chicken curry… bog standard In the video I saw earlier which was recorded at 7am it was all grown adults, who had travelled for hours to be there. I hope their families disown them. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 Just now, Brumstopdogs said: Really annoyed at the problems parking the car today in Tamworth - it took ages and after a long drive I thought it would be easier. Anyway, I hope this potato is worth it... You probably need to take a packed lunch to eat in the queue as it’ll be hours until you get your potato. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 2 minutes ago, Genie said: You probably need to take a packed lunch to eat in the queue as it’ll be hours until you get your potato. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 1 minute ago, Brumstopdogs said: Be a shame if it started raining 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TreeVillan Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 5 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said: See I would've joined the queue myself if I was there and it was only 5 people deep, as I'm a sucker for anything free. I consider Homer Simpson's idea of sticking a cocktail stick into everything to make it a free sample pure genius. But that queue is embarrassing and I'm half expecting it to be for something completely unrelated and we're being fooled. As a side note I skip past Greggs if the queue is anywhere near the door lol, anyone else do this? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted January 27 Share Posted January 27 I absolutely hate queuing, I've been known to walk into the supermarket, see a few people in the queue and drive somewhere else, wouldn't catch me waiting 5 minutes for a potato, never mind how long these idiots are standing there for 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Paddywhack Posted January 27 Popular Post Share Posted January 27 27 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said: I’m a massive believer in doing whatever makes you happy. As long as you’re not hurting anyone else, then do it, no matter if other people think it’s weird or whatever. Having said that…what a bunch of losers. 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HKP90 Posted January 27 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27 16 hours ago, villa4europe said: Maybe an unpopular opinion, definitley in my family, but it always was, it's garbage Sandra opens her box (kw) and it's 1p and she's near tears "I'm so sorry" Gary says back "dont worry its not your fault" my mom and my brother are gripped (another kw...) by the drama, I'm sat there lost for words I don't like gameshows where it's entirely chance. I don't mind some element of chance involved, that's fine, but there is almost no skill or knowledge involved in D or ND. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post chrisp65 Posted January 27 Popular Post Share Posted January 27 Gammons discussing conscription and national service on the radio. words removed queuing for TikTok spuds in Tamworth. And my missus thinks I’m weird for bullying a stranger about his shed fetish. 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted January 27 Administrator Share Posted January 27 2 hours ago, TreeVillan said: As a side note I skip past Greggs if the queue is anywhere near the door lol, anyone else do this? No, I walk normally past Greggs, regardless of queue. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 27 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27 2 hours ago, Brumstopdogs said: What a **** joke. Why would anyone want to waste their time in that. The world has gone mental. People will do ANYTHING just to get their photo on social media for something deemed relevant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 27 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27 1 hour ago, chrisp65 said: Gammons discussing conscription and national service on the radio. words removed queuing for TikTok spuds in Tamworth. And my missus thinks I’m weird for bullying a stranger about his shed fetish. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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