Walking up Regent's Street earlier on Saturday and I spied a man walking towards me with a sandwich board that read "I Want To Talk About Penises"1. I ignored him, as did every one else on the street apart from the two camera people and one photographer who followed him down the street with grins on their faces.
Do people really think that anyone's actually going to care about stunts like this any more? The idea that someone might go "wo-ah a crazy man walking down the street, I should stop and gawp" is a bit out of date. If John McClane was put onto the streets of Harlem today with his sandwich board that reads "I Hate N****rs2" then the only reason people would pass comment would be to ask whether it was a stunt for a reality TV show or viral-advertising.
1 Goodbye Google search engine listings!
2 I'm not sure I can get away with that word.
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