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well there is a thing about certain people who leave as soon as they are able, who hate where they are from because the small mindedness is dangerous. and yes related to fashion and how you look basically. you can get a lot of funny looks, overt racism all that stuff, which is perhaps less prevalent in cosmopolitan london
Simon silverdollarcircle
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When I was a lad in the north me and mates used to get spat on in the street and stuff on a fairly regular basis. For things like looking "weird". But for context, we were wearing things like jumpers from Gap, which was considered "weird".
Simon silverdollarcircle
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Nowadays all the hard lads have skinny jeans and grooming regimes and hair like jedward tho so it's probably a bit different.
Back in my day if you werent in a helly hansen trackie you better be good at running
Back in my day if you werent in a helly hansen trackie you better be good at running
Simon silverdollarcircle
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There's now a subculture of posh kids dressing how the kids who beat them up in school dressed isn't there? Cos play. All that Wavey Garms crowd
I've never had any trouble of a serious nature...
Was once on a train from meadowhall, when I was 15, going through Barnsley, loaded up with shopping, and some skinheads got on, really pissed up, and the first thing they said, really loud, to me and my friend, was "no p*kis on here" but nothing actually happened, except police got called by the conductor, cos one of them spewed on the train, and they got took off at Barnsley.
More recently in Manchester I was hanging around with a bunch of kids who put gigs on and lived in an art squat and they were trans, couple of them wearing lots of make up, and certain parts of Manchester, like even the northern quarter, there were some looks, snidey comments as you walk past.
But no overt violence that I saw anyway.
I tend to keep my head down out and about, always have done. And my hair wasn't really long til I was in my 20s.
Was once on a train from meadowhall, when I was 15, going through Barnsley, loaded up with shopping, and some skinheads got on, really pissed up, and the first thing they said, really loud, to me and my friend, was "no p*kis on here" but nothing actually happened, except police got called by the conductor, cos one of them spewed on the train, and they got took off at Barnsley.
More recently in Manchester I was hanging around with a bunch of kids who put gigs on and lived in an art squat and they were trans, couple of them wearing lots of make up, and certain parts of Manchester, like even the northern quarter, there were some looks, snidey comments as you walk past.
But no overt violence that I saw anyway.
I tend to keep my head down out and about, always have done. And my hair wasn't really long til I was in my 20s.
woops
is not like other people
I remember when I lived in Hackney though, it felt a lot rougher than where I'm from, like I was in that Turkish supermarket on well street and 2 kids ran in, chasing one another, one of them bleeding over the floor, shouting "told you not to come into bannister".
And another time when we lived in Harlesden, we were drunk and just being a bit raucous and my wife saw these boys hitting a girl so she stepped in and they properly shoved her, so then I squared up and they just lamped me really hard and I knew it was a real situation. And the girl was then on their side and was angry at my wife for stepping in. It sort of ended amicably enough, they just said very clearly for us to not get involved and move on so we did.
And another time when we lived in Harlesden, we were drunk and just being a bit raucous and my wife saw these boys hitting a girl so she stepped in and they properly shoved her, so then I squared up and they just lamped me really hard and I knew it was a real situation. And the girl was then on their side and was angry at my wife for stepping in. It sort of ended amicably enough, they just said very clearly for us to not get involved and move on so we did.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Weird how often that happens. Like, OK, I'll just leave you to get beaten up then?
Simon silverdollarcircle
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It's not a north-south thing thing tho of course. There's always an air of latent violence in kent
Yeah I've learnt not to get caught up in anything now. Eyes down, keep walking.
craner
Beast of Burden
1996-99. I went to Orbit twice, once to see Weatherall and once to see Fabio and Grooverider. I hated it. I have no recollection of speedqueen.