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Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 1:58 pm
by Forensics
concept_ wrote:
Forensics have you ever been outside of zone 1 + 2. All those problems are prevalent in areas of Greater London.
Yes, can safely say I have
Obviously there are nasty areas, and plenty of bad attitudes knocking around. My point is - people don't ever come up to me and bother me, and I don't see other people getting bothered either. Apart from for spare change of course
The only way I can judge the difference is through my experiences, and from the stories I hear. Appreciate I perhaps shouldnt make blanket statements on that basis, but there you go!
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:01 pm
by dubluke
badger wrote:wascal wrote:to claim theres someone lurking round every corner, brick in hand, is pretty laughable
i'm sure i saw this guy quite a few times when i was there
you had a good experience with bristol buses didn't you mate?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:08 pm
by badger
oh yeah they're lovely. the locals didn't seem to happy with them either
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:10 pm
by Forensics
Public transport in Bristol's fucking abysmal. Don't even get me started!!
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:21 pm
by badger
it's especially bad when you get shot at when you finally do manage to get on the bus
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:22 pm
by spooKs
ThinKing wrote:it is by no means a violent place. It's just a city.
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:23 pm
by concept_
on the whole I agree London isn't too bad if you are streetwise and don't make yourself a target. Though I can only really speak for South London which i have travelled around a lot in my time- Hardly ever go North of Islington
@ Luke - I know some students who lived on OKR. One of them was approached at knifepoint, lead back to their flat and cleared out! Harshest mugging i've ever heard about mind.
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:42 pm
by Forensics
badger wrote:it's especially bad when you get shot at when you finally do manage to get on the bus
Dark
Tell me more..?!!
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:50 pm
by dr ddd
Forensics wrote:badger wrote:it's especially bad when you get shot at when you finally do manage to get on the bus
Dark
Tell me more..?!!
i thought it was unestablished whether it was identifiable as a very fast flying stone or a bullet badger? thats what my sources tell me
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:52 pm
by frebentos
dr ddd wrote:Forensics wrote:badger wrote:it's especially bad when you get shot at when you finally do manage to get on the bus
Dark
Tell me more..?!!
i thought it was unestablished whether it was identifiable as a very fast flying stone or a bullet badger? thats what my sources tell me
same here dara..
badger???
care to explain your discrepencies?
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 2:56 pm
by badger
frebentos wrote:dr ddd wrote:Forensics wrote:badger wrote:it's especially bad when you get shot at when you finally do manage to get on the bus
Dark
Tell me more..?!!
i thought it was unestablished whether it was identifiable as a very fast flying stone or a bullet badger? thats what my sources tell me
same here dara..
badger???
care to explain your discrepencies?
we were shot at with something. not sure whether it was a gun/air rifle/catapult but we were definitely shot at with something
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:09 pm
by dubluke
concept_ wrote:on the whole I agree London isn't too bad if you are streetwise and don't make yourself a target. Though I can only really speak for South London which i have travelled around a lot in my time- Hardly ever go North of Islington
@ Luke - I know some students who lived on OKR. One of them was approached at knifepoint, lead back to their flat and cleared out! Harshest mugging i've ever heard about mind.
aye same i can only really speak for south the majority of the time, thats fucked up what happened to your mates, were they ok? other than losing all their stuff of course
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:09 pm
by dubluke
badger wrote:frebentos wrote:dr ddd wrote:Forensics wrote:badger wrote:it's especially bad when you get shot at when you finally do manage to get on the bus
Dark
Tell me more..?!!
i thought it was unestablished whether it was identifiable as a very fast flying stone or a bullet badger? thats what my sources tell me
same here dara..
badger???
care to explain your discrepencies?
we were shot at with something. not sure whether it was a gun/air rifle/catapult but we were definitely shot at with something
air rifle/catapult from a stone can cause just as much damage at times really
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:12 pm
by concept_
dubluke wrote:concept_ wrote:on the whole I agree London isn't too bad if you are streetwise and don't make yourself a target. Though I can only really speak for South London which i have travelled around a lot in my time- Hardly ever go North of Islington
@ Luke - I know some students who lived on OKR. One of them was approached at knifepoint, lead back to their flat and cleared out! Harshest mugging i've ever heard about mind.
aye same i can only really speak for south the majority of the time, thats fucked up what happened to your mates, were they ok? other than losing all their stuff of course
they weren't direct mates (friends of friends) but yea they were okay. Just the idea- home is the one place where you subcosciously feel safe so to have it ruined like that, your keys taken, they know where you live etc. would be mentally very scarring- i think anyway.
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 3:36 pm
by blizzardmusic
London, of course
Von and Bluke live there
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:59 pm
by SickMan D
ThinKing wrote:Corpsey wrote:is PARTICULARLY violent?
in a word, not particularly. Random acts of violence are extremely rare in my experience. I've lived here 9 years in diff part from posh to 'dodgy' and never seen random violence with my own eyes.
Of course I know a few people who have been unlucky but it is by no means a violent place. It's just a city.
Word.
Bristol is nothing compared with Birmingham (where I'm from) for violence and even less so like some parts of London. I've lived here about 4 years and have had links here for about 10, there are a few places I'd think twice about walking through at 4am on y own because I'm not fucking stupid.
Bristol is the most vibin place in the UK bar parts of London imo, so much music and culture you would be a fool to think otherwise.
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:02 pm
by corpsey
What are the best websites for jobs in bristol?
Of the sit-in-an-office-and-don't-do-much kind
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:07 pm
by thinking
as an agency, Randstad sorted me out ok a while back. They have a public sector office which deals with Bristol Council & Bristol University temp jobs...
also:
http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/J ... -agency.en
http://jobs.thisisbristol.co.uk/
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:12 pm
by corpsey
Big up
Reading through this thread I'm now anticipating my first bottling by a slack jawed yokel
Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:11 pm
by thinking
yep, basically you owe me about twenty pints for all the sage advice I've proffered - upon your arrival in Bristol, I will redeem all these and, having had a skin-full of Westons Vintage cider, will proceed to lamp you with a pool ball in a sock.
