Ableton Forum

leedsquietman wrote:I don't know much about Hamburg except that the reeperbahn and sankt pauli are places to be avoided from what I've heard. Unless you are into prostitution and illicit 'fun'. But maybe you can educate us. I've never heard of williburg.

I've seen (and gotten into) some nasty scuffles in my time, but everything was a choice I made at that given time, some choices were poor and I got whupped upside my head but I could take care of myself pretty good and mostly didn't get involved. I could have stayed home and watched TV but teens/early 20's is a time for getting out there and putting yourself about a bit socially. How far you go with trouble is still mostly a personal choice, even in the dodgiest pubs and clubs and areas.

Those days are long past, now I am early to bed with my slippers and mug of ovaltine and don't have the time or energy to act that way - being 'bad' is a night spent with Live ignoring the missus and her endless supply of chickflicks !

see the light wrote:Wow, how wierd, I live in Portsmouth, a particularly nasty city on the southcoast of the UK, and last Friday I got followed home by a couple of dickheads who I don't think were even drunk or high but they tried to mug me at 3am. I was on my own and did nothing to provoke them but i was pretty drunk either way.

After exchanging a few words they ran at me, so a ran at them and luckily my fist made contact with one of their faces and they fell to floor quite badly before i ran like i have never run in my life! All very wierd in retrospect considering i'm 25, 6"3 and have a 'fashionable' shaved head - not someone people generally start on even though i'm as soft a shite and can't stand violence of any kind.

Must be that time of the season fo sure!

Warminstrel wrote:....Just a bit ashamed of the 'Tools' we made, of whom's offspring are now terrorsing our streets.

hambone1 wrote:

see the light wrote:Wow, how wierd, I live in Portsmouth, a particularly nasty city on the southcoast of the UK, and last Friday I got followed home by a couple of dickheads who I don't think were even drunk or high but they tried to mug me at 3am. I was on my own and did nothing to provoke them but i was pretty drunk either way.

After exchanging a few words they ran at me, so a ran at them and luckily my fist made contact with one of their faces and they fell to floor quite badly before i ran like i have never run in my life! All very wierd in retrospect considering i'm 25, 6"3 and have a 'fashionable' shaved head - not someone people generally start on even though i'm as soft a shite and can't stand violence of any kind.

Must be that time of the season fo sure!

Well done! The best defense is a good offense... especially when combined with a pre-emptive strike...

NorthernMonkey wrote:

brightonalex wrote:

hambone1 wrote: My son lives in Guildford, I had a girlfriend in Cheltenham, and I live in Woodbridge in Suffolk. All great places with beautiful scenery, lots to do and very low crime.

haha! An investment of a million pounds or so in your new home does offer some shelter from the unpleasantness one finds in the more, ahem, traditionally working class areas.

Although Guildford needs to watch out, its turning into Woking.

I'm talking about good old Brighton (assuming that's where you're from based on your name). Summer silly season, pissed up idiots everywhere. Mainly visitors from Essex.

hambone1 wrote:

Warminstrel wrote:....Just a bit ashamed of the 'Tools' we made, of whom's offspring are now terrorsing our streets.

And they're the ones breeding at an exponential rate...

smartass303 wrote:

leedsquietman wrote:This stuff all pales into comparison of living in civil war torn Dafur or the genocides in Rwanda and some of the balkan states like Kosovo and Bosnia during the 90's etc. Places where if you are a typical 10 year old you are not in school but in a sweatshop or given drugs and a rifle and forced to kill and rape such as Sierra Leone.

If people are going ape at a rave, just walk away from the rave without looking up too much or mouthing off. If trouble is always around a certain part of town, or certain pubs, avoid them. Simple, really !

it was really nice til the assholes started a fight, but youre right willyburg is a *certain part of town*, and it was friggin HOT.
On the other hand its the only place in hamburg where you can do semi legal raves anymore. I hope the promoters dont run into trouble with the police because i like the idea of free raves.
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hambone1 wrote: My son moved to Aldershot (or Aldershit as he called it) for 4 months. Couldn't wait to move back to Guildford.