Party Vibe

@Moonie 467758 wrote:

Fuck Bicester village man, the first and only time I’ve worked in retail, quit before I punched a guy in the face for clicking his fingers at me. Seriously, for about a minute. I just stood there watching him, he didn’t say a word, just kept looking more and more outraged and clicking his fingers.

I half thought you didn’t get people like that any more but I’ve spent a bit of time in and around Henley on Thames to know better. at least you didn’t punch the guy – I probably would have or worse (unless if was my familys business rather than a big corporate), and happily done the time thinking every day about the pain I caused him to stave off the boredom (This is why I don’t work in retail either)

Folk just didn’t do that in Reading and in Ipswich they’d probably end up in hospital and the shop assistant would do their time unrepentant.

The attittude is a bit like when they interviewed the younger brother of the chap what shot Ghandi in about 2000 (his older brother was hanged but he got prison as a juvenile).now 50 years on is basically was his parole meeting – but he said to the parole guy – “I hate that bastard traitor Ghandi as much now as I did then, and if I had my time again I would be shooting him all over again. I would rather sit in this prison cell for the rest of my days on earth”.

Even my Mum said that some bits of Ipswich and social attitudes reminded her of 1950s Malaya, and when my Nan saw Norwich Road in Summer 2006 she said it was almost like being at home 😉

Someone in Radio Shack in the USA (they used to be called Tandy here but probably closed before you was born) actually punch out a customer because a customer was being “slow” – turned out the man was deaf and needed hearing aid batteries (which is one thing Rat Shack used to be good for when it was otherwise hard to get them). He did get arrested though.

probably one of them crosses between “tim nice but dim” and “tory boy” you find round that way. provided they aren’t in a genuine position of power over you many do actually have enough comedy value to let them stay in one piece.

BTW me and my mates (AF knows some of them) held a very small illegal rave just inside South Oxfordshire, where we (completely unintentionally) scared the living shit out of Boris Johnson – he was still MP in the area at the time and was walking a dog, I didn’t know he had one or if it was even his). He literally ran away with a look of terror on his face, half dragging the dog along. He can certainly move fast for a fat guy. Noe of us abused him in any way or even said anything and we only realised who it was when he had disappeared, but he proper legged it…

@Moonie 467781 wrote:

Ahahaha! I do hate Boris Johnson, as he’s still an evil tory, but I would have pissed myself if he’d turned up at a party I was at.

Yeah, this guy was wearing a white and blue striped shirt and red trousers, with boat shoes I seem to remember, and was obviously so posh that he was completely cut off from normal society.

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TBH I wouldn’t have been able to even keep a straight face the moment he walked in the door. Actually that reminds me that although I rarely watch Bollywood films my mum did when we had NTL cable in Reading as I worked out how to tune the telly onto Central as well as Meridian and they showed them at really random times, and then briefly when Central and Carlton merged they showed them on the London feed (probably only as the late nights were coming from Birmingham as the staff were cheaper)

and there was one film where all these Indian chaps were dressed up just like that and dancing and they were singing this song in their local language with bhangra music but the chorus was “tally ho” :laugh_at:

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You know of anything that goes on around my way? I’m always down in Devon parties, which don’t get me wrong are the dogs bollocks, but would be nice to find some stuff closer to home.

not been partying in SE England for years but I know some peopel who might. TBH many have also gone to SW England as well though as its got harsher for parties in TVP area following a rise in OD’s and addictions…

incidentally I think the reason why Boris did a runner wasn’t even that we were agressive or scary but quite the opposite, someone might have befriended him, photographed him and then sent the pics into the tabloids and he’d have to explain why he was at the illegal rave. they’d only get a couple of hundred quid if that but its still a fair bit to the unemployed.

TBH so would a lot of people (and the local Reading paper is owned by the Guardian and would have loved a story like that) hence why he did a runner.

Unfortunately it works the other way too, when that Norfolk woman Tracey appeared on Big Brother all her “friends” gave loads of info and pics over to the papers, she ended up being stalked by journos to all the raves and the journos grassed to the feds where they were, and the bad publicity for her (drugs etc) fucked up any chance she might have had in somethng like kids TV or local “yoof” media..