I was actually thinking about this yesterday while I was driving through the ghetto looking at the people and houses. I was thinking that things really will turn in to Elysium one day (hopefully I'll be up in space with the other well armed yuppies). It's a totally different world, like going to a different country compared to my neighborhood. Culture, values, speech, everything.
Have you ever thought about how much of a bubble you live in?
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Yeah, a cheeky little shank with a knife while queuing up is a banterous activity.
The flipside is that there's so many people in London that it's possible to surround yourself within only a thin slice of society. Growing up in the suburbs, you couldn't pick and choose your friends so easily. You had to confront opinions that you didn't agree with and listen to music that you didn't like. In London, I'm only friends with people who have exactly the same interests and hobbies as I do. I simply don't have the time to maintain relationships with people who I like slightly less. If I want to go to a club or a gig, it'll only ever be something that I know that I'll like. There's too much music in London that I like to bother with anything else.
My real-life friends are all incredibly liberal, left-wing, Oxbridge, Guardian readers (and increasingly writers, eep). It's actually quite enjoyable to come on OCuk and have my outlook on the world challenged.
I wouldn't take any of asim18's stories at face value...
Yeah because it's totally unbelievable to:
A) Have a drug dealer as a friend.
B) Be invited to a Muslim gathering.
C) Bump into some girls while having a No
I find it unbelievable that you find these everyday things so unbelievable.
I mean seriously, how many drug dealers hanging around right this minute? How many Muslim gatherings occuring right is second? and how many people are rolling a joint on a park bench who may find some company?
Truly amazing how sheltered some people are
- but its still educational interacting with different people as I said earlier. Just like the "NO WAY"s I was getting when I revealed I've been mugged with a sawn off shotgun.
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Which is the first sign that you have become one! Quick, douse yourself in holy water and stand naked in the light of the next sunrise before its too late!
Yeah, sounds awesome!
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Pretty much agree with everything the OP said!
I felt as though I had walked into a new bubble a few week's ago 
- went into this factory with a high tech shop at front - Sat there waiting for my order looking round as you do and came to conclusion I was odd one out - totally out of my depth - Everyone including fat bird with a gap had a top end mobile, all of them clutching them for grim death - it seemed to me as though they would all commit suicide if there was a hold up and they had them nicked - god knows what they were doing on them- mine is a old Nokia 6630 just in case I break down. -- Bring back pagers.
To give you a clue this shop is near Stoke on Trent.
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- went into this factory with a high tech shop at front - Sat there waiting for my order looking round as you do and came to conclusion I was odd one out - totally out of my depth - Everyone including fat bird with a gap had a top end mobile, all of them clutching them for grim death - it seemed to me as though they would all commit suicide if there was a hold up and they had them nicked - god knows what they were doing on them- mine is a old Nokia 6630 just in case I break down. -- Bring back pagers.To give you a clue this shop is near Stoke on Trent.
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'Fat bird with a gap' 
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Lives on his own planet, not just a bubble.
Man, you're somkin a bubble....
I actively choose Android even though I paid for my missus' and daughters' iPhones... does that make me a class of my own??
To give you a clue this shop is near Stoke on Trent.
Dave
Hmmmmmm....... Come on give us a better clue.....
Yeah because it's totally unbelievable to:
A) Have a drug dealer as a friend.
B) Be invited to a Muslim gathering.
C) Bump into some girls while having a No
I find it unbelievable that you find these everyday things so unbelievable.
I mean seriously, how many drug dealers hanging around right this minute? How many Muslim gatherings occuring right is second? and how many people are rolling a joint on a park bench who may find some company?
Truly amazing how sheltered some people are
Just like the "NO WAY"s I was getting when I revealed I've been mugged with a sawn off shotgun.
Yeah, you are of course so much more street wise and unsheltered than everyone else here.
The only reason I doubt is because you have a history of posting garbage.