[a-moron]

I don't get it but I never was any good at getting it.

[bmstinton93]

It's not on sale yet, but I can start a waiting list for you.

I think that's the first ever time that I have posted a sentence here that I also use at work...

Do we get the standard December photo of you stood in front of a tree?

[chrysostom]

Do vegans welcome a good stuffing?

[bmstinton93]

We should just make a chrismoyles.net yearly calender instead...

Badger has a lot of 'interesting' photos on his facebook that can go on...

[bmstinton93]

Annoying me today: We don't have wireless in our student accommodation and only one Internet port so therefore I can't use my xbox online and laptop online at the same time. So I bought a splitter for like £1 on amazon and plugged that in and got my port disabled (There were warnings that would happen but I tried it anyway). I managed to get it working again by just denying all knowledge about what I've done but it just seems shit in the 21st century that you can't use both online at the same time, especially considering the amount I'm paying to stay here.

[chrysostom]

Also it's probably so they can monitor usage and stop excess. Mass downloading and online gaming will take up a fair chunk of whatever their wholesale internet package is.

[bmstinton93]

Well I've downloaded thousands of hours of TV shows illegally since I've been here and nothing has been said, yet as soon as I try and bridge my LAN ports I get disabled.

[bmstinton93]

I actually don't think they do. All they did when I moaned about my internet being disabled is they just enabled it again with no questions asked.

[dimtimjim]

(There were warnings that would happen but I tried it anyway). .

@ Ben, gotta love the stupidity of youth. Still, you gotta try, eh Ben?

Only two of the six or so halls here have wireless.

Yeah, but to be fair, you're in Kent...

Well I've downloaded thousands of hours of TV shows illegally since I've been here

Naughty boy. Send some to 'lottie, she only gets 1/3rd coverage.

[bmstinton93]

(There were warnings that would happen but I tried it anyway). .

@ Ben, gotta love the stupidity of youth. Still, you gotta try, eh Ben?

Well, you try everything once...

Well I've downloaded thousands of hours of TV shows illegally since I've been here

Naughty boy. Send some to 'lottie, she only gets 1/3rd coverage.

Wow, how long did that one take you to work out then...?

[dimtimjim]

Wow, how long did that one take you to work out then...?

3 minutes. Had to find the ruddy calculator on my PC - then etc...

[dimtimjim]

Well first of all I'm not in Kent and secondly I am very happy with my coverage because I don't live in halls yet still get free wireless thanks to the landlord.

Oh, my mistake, sorry. But still, no need to rub Ben's face in it.

[Yudster]

Well first of all I'm not in Kent and secondly I am very happy with my coverage because I don't live in halls yet still get free wireless thanks to the landlord.

Oh, my mistake, sorry. But still, no need to rub Ben's face in it.

I thought he liked that?

[dimtimjim]

[bmstinton93]

I'm sure some of you may have read this on my facebook or twitter so I may as well fill you in. I think I have just experienced the scariest moment in my entire life. I finished work at 11 and I was waiting for a bus home, on a fairly busy, well lit road (obviously not too busy at 11PM) and someone walked into me from behind who was obviously a druggy as I could smell it. Long story short, no more than a minute later he punched me in the face, and before anyone says anything nothing was provoked. I was honestly really scared and still a bit shook up. I suppose In got lucky though as I had my phone, wallet and ipod on me and also he could have done anything else. But luckily he walked away after punching me. *. That was not at all a good experience. Very scared of being on my own at night in Bristol now but I've gotta not let it get to me.

[dimtimjim]

$hit Ben, sorry dude. Try not to let it get to you, not everyone out there is a noob. Pleased you didn't have to deal with him trying to take ya stuff too.

So, once you've slept (as I assume you will be time you read this), care to elaborate on things? You say he smelled... Of? What started interaction between you?

Finally, were you in an area likely to have CCTV, if not covering the exact spot, at least something which may have caught him further down the road, maybe?

Anyway, dunny panic, you'll heal - and fully back to your former beauty.

[DevilsDuck]

That's rubbish!

[Yudster]

Oh Ben, that is nasty. Glad you're ok physically, but it would shake me up too, I know that. Tim is right about the CCTV - its worth reporting it to the police just in case. You might be able to process it all a bit better and get past it if you feel you can actually take some action with regard to it. Just a thought.

Anyway, hope you feel all right today but if not, stay in bed, and get in touch with whoever at your uni can hook you up with their welfare/counselling service, they must have one.

[bmstinton93]

See it just all sounds slightly pathetic now because at the end of the day all that happened was I got hit which could happen on any standards drunken night out. But it was not knowing what could have happened.

Basically I was stood at the bus stop and someone walked into the back of me and you could tell he was on weed and he instantly just started saying "what did you say" so I knew he was off his head then and then a taxi went past he tried to signal it and he obviously drove straight past so then it just made him get pissed off. He then started counting his change for some reason, I don't know why he obviously didn't have a lot. And then he started asking me for money. The horrible thing was, at the time I considered just giving him a fiver or whatever to defuse the situation but I'm pretty sure now it would have only made it worse. Then basically when I refused he just hit me and I obviously muttered something quietly like '*' or something then he started to try and square up to me again and I just backed away a denied saying anything. Luckily he then just ran away across the road.

As I say it sounds a bit pathetic now and I kind of thought the same last night but it's just being in a strange city on my own knowing that if I'd have perhaps done anything slightly different then you never know what could have happened. And yeah I'd imagine there was CCTV somewhere down that road as it was right opposite a private girls school.


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[dimtimjim]

Odd behaviour for someone stinking of weed, i'd guestimate he'd been drinking too to behave like that.

I figured he had probably asked you for something, be it money/fags etc... Well done for not 'paying him off' as like you say that'd just make it worse highlighting you as an easy target and extending the torment.

Yes, I agree not nice being in a strange place. My best advice for a situation like that, you need to quickly assess your options from the given scenario, but your two best options are:

Get the first hit in, then run away.

Just run away.

May not sound like the most manly advice in the world, but from someone who has had a knife held to their throat and witnessed a friend stabbed in the leg (mean streets of Leices for ya) - its just not worth it. There is a lot to be said for just 'getting outa dodge'.

oh, and it doesn't sound pathetic - don't do yourself down lad. Its not a nice thing to happen, unless your Mick Dundee...

[bmstinton93]

Get the first hit in, then run away.

Just run away.

I probably would have walked away I'd I'd have known earlier but I didn't expect to end up in that situation before. I've had loads of drunk people ask me for money in the past but they've never then hit me and swore at me for not giving it them.


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[Nicola_Red]

Oh man, Ben, poor lamb it doesn't sound pathetic at all, it sounds very scary. Walking the streets of Manchester alone at night can be scary too - I think any city has these same issues really. My ex had a homeless person lunge at him when he refused them money once - thankfully they didn't really do him any physical harm, but it still freaked me out. I used to live in Salford, which is not very nice, and I had tin cans and eggs thrown at me, although that was just cos of the way I look. But you're right in that you can't let it get to you.

[bmstinton93]

I don't think I'm going to bother. Its not really worth it. I just need to move on and forget it now really. The chances of anything similar ever happening to me again have got to be very slim.

[MK Chris]

all that happened was I got hit which could happen on any standards drunken night out

Remind me not to go on a night out with you... I partook in plenty of drunken nights out in my formative years and never once came close to getting hit!

All that aside, sounds like you had a shit time and I agree that you should report it, but understand why you wouldn't want to.

[bmstinton93]

all that happened was I got hit which could happen on any standards drunken night out

Remind me not to go on a night out with you... I partook in plenty of drunken nights out in my formative years and never once came close to getting hit!

Oh its never happened directly to me (it has come close) but I've seen it a few times, but that's just completely different in the fact that there are lots of people around and you don't feel in danger of being stabbed or mugged in that situation.