briskly...

Depends on my mood. Usually I will just move quickly in fear of being attacked but sometimes I will say stuff back. Although maybe not anymore.

At the start of the year me and some chums were walking the fine streets of Barnet when some "Gangsta" kids said towards us "look at those battys man" and I said "yeah, we're gayboys just off for a shag" and they then followed us confronted us and apparently I called them gay. After disputing this I got invied to go around the corner with some of them which I declined. I got punched and they tried to burn my fro beforing telling us to walk on and continued to follow had to hide in a nearby pub and get taken home in the back of a van.

Oh the youth of today :).

obviously if its a gang of dodgy looking youths I disappear fairly quickly, otherwise I go mad and go completely mental to get my point across.

so far, i've had one person arrested and one punch me.

it depends on loads of things. Time of day, where I am, what the abuse was, who gave the abuse, who I'm with, level of alcohol (if any) consumed etc etc

The 'kids' down my road shout at me and call me a fat bitch and a minging cunt. I shout back on occasion, but it's never going to be more than a stream of fucks and cunts, because if I said anything proper they'd probably kill me or at least set their stupid cuntweiler on me.

This may not be the best approach, but I'll be buggered if they think they're allowed to intimidate everyone.

I don't think I've ever been abused by strangers in the street.

I was stuck in the same carriage as two plastic gangsta wankers on the way back from a Fall gig a couple of months ago, and it was an unpleasant experience.

In a situation like that it's hard to keep your trap shut, so I gave them some verbals. Probably not my wisest move - and not something I'd usually do - but I lived to tell the tale. I don't think they could quite believe someone was giving some back.

i ride a fold-up bike and i regularly get laughed at by teenagers as a result of this - it doesn't really bother me.

i don't have a particularly eccentric/individual "look" so i tend to get ignored when i'm just walking about normally, or when i'm in cambridge (where fold-up bikes are ten-a-penny).

im usually abit more inclined to mouth something back or confront people.

but when im sober a long, silent over the top stare suffices or i just ignore them.

i find it baffling that people think someone with big/long blonde hair is 'weirder' than someone who is morbidly obese or something.

there was a bunch of neds outside smoking and i was walking past with my friend.. they made some lewd remark about her tits or something and i turned round and said in a really gay voice "thanks boys.." and made the call me sign with my hands..... they didnt find it very funny

makes me laugh.

time of day, whether the people concerned (or indeed me personally) have been drinking, what was said and from a tactical perspective numbers.

I got called a spastic in a few years ago by a guy who seemed to object to me having a stammer. I walked away without reacting and sat down for a while, then I started thinking about all of the times in my life that random strangers had acted like a prick.

The iPod playlist at the time was very much slanted in favour of straighedge hardcore, I listened to a few songs from Champion's 'Promises Kept' and feeling rather more fired up than before walked outside into the terrace area and walked over to the table where he was sitting.

I told him in the very clearest of speech that I couldn't help the way I spoke, but, it would appear that he had made a conscious decision to be a cunt. I then asked him if he'd like to get up and 'discuss things further', but, with utter predictability he backed down and muttered 'sorry mate, didn't mean any harm'.

So, yeah...I don't understand the mentality and I wouldn't react everytime, but, under the right circumstances I will.
Some day a real rain will come....etc etc

i was out last night at a club and on the way to get some food someone said something about my hair and shouted something else which i have forgot now, i told them to fuck off or something similar and it resulted in a confrontation and him starting on three of my friends but backing down when i pushed him back.

Its not the insult that bothers me in the slightest, im quite aware i have a stupid haircut but i happen to like it, its just the fact that he thought he could intimidate me.

Walking off makes me feel powerless, and whilst it might be more sensible on some cases, it makes me feel more of an idiot than if i stand up for myself.

And like i said a lot of the people who say stuff to me either do it because they are insecure and want to feel big, or see that im self confident enough to walk around looking a bit different from the majority of people in Norwich and try to take me down a peg. 99% of the time when i respond they back down.

I don't get things said as often to me now, but neds shouting things used to be a daily occurance and if it got to the point where so many different people had made comments in the one day I'd completly lose my temper. I've made myself look like a complete nut before by utterly losing the rag and screaming at wee neds.

Nowadays I usually just give them a 'fuck off' or something to that effect. It's not always wise though.

for showing backbone.

But I'm tempted to try "I KNOW YOUR MUMS!" next time.

I read them something from The Little Book of Calm

Depends how big they are and whether you can get away with it, init?

The last altercation I was in was on the tube. Rush hour + last station of the line = massive crush for escalators, caused by people preferring to queue for the standing side and getting in the way of people who would rather walk.

On this occasion I had pushed, kicked and headbutted my way through the crowd as usual when this guy took offense. I took my headphones off to ask what he said and he took offense again. I informed him that we wouldn't have any issue if he weren't such a fat, lazy fuck. Then I continued up the escalator. He remained where he was, because he was a fat fuck.

it's not worth the bother. I can accept there are cunts in the world but would rather not get beaten up or stabbed just to prove it.

for this, i got a torrent of abuse and how if he could stand hed "teach me a lesson". It was both funny and extremely disturbing.

to answer your question, yes keep walking. I do this most of the time anyway. People asking me for fags annoys me alot.