Answer: move out of London.
In the smaller cities and more provinicial areas, people generally don't give a shit; for the most part, the worst they can do is point and laugh at you if you go out looking like a bell-end.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 27 Jun 2009, 0:19, archived)

I live in Newcastle, dickhead.

( hoifbjifbef, Sat 27 Jun 2009, 0:20, archived)

That figures.
In London, you'd probably have been murdered.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 27 Jun 2009, 0:21, archived)