Off Topic Hull: City of Culture

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askewshair said:
Enjoyed the fireworks and then the light show in Victoria Square. Hard act to


Yeah we watched it on Ferens. The showing when the security alarm was actually going off in the art gallery prior to it starting, and could have ruined it. They found Jeff Barmby in the nick of time. The City Hall looked amazing in the blitz scene, if you go again position yourself so you can see both. It was fantastic, really emotional. Not sure how they can gonna follow that?
We did the whole tour, the only thing that didn't work for me was the building used for the 'screen' for the Hullywood icons didn't do it justice. Fireworks were incredible.
Well done Holl!!
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You must have been there the same time as me. So glad they got the alarm to stop. I was wiping away tears at the end and sure I wasn't the only one. Just everything about it made me proud. Those waves made me almost seasick, so realistic and the blitz stuff as well. Just loved everything.
 
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Castro's Coffin said:
Nothing unique in that. I have come across similar in Leeds, Sheffield and Middlesbrough regarding the attitude of residents on the outskirts of the city and surrounding areas. Will happen elsewhere as well.
What amused me was working somewhere in East Riding where people who spent all week criticising Wessies used to spend time and money to sit amongst 30,000 of them on a Saturday. Hull Whites and East Yorkshire Whites, do more vermin ousting creatures exist?
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Some grotesquely snobbish attitudes reminiscent of Hyacinth Boucket in the ER.
I have met many beswicks from the ER who lack any kind of education and sophistication. I'm talking fur coat and no knickers, coal in the bath, personalised number plate Jags, people who know the cost of everything and value of nothing, people who have inherited farming land and are by most people's standards rich,
It always makes me laugh when I hear these people getting sniffy about Hull.
Plenty of wealthy, well to do, educated people outside Hull and many of them are humble too, but unfortunately the braying beswicks seem to outnumber them.
 
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Castro's Coffin said:
The sheer nerve of the HDM takes some beating. They printed the story originally, complete with the usual hysterical comments from Inspector Pantsdown , who would like to bring in prohibition and enforce a 10pm curfew in his ideal world*, which was quoted by the Sun, the DM and the Independent.Today they have a campaign against the Sun with an article quoting the Sun (who had only repeated what they had written) and a headline of "How we reported it". Except it wasn't as the HDM article thy refer to by themselves is the COC opening night. Closed for comments to stop people pointing out their hypocrisy.
The Burns show was inundated with people waxing indignant about it, rivalling Scousers fof indignation and self-pity. Right near the end he read a text from the Sun out, which pointed out that they had quoted an article by the local paper, which itself quoted the local police bigwig Downey and the photographs were by agency photographers, some of which the HDM themselves used and nobody denies occurred, so what was the problem. Burns rather grudgingly accepted this, murmuring that they may have a point. I see Prescott has waded in, one of his gems being that previously culture in Hull was rugby and fish and chips. That oaf does more to bring about the notion there isn't culture in Hull than anyone else.

* Remember Pantsdown wanting a complete ban on the sale of alcohol the day we played Leeds in a pre-season friendly a few years back?
This idea was dropped when the council realised this would have meant no alcohol available at an event they were hosting to show potential business investors from outside the city what a progressive, vibrant city Hull was and an awards ceremony at the Guildhall to honour local citizens with awards for achievement.
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Stop me if I've said this before.
Millwall FAC 2009: Downsy proactively launches a media initiative before the game outlining his 'zero tolerance' approach, which the local media faithfully and uncritically carry.
We all know what happened on the day and afterwards (or rather what didn't happen....)
How Downs kept his job is utterly beyond me. Humiliated locally and nationally as an incompetent and impotent cop who was unable to catch dozens of visiting trouble makers despite all the horses, helicopters, cctv etc.
Best shoo them onto train and hope some other police force has the balls to apprehend them, eh? Might have a few sickness claims coming in from the lads if they get some scratches doing their duty.
Then the Met ignore his bleats for help so his 'zero tolerance' approach is revealed to be in reality a 'total surrender' approach.
And gets to keep his job, and our local police continue to be among the worst in the country. I wonder if the two are linked perchance?
 
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City Man said:
Some grotesquely snobbish attitudes reminiscent of Hyacinth Boucket in the ER.
I have met many beswicks from the ER who lack any kind of education and sophistication. I'm talking fur coat and no knickers, coal in the bath, personalised number plate Jags, people who know the cost of everything and value of nothing, people who have inherited farming land and are by most people's standards rich,
It always makes me laugh when I hear these people getting sniffy about Hull.
Plenty of wealthy, well to do, educated people outside Hull and many of them are humble too, but unfortunately the braying beswicks seem to outnumber them.
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Unfortunately too many people in Hull with insular, parochial attitudes who give the impression they have never foot outside Hull don't help its image.

Your last sentence is ridiculous, and patently not correct.
 
Castro's Coffin said:
The sheer nerve of the HDM takes some beating. They printed the story originally, complete with the usual hysterical comments from Inspector Pantsdown , who would like to bring in prohibition and enforce a 10pm curfew in his ideal world*, which was quoted by the Sun, the DM and the Independent.Today they have a campaign against the Sun with an article quoting the Sun (who had only repeated what they had written) and a headline of "How we reported it". Except it wasn't as the HDM article thy refer to by themselves is the COC opening night. Closed for comments to stop people pointing out their hypocrisy.
The Burns show was inundated with people waxing indignant about it, rivalling Scousers fof indignation and self-pity. Right near the end he read a text from the Sun out, which pointed out that they had quoted an article by the local paper, which itself quoted the local police bigwig Downey and the photographs were by agency photographers, some of which the HDM themselves used and nobody denies occurred, so what was the problem. Burns rather grudgingly accepted this, murmuring that they may have a point. I see Prescott has waded in, one of his gems being that previously culture in Hull was rugby and fish and chips. That oaf does more to bring about the notion there isn't culture in Hull than anyone else.

* Remember Pantsdown wanting a complete ban on the sale of alcohol the day we played Leeds in a pre-season friendly a few years back?
This idea was dropped when the council realised this would have meant no alcohol available at an event they were hosting to show potential business investors from outside the city what a progressive, vibrant city Hull was and an awards ceremony at the Guildhall to honour local citizens with awards for achievement.
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But the point is the HDM did their article about NYE whereas the Daily Mail and Sun lump it together with the CofC celebrations which is totally misleading and having read the comments from some people about that article on their website it really made my blood boil.
 
Castro's Coffin said:
Unfortunately too many people in Hull with insular, parochial attitudes who give the impression they have never foot outside Hull don't help its image.

Your last sentence is ridiculous, and patently not correct.
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And how are insular, parochial Hull people different from insular, parochial folk anwhere else in Yorkshire, the North or even England?
I don't claim to have met a meaningful number of Holderness/Haltemprice folk but I do know there are several archetypes. Kilnsea is not Kirkella. There are plenty of ignorant prejudiced beswick types in the ER, I'm surprised you waste your time defending them. They are not unique to the ER.
 
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City Man said:
And how are insular, parochial Hull people different from insular, parochial folk anwhere else in Yorkshire, the North or even England?
I don't claim to have met a meaningful number of Holderness/Haltemprice folk but I do know there are several archetypes. Kilnsea is not Kirkella. There are plenty of ignorant prejudiced beswick types in the ER, I'm surprised you waste your time defending them. They are not unique to the ER.
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He defends them because he's become one of them. <laugh>
 
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City Man said:
And how are insular, parochial Hull people different from insular, parochial folk anwhere else in Yorkshire, the North or even England?
I don't claim to have met a meaningful number of Holderness/Haltemprice folk but I do know there are several archetypes. Kilnsea is not Kirkella. There are plenty of ignorant prejudiced beswick types in the ER, I'm surprised you waste your time defending them. They are not unique to the ER.
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There are plenty of ignorant, prejudiced types in Hull. I am surprised you waste your time defending them.
 
DMD said:
Give it a rest ffs.

There's a lot of positive stuff going on in the region. Take some time off and savour it.
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Taking cheap shots at Hull at every opportunity and complaining about 'muh special snowflake' students (even though he was one) on this forum is his time off since he retired. I don't know what his other hobbies include but I'd guess fox-hunting and spitting on the poor are somewhere on the list.
 
Spook said:
Taking cheap shots at Hull at every opportunity and complaining about 'muh special snowflake' students (even though he was one) on this forum is his time off since he retired. I don't know what his other hobbies include but I'd guess fox-hunting and spitting on the poor are somewhere on the list.
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I was a snowflake student? When?

I am vehemently anti-hunting but being strong on facts has never been one of your attributes.
 
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