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Off Topic Hull: City of Culture

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by originallambrettaman, Feb 10, 2014.

  1. Happy Tiger

    Happy Tiger Well-Known Member

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    ****ing hate Ikea.

    Nipped in one lunchtime when I worked in MK for 1 thing for my mother in law.
    10 min drive there.

    Parks up, in, up the escalators.

    The thing I need is genuinely right in front of me. YAY! RESULT!

    Pick it up, and make my way to the exit.

    15 minutes to get to the ****er. The short way.

    Also, not to be rude, but there's way better options for new stores than Hull. As pointed out above, they don't like them close to other ones, and you've got one literally up the road.

    Check out where their stores are and you see some huge gaps, and they'd undoubtedly be full every weekend, but they dont build them.

    The only amusing thing about Ikea is watching people who have clearly overestimated their cars ability to hold the crap they've bought.
     
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  2. PLT

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    I've never understood the idea of going to IKEA. People go on about it like it's a fun day out. It's shopping FFS. I'd rather not travel to another City in order to do my shopping. Seems like a waste of a weekend to me.

    That said. We're going that way for unrelated reasons next week and have recently moved house, so I've agreed to lose my IKEAginity.
     
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  3. Dills double deckers

    Dills double deckers Well-Known Member

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    Went to Ikea once years ago for a family trip out. Swore I would never step foot in it again.Hated it, And true to word I never have mind you im now seperated though think it was more than the Ikea stand off...
     
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  4. Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC

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    Isn't the other side of Waterhouse Lane, opposite Princes Quay being redeveloped? With the existing parking at Prinny and a feed to the west side of Waterhouse Lane, there could be a drive-through pick-up point in the redevelopment.
     
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  5. The greengrocer

    The greengrocer Well-Known Member

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    I've still got my cherry and plan on keeping it! :emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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  6. originallambrettaman

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    I don't think they've got any intention of developing that site in the near future, they just claimed they were to get the Kingswood development declined.
     
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  7. Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC

    Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC Well-Known Member

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    Who owns the site - cos it seems to consist of a pretty substantial number of past/demolished buildings? And is the Earl de Grey at the southern end of the same site?
     
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  8. originallambrettaman

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    The site was owned be Jawda (a Saudi investment company), who are owners of Princes Quay. The Council are currently demolishing most of the buildings between the Staples site and Princes Quay, to make way for the new Hull Venue, so I assume they've bought part of it.
     
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  9. Polly13

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    'Shopping'? What's wrong with Tesco, Iceland or Primark in Hull?
     
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  10. TIGERSCAVE

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    A friend of mines company who does shop fitting etc, is wrapping the building on the corner next to EDG in vinyl for COC over the next week or so. I should have asked him what was going to be on it...
     
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  11. Polly13

    Polly13 Well-Known Member

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    Not hard, if you really want to do it. All you need to do is get a few hundred people to vote for you, out of several thousand.
    Everybody moans about Councillors, yet no ****er else ever seems to put themselves forward. Funny, that...
     
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  12. Polly13

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    Am I missing summat with this fireworks business? People were bleating like mad on Facebook yesterday about the ticketing system, but it's a ****ing fireworks display. Won't you be able to see the ****ers as long as you get somewhere near?
     
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  13. Plum

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    If you have to ask you wouldn't understand the answer:emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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  14. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

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    100%. And most of the people who moan don't bother to vote. Well tough ****ing luck, you brought this on yourself cos you couldnt be arsed to get off your ****ing sofa.
     
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  15. Polly13

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    True. Lost on me...
     
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  16. Kempton

    Kempton Well-Known Member

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    I only need Heron an
    I always vote. Just for the wrong ones, as everyone I vote for turn out to be ****s.
     
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  17. originallambrettaman

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    No politics. Ta.
     
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  18. Edelman

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    Well i always vote .
     
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  19. Kempton

    Kempton Well-Known Member

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    If everyone lived by the word of Jesus Christ our saviour, there'd be no need for politics ;)
     
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  20. originallambrettaman

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    Shurrup. :emoticon-0110-tongu
     
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