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Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Stockholm Tiger, Apr 30, 2021.

  1. spesupersydera

    spesupersydera Well-Known Member

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    According to reports, negotiations are done for this year - make of that what you will?
     
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  2. Plum

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    Could be the case. As I understand it, and I'm no expert by any means, negotiations should have happened end of last year but were delayed. In the meantime those dastardly Norwegians have already fished the blue whiting grounds this year. These would have been one of our negotiating cards but now rendered useless so we hadn't much of a hand to play.
     
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  3. spesupersydera

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    I read the same - we were late getting to the table for the '21 fishing season, hence done for this year. It's shambolic ...
     
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  4. Plum

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    Yep, I'm guessing Victoria Prentis and Boris aren't keen on fish and chips. :emoticon-0108-speec
     
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  5. southerntiger

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    I used to have a holiday job at McRaes kippers.
    Weeks later I would be playing football and sweating the smell out
     
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    I had that many showers I grew gills <laugh>
     
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  7. Red top reader

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    I was born not far from the fish dock and the smell of fish was an every day thing. When anyone tells you that you can get use to anything call them a liar, still to this day, it makes me feel sick...
     
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  8. southerntiger

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    And the fish scales used to get everywhere.
     
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  9. rovertiger

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    Oh yea
     
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  10. Citygirl

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    Thought the smell on Hessle road was the Fish meal factory .
     
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    In the next street from us they processed the fish, I would walk past and there was always huge blue barrels of skate etc sat in them. Not a big lover of the smell of fish.
     
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  12. Plum

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    Ha! Do you mean blue barrels of skate or barrels of blue skate? :emoticon-0100-smile
     
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  13. Ernie Shackleton

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    Depending on wind direction Hull smelt of dead fish or cocoa when I was growing up.

    Both smell's distinctive in their own way.
     
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  14. DMD

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    Or mint imperials. <ok>
     
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    My old man used to bring tipper trucks full of fish offal from Whitley Bay to Hull fish meal co.

    Got banned out of the Tyne tunnel.
     
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  16. Chazz Rheinhold

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    Or tan yard
     
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  17. Ernie Shackleton

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    I got arrested once for breaking into a tanner's yard.

    Taking a shortcut from Haworth to Spiders one Saturday night.

    It all went a little tits up.


    Got over Barmy Drain by shimmying over a pipe.

    Then cut across a tanner's yard before scrambling over a gate somewhere on Wincolmlee.

    Straight into the headlights of a police car.



    My defence was along the lines of 'if I was really gonna break into a tanner's yard would I do it in a pair of bondage trousers, a Clash tee-shirt and with a bright red Phil Oakeyesk wedge'?





    Decent defence as it happens.
     
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  18. balkan tiger

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    He took the fleshings from there up to Glasgow.
     
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  19. John Ex Aberdeen now E.R.

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    Generally, the strongest fish smell was from the Fishmeal factory, but if the wind was in the right or (wrong) direction, then you did get a fishy smell drifting from the market area.

    We lived in Anlaby though I worked on the fish dock, I can remember when a child, my mother saying it's going to rain you can smell the fish docks, and usually she was right, the atmosphere and wind direction carried the smell.
     
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    Here is something to try that I did with a writing course. Organise a vid call catchup with two old mates, and tell them you will record the call. Have a beer or two, relax and have a good chat.

    Leave it 24 hours, then go back and try to write down some parts of the conversation.

    When you are done, watch the video again and write down the same parts word for word.

    Compare the two. You aren't looking for exact word matches, but trying to get the hang of natural flow of conversation, who is leading the topic, how do people respond and how does the lead flip to someone else.
     
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