O/T 2017 City of Culture..............

There's been a massive amount of positive stuff online and in print that I've seen. The BBC especially has done us proud imo. Sure, there's some piss taking but who doesn't suffer that? Liverpool got the same when they were European Capital of Culture.

No one I've spoken to is anything less than chuffed we've been chosen, or pleased for us. Not even the "other stuff" going on atm seems to have dimmed anyone's happiness over this. We have a lot to celebrate, a lot to shout about, and I think we'll do ourselves proud.

At least it should finally put the "M25/Southern/London Centric biased media conspiracy" crap we see too much of.

 

Well spotted and posted, Asbo.

 

Well that certainly bigged 'Ull up in a large way, nice one Paul

 

I am LOVING all this positive publicity. I've always been proud of the place & never understood why the rest of the country takes the piss out of us...

 

A mate of mine says that the judges were impressed with the 'Hull-ness' of the bid. Nobody elase - Swansea, Dundee or Leicester - could match that factor ( = We are 'ull!)

 

The wedding kicks off at 12:30 and the reception isn't until 19:00, so providing the game stays at 15:00(Man City) i could sneak out and join you in Parkers for a couple and try not to ruin my whistle.

 

Never forget that Hull paid the price during the war so visitors/foreign tourists can today enjoy the likes of York, Chester, Oxford, etc.

Well now it's our turn - it's only taken 70 years.

Yesterday and 24th May 2008 were the two proudest days of my life from Hullensian's point of view.

I'm not sure if we have enough hotel rooms if I'm honest, and I don't know what will happen with the A63 improvements
which would be ongoing in 2017 - both may need addressing in the fullness of time.

 

Tbf most areas get the piss taken out of them by other areas, we're not picked on honest.

 

It's a valid point. Whenever people say to me that Hull is a dump I respond "Do you know why it's a dump? Cos it was the most bombed city outside London in WWII - more than the ****ing media obsession with Coventry - and practically overnight tens of thousands of people were homeless and had to be re-housed in ****ty pre-fab buildings whilst some of the city's most iconic buildings also went at the hands of the Hun. And as we awaited the funding to address this it never ****ing came."

****ers.

 

Did anyone ever see Remould Theatre's play (at Spring Street) about the nights the City Centre got bombed. I can't recall the name of the play, but it was staged in such a way that the audience was 'in an air-raid shelter' and the actors coming on stage were coming into the 'shelter' from Ferensway.

The Luftwaffe bombed the area and then came back the next night and bombed the flames, etc. Two or three nights it went on for (the bombing, not the play!).

 

Love it.

 

That is probably the most typical Hull comment you could ever get. If anyone wants to know in a nutshell what it is to "be Hull" then show them this.

 

Satirical website The Daily Mash covers it beautifully:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/...l-pledges-a-****load-of-culture-2013112181350

 

Strange one at Uni for me today, i studying International Tourism Management and i've just had a two hour lecture on Hull winning City of Culture and about the perceptions.

 

You need to change your username to Dr_Barmbys_Tan.

 

That's pretty toned down for The Mash.

They must have some writers from this area !