Hull By Lee Cassanell

Hull is a town of apathy and idiots brimming with all kinds of degenerate scumbags that should be beaten to a bloody pulp and sterilised at birth.

Most of the citizens have next to no communication skills, they are backstabbing ego maniacs who think just because they mumbled their way through a Look North interview or have been in the Hull Daily Mail Court File, they have some kind of minor celebrity status and deserve our undying respect. The Hull Daily Mail itself is an absolute criminal piece of pseudo conservative propaganda; I ran out of toilet roll last week but I decided to let the shit crust around my backside rather than lower myself to use a few ripped up pages of that woeful rag.

Then we have the baby chav boys, 10 year old kids smoking rolls and robbing the corner shops for Curly Wurly's, the sluttish 13 year old girls hanging around the park eagerly awaiting some unsuspecting asylum seeker to defile them in every crevice, their drunken degenerate mother eating Battenberg and watching 24 hour soap operas; their fathers, smashing the face of a Port Vale fan and then returning home to knock his wife about because she's eaten all the Battenberg and forgotten to dust his darts trophy.

Fields and fields of festering council estates where the children who manage to escape with any semblance of an education are in the minority because their teachers are all mercenary fuckwits who are only in a teaching job because the government paid off their loans and it's much more cushy than working in some industrial office block.

There are no jobs worth having, most of the high wage earners got their jobs because they once slept with the chief executive's Labrador whist he filmed the action; knocking-on-forty secretaries are indulging in steamy toilet love with the junior administrator because he'll go down on her occasionally tell her she's pretty, unlike her prison warden husband who hasn't tied her to the bed in two years due to his slipped disk and his not-so-secret pre-teen sex desires.

The cool kids who invade Pave from the suburbs of Kirkella and Willerby looking like victims of an explosion at a Kays catalogue warehouse and turning their nose up in disgust as a local commoner with Dreadlocks passes by the window.

Why don't they just stay in The Wheatsheaf or those other god forsaken pubs on the outskirts that's full of divorcee middle aged women trying to seduce Armani clad accountants who wear sunglasses indoors into their well ridden beds. The spoilt rotten rich kids who've never been east of the river , driving around in Daddies MG and shagging their best friends partners in their exclusive gym changing rooms.

Streets are lined with Takeaways and chips shops as far as the eye can see - a grubby off licence on every corner and a disreputable pawn shop a few doors down.

A giant TV stands menacingly in the middle of the town square like some horrific vision of the future spewing out News 24 and giving the tramps something to occupy their mind inbetween bouts of despair and white cider drinking.

The council are a bunch of duplicitous winos who are regularly voted the most clueless and incompetent human beings in the land, who think putting a brand new shiny shopping centre in the middle of the city as well as extending the soulless cesspit we affectionately call Princess Quay will suddenly turn Hull into the Cultural capital of north. Anyone who wants to make a difference in this city quickly downs in the bile, bullshit and general stupidity of the majority of the citizens and they either leave for a place that inspires them to better things or stay and create their own little worlds in order to avoid the imbeciles as much as possible.

It's a city of lost causes, missed opportunities, denial, degeneracy, seed, smoke and squalor. A city that has no interest in the rest of the world's affairs, populated by a few clans of clowns who count the heartbreaking minutes between ad breaks and Patti butties. I love it.

Opinions - Hull By By Ted Oliver (Manager of the Spring Bank Community Centre, Hull )

I moved to Hull with my parents in 1993 when I was just 13 years old, from a little village called Hunmanby, just near the popular holiday resort Primrose Valley. I must admit that my first impressions of Hull were not good, but over the last 12 years I've really come to love living and working here. Hull is a very multi-cultural city and always has been - ever since the docks first opened over 500 years ago. Read more...

Opinions - Hull By Jeni Edge

I have been told by Channel 4 that I should not take the programme The Best and Worst Places to Live seriously, it is intended to be light-hearted and just a joke. But it is irresponsible of the media to claim that they have no impact, and if there is a joke the laughter is at the expense of the poor. To blight an entire city and excuse yourself because it was not meant seriously is no more acceptable Read more...

Opinions - Hull By Ted Robinson

	I have lived in Hull since 1996. I have had my car broken into seven times, I have also been violently robbed in the street and most of the people I know here have been burgled. So YES, Hull deserves to be at the bottom of the pile (and in all cases, the police proved to be useless)!

Opinions - It's Your Money, Why Are You Not Seeing Any Of It? By Anonymous

	Regeneration, Community Development, all those 'community' workers that litter the city, preaching change and empowerment for the people of the city. Ever wondered where they have come from, how they are paid, and what the funding they get to play with is spent on? Funding, wherever it comes from be it Government or the Lottery for example Read more...

Opinions - Living in Hull By Marphy Jones

	I am a foreigner living in Hull. My opinion is that Hull is really a worst place - full of naughty kids, impolite people, and a dirty environment. I think what you can do is to improve these images instead of constantly explaining that Hull is not a worst city. Commit to the facts and then make some improvements to show them! I have some suggestions: Read more...

Opinions - Hull By Paul Thompson

	I am planning to study at Hull. The city centre seemed OK when I looked round although it could do with some more regeneration. I have seen much worse in my opinion - areas like Coventry. There appears to be little gun crime, good nightlife, cheap houses friendly people, a very good university and I like the shopping centre. The area around the university is nice and green too. Read more...

Opinions - Channel 4's Best and Worst By Mark Pollard

	Last night's (Tuesday 9th August 2005) Channel 4 aired a programme which listed the ten best and ten worst places to live in the UK. It was one of the most ill-researched, unbalanced and downright irresponsible pieces of television that I have seen for many years. I used to regard Channel 4 as being a bit like BBC2 with adverts; unfortunately, they seem to be moving Read more...

Opinions - Bomb By Margaret Ryan
	For three fraught hours I believed my girlfriend was dead. Hearing snatched rumours of a bomb in rush-hour London I desperately rang her mobile again and again. At that time of 10:54am on 7/7 this, for me, had started. In those hours a quiet despair filled me. My only response was to scour the newspapers and news blogs. Read more...

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	Yep, it's finally arrived! Hull's finally caught up with England's dream of alternative culture! Everyone buys their LP's by the nations favourite drug users from popular chain store supermarkets and spends £85 quid on a pair of designer jeans that have been ripped at the knees (Bros anyone?), before running off to Read more...

Opinions - Mother's Day By Andrea Longstaff
	Rain! Rain! Rain! Is this Mother Nature's symbolism? The bursting of the amniotic sack? Well it's not big and it's not clever! It's like some select club that I'm not a member of, and at my age (weirdo)! I'm made to feel like an outcast! I'm mocked by the little ones cos I've Read more...

Opinions - Comment on Fear And Loathing In Hull By Nicholas Boldock and In Reply To - Fear And Loathing In Hull By Anonymous By Anna
	In my first contribution on this website I referred to the nice experience I had in Hull as a foreign student. When I read the articles on Hull's racism, I thought I can share my view since I have had some experiences from both sides. Albanian immigrants residing Read more...

Opinions - Metal on the Rise in Hull By Steve B
	You're doing it again! I once complained that you (thisisUll.com) focus far too much on certain bands and blatantly miss half the real talent that there is in hull... and you're doing it again! Last time I said this, Read more...

Opinions - How Karoo Could Double Their Trade Over Night By Paul Bawden
	If you live in Hull and want a telephone line you are very lucky as you don't have to call on BT or any of the other companies who claim to be cheap. Kingston Communications are cheaper that any other phone provider in England. Read more...

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	I have lived in Hull all of my life. I'm just coming up to my 31st birthday. I have over 15 years experience and am very much respected within the ITC industry, with more qualifications than you can shake a stick at. So what do Read more...

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	Oh The Daily Mail: bastion of British journalism, voice of the British people, key to the formulation of a balanced opinion and veritable textbook of reporting and the written word. It was within a day or two of the catastrophic Read more...

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	Whether you've been guilty of it yourself or experienced it as a consumer, it seems to be that an epidemic of ineptitude is sweeping the globe. The virus appears to care not about the host in which it embeds itself: ask for assistance Read more...