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Opinions - Bomb By Gregory Anderson
	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...

Opinions - The Bitch Hikers Guide to The Fashionista Dance Troupe! By Mr. B. Quiet
	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...

Opinions - Start a New Career in IT - Average starting Salaries £26k - Don't Get Sucked In! By Paul Bawden
	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...

Opinions - Take The Highground - or why we shouldn't read The Daily Mail By Andy Dykes
	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...

Opinions - I Don't Agree With That in the Workplace By 'Ull un
	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...

Opinions - thisisUll.com Needs More Female Writers! By Jane Foster
	This is something that I couldn't fail to notice, being a regular contributor, and featured writer who also happens to be a woman. Yes, whilst exploring this beloved and ever more exciting website recently, it couldn't escape my attention that there are no less that twenty featured writers Read more...

Opinions - Yoga By Andrea Longstaff
	I enrolled in the yoga class at Park Avenue Adult Education Centre in September 2004 at the start of the new term for stress relief, or should that be release? The teacher Alison Carlisle is excellent. All of the people who attend the class would agree with that statement I'm sure. Read more...

Opinions - In Reply To - Fear And Loathing In Hull (by Nicholas Boldock) By Anonymous
	I am just writing in response to an article saw on your fine website regarding racism in Hull in recent years. Firstly, I'd like to make it abundantly clear that I abhor racism in any form or fashion, my wife is Indian and I have many friends of varied ethnic backgrounds born in the West Indies Read more...

Opinions - The Walk of Life By Trevor Edge
	I hate cars. I love driving but I hate cars. No other singular human invention has caused me more grief than the car, except maybe beer. I've had a few (cars that is not beers) and the things are only there for one reason ... to bleed the bank account dry. Read more...

Opinions - North Bransholme - If It Ain't Screwed Down By Mr A.N. Gry
	What a sight. It just blows your mind when you wake in the morning and realise some bar-steward has been and robbed you again, the bikes have gone. For Christ's sake not again! This place could be nice if the thieves could sod off, and the parents of the kids who prowl in the night could Read more...

Opinions - When Technology Takes Over By Steve Rudd
	Am I the only person left in Britain not to own a DVD player? For sure, I must be one of only a select number of people to be currently flogging the life out of their vintage VHS video recorders.. but I'm not all that bothered. At the end of the day, a movie is no different whether it is played in Read more...

Opinions - Youth Clubs? By Andrea Longstaff
	Why is it that the only youth club in the Newland Avenue area opens at ridiculously limited hours? I went out for provisions (milk) the other evening and there were four teenagers sat on the outside stairs. I asked them what they were doing, they looked cold. Nothing really, so I asked them if they wanted a cuppa, they ended up coming in and Read more...

Opinions - 'Ull - The Friendliest City In The World By Elsie Henbrun
	I live abroad due to circumstances beyond my control but come 'ome to 'Ull as often as possible. I must say that I was surprised at how negatively outsiders seem to view the city. To me it is the friendliest city in the world. There is Read more...

Opinions - Reclaim Your Rights - The Disorganised Collective
	Around a 100 people gathered in Pearson Park on Saturday (18th September), for a Reclaim the Streets protest. Unfortunately around only 30 of those people were protestors, the rest of the numbers were made up by the police. Now there are a number of reasons why the ratio between protestors and police Read more...

Opinions - QUEER? Queer in the head..! By Rich Mills
	I recently picked up a copy of a new zine called Queer. A new newsletter for the non steryotypes (sic). A supposed literary publication that can't spell stereotype is a bit crap, and that is only the front cover. The inside pages, most of them blank (like the mind of its author) are even Read more...

Opinions - What is Reclaim The Streets about Anyway? A Personal Perspective
	Many moons ago in my misspent youth, I, like many others, used to have a problem with Authority and 'fought injustice' wherever I discovered it. So I joined others in the grand mass of those in the non-conformists uniform, and would march, relevant placard in hand, most Saturdays. These days the Read more...

Opinions - Musings By Mark Pollard
	A couple of things that have perplexed me over the years: Firstly, why the link between heel bars and key cutting? They always seem to be combined under the same roof. I don't geddit. Potential for major calamities, too - imagine going in for a new heel on your brogues and ending up Read more...

Opinions - Pete Docherty Is Dead! By Rich Mills
	The headline they all want to see! I've watched the development of what is a disturbing form of hero worship. The desire to see self-destruction in the flesh, is how I read many of the reviews I've read about Pete Docherty, Babyshambles, the Libertines new album, Read more...

Opinions - The End of Solidarity? By Jane Foster
	Recent experiences have spurred me on to write this little piece. In the space of a year or so I've gone from being a community-loving socialist to something resembling an individualist...well in some ways anyhow. I'll start from the beginning. Having been brought up on an estate with definite community Read more...

Opinions, Reply - Of monkeys, mice and men. By Martin J Deane
	In her A Call for Peace, Michelle D Clark covers much ground as to why we do awful things to each other. The key is, to quote her, that We are all guilty. We are. We are all guilty - we make enemies. We create them out of people who think differently to us, or eat rice, or act in different ways. We are human; some people annoy us, some wind us up, others Read more...

Opinions - The War By Carolyn
	Since the war in Iraq has been reported about, I made a silent agreement with myself that whatever thoughts about the war I have I will not write about or permanently express in any way. I think this is because of some type of anger that I haven't felt Read more...

Opinions - Will graduate plumbers be up to the job? By Jane Foster
	The recent programme Posh Plumbers on BBC1 highlighted the growing number of middle class graduates and professionals turning to plumbing for a living. With a national shortage of 32,000 plumbers, and salaries to match those of a decent job in the capital, the profession is changing. Read more...

Opinions - Come On You Hull! By Laura Baldwin
	So our latest award to sit alongside our much treasured worst city to live in the UK award' is that of the fattest city in the UK. Yep, not content with telling us that we live in the most crap city in the UK but apparently we're also a bunch of big lard arses as well. Charming. It seems that no-one has anything good to say these days about the historic city of Hull. Read more...

Opinions - Haircuts In The Crowd By Mr. Lucifer
	If you are becoming bored of the vain, look at me I'm so cool culture that swamps the nationwide indie/rock scene and if you are sick of standing among people with the same haircuts, the same clothes, and the same transfixed miserable look on their faces, then, you are obviously craving exactly what I am Read more...

Opinions - The Moaning Bulldog Breed. By Engelbert De'Moaner
	I must admit I'm just as prone to moaning as the next person; God it's raining again; It's too damn hot; What, they've put the price of fags up again! So what! Who cares? Just stop bloody moaning! Even if you or I do moan what good is it going to do any of us? We never do anything about anything at all! Read more...

Opinions - Life is too Short By The Lazyswede
	I sat on the quiet banks of the river watching the early morning mist twist and swirl while the water meandered slowly into the distance, listening to the far off sounds of the city as the people made their way to work Car horns blowing and the sound of voices carrying on the gentle breeze. Yet although so close, I could Read more...

Opinions - Blame By Darren Sant
	I didn't say you were to blame, I said I'm blaming you. I am getting heartily sick of the blame culture we live in these days. Something goes wrong in the hospital, we sue. The dentist pulls out the wrong tooth, we sue. Admittedly we are not as bad as Americans yet, thank god, but Read more...

Opinions - A Call for Peace By Michelle Dee Clark
	Martin Luther King had a dream. His dream was crushed by jack booted, hooded ignorance. There has always been wrong in this world. From the trials in Scottsboro* Alabama in the 1930's to more recent events in Jasper Texas in 1998**. We are all guilty. When you talk of Kosovans and Iraqi's you focus on what the media want you to then project that onto everyone, be it ethnic minorities or anyone Read more...