Mundane pictures of the North
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aqua
made of cheese and gin
And I believe also very close to the place where I got a very panicked phone call one night after you had been escorted from the club, and s rang me because she couldn't get you to respond to her and you were flaked on the floor.
Mid way through me asking her what had you done that night, and her taking ages to get what I meant, you sat up, clocked the phone and shouted "fucking love you aqua" and passed out on the floor again
I reassured her you were fine
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I took loads of pictures today so will sort through them tomorrow and post any that are suitably mundane/quirky. Got one of what might be related to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. 
However, these two are a starter for ten. This is one of several signs in this part of town, as automatic bollards are in the road closing it to everything apart from the free shuttle buses. Cars do try to get through by tailgating the buses, and they get speared as the bollards rise - happened loads of times since the restrictions were put in place, and the drivers often whinge about there being no signs while pedestrians point and laugh and take photos.
I heard of one not too long ago when it was a police armed response unit getting speared. Oops!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...f-squad-car-in-traffic-bollard-collision.html
However, these two are a starter for ten. This is one of several signs in this part of town, as automatic bollards are in the road closing it to everything apart from the free shuttle buses. Cars do try to get through by tailgating the buses, and they get speared as the bollards rise - happened loads of times since the restrictions were put in place, and the drivers often whinge about there being no signs while pedestrians point and laugh and take photos.
I heard of one not too long ago when it was a police armed response unit getting speared. Oops!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...f-squad-car-in-traffic-bollard-collision.html
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
And this man was trying to save us all from the heinous sin of having sexual thoughts. He was banging on about people in the street going home and having sexual thoughts in their bedroom, and getting up to no good. 
I bet he is just sexually frustrated, as why else would you go on about other peoples' sex lives (or dirty thoughts).
It must have been 'save the deviants from sin day' today in Manchester, as there was another one further up the street banging on about the same nonsense. We must all be hopeless lust filled perverts in Manchester so they need to send reinforcements from the god squad to save us from our beastly desires.
Oh, and isn't that a tattoo I can see on his left arm? Isn't that forbidden in Leviticus 19:28? Well that's him consigned to the flames.
I bet he is just sexually frustrated, as why else would you go on about other peoples' sex lives (or dirty thoughts).
It must have been 'save the deviants from sin day' today in Manchester, as there was another one further up the street banging on about the same nonsense. We must all be hopeless lust filled perverts in Manchester so they need to send reinforcements from the god squad to save us from our beastly desires.
Oh, and isn't that a tattoo I can see on his left arm? Isn't that forbidden in Leviticus 19:28? Well that's him consigned to the flames.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Didn't there also used to be a branch of HSBC in one of the old stone buildings facing the Esplanade too? I remember going in there I think when I work there back in the late 90s.
Yeah, that's still Barclays. And there was an HSBC, can't remember exactly where though.
Spring Bank. The unusual thing about this row of shops is that none of them are closed...
A place with an even more edge name than Computer House - Telephone House!
Corner of Anne Street and Carr Lane.
Roper Street.
Trundle Street, on the left, had a bad reputation in the nineteenth century; Waterhouse Lane, up which this is looking, has an even worse one now. Even though the red light district was moved on several years ago.
Princes Quay car park.
A street. So mundane I can't be arsed finding out its name, but it's at the bottom of Waterhouse Lane, off Castle Street. *edit* It's Myton Street.
Princes Dock side, from Castle Street.
Part of the marina. Originally this was Railway Dock, opened in 1846, one of the first rail-connected docks in the country.
Statue by the marina.
longdog
What is it you can't face?
And I believe also very close to the place where I got a very panicked phone call one night after you had been escorted from the club, and s rang me because she couldn't get you to respond to her and you were flaked on the floor.
Mid way through me asking her what had you done that night, and her taking ages to get what I meant, you sat up, clocked the phone and shouted "fucking love you aqua" and passed out on the floor again
I reassured her you were fine
That's not strictly accurate as I never actually passed out on the floor. I passed out and I ended up on the floor but not simultaneously. I do have some dignity you know
Other than that it's a fairly accurate account.
Humber Street Sesh.
No idea who this lot were, but they had a few people dancing with their bonkers Russian folk tunes.
Scenery was quite good out today.
Lovely old buildings on Wellington Street.
Bogs. How much more mundane can you get? Except they were right by the heavy metal/teenagers with acne stage.
Interesting area of town, the fruit market, right down to its multi-language road signs directing Italian and Spanish lorry drivers to a fruit market that was moved nearer the docks years ago. Large bits of the old market area are nigh-on derelict - empty wholesalers' warehouses - and the regeneration plan was canned when the recession began to bite, but a load of galleries, performance spaces, a microbrewery and a few other things have sprung up round there in the last few years. It's endearingly, creatively scruffy these days. I like it.
No idea who this lot were, but they had a few people dancing with their bonkers Russian folk tunes.
Scenery was quite good out today.
Lovely old buildings on Wellington Street.
Bogs. How much more mundane can you get? Except they were right by the heavy metal/teenagers with acne stage.
Interesting area of town, the fruit market, right down to its multi-language road signs directing Italian and Spanish lorry drivers to a fruit market that was moved nearer the docks years ago. Large bits of the old market area are nigh-on derelict - empty wholesalers' warehouses - and the regeneration plan was canned when the recession began to bite, but a load of galleries, performance spaces, a microbrewery and a few other things have sprung up round there in the last few years. It's endearingly, creatively scruffy these days. I like it.
yeah right bollocks
longdog
What is it you can't face?
Random mundane drain just up the road from Chez Doggy.
Unbelievably hideous new school up the road from me. Part of Hull's ongoing quest to turn many failing schools in to one enormous failing school.
Random mundane Tesco on Hall Road.
Random mundane Rolls Royce. It had certainly seen better days, its engine rattled like a bag of knackers and its tax appeared to have expired in 1996 but way cooler than one that had been cosseted and fawned over like an only child.
Could this be the biggest Poundland in the country?
There are quite a few pubs where you stick to the carpet but this is the only one I've ever been in where you stick to the walls. Me and Roadie went in there a few years ago to watch a friend of a friend's band, the beer was warm and came in cans, the toilets were indescribable and what I took to be blue paint on the walls turned out to be some strange form of fungal growth no white man had seen before.
If ever you hear the expression 'friends in low places'... This is it.
longdog
What is it you can't face?
I have no idea what this is.
The best way to see a church... From inside a pub.
The security who I delighted in taking the piss out of whist reminding them they had fuck all power to do anything.
Cisterns, cisterns, never were there such devoted cisterns.
Were you ever in Quebec, launchin' timber on the deck, where you'll break your bleedin', neck riding on a donkey.
A crowd. A crowd that led me to having to explain the whole Lolita / Gothic-lolita / Brolita sub-culture to Roadie who was somewhat shocked until I pointed out it was a Japanese thing and they're all (racial stereotype) barking fucking mad
Somebody painting a portrait of me.
longdog
What is it you can't face?
My but that's a long stiff weapon you've got between your legs.
Errrrrrrrrrrrrr......
Arty picture of cobbles.
Getting fruity
And finally... Hull man takes photo in shopping centre without security gorillas calling the police because they think you're a terrorist or a paedophile. Seriously... They have done this more than once... Tossers.
And that concludes Saturday's work.
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Oh, and isn't that a tattoo I can see on his left arm? Isn't that forbidden in Leviticus 19:28? Well that's him consigned to the flames.
Why is it that so many of the young religious types are really rather cute ... including, round here, some of the Mormons?
Nice photos broI look forward to the grand tour when I come to see you some time.
I actually said to Doggy yesterday that it'd have been nice to have invited some people up to Hull this weekend. I reckon you'd have enjoyed Humber Street Sesh: there was some good music and the rest going on, and the atmosphere was really nice. It was properly busy, though. It took more than half an hour to get a drink in the Minerva - the pub you and I had lunch in - at one point...
Was that the pub overlooking the river? I liked it there!
That's the one. It's had a bit of a refurb and a new - and much better - landlord has taken it on since we went in. Great pub.
It did seem a bit down at heel and should be a brilliant pub given the location, so that's good to hear. We'll go there again sometimeThat's the one. It's had a bit of a refurb and a new - and much better - landlord has taken it on since we went in. Great pub.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Why is it that so many of the young religious types are really rather cute ... including, round here, some of the Mormons?
I'm afraid to say he was the first one I've seen who is even vaguely non-minger. Some of the Mormons are passable, but come across as slightly weird - don't see many of them about in town any more though. The rest of the street preacher types are mingers, with various looks such as frustrated, insane, bitter and hateful or just downright miserable.
longdog
What is it you can't face?
Nice photos bro
Aye
But no taking pictures. This is our northern town so find your own
It did seem a bit down at heel and should be a brilliant pub given the location, so that's good to hear. We'll go there again sometime
The accepted (more or less) story is that the last landlord dropped a bollock and forgot to get the necessary licences for selling food outside / selling beer outside / getting an extension on hours / whatever and missed out on a day that would've kept him going for months. Yesterday they must have been raking it in.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
A stabbing or shooting? Your job is to find out and tell us!
neonwilderness
What would Badgers do?
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
Poor woman - hope she is OK and recovers in hospital.
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