Hull
I'm amazed at how many posts end with the intention of "going to Hull". For your own sakes, don't. It's a proper shit-hole. The council tends to enjoy languishing at the bottom of the performance tables. Unless the council are actually that consistantly fuck-awful. What am I saying? Of course they are.

Hull is bisected by a small river, and everyone in east Hull has to cross the river by a selection of bridges to get to what geography students would call the CBD.

Last year, for about 9 months or so, one of the bridges, North Bridge, was completely closed for repairs, fair enough, the bridge is rather old).

For at least the last 2 months, there has been a contraflow system over the bridge as they seem to be doing little more than applying a new coat of blue paint.

Also, Hull faired quite bad in recent flooding. Particularly, Floodplain Housing Estate, or Kingswood as it is officially called, along with all the nice leafy suburbs which suffered badly too.

It was revealed that the council had cut funding from the department that goes about in those big lorries that hoover all the detritus out of the drains so rainwater can drain away quickly. James Reckitt Avenue is lined with deciduous trees. After the rains, it was like a river.

Yet the council said the drains weren't a problem.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 31 Jul 2007, 16:49, Reply)