{"id":3142,"date":"2020-06-05T12:29:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmorrisphotographer.com\/?page_id=3142"},"modified":"2024-03-31T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T12:39:43","slug":"hull-for-beginners-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/davidmorrisphotographer.com\/?page_id=3142","title":{"rendered":"Hull for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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My home town<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>

Hull for Beginners<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>

Failing your 11+<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>

Growing up<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>

GF Smith – A fine Hull Company<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>

The River<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>

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The universal correct form of greeting between strangers is
\u2018Now then pal\u2019.
It is a heavily nuanced phrase, full of hidden meaning and lethal traps for those not versed in the subtly of intonation. In fact phrase is the wrong description, it\u2019s half way to being a language in it\u2019s own right, parts of the town can socialize using just those three words for hours at a time.
To be greeted by a cheerful \u2018Now then pal\u2019 is a good start.
One meaning roughly translates as, \u201cWe both know this could kick off at any moment, but what say we keep it friendly?\u201d
And until you gain confidence in the language your best option, in fact the only permissible option is the universal response,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\u2018Now then.\u2019
This should be delivered in the most neutral, deadpan manner you can muster.
This commits you to nothing and keeps all your options open.
And you need to keep your options open since an alternate meaning of a cheerful \u2018Now then pal\u2019 could easily be \u2018so this is where you\u2019ve been hiding\u2019. This has a lot of implications for your well-being, you may owe the speaker money, slept with his wife or ‘knocked off’ his bicycle.
Stealing bikes in Hull is a crime on a par with cattle rustling in the American West and carries a similar penalty. Hull has the record for the greatest number of people found drunk in charge of a bicycle than anywhere else in the country. This is a town that takes its bicycling seriously.
It is crucial that you get your first response to a greeting right, as King Charles I found to his cost when he approached the city gates in 1642.
He was greeted with the customary \u201cNow then pal\u201d from the battlements but failed to give the expected reply of \u201cNow then\u201d, and had the city gates slammed in his face as a result.
Many historians credit this act as signalling the start of the English Civil War, and so reinforces the thought that in this town visitors should choose their words carefully.
Greetings between friends are very simple.
Just drop \u2018pal\u2019 at the end of the phrase and add your friend\u2019s name.
It\u2019s impossible to read anything into the intonation at this stage, and it\u2019s not necessary. You could have suffered a bereavement, lost your job, found out your wife\u2019s just left you, won the lottery, it\u2019s all immaterial, of absolutely no importance.
\u201cNow then Dave\u201d signifies a completely non-judgmental and open-ended greeting.
In a town that keeps its cards and dominoes close to its chest her people can\u2019t be doing with the cheery and often insincere \u201cHi how are you?\u201d much favoured in other parts of the country. This is considered suspect to say the least since it puts people on the spot. Are you really going to give them the list of things wrong with you? And would they be remotely interested?
No, it\u2019s far better for the person greeted to be given a breathing space, a chance to decide what they intend to talk about and which way the conversation should go.
Just simple politeness really, and \u201cNow then Dave”, or whoever on first meeting does it just dandy.
It\u2019s also a very democratic form of greeting, allowing for no \u2018airs and graces\u2019, used by all classes and ages. I remember the shock of hearing 14 year old Ellie whom I\u2019d not seen for some time, greeting me with \u201cNow then Dave\u201d in the same low, deadpan tone used by her dad. She was signalling quite plainly that any further conversation would be conducted as equals, she was no longer a child, she had come of age.
If you are unfortunate enough to hear \u201cNow then\u201d with the stress on the first syllable being slightly leant on, this should give you cause for concern. A line has been crossed somewhere, and a warning is being given.
It\u2019s more easily understood as a command given to children by their parents, \u201cNow then, if you don\u2019t stop what you are doing right now, you are going to get smacked.\u201d
The more sophisticated grown-up version has reduced that sentence to just two words.
Best advice here, if the words are directed towards you, is to review your sprinting times. If they seem wanting; well, you could always offer to buy a round.<\/p>

So there you have it, a few tips on how to behave on meeting people for the first time in this fair city, naturally after closing time all bets are off; anything could happen.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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