Brit From The Hip

A blog to Brit-splain anything you want from Shoot From The Hip's repertoire.

[britfromthehip]

So, since all 4 members of the SFTH Community 😜 said yes, here I am!

I will do my best to answer any and all questions and am happy to Brit-pick.

I'll use the #britfromthehip and #Brit from the Hip tag, as well as any relevant SFTH tags. 😊

I'm in the Patreon, so am also happy to take questions about Patreon content - I'll tag it appropriately.

And I'm over 18 so if there's something delicate you want to ask, don't worry, I will handle with care (I am British after all 😜).

MASTERLIST - check this for all my posts

The Crystal Maze - explaining Tom's "crystal" comment whilst stuck behind a gate.

How Does School Work - a non-comprehensive explanation of the UK school system.

What's a "Boots"? - explaining the reference to Boots in the longform I Don't Want to Go to Grandma's.

British Politics - giving background and explaining the jokes in the longform The Prime Minister's First Day.

Why are GCSE dramas so awful? - attempting to explain the phenomenon that is GCSE Drama that is often a suggestion for the game of Genre.

How do people in the UK view places such as London, Bristol, Manchester, and Essex - a very brief explanation of some English places.

The "unjust William" joke - giving context to the joke in the Time Warp - Stag Do from the full length show, HUGE.

Who are Theresa May and Liz Truss? - a bit more context on who these two women are (referenced in The Prime Minister's First Day and possibly other places too).

Luke's clues for Brian Blessed - providing some context for Luke's mimes in the Late for Work game at the end of HUGE.

What are long johns? - explaining just what exactly they are on about in the longform, Long Johns - STRIKE!

Why are stag/hen do's called that? - most famously referenced in the longform Sorry About My Nan, explaining why a stag do isn't called a bachelor party.

Why are red trousers associated with Tories (Conservatives)? - in the longform All Eyes on Nigel, Luke takes issue with his red trousers. This explains why. (Luke is probably the only person I would accept wearing red trousers!)

What is the British context of using "boys" to describe SFTH? - trying to explain the usage of "boys" to non-British people.

The SFTH lads' accents - explaining British accents, with extra info from @meneatyoghurt.

Are Truss and the Chancellor people? - explaining a reaction to one of Tom's jokes from the intro to this Genre (thanks you @randomfangirl32 )

What is a Greggs? - what are they talking about when they mention a Greggs (in at least two longforms that I can think of off the top of my head)

What are Horrible Histories? - giving context to what the lads are doing when they do "Horrible Histories" in Genre.

What is a "Magic Mike"? - giving context to Magic Mike references

What is a HobNob? - explaining what on earth they're going on about in The Hobnob Affair.

Pronunciation of "dachshund" - in reference to how Sam says "dachshund" in We Buried the Wrong Guy

What is "The Only Way is Essex"? - explaining what on earth they are referencing when they do TOWIE (as it is also known) in games of Genre.

How much of a big deal is the word "cunt"? - this is said so much, most often by Sam, I think.

What is a GCSE Drama? - slightly more info on top of my previous posts.

How is the UK a country when England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland are countries? - I try to summarise the complex history and geographical eccentricities of the UK.

Why isn't Wales represented on the Union flag? - another delve into British history to explain why the Union flag looks like it does.

What's up with Fife? - explaining where Fife is and why Luke might have used it as John Jacob MacAllister's home in The Off Season.

What is the Watford Gap and what does it have to do with the North of England? - why the Watford Gap used as a division between the north and the south of England.

What is a Lollipop Lady? - spoiler: it's not someone who hands out sweets!

What is OFSTED? - why were they getting worked up about a visit from OFSTED in The Lollipop Lady's Revenge

What genre is "Wes Anderson"? - trying to give some context to what the SFTH lads are doing when they do Wes Anderson in Genre.

"Girls Girls Girls" - what is the significance of the sign that Thomas Snr sees in The Enigma of the High Visionary

Is Somerset a real place? - just where were they setting fire to in Beetroots and Murder

Peter Steven running around with cheese on his back? - What was Peter on about in The Milkman?

Do milk deliveries actually happen in the UK? - Digging into the history of the milk float

What's a Tesco? - not much more to it than that!

What's "HS2"? - explaining for the non-Brits (and AJ!) what HS2 is, as mentioned in the Late for Work game from West End Big Boys

Balham, Hull, and Wolverhampton - do they exist? - a quick geography and history lesson to give context to half the jokes in The Screams of the Damned

WTF is the Boer War? - a very brief dive into the background of the Boer War, as mentioned in The Leftenmost Window and The Off Season

What's an "MP"? - just what on earth was Sam talking about at the end of The Screams of the Damned when he said he was going to be a Conservative MP (plus other references to "MP" throughout their videos).

What's a Waitrose? - another indicator of the social class of an area, but what exactly is it?

Soggy Biscuit? - what is Luke referring to at the end of the first episode of Roll from the Hip?

Silent Disco? - Sam referred to destroying a Silent Disco during his Tartan Tabletop session at the Edinburgh Fringe. What is he going on about?

Left become right/Right become left? - explaining Sam's reference to Keir Starmer in The Unrelenting Aubergine

Jelly? - clarifying a couple of references to "jelly" in some longforms.

We love each other - elaborating on the reaction to the end of the Heartstopper book game.

Explain London! - a (brief) explanation of the boroughs and districts of London

"Going down to t'chippy!" - going where?! Wtf is a "chippy"?

[britfromthehip]

so this might be a batman thing and not a brit thing but i hope you can explain it anyway

i have never understood what "going down chippy" means?? is it like a scottish twist on a famous robin line or something??

Not a Batman thing. (Referring to this part of The Midnight Mystery.)

A "chippy" in this sense is a fish and chip shop. So "going down chippy", "going down t' chippy", "popping to the chippy" etc means going to the fish and chip shop.

As simple as that.

And now I'm craving a fish supper (which is the Scottish way of asking for fish and chips. I discovered if you ask for that in Yorkshire, people look at you like you've grown another head!)

~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻

[sfth-confessions]

Can we please stop calling them “the boys” ? They are 35 and over. They’re men. The guys sounds more accurate. Bc to me it’s giving “boys will be boys” and that’s quite the dangerous path to follow, you know, considering history and current events, and all that :) thank x

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[britfromthehip]

I refer you to this post I made about just this: What is the British context of using "boys" to describe SFTH?

[britfromthehip]

hello! I am unfortunately extremely American (I have a southern twang even though I’m not from the south somehow?? Don’t ask)

So my question: I’ve seen a lot of commentary about different parts of London (like Ipswich I think) and I don’t really know the difference between them (if there is one) and was hoping you could explain. Sorry if it’s dumb

my mother is from New York so I know about Brooklyn, Queens, etc but when Sam made a comment about them in West End Big Boys I was curious and confused.

mind helping a American out? :]

Nothing wrong with being extremely American. 🙂 There are many different parts of London, as it is a huge city, with a population of over 9 million people. The centre was founded by the Roman, so it's been around a while and as a result, there are many boroughs (within which are smaller areas) and suburbs. (Clicking on that link will take you to the Wikipedia page that will hopefully tell you all you need to know.)

The differences between the various boroughs will be partly historical, depending on how old they are, what type of industry was there in the past, how rich the people who live there are (Kensington is affluent, whereas Tower Hamlets is much more deprived, for example). I'm not a Londoner, so I don't know all the differences. Bear in mind that Greater London covers over 600 square miles, so it's huge. (By comparison, New York has a population of 8.5 million and covers an area of 300 square miles.)

Ipswich is not part of London, however. It is a town on the coast of the county of Suffolk, and is actually quite some way away from London (about 80 miles).

I hope that helps!

~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻

[humblefryingpan]

Being a British sfth fan is so funny but also so annoying. References everywhere but also americans being way too shocked about random cities existing is just exhausting

Like there's a difference between "woah British transport police? Sfth reference lol" and "HULL IS A REAL CITY?? IS THIS REAL TOO?? YOU'RE JOKING RIGHT" yk. Why would anyone lie about hull

[britfromthehip]

Keeps me in business, though! 😆

[britfromthehip]

what did aj mean by 'we love each other' after sam's 'i'm getting sleepy' in the heartstopper book game? why did it get a reaction like that?

Referring to this game: https://youtu.be/hRU8VDXw2L8?si=OEG4-1LHO6fA9IRU

I believe that Sam was going for AJ's character having drugged his drink, and then when AJ said "we love each other", Sam very quickly backtracked so it didn't even more inappropriate!

~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻

[britfromthehip]

Sorry if someone's asked this before, but what does "jelly" mean? Is that a British thing? Not, like, jam, but like in divorces and teddy bears with "bowl full of jelly laughs" and in marigolds, bluebells, and Hugh with "jelly eyes"

In the UK, "jelly" is what Americans call "jello".

I'm guessing that the "bowl full of jelly laughs" refers to that type of jelly (since Sam also mentions "gumdrop smiles").

[Incidentally, "... a little round belly, that shook when he laugh'd, like a bowl full of jelly" is a quote from 'Twas The Night Before Christmas.]

"soft little jelly eyes", I'm guessing Tom is referring to the same thing.

~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻

[britfromthehip]

In the Unrelenting Aubergine, Sam says that left will become right and right will become left, and then he says that there’s “some political thing about Keir Starmer in there”. Could you explain that reference?

Thank you!

Okay, I'll do my best!

First of all, Keir Starmer is (and was at the time of The Unrelenting Aubergine) the British Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party. Labour is the left-leaning party (less left-leaning that it used to be).

Sir Keir Starmer, as he is now, tends to be less left-leaning than quite a few people would like, and sits on the left/right fence divide. I think he believes it's a way to keep more people happy. Not sure if it's working or just really annoying more people.

However, that wavering between left and right-leaning policies is what I believe Sam is referring to (as seen here: "left will become right, right will become left").

~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻

[britfromthehip]

I don't know if this is a Brit question - in the video of Tartan Tabletop featuring Sam, he says he wants to destroy the silent disco of the Fringe or something along those lines and everyone agrees. Is there something behind the Fringe disco, or is it just that silent discos are weird?

Okay, better late than never, right?! Sorry for being a bit AWOL.

(This is referring to the Tartan Tabletop - live Dungeons and Dragons show from the Edinburgh Fringe: you can watch Sam's session here) Firstly, silent discos are weird, if you've not got the headphones on. Basically, if you weren't aware, a silent disco is when everyone has a pair of headphones on, all playing the same music, and you dance around to it. But as an outsider, all you can see are crazy people dancing to music only they can hear!

At the Fringe, it turns out that there's a "Silent Adventure" (https://silentadventures.co.uk/) which I must say, sounds like it could be quite annoying to encounter!

Hope that helps, and sorry it took so long! ~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻

[britfromthehip]

I think we all know by now what Hobnobs are

But like

Are they good? Do they taste good?

Mod, what is your Personal opinion of them?

Easy peasy. I love Hob Nobs. Particularly the chocolate covered ones. They're exceptional to dunk in tea, as well. 😊

~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻

[britfromthehip]

...what the fuck is soggy biscuit

(from the first ep of rfth)

Okay, this has been asked twice, and I've finally managed to watch the first episode of RFTH so here we go.

Being a woman, I was vaguely aware of this but didn't know what it was called. So I had to resort to searching the internet for it, and now my search history needs scrubbing! You have been warned.

The game "soggy biscuit" that Luke refers to in the first episode of Roll from the Hip is a game that supposedly occurs at private schools, where males group masturbate over a biscuit (as in a cookie-type snack), all trying to aim for it. The last person to ejaculate must eat the biscuit. Or anyone who misses must eat it. So I guess potentially more than one person would eat it. Seems to me that it'd be best if everyone missed and then they could all get a nibble of the biscuit, but then again, I'm a woman and therefore could never conceive of being in this situation!

Anyway, the boys at St Chudley's are far too young to play, or even know about it! Disciplinary meeting for Luke!

~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻

[britfromthehip]

Just wanted to pop by and say hi, hope you’re doing well <3

Remember you’re loved!

- Respectfully, the Confused Frenchman

(Of course feel free to not post this!)

Thank you, Confused Frenchman. ❤️ I wanted to say that I'm sorry I've been quiet of late. I work at a university and since it's the beginning of the new academic year, work has been crazy! I've not even caught up with all the recent SFTH content! 😲 I have got all your questions and will answer them, do not worry. I still love doing the research and composing the answers, I really enjoy it.

So please keep submitting. Hopefully in a couple of weeks, I can get back to do the fun stuff. ☺️

Look after yourself, and remember: Love, Laugh, Luke. 😘 ~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻

[britfromthehip]

HOW DOES SCHOOL WORK. PLEASE HELP ME

Okay, let's dive right in! This is not an simple answer, but I'll do my best!

Schooling is slightly different in each of the UK countries, so I'll break it down. (And put it behind a Read More link!) I hope it helps and answers some of your questions!

England:

Primary schools teach children aged 4/5 to 10/11.

The school year runs from September to July, with about 6-7 weeks off during the summer. Children who turn 5 in the school year start school that year. For example, for this coming school year, children whose 5th birthday is between September 2025 and August 2026 will be starting the first year of primary school. This is called Reception. (If the child's birthday is in the summer - July or August - their parents can defer a year, so that they are then the eldest in the year rather than the youngest, but that doesn't happen that often.)

After that, they go through year 1 to year 6 in the primary school. There are exams at the end of year 6.

Then secondary schools. The school years carry on, year 7 is the first year of secondary school, going on up until year 11 (age 16). (Some schools start the numbering again, so Year 1 of secondary school, going up to Year 5.) The first lot of big exams are taken then: the GCSEs (hence GCSE Drama), which are typically studied over two years.

After this, a lot of schools have years 12 and 13 (or Year 6 & 7), where you take the second lot of big exams, AS and A-levels (an AS level is basically half an A-level, which are two year courses) but otherwise there are Sixth Form Colleges which allow more vocational courses to be taken.

Education is compulsory until the age of 18.

Secondary schools are much more complicated than primary schools. Most primary schools are state-funded, so receive funding from local government, and are non-denominational, although there are some faith primary schools.

Secondary schools are split into state-funded and independent schools, which are fee-paying, so the parents have to pay. There are grammar schools, which are selective and you have to pass an exam to get in. These can be either funded by the government, or be fee-paying.

State-funded secondary schools are generally either called secondary or comprehensive (so you might hear someone talk about the "local comp" meaning the local comprehensive school, where anyone can go to be educated).

The fee-paying schools can be confusingly called either public or private. I'm not sure why, probably something historic! These can range from reasonably cheap, to incredibly elite, such as Eton. Also, faith secondary schools would tend to be some form of independent, although might not need parents to pay fees.

(It's a lot more complicated than that, but I've written enough, and you're probably all bored!)

What they study: in primary school, the class has a teacher and a teaching assistant that teach all the subjects, and they're often linked together (so what book they're reading might link to something they're doing in science) to keep the children's interest. There are before and after-school clubs, and the children do PE a couple of times a week, plus often getting to go on a few day trips out to local attractions.

In secondary school. subjects are broken down and taught by separate teachers. You have to study English, Maths, and often at least one Science subject up to GCSE level. If you're going to go to university, then the easiest route is to take A-levels in the subjects that are relevant to your degree course. (You can take different courses at specialist Sixth Form Colleges.)

Houses: this is not something that was invented for Hogwarts, but something that happens at most schools, both primary and secondary. There are generally four Houses, designated colours: red, yellow, green, and blue. This allows pupils to compete for their Houses in a variety of competitions. The names of the Houses usually has some logic to it. The schools I went to had Houses named after the different towns that our town was twinned with, for instance. And my daughter's school has Houses named after local areas. There might also be Prefects, the eldest students in the school having some specific jobs to do such as helping out in the library.

Most schools have a school uniform, which generally has a lot of options (trousers, shorts, skirts, dresses etc). Primary schools tend to be laxer with school uniform than secondary schools. And fee-paying schools tend to have more ridiculous outfits and be stricter.

There are a lot of primary schools around, they are often reasonably small, and secondary schools are much larger. Often both primary schools and secondary schools have sports competitions with other local schools. There is often a Sports Day at the end of the school year, where the Houses compete against each other in all manner of sports.

The differences between England and Wales is minimal and with Scotland and Northern Ireland is mainly timing of when people go to school.

In Northern Ireland, it is the child's age on July 1st rather than September that determines when they start school.

In Scotland, the age range is from March to the following February. The school year is also slightly different. They start in August and finish in June. So children born between March and August start school in August at between 5 and 5½ years old, and those born between September and February start school in the previous August at between age 4½ and 4 years 11 months years old.

They finish secondary school a year earlier than children in the rest of the UK, which is why undergraduate university degrees in Scotland are typically four years long rather than three like those in the rest of the UK. They take different exams too, rather than GCSE and A-levels, they take exams called Standard Grades, and then Highers. Further info on education in Scotland provided by the lovely @myarmadaisgrowing (thank you!): Primary school in Scotland is seven years, and they're named P1 to P7 (sometimes called Primary 1 to Primary 7). Secondary school starts immediately after P7, and is six years, called S1 to S6 (confusingly, no-one calls them Secondary 1 etcetera). You can leave school entirely as soon as you turn 16, usually after you've taken the first level of exams in S4 (age 15/16).

Exams in Scotland are three levels: National 5 awards in S4 (age 15/16), Highers in S5 (age 16/17), and Advanced Highers in S6 (last year of secondary school, age 17/18). You MUST take a National 5 in Maths, English, and a foreign language but beyond that you can choose yourself. The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA - essentially a body of government in charge of schooling) changed the curriculum in 2013 and replaced the old Standard Grades with National 5s.

Advanced Highers are considered difficult enough that you can choose to skip the first year of Uni if you have an Advanced Higher in the subject you want to study. You typically take eight National 5s, five Highers, and three Advanced Highers, though you can sometimes study for additional Highers instead of taking AHs as not all schools offer AHs in every subject!

[britfromthehip]

#more info on education in Scotland #thank you @myarmadaisgrowing

[britfromthehip]

so what *is* a waitrose

Most recently mentioned in The Screams of the Damned, I think, a Waitrose is a supermarket. Except, unlike Tesco, it's upmarket, and having a Waitrose in your area generally indicates a posher neighbourhood. (Interesting but useless fact: Waitrose hold a royal warrant to supply groceries, wine, and spirits to King Charles. So yeah, posh!)

It's also seen as quite southern. Up until about 20 years ago, their most northerly shop was in Nottinghamshire. They have expanded into the north now, although I'd suggest that there aren't that many around (the only one I know of is about a 30 minute drive away!).

~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻

[britfromthehip]

Whats an MP? A minister prime?

Much easier to answer than the last one!

MP stands for Member of Parliament.

An elected official who serves in the House of Commons in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. (There is also the House of Lords, which is filled with non-elected lords, ladies, barons, dukes, etc).

We vote for individuals in our local constituency every five years or whenever there is a general election, or if someone dies/resigns and there's a seat to be filled. How many of those MPs belong to a certain party determines which political party is in power.

In Scotland, they are known as an MSP - Member of Scottish Parliament.

In Wales, they are known as an MS - Member of the Senedd.

In Northern Ireland, they are known as an MLA - Member of the Legislative Assembly.

Hope that helped!

~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻

[britfromthehip]

Hello,

Idk if this is a british thing but

What is the Boer War? AJ brought it up twice already (in Leftenmost Windows and Off-Season i think). (What the fuck does Boer mean? Is that a place? I have never heard that word before. I don't even know if i typed it correctly (sry if i haven't))

Right, well, as the SFTH lads have mentioned (I think it was Sam), it's a problematic topic!

I'm going to preface this by saying it's very complicated and nuanced and messy, and I'm barely scratching the surface, so there is a lot left out!

For background, here's a (very brief!) summary of who the Boers were:

So, Boers were descendants of the Free Burghers, who were Dutch colonisers of what now is Cape Town in South Africa. Free Burghers were originally employees of the Dutch East India Company who were released from their employ. After some time (and the addition of some French immigrants) the Free Burghers had had enough of the Dutch East India Company who still, despite releasing the Free Burghers from their service, held the right to force them back into servitude, including their children. So the Free Burghers began to "trek", or migrate away from the seat of power. They became "trekboers" or nomadic farmers ("boer" means "farmer"). Subsequently, their descendants became known as Boers.

The Cape colony was invaded by the British in 1795. There was dislike for British rule (the British were championing the indigenous people, as the movement for the abolition of slavery was gaining strength in Britain, and the Dutch farmers were not happy about it). Coloured people and slaves were emancipated, and the Boers felt that they were not fully compensated for the loss of their slaves.

The First Boer War happened between December 1880 and March 1881, when the Boers fought the British, and won (seemingly because their leader was a bit rubbish, considering the fact that the British Army were professional soldiers, and the Boers were farmers).

The Second Boer War started in 1899, as tensions rose again, particularly concerning who was going to control lucrative gold mines. The British had apparently forgotten everything about how they lost the first one, and took heavy losses, but ultimately won this one in 1902. Over 100,000 Boer civilians, mostly women and children, were sent to concentration camps, where 26,000 of them died. Black Africans were sent to concentration camps to ensure they didn't help the Boers, and 20,000 of them died. There was a lot of opposition to the war and sympathy with the Boers, even within Britain.

In South Africa, the Second Boer War is called the South African War, in fact "most scholars prefer to call the war of 1899–1902 the South African War, thereby acknowledging that all South Africans, white and black, were affected by the war and that many were participants". Usually, when people talk about the "Boer War" they are referring to the Second Boer War, as the first one didn't last very long.

In conclusion, it was very messy, and a defining moment for the British Empire and South Africa.

If you want to know more, I recommend starting with the Wikipedia articles surrounding the conflicts, as they go into quite a bit of detail.

Hope that helped!

~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻

[britfromthehip]

In the light of the new longform, I have a question. What is Hull, and why is it worse (or better) than Hell?

So, I've put these three together since they're basically the same question! Also jumping the queue as they're about the recent longform. Balham, Hull, and Wolverhampton are all indeed real places in England.

Balham is a suburb of south London. (Interesting but useless fact: It was the site of the UK's first diagonal pedestrian X-crossing - that is when pedestrians can cross all roads at once at a four-way junction.) It's an upper middle-class area, having undergone gentrification since the 2000s. It used to be quite a rough area in the 1980s, but is now popular with young professionals. Sam was about right with saying that £450,000 might get you a one-bedroom flat. (Which as someone from the North of England, even in one where houses are a bit more expensive, I find absolutely ludicrous! That would get me a detached 5 bedroom house here!) So yes, it is that bad!

Wolverhampton is a city (population 263,700) in the Midlands, just north of Birmingham. (So not really any reason for AJ to make Maureen have an Irish accent, although in the 19th century, there quite a lot of Irish immigrants!) It is named after Wulfrun, a Mercian noblewoman who was granted a charter by King Æthelred the Unready, and founded the town in 985. (Interesting but useless fact: it was the site of England's first automatic traffic lights.) It has a stereotype of being a boring, average, nice city, so Tom wasn't wrong in thinking that it's unlikely to have a serial killer (I couldn't find any references online, at least).

Hull, whose official name is Kingston-upon-Hull, is a city (population 270,810) in the ceremonial county of East Yorkshire (or the East Riding of Yorkshire). (Yorkshire is little a miniature UK in terms of how it's split. It is no longer a county itself, more of a region, that is split into North, South, West, and East Yorkshire.) It is a historic maritime city with more than 800 years of maritime history, situated on the east coast of England, at the mouth of the River Hull on the Humber Estuary. (Interesting but useless fact: Kingston-upon-Hull is the only place in the UK to have it's own independent telephone network company, KCOM. Instead of the usual red telephone boxes, theirs are cream.)

Due to it's strategic position on the coast as a large port, it was bombed in WWI, and was very heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe in WWII (The Hull Blitz), the most out of any place in the UK, with 95% of houses damaged, making nearly half the population homeless. A lot of the rebuilding was done at a time when popular architecture wasn't necessarily pretty.

It's actually becoming popular as an outdoor filming location - The Crown was filmed there - and a purpose-built film studio is due to be opened in Hull shortly. It's been voted #2 in a list of the 15 best places to visit in the UK, and Rough Guides listed it in the top 10 of cities to visit around the world! It's apparently one of the UK's "up and coming" places to move to.

It has a stereotype of being a shithole I suspect because it's northern, working class, the inhabitants have a strong, distinctive accent and also it's miles away from anywhere else. You have to be going there, you don't just come upon it. Also, it's not very big, so the good bits and the bad bits are crammed right up against each other, so you're not insulated from them. But honestly, it has a lot going for it, so if you're ever in the area, I recommend a visit. I think it was more a play on words that Tom was using (Hull = Hell when you're 3!) and it just so happens that a not-necessarily deserving stereotype also played into it.

~ Brit of the Isles 🧝🏻