Planet Hull possibly.....difficult to explain if you've never visited thst quarter, but a place of extremes.

We English value it highly.... it has produced The Watersons Folk Group, The Hull Truck Theatre Company, most of the poetry of Philip Larkin and a lot of fish.

But I can understand how it might throw a complete outsider...stick with it, theres a certain brutality in the sense of humour - often directed at oneself - that I think you would understand