I do love to here how the rest of the world sees us because we don’t really know. We are surprised at things which are said relating to history. We are generally ignorant of our past. I know some people have a good knowledge of our bad ways but by far the majority do not. Take us for instance, the welsh are not too keen on the english and when we arrived we sensed a bit of tension. We have asked several people why this should be but they say that it’s complicated or the english buy up our houses for holiday homes. It would be nice to get some direct answers so we can find out where we are going wrong.
It’s a common error that the English make… …accusing the native Welsh of switching to speaking the local lingo when English men enter pubs.
The fact is that the locals were already speaking in Welsh…
Have you forgiven Ann Robinson yet ?
Jem, dear boy, it’s what I do best !
Where I live in Wales two people will speak to you in english and then switch to welsh when they speak to each other standing in front of you. I don’t mind I they want to exclude me fine but in the next breath they turn and ask to borrow something I have in english. Can you not see that this is socially disasterous.
please could you remind me what Ann Robinson said it must have been somerhing derogatory but how can I find out.
I remember we had a thread on this back in 2011 when they first set out to find it, well I’m pleased to know they found it, I think it calls for a poem to celebrate this fantastic 6 billion quid find, well where is it? don’t we get a look for our 6 billion? something on the lines of the Emperors new clothes might fit.
“Higgs Boson Gets Nobel Prize, But Physicists Still Don’t Know What It Means”
LB
The lady was a guest on ROOM 101 & she gave THE WELSH as her choice, adding “What are they for?”
“The Scots have their whiskey, the Welsh have their leeks,
Their poets are paid about ten pence a week
Providing no harsh words gainst England they speak
O Lord! What a price for devotion!”
A verse of an old song you brought back to me RJ.
the welsh are fiercely proud of being Welsh and speaking their language - I have no problem with that or the Irish and Scots - but what are the English/Brits proud off - subjugating other tribes?
as a child I and the family holidayed in Wales frequently - it was the cheapest and quickest place to get to out of Liverpool!
I remember one day as kids approaching some other kids kicking a ball in a village centre - I was puzzled when we said hello they were all speaking welsh - but that was my problem not theirs!
much later as an adult I walked into a small village pub ordered a drink and stood at the bar alone - a small group entered and I think they were speaking a mixture of Welsh and English - I continued my solitary drink - but one of the guys turned to me and began gently to include me into the conversation - I thought that was very polite!
good here ennit?
I’m just glad I could not afford a Holiday Cottage in the 70’s.
the chequed history of the Brits
some say it makes em really sick
But I think they came from Europe first
walked across and slaked their thirst
What a Gaul!
they just kept comin
filled the place
from North to South
across central waste
they even had a language too
would you believe gaelic the blue
you could hear it everywhere
till the Romans said “Hi where here”
but they didn’t last too long
ran out of money and Roman thongs!
but they left a few strong walls
and bathes and things to us enthral
then Uncle Norman did arrive
spoke a little french disguise
but all he left was some old churches
lovely museums of marriage curses!
so all of us have got mixed blood
some speak gaelic and so they should
but I think the genes ran out while back
and immigration is now come back!!
I want to ride my Bicycle
I want to ride my Bike
I want to ride my Bicycle
I want to ride it where I like.
Legend has that when the pagans in pre christian Ireland couldn’t grasp the notion of the blessed trinity, the three divine persons in the one God, St. Patrick picked up a shamrock plant and pointed out the three leaves on the one stem as an example, seemingly that convinced them and they all converted, or so the legend goes. What has that got to do with what I’m saying? well to my mind St. Patrick (a Welshman by the way) would have made a great science teacher, his way of getting something across appeals to the masses. Last Monday night there was a program on TV all about the Higgs Boson, it was on for an hour and from the start to the finish all the scientists involved were trying to explain what they were looking for, they made absolutely no sense to me, the wife, and the dog, one ventured to say that it probably wasn’t even there!, well all the better for him because if they found it he would be out of a job, and he had already had 20 years arsing about on the then 6 billion pound project. Maybe they should hire a good publicity man with simplicity of delivery just like Patrick, and they might get another 6 billion to arse about with.
Having been inspired by the Jimmy Durante Song I am about to approach the government for a grant of a mere 100,000 quid, I’m starting research into finding the lost chord, I know it’s out there somewhere it’s just a matter of nailing it down, exactly like the Higgs boson, the work will mean I shall have to visit all the ‘Singing’ pubs in Ireland for at least a year with my faithful assistant Sean ‘The Stomach’ Gilligan, tough work but if we find it there will be more music and singing in the world and that can’t be bad.
you do have a turn of phrase Jem!
ps: always thought a Higgs Bosun ran a ship called the “Higgs”!
My post count is 4990, that’s a fair amount
4980 are utter blabber, and quite beyond recount
Of the other 10, a couple are pert, could be considered cute
One or two did questions raise , really seemed astute
Now 5000 looms, a nice round figure, where the count can sit
For a while let it rest, and rustle up some Spit.
Off on a crusade, for information, conformation flout
Got to locate “Alfie” to find “What’s it all About”.
I thought the remake of ‘Alfie’ was crap.
Interesting reading the thread titles on the front page.
Why haven’t we got more women
More people should get a dog 
Pocket hotspot
Me mouth’s on fire
There ya go
watching the Asian cup matches at the mo and the socceroos are past the semi-finals and playing good soccer - but a discussion on tv this am had a soccer expert saying that japan was the bogeyman in the story - is this insulting or racist or what?
It won’t last Gumbud, they’ll get fed up calling Japan the bogeyman and pick on someone else soon so I wouldn’t call it real racism, just temporary racism, used to be the Russians and the Germans before that, Iraq and Iran also had their day as with the Boars, the Irish, the French, Iceland (remember the ‘Cod War?), Spain, Cuba, and South Africa, seems to me everyone’s country is a bogeyman to some other country depending on which way the wind is blowing or the ball is bouncing at the time.
well the ozzies had a disappointing loss but still in the competition - this afternoons match between china and N korea could be interesting