Wales

[Tastycles]

Do North American and Australian people get what Wales is?

I have been asked by people where in England it was, and by others if you need a passport to get there, so I am intrigued.

 

[Lee]

fucking welsh

happy st davids day

 

[Tastycles]

Thanks. I intend on fully celebrating, but I won't. I'm actually in Wales for the first time in ages, but no-one gives a fuck. The lowest day of my life, in terms of patriotism, was when I was wearing a daffodil and someone (who lived on my estate and was almost therefore xertainly Welsh) said "why have you got a flower on? You look like a fucking gaylord."

 

[Lee]

HAHA oh deaar.

There's this lass I know whos parents are Welsh, but she's English has received some Welsh pride recently so is having a St Davids day party.

Weirdo.

 

[Tastycles]

Yes. Pride in being Welsh, like pride in being Irish, is something that increases the less Welsh you get.

E.g. My ginger girlfriend is from South Wales and has lived there all of her life, as have all of her ancestors, but doesn't really care about Wales. Her third cousins who live in Ohio and are 4th generation Americans have Welsh flags and celtic love spoons all over the gaff. They are the only Americans I've ever come across who get Wales.

 

[Mr. TM]

I understand it is part of the UK that is joined with England, scotland and northern ireland. I learnt a little about William Longshanks incvasion and suchforth. I am willing to learn more if you want to tell me more.

 

[Lee]

There's not much else to it. Welsh speak English unless an Englishman is present and then they speak welsh, which has very little vowels.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

 

[Tastycles]

There's not much else to it. Welsh speak English unless an Englishman is present and then they speak welsh,

A fairly accurate assessment. Although if you say "mae'n ddrwg gen i, dydw i ddim yn siarad cymraeg", which means "I'm sorry, I don't speak Welsh" they'll speak to you in English.

which has very little vowels.

Different vowels. W and Y are vowels in Welsh. LL, RH, PH, FF, NG, TH, DD and CH are all single letters, and J, K, Q, V, X and Z don't exist in the language.

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

I can say that, and I've been there. It's shit, but they have a lovely gift shop.



To TM, I'm impressed. It was a Canadian who thought you'd need a passport at the border, which is literally a sign saying "Croeso i Gymru, Welcome to Wales", so I'm impressed.

Basically Wales was a country, and is now part of the UK. Ulike Scotland and Northern Ireland, it was too shit to stay independant for long and Edward I conquered it. Welsh was banned, and in the Victorian times if you spoke it at school they made you wear a wooden board with "welsh not" around your neck.

For some reason, in the 50s, they let Welsh be taught again, and it got its own capital and everything. In 1997 it got the worlds shittest government ever, but a government nonetheless. They are allowed to make laws on the following:

The environment, as long as it only effects Wales, and not the Irish Sea or England.

That is all.

Welsh people like:

Pot Noodles
Sheep
Coalmining
Rugby
Male Voice Choirs
Speaking English with the Welsh language voice pattern
Wind
Rain
Leeks
Daffodils

Welsh people don't like:

The English
Motorways
Change
Being good at anything bar singing and rugby
Speaking slowly or comprehensively
The Conservative Party
Margaret Thatcher
Arriva Trains Wales
Hospitals with one patient a year being closed down

 

[Lee]

The welsh don't like voting either.

No one likes the English, the Welsh hate the English, the Scottish hate the English, the Norn Irish hate the English and the English hate the rest of England.

 

[klunderbunker]

Wales are big fish.

 

[Jane]

Damn, I clicked on this thread about to make the same joke KB just made... crap.

I'll say mine anyway.

A wale is a mammal that lives underwater! HAHAHAHA.

 

[Tastycles]

No, that's a Whale, and it's been done before. If you want to insult Wales, learn how here.

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[Y 2 Jake]

A great man once said ''Wales, what's the point?''. I think his name was Jake, something.

 

[Father:_Polley]

Yes. Pride in being Welsh, like pride in being Irish, is something that increases the less Welsh you get.

E.g. My ginger girlfriend is from South Wales and has lived there all of her life, as have all of her ancestors, but doesn't really care about Wales. Her third cousins who live in Ohio and are 4th generation Americans have Welsh flags and celtic love spoons all over the gaff. They are the only Americans I've ever come across who get Wales.

So true. No doubt we'll get the Canadian who lives in America with Irish heritage to prove this point later this month.