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I wish I was Welsh

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    #32
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Bit odd. I love my patents but I wouldn't defend them unquestionably.

    Why is it odd, it's ours and ours alone. It's a part of our identity.

    The English tried to take it from us and failed.

    I'm sure if Irish had been taught correctly you would feel the same way about your National language.


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    #33
    Eugene Norman
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    PirateShampoo wrote: »
    Why is it odd, it's ours and ours alone. It's a part of our identity.

    The English tried to take it from us and failed.

    I'm sure if Irish had been taught correctly you would feel the same way about your National language.

    I'm pretty sure he wouldn't.


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    #34
    BunkMoreland
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    philstar wrote: »
    Of all the home races

    Home? To whom?


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    #35
    BunkMoreland
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 820 ✭✭✭BunkMoreland


    Also Wales is full of chavs. Take a look at those "police stop" shows on ITV.


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    #36
    Fox_In_Socks
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    BunkMoreland wrote: »
    Home? To whom?

    Home races. The Homoracials, of course.


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    #37
    mansize
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    BunkMoreland wrote: »
    Also Wales is full of chavs. Take a look at those "police stop" shows on ITV.

    thats probably Newport


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    #38
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    mansize wrote: »
    thats probably Newport

    From Cwmbran myself, Newport is a awful kip.

    Vist Newport, get your face kicked in.


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    #39
    Iwasfrozen
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    PirateShampoo wrote: »
    Why is it odd, it's ours and ours alone. It's a part of our identity.

    The English tried to take it from us and failed.

    I'm sure if Irish had been taught correctly you would feel the same way about your National language.

    Meh, I doubt it.

    Now the Vasconic language spoken in Ireland? That's MY language and we'd still be speaking it if it weren't for you Celtic colonials! :p


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    #40
    mansize
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    PirateShampoo wrote: »
    From Cwmbran myself, Newport is a awful kip.

    Vist Newport, get your face kicked in.

    Sister lives in Cwmcarn, beautiful up there


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    #41
    donegaLroad
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    Arsemageddon wrote: »
    Then perhaps OP you should move to the lovely hamlet of Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch.

    That'll cool your jets.

    I hard a guy interviewed on the radio who was from that town.. As you probably know, it translates to

    'St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave'


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    #42
    whatdoicare
    Registered Users Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭whatdoicare


    Feck Wales or Ireland, I wish I lived in Spain near a beach....I don't give a ****e what the people are like.


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    #43
    recylingbin
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    The welsh are the Irish that couldn't swim.


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    #44
    the evasion_kid
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    Any welsh person I've met has been a lunatic...always get on great with them though


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    #45
    old_aussie
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    kfallon wrote: »
    Thinly veiled "I fancy sheep" thread

    Why are you bringing New Zealand into this?


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    #46
    hairyslug
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    I wish I was a baller.


    I do also wish I was three feet taller


    And while I'm at it, can I get a rabbit in a hat


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    #47
    LordSutch
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    So many people used to love going to Wales for day trips courtesy of the twice a day sailing from Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead . . . . then they stopped the 'twice a day' and that was the end of that. And now they have stopped the ferry altogether from Dun Laoghaire :(

    Its too much hassle to travel over to Wales now, which is an awful shame, as there are so many lovely towns and places of interest to visit. I like Wales.


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    #48
    Badly Drunk Boy
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    So many people used to love going to Wales for day trips courtesy of the twice a day sailing from Dun Laoghaire to Holyhead . . . . then they stopped the 'twice a day' and that was the end of that. And now they have stopped the ferry altogether from Dun Laoghaire :(
    You can still get cheap day-trips to Holyhead, Tuesdays being the cheapest.

    http://www.stenaline.ie/ferries-to-britain/day-trips/dublin-holyhead-superferry

    I went to Wales once, on one of those day-trips, when I was about 7. There was a delay getting off the ferry in Holyhead meaning that I've spent 30 minutes of my life on Welsh soil.


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    #49
    Ush1
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    I travel there some what regularly with work and I hate the place.


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    #50
    LordSutch
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    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    You can still get cheap day-trips to Holyhead, Tuesdays being the cheapest.

    ...yeah, but only from Dublin port which is not half as quick & accessible as Dun Laoghaire was.

    Hoping to spend time in Portmeirion some day, while being chased by a giant bubble ;)

    You would have to be of a certain age to know what I'm talking about there.


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    #51
    steddyeddy
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    Iwasfrozen wrote: »
    Meh, I doubt it.

    Now the Vasconic language spoken in Ireland? That's MY language and we'd still be speaking it if it weren't for you Celtic colonials! :p

    You understand that's a theory right?


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    #52
    cml387
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    LordSutch wrote: »
    ...yeah, but only from Dublin port which is not half as quick & accessible as Dun Laoghaire was.

    Hoping to spend time in Portmeirion some day, while being chased by a giant bubble ;)

    You would have to be of a certain age to know what I'm talking about there.
    I'm not a number, I'm a free man!


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    #53
    biko
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    You could be the Fresh Prince of Cwmbran!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvuxYxmlfrc


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    #54
    mariaalice
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    The Welsh have a great sense of nationalism and pride mines the violence and nastiness of republicanism which is something to be admired.


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    #55
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    Not a single mention of the two most distinctive parts of Welsh culture after the language, the eisteddfodau (which date back to the middle ages) and the Male Voice Choirs.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEWfqa_F6co
    (Eisteddfod, 1923)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3OShNHdrME
    (Eisteddfod, 2008)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn10tbDA_l4


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEHKqlZ0kSk


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FFaxOv3nnU


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNBeEw1n5bI


    Cymru am byth!


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    #56
    Iwasfrozen
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    steddyeddy wrote: »
    You understand that's a theory right?

    Yep and a discredited one at that. Hence the :p

    Although I would like to know what language(s) were spoken in Ireland before Irish Gaelic, whatever it was it was spoken here for a lot longer than Irish.


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    #57
    Welsh Megaman
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    kfallon wrote: »
    Thinly veiled "I fancy sheep" thread

    :(


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    #58
    Arsemageddon
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    donegaLroad wrote: »
    I hard a guy interviewed on the radio who was from that town.. As you probably know, it translates to

    'St Mary's Church in the Hollow of the White Hazel near a Rapid Whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the Red Cave'


    Sheesh, I think it's pretty obvious what Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch means.

    Here's a video of ITV's weatherman pronouncing it...



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    #59
    The Young Wan
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    mansize wrote: »
    thats probably Newport

    Can confirm - massive kip.


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    #60
    Omackeral
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    Did you know it's possible to see Wales from Ireland on an exceptionally clear day? Here's proof.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/47rm0r/view_of_welsh_mountains_from_ireland/


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    #61
    flutered
    Registered Users Posts: 6,678 ✭✭✭flutered


    are you the ex politician ex bookie ex broadcaster present bankrupt, td pensioned mr yeats, who claimed to have spent 12 months there drinking whiskey


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