Perfect…except it’s in Wales ….Ratboy has his standards to maintain.

nothing wrong with wales and the taffs apart from rhyll and mark drakeford.

Went into a tourist information place on Anglesey2019 , two women chatting away, third one appeared chatting continues, the minute me and the wife finally spoke to each other they started speaking in Welsh which is pig ignorant.
Our lass pointed out the Welsh speaking thing is a farce as originally they were using English as their primary language when we walked in…….if Welsh was their first language they’d have been speaking Welsh when we walked in.

We're having the weekend in Cardiff to watch the Wales-Ireland rugby international. No hereditary affiliations with either that I'm aware of, but we'll be cheering for Ireland

South Wales ain’t too bad.
I always think there’s an element of angry little man syndrome from some people in countries outside England, due no doubt to the population imbalance.
The comparisons are, for every…….2 people in Northern Ireland….3 people in Wales….5.5 people in Scotland …… there are 56.5 people in England…..simple as that.

think many people have had similar experiances but it seems a north wales thing. wonder if its an accent thing where speaking welsh makes em feel better as many sound more like scousers than taffs when they speak. english born asians also tend to revert to their second language when it suits but no one dare say stuff like that nowadays.

think many people have had similar experiances but it seems a north wales thing. wonder if its an accent thing where speaking welsh makes em feel better as many sound more like scousers than taffs when they speak. english born asians also tend to revert to their second language when it suits but no one dare say stuff like that nowadays.[/quot

Worked in North Wales, Caernarfon and Bangor, Caernarfon was definitely a Welsh speaking place, it was the recognised language. When going in a bar everybody was speaking Welsh, there was no changing from English to Welsh when we walked in. Kids from the surrounding villages could only speak Welsh before they went to school and had to be taught English in school.

in todays world of people moving about more seems pointless learning kids welsh as their first language and possibly thinking in it. no guarentee once they leave school they will live in wales anyway so will put em at a disadvantage in seeking work. fine to learn as a second language in school but thats about it.

When I went to school it was French no idea why, I always try and learn the basic sayings where ever I was on holiday or working it was usually, beer please or how much and thank you. Most places people speak limited English or you can get away with descriptions so it can make you lazy trying to learn the lingo.

Yes i have relations in Caernarfon and Welsh is always spoken. There are other areas in North Wales where the Welsh language is spoken as the first by the locals but it depends on how many English have infiltrated the community. South Wales for me is just a mini England.
I laugh when short sighted bigots say they hate the Welsh when they have never been there but had a disagreement with a Welshman when in a bar in Benidorm.
Diolch.

I agree with Accrington, teaching Welsh which is by any standard a minority language seems a pointless exercise, a sort of bizarre nationalistic parochial raspberry to the world.
I know French was taught at school but it features widely in certain parts of the world and is of relevance….. but Welsh is used by a minority in everyday use yet is required for certain public service jobs in Wales. Show me a one school outside of Wales who teaches Welsh.

Patagonia.

Ah yes, that ‘community’ at the arse end of Argentina….seems fitting really

Mind you speaking of languages, I was invited one Saturday night by the brother in law into the Sergeants Mess at RAF Gutersloh for drinks with our wives….he asked me what I wanted to drink and I said I’d have what he was drinking (Fooking massive mistake ) so he got me a bottle of ‘Wobbly’ and the descent downhill accelerated…..the worst hangover ever……not sick…. Just the feeling your brains larger than your skull….
Anyway the wife told me I was speaking fluent German all night….surprising since I could only speak what was in ‘Commando’ comics.

always wonder if welsh is easier to spell. if so we should all learn it. lerarned Afrikaans in my early 20,s as me and my fiancee at the time intended moving there after she finshed university but it never happened. still try to keep up with it and can still spell it better than english which i have struggled with since schooldays. tot siens.

I was in Holland and asked my ‘associates’ what the word was for ‘thank you’….I used it frequently but got odd looks….later they told me I was saying ’I love you’….

I was in the States working for my mate, I went into one those big shops, very attractive lady looked Asian said to me you gay, what ? she meant you from the U.K.!

Staying with family in with the wife’s in Germany the 80’s I wandered into town to buy some shaving foam in the German equivalent of Superdrug….. went in and got what I wanted and stood in the queue at the till. My usual trick was to look at the till get the appropriate marks out, pay and go with a smile….this time the woman in front lingered as I was paying and along with the woman behind got got involved in some humorous conversation and then they included me in it and I didn’t understand a thing..,I just kept smiling and nodding as the Earth swallowed me up and God was I glad to escape

when in switzerland in the late 60,s any swiss in shops immediatly started speaking german to me even when they spke english to someone else in my group before me. although i,m over 6ft tall i,d black hair back then and hardly looked a trypical german. thats with the petula clark lookalike with me who is not exactly a brunhilda.

It’s a fifty fifty split blonde and dark hair although Hiltler waned to keep the blonde hair blue eyed ones.

Oddly enough, none of the top Nazi’s measured up to the blonde haired, blue eyed Aryan type…Hitler wasn’t even German…. He avoided conscription into the military in his native Austria.
Funnily enough I do measure up to the Aryan ideal, but never, ever had the urge to invade anywhere.

You mean you still have hair and it’s black/brown ?

Why have we never had a war with Portugal.........its not like us

The clues in the words Aryan, blue eyed and blonde.

Not like your photograph on the left then.

Seriously….

No.

I thought you were a gingey,snowy ? ...or are you always dyeing your hair?

Not a carrot top …… more blondey ginger……what remains. But not a Nazi..
Anyway, how’s your ‘Hairdresser to the Stars’ ….Fine-time Fontaine managing with you comb over’s….?

Trouble is you can never tell nowadays…especially those under 30… a couple of years back a young lass in her early 20’s, a trainee at the last job asked me a question about her shift patterns and naively thought she could organise her own to suit, when I jokingly told her you’d have thought I was Hitler….she replied …”Who”……?

Sounds like that goalie from a few years back who reckoned he didn’t know what a Nazi salute was. At the time I found it impossible to believe, still do in fact.

i can believe it. ask the younger end who the ex queens dad was and i,d bet you get a multitude of wrong answers. ask about pop music and film stars they,ll know it all. good job they have sat nav in their cars as they,d get lost finding blackhall rocks.

When it comes to actual general knowledge, the majority are dancing with the fairies.

its totally comedy gold when you get two under 25,s on quiz/game shows. if it aint pop music or modern films its a laugh a question. one of the answers to history questions was it was before my time. what do they think history is, adele,s early hits.

I remember rapping to "Rappers Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang more than 40 years ago..what do the young un's know.

Never invaded Albania either. Maybe that's why they're so keen on coming here

and and dec and love island.

Because they’re our oldest ally after signing the Treaty of Windsor in 1386 and it has remained active ever since.
Ah, history at school, loved it…apart from the repeal of the Corn Laws…that was teeeeeeeeeedious.

And don't forget the Port and Madeira they supply us with. Oh and Eusebio.

If you have been to Albania you would understand why they want to come here, having worked in an ex Iron Curtain state I can.

The Albanians have always been complete losers…even Mussolini invaded the place and won in days, that’s how bad they are.

when it was an iron curtain country is was really difficult for us to get into the country like north korea is. seems we are making it easier for them to come here so it will be open borders to north korea next.

The pull of Norman Wisdom?

Is he Lee Evans Granda?