Welsh git insults Highlanders. Beating at eleven.
Meanwhile over at SunnyO we have our own Fluellen launching this little anti-Caledonian tirade…
Anyway, I loathe bagpipes. I have long suspected that bagpipes, like kilts, were an elaborate practical joke played on the Scots by the English, in revenge for the Scots being a troublesome & pugnacious bunch (ie, by standing up to them).
Lets see what the bard would have to say, shall we…
KING HENRY V
Harry le Roy.PISTOL
Le Roy! a Cornish name: art thou of Cornish crew?KING HENRY V
No, I am a Welshman.PISTOL
Know’st thou Fluellen?KING HENRY V
Yes.PISTOL
Tell him, I’ll knock his leek about his pate upon Saint Davy’s day.
Sounds like a plan, we’re going to beat you with veggies (Note to Benson Pope, you are NOT invited)
For a people who’s history is getting your asses kicked out of your own country and ending up in the vertical bit that even the Angles, Saxon & Jutes didn’t want, and have a bloody parsnip for a national symbol, you want to be careful who you go slanging off there, fellow.
The kilts and bagpipes have made it around the world. You have a soup ingredient.
November 30, 2006 at 10:27 am
Actually, I thought I was insulting the English! What with my sympathy for misrepresenting Sir William Wallace as a blue painted Australian hobbit (AND putting the guy at battles he wasn’t present at).
And I got it wrong (because I made no attempt to get it right) I remembered it was tartan that the English introduced as a practiacal joke. Although that is to the best of my knowledge. As they say. And I’m not bothering to check.
And holy fuck! There are (apparently) welsh kilts.
November 30, 2006 at 10:30 am
You really don’t grasp the Highland will to brawl do you? You dissed the kilt and the pipes, say good night 365 jones!
November 30, 2006 at 11:48 am
At least we only dress our sheep with mint sauce, not pantiehose and suspenders…..
November 30, 2006 at 11:51 am
Mind you, the last time I fought some Taffs they were on the Argentinian side…..funny how the only other place in the world where you find them there are hordes of sheep…..
November 30, 2006 at 11:56 am
You could be on to something there.
http://sunnyo.blogspot.com/2006/11/mission-accomplished.html
November 30, 2006 at 12:43 pm
Henffych well, i wlad fy nghalon,
Llwyddiant i ti Cymru dirion;
Bendith i dy feibion dewrion,
A dy ferched glân;
Peraidd yw dy hynod hanes,
I wresogi serch fy mynwes;
Tra bo ‘ngwaed yn llifo’n gynnes,
Caraf wlad y gan.
Anwyl-wlad fy nhadau,
Caraf dy fynyddau;
Creigiau gleision uwch y nant
Ymwelant a’r cymylau,
Dolydd a dyffrynoedd ffrwythlon,
Ffrydiau clir a llynau llawnion,
Adlewyrchant flodau tlysion
Yn ei dyfroedd glân:
Hiraeth sydd i’m llethu,
Am anwylion Cymru,
Ow! na chawn fy mhwrs yn llawn,
A chred a dawn i’m denu,
Adre’n ol i blith fy nheulu,
A chyfeillion i’m croesawu:
Yn olynawl gwnawn foliannu
Cymru, gwlad y gân.
Can not help it, there is a Bowen in the woodpile!
November 30, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Best response to a post since I suggested all lesbians look like Gerry Brownlee!
November 30, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Thats easy for you to say.
(Actually half those words all describe some form of grass*)
*What sheep eat.
November 30, 2006 at 1:28 pm
But whereever go go there will always be bagpipes
November 30, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Well I can’t tell which one is you, none of them look like Peter Jackson to me.
BTW - that bit about soup ingredients is precisely the reason I will never eat at the Welsh restaurant in town. Well, that & the horrid suspicion that “Welsh Cuisine” is representative of what my old Gran used to serve up.
However, I can proudly say I’ve had Haggis & Chips in some little Highland town whose name I cannot recall. And I’d have it again.
December 1, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Short version: Prince Harry takes force to Wales, takes castle from woman and her two daughters, 365 Jones, Pvt. sings it to umpteen zillion Zulus at Roarks Drift in a real estate dispute.
December 1, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Men of Harlech no less - interestingly (I could go over to Whaleoil’s site to mention this, but he’ll tell me to fuck off
Every kiwi I’ve mentioned it to reckons the ABs should have backed off the haka stoush, whereas every welsh git reckons as hosts, the WRU should have.
I blame the continuing bad blood between the WRU & NZRU.
December 1, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Maybe Kiwis are more tired of having one single minority culture rammed down their throats than the Welsh who have only had to put up with 1500 years of invasion and occupation.
Just a thought.