the special powers conferred by being genetically welsh

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1: singing

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link

2: the breathing of coal dust

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:26 (six years ago) link

3: unaffected by the handling of magic rings, presumably

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:26 (six years ago) link

4: Celtic and British but not in a stupid way like Cornwall or other fetishists

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link

5: losing to the English but getting on with it kinda thing

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:27 (six years ago) link

6. Even when you dive it's never actually a dive

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:28 (six years ago) link

7. Ll

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link

8. Can reliably cut slate with elbows

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link

9. Knows what to do with a marrow

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link

darragh i opened this in a doctor’s waiting room and actually cried laughing and now everyone is staring at me

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link

10. you can be the worst person on the planet and everyone still thinks you’re nice

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 02:02 (six years ago) link

11. Knows about St. Swithin's Day.

A is for (Aimless), Monday, 5 February 2018 06:14 (six years ago) link

12. can cross-breed with leeks

i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 14:55 (six years ago) link

Jesus I wasn't even drunk just tired

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link

13. Purveyor of cakes that never go off

Badgers (dog latin), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link

14. Can listen to the Stereophonics without turning them off

Badgers (dog latin), Monday, 5 February 2018 15:23 (six years ago) link

10. you can be the worst person on the planet and everyone still thinks you’re nice

God knows what gave you that idea, no-one likes the Welsh.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:51 (six years ago) link

yeah the welsh are one of the few nationalities it's still okay to hate tbrr

i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link

i mean even the english have some things going for them, although tbf i'm struggling to think of an example now i've put myself on the spot

i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link

I have a theory that they're better looking than the English, Scots and Irish but, Jesus, that's no great achievement.

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link

yeah it's a bit 'least disfigured patient in the burns unit' innit

i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 5 February 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link

11. Doesn't know that long-ass town name by heart either

Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 5 February 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link

this started as a one man party then the normans invaded

infinity (∞), Monday, 5 February 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link

God knows what gave you that idea, no-one likes the Welsh.

i couldn’t think of anything apart from shitty ‘70s stereotypes

rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 5 February 2018 21:06 (six years ago) link

That haircut

You know the one that yerman from adventures of a window cleaner et al had

That's Welsh isn't it

Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Monday, 5 February 2018 23:34 (six years ago) link

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

infinity (∞), Monday, 5 February 2018 23:41 (six years ago) link

12. non-ironic appreciation of Feeder (this is a genuine amazing power)

Badgers (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link

Just Wales things http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-42957188

Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:49 (six years ago) link

what could be more redolent of a holiday in Bulgaria than nunchucks?

drugs don't kill people, poppers do (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:51 (six years ago) link

fond memories of chucking CS gas at a crowd of Sofians

Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 11:53 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

melt cunts

Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link

the worst special power of all

WHEEL! OF! FORESKIN! (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

im

look its not your business what im doing tbh

but im in a nook in a good old man boozer in a shady end of dublin 1

and theres a gang of labouring miners sons in the corner and theyre speaking half english half elvish and every ten minutes one breaks into song and they all join in for a few minutes

what a wonderful sub race

BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Friday, 7 February 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link

there appears to be a lark

a lark, mind

where every thirty minutes the elf with the hairclip upon his person pays for the round

ok it may be 15 mins these elves can put em away

the hairclip is currently attached to the shoelace of a florid hirsute giant, they all join in to count down the last ten seconds while patting themselves like self-policing airport security, its all quite sweet

BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Friday, 7 February 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link

one of them jostled me coming back from a smoke, i accepted his apology but gestured him close and discreetly informed him that the next time it happened myself and my comrade would take the twelve of them out and give them a damned good thrashing and he has been roaring it to the pub since

but we will

BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Friday, 7 February 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link

florid hirsute giant

Sounds like a keeper! Go easy on 'em D.

Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 7 February 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link

I've never knowingly known a welsh person

frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 February 2020 17:52 (four years ago) link

What? Is this one of those things like never meeting a person from Leitrim?

My current workplace has only ever had one Welsh people but tons of Scottish people. Come to think of it, they were never there at the same time...

hyds (gyac), Friday, 7 February 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link

i've been in the presence of a welsh person, like sat next to one on a plane or in the pub or whatever. but i've never had a colleague, pal, friend of a friend etc. that was welsh

frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 7 February 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link

clannish enough, the welsh

BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Friday, 7 February 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link

My first girlfriend was sort of Welsh

Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 February 2020 18:19 (four years ago) link

did you frag some elves

otm into winter (rip van wanko), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link

me personally no, nv otoh may have, im not up to speed on the vernacular

the fella with me was telling me about the time he drunkenly bought a horse with his mates and it won at cheltenham, absolute ealing stuff

BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Friday, 7 February 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link

1st Place: £351,688

i wonder if this exceeded the price of the horse plus necessary maintenance ans various overhead, i would reckon so, that is a cool story

otm into winter (rip van wanko), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link

depends on the race I'd think, that sounds like a lot of prize money

Todd Phillips, party auteur (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 February 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link

prize money in question was a fraction of that, tho not pittance

but they all backed it at between 50-33/1, literal shutters down in all the local bookies

they made out like bandits and partied with liz2 in the winners tent afterwards

afterwards, the syndicate had an offer of ten times what theyd paid for the horse,but it came to blows at the meeting and alas all fell apart. was sold for a mere twice original cost the next year and yerman still isnt talkin to his uncle he sez

BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link

its better told over a few pints with elves singing and japing in the background, the ra got involved, his father in law lumped on and they both agreed not to tell the respective mrss, hes still drinking it, etc

BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywazLwhrw3k

otm into winter (rip van wanko), Saturday, 8 February 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link

good song

mookieproof, Saturday, 8 February 2020 01:01 (four years ago) link

love that record

otm into winter (rip van wanko), Saturday, 8 February 2020 01:20 (four years ago) link

Stewie on FG said someone ran like a Welshman in pejorative fashion. How does a Welshman run?

ill fuckin put a paste on those (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 February 2020 01:21 (four years ago) link

like the servile cur of an Englishman iirc

BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 01:22 (four years ago) link

Thanks +1

ill fuckin put a paste on those (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 February 2020 01:24 (four years ago) link

i am roughly 1/8 welsh but still think gareth bale looks simian

mookieproof, Saturday, 8 February 2020 01:32 (four years ago) link

he looks like a drawing from a gorillaz album cover i am not welsh btw

gbx, Saturday, 8 February 2020 05:27 (four years ago) link

I've never knowingly known a welsh person

Can be difficult as lots of them don't even sound Welsh. Every time I come across a famous person I didn't know was Welsh I think about having a Secretly Welsh thread but, right now, the only one I can think of is John Prescott.

(includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 February 2020 10:40 (four years ago) link

michael owen

BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link

I don't even own a Welsh person

ill fuckin put a paste on those (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 February 2020 11:32 (four years ago) link

well yeah

you're not english

BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Saturday, 8 February 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link

Got to admit, the boy's good.

(includes digression on farting) (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 February 2020 11:41 (four years ago) link


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