Wales Bashing

Fflaps · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 11:59 am

The Mail isn't bashing Wales here but the readers are.

The lost Valleys: Unique photographs of life in mid-19th century Wales reveal a vanished world

Some interesting pictures, although Bala isn't in 'the Valleys' it's in north Wales [/pedant]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l#comments

Of course it doesn't take long for someone in England to comment:

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I see nothing has changed then.
- marcus, newark, 31/5/2012 11:21
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Har bloody har.

We also have possibly one of the most moronic comments I have ever read on the Mail site

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Why don't Welsh women dress like that any more? Aren't they proud to be Welsh? Or are the Welsh only Welsh when it will get them something... money. If the Welsh won't dress in traditional Welsh clothing, then we English don't have to pay for road signs, etc. to be in Welsh!
- Maggie, Oxford, 31/5/2012 10:26
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They don't dress like that because it's no longer the 1860s, for the same reason the English don't wear 'traditional English clothing' whatever that is; the Welsh also pay taxes towards things like road signs; and finally we are not a fecking circus act, thanks.

Arnold · **Posted:** Thu May 31, 2012 12:06 pm

Fflaps wrote:

for the same reason the English don't wear 'traditional English clothing' whatever that is;

Morris Dancers' garb probably.

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such a backward country and backward people...can't stand em...

- Cockney William, the real east end...Haggerston, 31/5/2012 11:37
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mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4264

Do you know that in Dutch offices and factories right now hardly anyone is wearing clogs or one of those hats with cheese hanging off it? It's like they're ashamed to be Dutch.

Arnold · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:47 pm

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Landlord hid regular’s dead body for FOUR DAYS to stop police closing his pub during busy weekend

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -DAYS.html

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Only in Wales.
- Yaffle1, London, 29/10/2012 8:12
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Some weird stuff happens in Wales ,I have been noticing recently.
- someone, paris, France, 29/10/2012 10:23
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Fflaps · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:53 pm

Well, nothing odd has ever happened in France has it.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:55 pm

Fflaps wrote:

Well, nothing odd has ever happened in France has it.

Where a farmer who had been dead for 15 years was recently discovered in a locked house...

oboogie · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 2:26 pm

That story is very nearly a Fawlty Towers episode.

Arnold · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:10 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Fflaps wrote:

Well, nothing odd has ever happened in France has it.

Where a farmer who had been dead for 15 years was recently discovered in a locked house...

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Skeleton of elderly man who died at least 15 YEARS ago found in bed still wearing his pyjamas in abandoned house

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... jamas.html
Why the Mail was surprised that the skeleton was still in the pyjamas isn't clear to me.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:11 pm

That's the one...

Abernathy · **Posted:** Mon Oct 29, 2012 3:30 pm

"Still wearing his pyjamas" ? Well, he wouldn't be about to fucking change into his lounger suit if he's been dead for 15 fucking years, now, would he?

Arnold · **Posted:** Fri Nov 02, 2012 11:07 pm

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Policeman guarding the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge 'accidentally' fired his gun while sitting in a car outside their Anglesey home

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2B6bL0cre

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He was probably bored. It was in Wales after all.
- Emma, Midlands UK, 2/11/2012 13:35
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Fflaps · **Posted:** Fri Nov 02, 2012 11:15 pm

Well, he probably was bored, after all it's not like Anglesey has the levels of gun crime the Midlands have, eh?

Arnold · **Posted:** Wed Nov 14, 2012 6:57 pm

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Primary school children told they can't go to the toilet unless they ask in WELSH

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... WELSH.html

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Useless language at that
- you-what123, Bournemouth, 14/11/2012 17:33
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This doesn't surprise me about the Welsh they are living in a bygone age and should stop living in middle earth and join the 21st century. They are great people and I have know some terrific Welsh folk but I must admit they are living in the past.
- Martin, York, 14/11/2012 17:30

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Who cares ... it's Wales ... Try being a few English people in Cardiff on a night out see how welcome you feel. Let them keep their poxy language if an Englishman goes to Wales he only has himself to blame
- Reginald, England, United Kingdom, 14/11/2012 17:28

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The Welsh are not the most stable people in the UK .
- Doom, Dorset UK, 14/11/2012 17:10

Daley Mayle · **Posted:** Wed Nov 14, 2012 7:01 pm

The Mail struggles with English language in the sub head...

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They say children told not to speak Welsh, even in the playground, or read English books at home

What they meant was...

They say children told not to speak English even in the playground, or read English books at home

Fflaps · **Posted:** Thu Nov 15, 2012 10:47 am

Wow, the comments are just full of arseholes.

It's possible that some schools have interpreted the guidance too strictly and gone a bit over the top, this has echoes of the Welsh Not in the early 20th century. Then again, although I don't like to admit it, there is a lot of deep seated resentment of the English in parts of Wales and I can imagine some extreme nationalists using the language guidance to work out their own grudges.

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