Poll of the Day > Anyone else always forget that Wales is a thing?

(+) Yeah! (+)

What's the deal with Wales anyway? I mean everyone remembers Northern Ireland and Scotland, but really who can tell the difference between a Welshman and an Englishman. Just be England already.

Nah Orcas are pretty cool.

Humpback is a pretty cool guy

Xenoblade and its Welsh catgirls remain a pretty substantial part of my day-to-day life, so I can't say I have that problem.

No. Too many Welsh jokes.

Nope, because their flag features a dragon.

All I'm saying is the German Confederation eventually just became Germany. You don't hear anyone talking about Prussians anymore.

BigOlePappy posted...

No. Too many Welsh jokes.

I've heard more jokes about New Zealand than Wales and they don't even get to be on most maps.

Welsh people are great, wtf

SpaceBear_ posted...

Welsh people are great, wtf

I made no value judgements on the Welsh people other than that they're basically indistinguishable from the English. If you're offended then you must hate the English. Why do you hate the English?

Count_Drachma posted...

Nope, because their flag features a dragon.

Was literally coming it to say exactly this.



jiffdiff posted...

All I'm saying is the German Confederation eventually just became Germany. You don't hear anyone talking about Prussians anymore.

I talk about Prussians all the time, because I am one.

I'm also Bavarian, Scots Irish, and Irish.

And if you don't behave, I might start talking about Burgundy.

jiffdiff posted...

All I'm saying is the German Confederation eventually just became Germany. You don't hear anyone talking about Prussians anymore.

Prussians are literally just germans

jiffdiff posted...

I made no value judgements on the Welsh people other than that they're basically indistinguishable from the English. If you're offended then you must hate the English. Why do you hate the English?

The Welsh have their reasons in fairness. Given that we English invaded Wales, stole their land (Wales used to be a lot bigger, same as Scotland IIRC), robbed them of their culture & language, like many other countries. These days its more of a friendly rivalry in fairness, but I think the Welsh tend to get a bit offended when lumped in with the English as they're proud of their own culture and heritage, and not necessarily because they hate the English.

OHJOY90 posted...

and not necessarily because they hate the English.

To be fair, no one hates the English as much as the English seem to these days.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

To be fair, no one hates the English as much as the English seem to these days.

Yeah, but that's mostly a class thing. Lower Class Hating the Upper/Middle Class and visa versa. Not to mention the North/South Divide.

No boss...
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

I talk about Prussians all the time, because I am one.

I'm also Bavarian, Scots Irish, and Irish.

And if you don't behave, I might start talking about Burgundy.

/r/shitamericanssay right there >.>

OHJOY90 posted...

Yeah, but that's mostly a class thing. Lower Class Hating the Upper/Middle Class and visa versa. Not to mention the North/South Divide

Nah, I mean more that I've noticed a definite trend with British people under 30 or so where they all seem a bit self-loathing, culturally speaking. Like they'll be the first people to make jokes about all the terrible shit the Empire did, or act sort of embarrassed by the entire concept of national patriotism, or just downplaying their own heritage.

Not shitting on other members of their own cohort (in, say, the way people in the Northeast US will shit on people from the South), but literally shitting on their own cohort.

Sort of similar to how you see a lot of younger Americans who were pretty much raised by the Internet acting like they're embarrassed to be Americans.



grimhilde00 posted...

/r/shitamericanssay right there

Hey, if we're still calling people whose ancestors came over 200+ years ago African-Americans, then I get to talk about the places my ancestors came from only a hundred or so years ago.

And that's not even getting into the fact that the French are still named after the Franks who haven't really existed for more than a thousand years. Or that Germany is named after a tribe that hasn't been around for closer to two thousand (in spite of the fact that almost no "Germans" are even descended from that specific tribe in the first place).

If there's one thing humans are REALLY good at, it's hanging on to shit that's long since passed.

SpaceBear_ posted...

Welsh people are great, wtf

Just don't let them be near sheep.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

African-Americans,

African American is not hyphenated. If you can respect the hyphen in Spider-Man you can respect the absence of one for a whole demographic of people. To understand why, heres an article about the call to unhyphenate Asian American and all the implications that come with using a hyphen:

https://consciousstyleguide.com/drop-hyphen-asian-american/

No because I love the Cardiff accent. It sounds silly.

Went the other month for a WWE PPV so i remember it.

jiffdiff posted...

Welsh people other than that they're basically indistinguishable from the English

you are so stupid lol

Isnt that name a euphemism for fat people?

what is the obesity rate there?

Conner4REAL posted...

Isnt that name a euphemism for fat people?

what is the obesity rate there?

I believe you're thinking of a family of marine cetaceans.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

OHJOY90 posted...

Yeah, but that's mostly a class thing. Lower Class Hating the Upper/Middle Class and visa versa. Not to mention the North/South Divide

Nah, I mean more that I've noticed a definite trend with British people under 30 or so where they all seem a bit self-loathing, culturally speaking. Like they'll be the first people to make jokes about all the terrible shit the Empire did, or act sort of embarrassed by the entire concept of national patriotism, or just downplaying their own heritage.

Not shitting on other members of their own cohort (in, say, the way people in the Northeast US will shit on people from the South), but literally shitting on their own cohort.

Sort of similar to how you see a lot of younger Americans who were pretty much raised by the Internet acting like they're embarrassed to be Americans.

That is true, there is a lot of self loathing in England, and Wales too actually. Reminds me of a joke about a book coming out called Crap Towns, and they had to make a sequel; Crap Towns II because so many people wrote in and complained that their town wasn't included in the first one.

Nope, because if this one Rocky and Bullwinkle quote from season 2:

"We are heading past 'ee-ah-wah.'
"'Ee-ah-wah?!'"
"It's Welsh, Rocky! It means 'place where the geese run barefoot.'"

Even the Welsh forget that Wales is a thing sometimes

Americans lol

Jkd91 posted...

Went the other month for a WWE PPV so i remember it.

That's why I went. Stayed at Merthyr Tydfil that isn't far from Cardiff and made a weekend out of it.
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