Poll: What do you know about Wales?

[halfeclipse]

Not much really. Sheep, most of you can carry a tune (Except the ones that reeeeally can't.) good cheese, sheep, nice beer, pretty girls+awesome accent, sheep, and a historic language clearly created by the welsh ladies.


*shrug*

 

[F'Angus]

A lot... not as much as a real Welsh person...but since half my family is Welsh I spose I know more than most English people.

But when Owain Glyndwr returns from the dead or one of his descendants starts a rebellion I may head down to Corwen and enlist.

 

[Bestival]

As a dutch person who's way into British comedy, I am well aware of Wales. I know that you do some weird stuff with the English language, and are (undoubtedly wrongly) notorious for shagging sheep.
Other than that, from Top Gear I have learned you have some lovely roads.
And didn't Eddie Izzard run from London to Wales in an astoundingly short time?

I guess it's not much, but there you have it. Seems like a nice place to go on holidays to sometime, though I think I'd still prefer to go to Scotland instead. Sorry!

 

[Mr Mystery Guest]

The Welsh have started to wear kilts as the sheep got used to the sound of the zips.

 

[mitchell271]

All I know about Wales is from [a href="http://satwcomic.com/it-s-all-about-the-children"]Scandanavia and the World[/a]. Great little comic and helped me learn about Scandanavian history and their respective flags.

Oh, and that no English people like the Welsh apparently. Since I have dual citizenship, do I have to hate them as a cultural requirement?

Here's the actual comic if the link craps out.

Spoiler: Wales saves the kids

 

[Psykoma]

umm, I'm one quarter welsh I guess (due to my grandmother being welsh)
I know that it's part of the UK from this
And I know it's flag has a welsh dragon on it (Because I asked why all the cupcakes had icing dragons on them when I went to a welsh birthday party)

Pretty much it.

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

Born in Haverfordwest, used to speak Welsh fluently. Then I moved far far away.... to Wiltshire, where I was bullied to the point of forcing myself to forget everything Welsh (4-6 year olds can be cunts)! Too ashamed to go back, although I live fairly close in Gloucestershire now.

 

[Evil Moo]

Not a lot, despite being there at this very moment. Seems inoffensive enough for the most part, but I grow weary of every sign having to be written twice, once in a language people actually speak and once in relative gibberish.

 

[I-Protest-I]

I know the fuckers stopped talking English when I spoke my first word of it.

 

[Nuuu]

I only know where Wales is and its flag, and I only know this because my mother was born in Wales and then moved out. She's been away from Wales for so long that she has forgotten the language though.

 

[m1garand23]

Well I live there for starters, in the south in a small town called Neath, its a bit shit to be honest with not much to do.
We have excellent ales, there is actually an ale company based in my town called Neath Ales that make incredible ales.
Oh and one of the best National anthems and flags in the world. Also some of the nicest or worst people you can meet depends on who you talk to.
I'm probably one of the few that enjoy the fact that it rains a lot here i'm not entirely sure why, i just like the rain i suppose. Also i rather enjoy foreigners having great difficulty attempting to pronounce place names, Neath and Port Talbot are easy ones, Places like Llanelli or Rhossili.
A friend of mine's father was a taxi driver and an american got off the train and into his cab, and asked to go to a place called LAN-EL-IE (phonetically). He did not have a clue as to where Lanelie had to talk to every other driver in the taxi rank in order to find where Lanelie, eventually working it out after about an hour that this guy was trying to say Llanelli and because in the welsh language Ll makes a strange almost cross between S an TH, Th however is represented by Dd.
It is strange rules and sounds like that is why few people speak it.
The Singing is true in most cases i think its the accent which is rather melodic and tonal which allows an easy grasp on musical notes.

 

[SecondPrize]

I know the Welsh live there. The English tell me the Welsh are horrible, but it's not like their opinion counts for anything. Wales produced Catherine Zeta-Jones so I'm for it.

 

[Able Seacat]

I live in the Swansea valleys but I'm not much on top of the history of Wales. The longest place name in wales is;
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Spoiler

 

[SNCommand]

A sheep once told me it was a "BAAAAHHH'D" place

 

[AlexWinter]

-snip-

I stayed in that day. The Welsh reeaaaally get into their sports it seems.

 

[G3]

Great Rugby.

 

[Cheeseman Muncher]

Wales used to suffer from people making jokes about sheep.

No, they still do.

I'm from Aberdeen up in Scotland (the other home of the sheep shaggers) but I lived in North Wales for a while when I was a kid. Very wet and the sheep to people ratio was ridiculous.

EDIT: They also don't use enough vowels.

 

[InvaderTim]

Having spent the first decade of my life their i'm inclined to think I know a thing or two about the place.

The Royal welsh show as far as i'm aware is the largest agriculture show in the entire world if i'm not mistaken.
Also the flag is incredibly hard to draw, which wouldn't be a problem but in primary school you are forced to draw it a lot.

 

[CriticalMiss]

Everybody lives off a diet of leeks and lamb, vowels are outlawed and the rozzers are called the Heddlu. Wales is a great place, I've been a few times and it seems like a good place to go to retire as long as you avoid the student-y areas and like rain, hills and funny accents.

 

[Myndnix]

Half my family is from Wales, and I visit at least four times a year, and have done so for my whole life. So I have the basics down, I think.
So many valleys. It's not a country for people who don't like steep inclines.
Or rain.