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[mathematics]

11 hours ago, Highland Capital said:

It’s interesting to see the correlation when you go to Wales to see how much they value their own culture. The language is a lot more widespread granted than Gaelic for example but they seem to really embrace it and people are quite disappointed in themselves if they can’t speak it.

I didn’t get this feeling from many people in the Cardiff and RCT areas. Seemed 50/50 cringe/nationalist to me. I would imagine it’s quite location specific with the west and north being more protective.

[welshbairn]

4 minutes ago, mathematics said:

I didn’t get this feeling from many people in the Cardiff and RCT areas. Seemed 50/50 cringe/nationalist to me. I would imagine it’s quite location specific with the west and north being more protective.

Same in the North East, you never hear Welsh in Wrexham and the lingua franca of Rhyl is Scouse. I lived in Llangollen for while which is pretty universally English spoken, but it's Welsh in walking distance away to the West.

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[Archie McSquackle]

10 hours ago, bennett said:

 

 

 

Well that's not going anywhere. 

[Satoshi]

20 hours ago, Highland Capital said:

It’s interesting to see the correlation when you go to Wales to see how much they value their own culture. The language is a lot more widespread granted than Gaelic for example but they seem to really embrace it and people are quite disappointed in themselves if they can’t speak it. Here you talk about expanding Gaelic and people question why people even want it to survive. 

Perhaps the fact that we’ve let our culture essentially be Disneyfied hasn’t helped matters. 
 

I wouldn't say so much Disneyfied as Walter Scottified.

The whole kilts and tartan thing is hundreds of years old, not thousands (individual clan tartans maybe mid 1800s).

This applies to all cultures to various degrees.

But our culture is not stagnant, it develops every year through comedy, music, art, game design etc.

It's not intrinsically better than other cultures, nor worse, but I don't know why we would cringe towards any of it. It probably exists in Wales and Scotland as they have for so long, and are, culturally, economically and politically dominated by England. The same people who cringe at Scottish culture probably also cringe at the idea that we have a separate legal, political, education and health system.

Other countries don't have this. England doesn't really have this. You can like and enjoy your culture or be embarrassed by it - some people seem happier with the latter.

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[ICTChris]

 

[Theroadlesstravelled]

2 hours ago, ICTChris said:

 

What the f**k?

It sounds like a Chris Tucker character.

[Miguel Sanchez]

7 hours ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

What the f**k?

It sounds like a Chris Tucker character.

@Venti

 

[Venti]

10 hours ago, Theroadlesstravelled said:

What the f**k?

It sounds like a Chris Tucker character.

"It'sa me! Julius!"

[johnnydun]

@Bairnardo ignore the haters bro...

 

[Shipa]

19 hours ago, johnnydun said:

@Bairnardo ignore the haters bro...

 

That's a funny looking mango.

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Comments are hilarious

 

[velo army]

28 minutes ago, AFCDannyFTH said:

 

Comments are hilarious

 

The comments on that are brilliant. I'm not even sure how real it all is given the lad never touched his brakes, which is probably why I can laugh at it.

[ICTChris]

what

[Miguel Sanchez]

12 minutes ago, ICTChris said:

what

Some interesting footage of children fighting in the replies.

[johnnydun]

 

 

[jimbaxters]

8 hours ago, johnnydun said:

 

 

That's wild. It cannae be real surely.

[Zetterlund]

9 hours ago, ICTChris said:

what

Personally I feel at my safest while undergoing a violent street mugging, secure in the knowledge that at least next time it's more likely my home will be burgled instead.