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I am trying to prove a point. Many good things have come out of Wales.

However the person I am trying to prove it to has already rejected Catherine Zeta Jones; The Super Fury Animals; Gorky's Zygotic Mynky; Snowdonia; Rhys Ifans; dragons; daffodils;coal; Sasha (the DJ) and the poetry of Dylan Thomas.

I know I'm missing something.

― Anna, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Super Furry Animals and an example of resurecting languages emulated by the french and the basques .

― anthony, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Young Marble Giants, Welsh Rabbit and the word 'Swansea'.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

NoTW Sunday magazine had an article about Celebrities Who Are Secretly Welsh (i.e. they have a great great great great grandparent who went to Bangor once) and they included: Rolf Harris, Kylie, Rod Stewart, David Bowie and many many more!

Cheese on toast is nice too.

― Emma, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Portmeirion, the town in The Prisoner. That'll sort you out Anna.

― suzy, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Severn Bridge : Ha Ha Ha.

(And other such jokes). Good things are constantly coming out of Wales and pretending that they are not Welsh. But frankly if he is going to discard your already pretty thorough list (Dragons!!!) then there's not much hope for adding SuperTed is there?

― Pete, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Brains ALE! That is Welsh, innit, no secret Siberian brewing history that I dunno?

― Sarah, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Brians SA = num num.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

grrr

― RickyT, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

SHIRLEY BASSEY.

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Good grief yes, Brains' Skull Attack, the beer responsible for one of my worst ever hangovers.

N. nemesis Christian Bale is from Haverfordwest according to that NotW piece, which is odd cos I thought he was from Bournemouth.

Laverbread = num num

Bara Brith (welsh fruit bread) = also num num

― chris, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course N. himself is quite Welsh.

(How's that for titbits, Tom?)

― Emma, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blimey I hope that wasn't an atak of the MONOBRAIN VIRUS that has been going about... 'It's Brains what you need'!

Oh yeah, Wales also has pretty SCENERY and waterfalls and stuff. What about LAMB and MUTTON? *scrapes the barrel a little further*

― Sarah, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have won my arguement. Thank you all very much. You know what clinched it ... Super Ted. Dear God.

Dragons, Pete, were disallowed as they don't exsist.

Why is Christian Bale Nick's nemisis? It seems a rather odd nemisis to have.

― Anna, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anna: I know I'm missing something.

Hybrid the epic breakbeat trance band are from Swansea - how do you forget that Miss Mixmag? !

― DJ Martian, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Man and Budgie, like, OBVIOUSLY ;)

― Norman Phay, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

hey Norman that is eggs ackley what i was gonna say!

and John Cale , did anyone say John Cale?

― , Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

bob welch. hahhahahaha

― di, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't get it.

― , Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey DJM, the title of the thread is good Welsh things. Breakbeat trance is not a good thing, even if it does feature Julie Cruise.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dafydd ap Gwilym is the best Welsh poet.

― Evangeline, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Having the only railway in Britain (the Vale of Rheidol - sp?) where steam locomotives were painted in the "rail blue" British Rail livery, because BR continued to own it after 1968 until it was forced to sell it off in 1989. What better collision of ancient and (60s/70s) modern?

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Richard Burton!

― suzy, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anthony Hopkins, Rachel Roberts, Richey Manic.

― Justyn Dillingham, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I also like Welsh accents a lot more than any other Brit accent.

― Justyn Dillingham, Tuesday, 26 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

JPR Williams - he had cool sideburns and was dead hard.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sian Phillips!

― suzy, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

John Charles is better than everything else in this thread put together.

― Tim, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tim, how could I ever forget John Charles??? Still a huge bear of a man at the age of what? Seventy?

― chris, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There was a good tv program about John Charles on Ch4 last Saturday. However, he is still no match for La Bassey. [Incidentally, Cabbage: I saw that Planet Darts book going cheap in the secondhand shop next to Lloyds bank near Greenwich market.]

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There was a good interview with JPR in the Observer Sport Magazine and it brought back memories of seeing his face covered in blood when I was but a wee boy. That picture used to scare me.

― Jonnie, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sian Lloyd!

― Sarah, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No way is Bassey anywhere near as good as Charles.

― Tim, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tenby is quite nice.

I have a major aversion (sp?) to Snowdonia...was forced to go there whilst at school and stay at some ramshackle youth hostel (I was lucky I wasn't one of the poor fools who had to share a tent). We were forced to do things like rock climbing and raft building...which, I refused to participate in. I'm not climbing rocks, when I can use steps, and I'm not going sailing when I'm happy on dry land. One of my friends got out of the whole thing by claiming he was going on holiday (yeah, in Brentford!), but would my parents lie for me? NO!...outward bounds...urrghhh. This probably has nothing to do with Wales.

― j>e>l, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The only time I went to Wales was in the half term in the middle of my GCSEs and my abiding memories involve extremely crap weather, revising for physics and lots of Scousers. Oh and I bought my dad a pen at the top of Snowdon.

― Emma, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sara!

― Graham, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HELEN LOVE. HELEN LOVE. HELEN LOVE.

― Graham, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hold on a minute. The bloke didn't accept dragons because they don't exist and then the argument is clinched by SuperTed. Who doesn't exist.

Sometimes its enough to make a logician cry.

― Pete, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Y Fenni. Mustard seed cheese. (Sasha should not be in that list). Lamb and mutton. T-y-Nant mineral water for the blue bottles. Pen Cader cheese. Lava bread. Welsh cakes.Leeks

― Ed, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pointless arguements with deputy editor often bring me close to tears Pete. Or perhaps axe murder. (I'm very fond of him, we just bicker).

Having grown up in Bagnor - Sasha counts, just.

― Anna, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes but if we bombed Wales we could grow baby lambs and leeks somewhere else. I don't think all the food reasons are enough to justify the ongoing existence of Wales.

― Emma, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

decent methodist slate

― cameron bain, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Why is Christian Bale Nick's nemisis? It seems a rather odd nemisis to have.

I suppose is is. I've got two nemeses to spread the burden of responsibility, so it's OK really.

― N., Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

To be honest this is something of a misuse of the word 'nemesis'.

― N., Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Priscilla Davis (Welsh RFU international & British Lion Gerald Davies' missus)

Lust object for teenage me when he taught (English, plus, er a little rugby) at our school in early 70's.

― Daft, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wales is pretty fux!ng great, really, isn't it.

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Male voice choirs.

― there'll be a welcome on the hillside, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dylan Thomas, Boyo.

Coal

Steel

Tsps

Ta!

Salt and vinagre on them please

― Ed, Wednesday, 27 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

St.David!!!

― Jonnie, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

of course, that's why the big bloke sat opposite me today on the tube with a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp had a dainty daffodil in his button hole

― chris, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

http://tinyurl.com/r5lvw

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/4871238.stm

― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 3 April 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

Unquestionably the best thing to come out of Wales:

http://www.dunwich.org/tv/prisoner/n6nrmwst.jpg

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 3 April 2006 11:12 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk to thread! As information source and an answer.

Also Robert Plant.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.martynbane.co.uk/images/scot+welshjuly03/ffestiniog/earlofmJuly132003.jpg

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/kenjuggle/DCP_2432s.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

I rode the Ffestiniog train last summer! It was great.

My favourite fish and chip shop in the world is in Barmouth.

Also, Hay on Wye!!

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

One of my favourite record shops is Cob Records, Porthmadog.

(I've not been to their Bangor branch, though)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

That pic of Lee Trundle is on the front of the South Wales Echo today under the headline BAN THIS IDIOT

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk to thread! As information source and an answer.

heheh i was gonna jump in and go "ME, OBV!" (i am feeling totally full of myself today. what? oh, sorry, totally "empowered", ya) but hrnhm yeah...

petula clark, shirley bassey :)
spiller's records in cardiff

'grits' by niall griffiths (ok he's a scouser but it's set in aberystwyth and it's GREAT)

the mabinogion
shitloads of excellents kids' books like the snow spider

the whole of the middle of wales where there are fuck-all people
the gower
cheeses

carrot in welsh is "moron" ha ha

anyone who rejects dylan thomas is a dolt! the sloe-black, slow, black fishingboatbobbing sea or whatever it is num num taste the words! i put under milk wood on on stage at school after writing an essay about it, we were BRILLIANT (that was not in wales though)

― emsk ( emsk), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

hi was very impressed with your article on the wrexham music scene in nme
i have been going out around wrexham for years and the quality oif music for such a small town is amazing
crosbi are a great band, but you missed one of the greatest bands ever they used to be called teh mayors of arse rape city i think now they are just the mayors
i'm never sure if they're still together or not cos tehy're always splitting up but i know they have a gig sometime in april

This was just emailed to me. Did anyone see this article, cos I certainly didn't write it.

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

The Sundance Kid was from Wales (according to yesterday's QI)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

mclusky
that town with the really long name
john cale's speaking voice

― S- (sgh), Monday, 3 April 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

my great-grandfather!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 3 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'd forgotten I'd started this thread. Funny it should be revived now, I've been daydreaming about going to Ynyslas all morning.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm invited to Wales when my friend C gets back from her writer's retreat thing in NY. Her family have a house there.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Suzy are you in tonight? Work has finally calmed down, have life back, time to sleep etc. Will phone if you're around.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Absolutely but best after 6 as am about to go to DENTIST for the first time in I guess four years. I'll bell y'all on mobile when I come back clutching my aching jaw. Glad you have your life back!

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Emsk to thread! As information source and an answer.

Andrew beat me to the punch!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

spiller's records in cardiff

<kenny>Mmmpph mmpph mmphh, mph mphh!</kenny>

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Dare we ask?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41516000/jpg/_41516544_baaaspa300.jpg

― Ed (dali), Monday, 3 April 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

dragons; daffodils;coal; Sasha (the DJ)

Daffodils are welsh?? For some reason I always throught they were Dutch (um, when I stopped to ponder their nationality, which might have been once in my life previously), but I suppose that's tulips that are Dutch.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 01:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's pronounced "rarebit", innit?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

Aphex Twin?

― badg (badg), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

he's cornish

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

Tulips are Dutch.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

Chinese actually.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 08:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cafes.net/ditch/novelwp.jpg

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, Emsk *is* the best thing to come out of Wales.

Because Wales is the source of the evil Welsh Dream and I am afeared of it.

― STOP! Time Thief! (kate), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

And then there's this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Mr Sauro, who entertained Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall at his farmhouse when they opened his new abattoir last year

Charles and Camilla lead such a glam life :)

― C J (C J), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wales is one the world's foremost exporters of curmudgeonly quaintness. And while we're on about Welsh poets: R.S. Thomas, although somewhat trailing the leading lights, certainly qualifies.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/53/182048572_7937cb53c6.jpg?v=0

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 31 July 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

:-D

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Bob Marley's father or grandfather was from Wrexham.

― JTS (JTS), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

ten years pass...

lady friend made me an apron with a cuddly lil polar bear cub cartoon: "My mom says I'm a cwtch"

― jason waterfalls (gbx), Sunday, 25 December 2016 19:44 (nine years ago)

John Podhoretz gives his take on George Michael's Father Figure, and apparently he's tweeting from Pembroke Dock?

https://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/813159640770998272

― soref, Sunday, 25 December 2016 23:21 (nine years ago)

three years pass...

Wales's eight 'Most Wanted' couldn't have been dreamt up by even #Hollywood's most brilliant casting agent... pic.twitter.com/9y4ywnLs2d
— Jake (@jake_001x) January 2, 2020

― calzino, Thursday, 2 January 2020 19:14 (five years ago)

Best looking people in the Isles too.

― Soup on my lanyard (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 January 2020 19:40 (five years ago)

obv that crusty looking one is just a recurring shoplifter!

― calzino, Thursday, 2 January 2020 20:02 (five years ago)

two years pass...

Speaking of crusty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXcqJLLSdWI

― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 06:23 (three years ago)

We'd be speaking like this if it wasn't for the Germans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvtbdq3WiyU

― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Monday, 14 November 2022 08:14 (three years ago)

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