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copa on "Why are Scottish and Welsh folk so patriotic ?"
Am I to take it that this sense of Northern Welsh abandonment extends further than just the sporting area of Welsh life?Sport's just one area but it's a good example of how everything in Wales slides...
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scotroutes on "Why are Scottish and Welsh folk so patriotic ?"
molgrips » Good to see Welsh politics and identity being discussed on here. If you start it they will come... I'm certainly finding it interesting. As I've already said on this thread it's a country I...
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Well, it is a bit of a nationalistic idea. Why would people from North Wales head down to Cardiff to do business anyway when two major English cities are so close? Even if they ploughed a motorway...
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We are more pissed off that Cardiff and the South gets all the investment.That's always going to be the case. For Cardiff in Wales you can just as easily write, London in England and Edinburgh in...
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It is a nationalistic idea but no more so than any other project which is aimed at improving a nation's infrastructure. HS2 is also.I think, it depends on whether you view Wales as a westerly region of...
View Articleathgray on "Why are Scottish and Welsh folk so patriotic ?"
Only ever had a few short stay trips to north Wales. I did not know the transport problems were so bad, but with hindsight I can understand. It seemed take us ages to get about.I also worked with a...
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I also worked with a couple of guys that I thought were from liverpool from their accent. Both were actually from north Wales.People have often mistaken my accent for that of Liverpool. Liverpool at...
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Once on a holiday near Shrewsbury I thought I would take a drive across to climb up Snowdon. The drive through Llangollen and Betws y Coed seemed to take forever. Lovely scenery though.
View ArticleNipper99 on "Why are Scottish and Welsh folk so patriotic ?"
As molgrips says no transport links, the main n/s trunk road is the A470 which is a joke, I've been 5hrs from Brecon to N Wales on a Friday evening. There is some talk of improving n/s rail links and...
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They could do with reopening the line north of Merthyr to Brecon and onwards too - I think it used to link up to Hereford or somewhere.
View Articlecaptainsasquatch on "Why are Scottish and Welsh folk so patriotic ?"
If your in the north you look to Liverpool / Manchester, Liverpool in known as the capital of N. Wales Never heard that one, always understood Wrexham to be the capital of the north.
View Articlemuddydwarf on "Why are Scottish and Welsh folk so patriotic ?"
I was told (in Porthmadog) that there is/was a lot of antipathy about Liverpudlians in N.Wales, may have been having my leg pulled though!
View Articlemolgrips on "Why are Scottish and Welsh folk so patriotic ?"
I expect that happens whenever a lot of people from one place turn up somewhere different, get pissed up and buy holiday homes etc.
View Articlenasher on "Why are Scottish and Welsh folk so patriotic ?"
I was told (in Porthmadog) that there is/was a lot of antipathy about Liverpudlians in N.Wales, may have been having my leg pulled though!There is. Due to the fact that a couple of villages were...
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I dont know of anyone in North Wales who supports Cardiff or Swansea Why would then unless they are under 10 years old. It wasn't that long ago that Cardiff, Swansea and Wrexham were all bouncing...
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so surely anyone from N Wales would support WrexhamThey do and any other local team, Almost everyone I know in N Wales supports two teams
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5thElefant on "Why are Scottish and Welsh folk so patriotic ?"
Now I wasn't aware that there are two versions of Welsh, every day is a school day etc. I live near Brechfa. It's Welsh speaking, but they speak English to Welsh speakers from the North as they can't...
View Articlemuddydwarf on "Why are Scottish and Welsh folk so patriotic ?"
Haha, so the two variants are that different? Is it just dialect or more than that?
View Article5thElefant on "Why are Scottish and Welsh folk so patriotic ?"
I assume it's dialect. I had an northern Irish mate at uni that I could barely understand and a Geordie one that needed a translator (really, nobody even a few miles from Newcastle could understand a...
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