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Lash LeRue Posted Oct 1, 2004
Sorry bit slow off the mark with that last one.But sheep shagger is already sadly taken, anyone from the channel islands.
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Oct 1, 2004
Taff isn't really all that insulting so it won't do
if I want to insult the English I call them English
Sassanach is usually used by Scots for the English (although originally it meant lowland Scot) and is not usually said as a compliment
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wordsmith_mike Posted Oct 1, 2004
I think the Welsh have enough to contend so as not to warrant insulting names, as do those North of Watford Gap. The Aussies seem rather sensitive about being ex-cons.
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Lentilla (Keeper of Non-Sequiturs) Posted Oct 1, 2004
I can't imagine why I'd want to insult a Welshman... I'd probably get knocked over the head with his pint glass.
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rev. paperboy (god is an iron) Posted Oct 2, 2004
you need to careful about the Welsh, some of those coal-mining Joneses can be nysttyy ffolkerrs.
(I'm kkidding of course - most of the Welsh I've met are llovely, they just spell things ffunny)
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Lash LeRue Posted Oct 2, 2004
Hey Sasanach is an the irish word for an english person! Oh ya whole tribal migration of the celtic tribes of northern Ireland after the roman withdrawl and all that.
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bubba-fretts Posted Oct 2, 2004
Sasanach was what the highlanders called the lowland scots. Later on ot came to mean english.
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wordsmith_mike Posted Oct 2, 2004
>>Posted 20 Hours Ago by Lentilla (Artist) Keeper of Non Sequiturs - The truth is out there, but lies are in your head.
I can't imagine why I'd want to insult a Welshman... I'd probably get knocked over the head with his pint glass.<<
Don't know many who could reach that far !
Notwithstanding the crack, I've always found the Welsh ladies friendly, although the blokes are a bit brittle.
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Oct 2, 2004
thats what I said in post 7483
I work in Directory Enquiries and answering calls from the Welsh can be confusing
Usually I can't say the placenames correctly and they frequently can't spell them
If the Welsh have trouble with their own placenames what hope has anyone else got
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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Oct 3, 2004
Taffy. That's what my cousin who has moved to Wales calls her neighbours when she's annoyed with them...
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Tactitus:- a temporal incursion will restore the Cremin Emporiam to galactic dominance once more! Posted Oct 3, 2004
The romans came to Ireland, gave it its historical name..eire, meaning place of rain, hence all that 40 shades of gren melarkey and I hsould know since I'm in Belfast, and promtly left! Mores the pity if you ask me!
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bubba-fretts Posted Oct 3, 2004
I thought the Romans called it hibernia?
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Lash LeRue Posted Oct 3, 2004
Yeah,they did call it Hibernia! There is no evidence of roman settlements in all of Ireland and Eire is an Irish word for Ireland in ogham wich corresponds with the roman alphabet.
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Lash LeRue Posted Oct 5, 2004
Very informative! Actually are scotish people made learn Scotch gaelic?
Cause It's mandatory here (Ireland that is)
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DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! Posted Oct 5, 2004
My mother used to go into a tizzy when we called it "Garlic", Captain LeRue, but I have an Andy Stewart CD on which he calls it garlic!
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logicus tracticus philosophicus Posted Oct 5, 2004
Seems the cartographers ,no comprendi as well
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque Posted Oct 6, 2004
Scots Gaelic is basically only spoken in the Highlands
Scots itself is a dialect/varient of English
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pedro Posted Oct 6, 2004
Gaelic isn't compulsory in Scotland, well outside the Highlands n Islands where it's normally spoken. We do get the odd Gaelic TV prog with subtitles tho.
Scots is, I think, known as Lallans, as in Lowlands, and was another form of English.
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- 7481: bubba-fretts (Oct 1, 2004)
- 7482: Lash LeRue (Oct 1, 2004)
- 7483: Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque (Oct 1, 2004)
- 7484: wordsmith_mike (Oct 1, 2004)
- 7485: Lentilla (Keeper of Non-Sequiturs) (Oct 1, 2004)
- 7486: rev. paperboy (god is an iron) (Oct 2, 2004)
- 7487: Lash LeRue (Oct 2, 2004)
- 7488: bubba-fretts (Oct 2, 2004)
- 7489: wordsmith_mike (Oct 2, 2004)
- 7490: Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque (Oct 2, 2004)
- 7491: DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! (Oct 3, 2004)
- 7492: Tactitus:- a temporal incursion will restore the Cremin Emporiam to galactic dominance once more! (Oct 3, 2004)
- 7493: bubba-fretts (Oct 3, 2004)
- 7494: Lash LeRue (Oct 3, 2004)
- 7495: pedro (Oct 5, 2004)
- 7496: Lash LeRue (Oct 5, 2004)
- 7497: DA ; Simply Vicky: Don't get pithy with me! (Oct 5, 2004)
- 7498: logicus tracticus philosophicus (Oct 5, 2004)
- 7499: Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque (Oct 6, 2004)
- 7500: pedro (Oct 6, 2004)
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