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Backward people who need the Darwin treatment

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    #21
    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Precisely the problem some of the esteemed customers from down west have had.

    But I'm sure their fluency in wchytwch will come in very handy when they have to move east to get work.

    And that's the real shame of all of this.

    A country that depends on handouts and government jobs to survive fails to prepare its citizens for the real world (over the bridge) and instead panders to the lobby who want to keep it locked in the past.

    And don't get me started on the geniuses who came up with the Welsh Baccalaureate.

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      #22
      Originally posted by ZARDOZ View Post
      How do you say "burning holiday homes" in Welsh?
      llosgi tai haf
      merely at clientco for the entertainment

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        #23
        Originally posted by alluvial View Post
        Just to stoke the fire a bit on this, I was talking to Mrs A. about this thread last night. She's a physics lecturer in a further ed. college and I asked her what happens with the kids coming from Welsh schools. Her reply was "Nothing, they all get taught in English." Apparently, especially within the sciences, the Welsh-taught kids can have some real problems as they don't know what the English is for common concepts and terms.
        But Welsh is taught as a second language in Welsh schools? Obviously American is first....

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          #24
          Can you just arrange to have Cerys Matthews taken back to Wales, and that tit from the stereophonics.

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            #25
            Cerys Matthews has the most sumptuous speaking voice, I think. It's when she breaks into song that the trouble starts.

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              #26
              Originally posted by minestrone View Post
              and that tit from the stereophonics.
              He died. HTH

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                #27
                Originally posted by minestrone View Post
                Can you just arrange to have Cerys Matthews taken back to Wales, and that tit from the stereophonics.
                There's something about a female welsh voice... so sexy
                Do what thou wilt

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                  #28
                  agreed we have some sites in the valleys and sometimes I just call them up with any old excuse just to listen to the accent mmmmm


                  also we have some English friends who moved to Wales and they are sending their kids to a secondary school which uses welsh as the first language and will actually be taught in welsh.

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by Dark Black View Post
                    There's something about a female welsh voice... so sexy
                    No one likes their women to sound too intelligent.

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by SpontaneousOrder View Post
                      No one likes their women to sound too intelligent.
                      Oh, that's nasty....

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