Reply to: Backward people who need the Darwin treatment

[Dark Black]

southern Irish female accents for me.

The mortgage arranger is from around Dublin. 2 hours on the phone - yummy.

Or Outer Parisienne.

Yep.. with you on the southern Irish female accents

Can't be doing with the Scots accents though, right turn off.

[Doggy Styles]

How is Wales doing compared to the rest of the UK? Correct me if I'm wong, but I heard it was sliiping behind a bit, on health, economy and all that.

In which case, isn't the Darwin principle already being applied?

[SpontaneousOrder]

Oh, that's nasty....

That was a double whammy.

[vetran]

southern Irish female accents for me.

The mortgage arranger is from around Dublin. 2 hours on the phone - yummy.

Or Outer Parisienne.

[TykeMerc]

No one likes their women to sound too intelligent.

Oh, that's nasty....

[SpontaneousOrder]

There's something about a female welsh voice... so sexy

No one likes their women to sound too intelligent.

[original PM]

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.

[Dark Black]

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

[Pondlife]

and that tit from the stereophonics.

He died. HTH

[I just need to test it]

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

[minestrone]

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

[BrilloPad]

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....

[eek]

How do you say "burning holiday homes" in Welsh?

llosgi tai haf

[I just need to test it]

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.

[ZARDOZ]

How do you say "burning holiday homes" in Welsh?