In my experience, the welsh all seem to have a bit of a chip on their shoulder about the English. Don't really understand what that's all about, but probably something to do with our Kings and Queens ruling them like dogs. Probably about time they got over it really, but they don't seem to have, so might as well poke fun at them about it. @luvgonzo might be able to shed some light on this ...
Drowning my sorrows. Got to be up early to take the boy to a pre-season friendly in the rain. Not rock and roll.
The only Welsh that actually 'hate' the English are the weird talking troll ****s in the north. I've lived in South Wales 25 years and never had so much as a negative comment. There's plenty of casually racist English bastard stuff about here and there, generally when rugby comes into it, but as we're all so ridiculously sanitised and PC it's actually quite welcome, means you can give them the **** you in return. You'd think the place was 3rd world the way you all bang on about it for **** sake. Ironic given Piskie lives in ****ing Cornwall.
And another Welsh fearer lives in Kidderminster! You couldn't make it up. The arse of the entire world.
Yeah I ain't excusing the Cornish fella. They've got as big a chip on their shoulder about the English as the Welsh have. I couldn't really give a **** about any of the ethnic divides as I'm not into any of this nationalistic ****e. We're all Anglo Saxons or Celts on this island. (apart from 20th century immigration) I just like teasing ****ers as they like to make a big deal about it.
I used to watch test cricket but struggle with that now. Don’t mind a bit of ODI and still really enjoy T20. I don’t enjoy watching the boy play cricket as it is the most individual of team sports and I get incredibly nervous. Much happier watching him play football so I can blame the left back for delivering a **** pass.
Yes, I’ve experienced it myself, and I’m going back to the old days of the 5 nations rugby Never had any problems in Dublin - in fact it was usually a blast - win or lose. Paris, usual **** you get in Paris if you’re English, but nothing too bad. Even Edinburgh. Plenty of rivalry, but never any open hostility. Only place we ever experienced that was Cardiff, I remember a bunch of us walked out of more than one pub because the atmosphere was so hostile it was all gonna kick off if we didn’t.
You're talking about in a sporting context. If you think that's what it's like on daily basis you need your head looked at. I might as well say exactly the same thing about 'all' Scousers.
We were there in a sporting context. And that’s how we saw it and took it - win or lose. But we most definitely experienced really threatening behaviour for no other perceivable reason than we were English. Admittedly, we were never physically attacked or it really would have kicked right off, but the underlying threat was there all right.
My experiences have never been in a sporting context and in two cases were definitely because I/we were English. However there's no way I'm suggesting that it's like that everyday in Wales, more that I've just been unlucky in meeting some right dickheads when I've stayed there.
Also got first nipper cricket session tomorrow morning. Welcome change, just sit and watch and have a coffee and ignore every ****. Had enough of the football now. There's a 'festival' every weekend through summer. Well, bollocks to it. No wonder kids get bored ****less by it.
