& now the Welsh
AA Gill, writing in The Times on matter pertaining to the Principality…
In 15 years of being a critic, I’ve had serious death threats only twice: once from Albania and once from Wales.
The Albanians just said they’d kill my whole family, rape my sisters, cut off my head with a rusty bread knife and p*ss down the hole in my neck. The Welsh promised all that and then went on to send me dozens of used tampons, t*rds, bullets, garden furniture, replacement windows, ornamental thimbles, wheelchairs, offers from lonely dogging enthusiasts, complaints to the Commission for Racial Equality and the Press Complaints Commission.
And finally, a Welsh MP marched into a police station and demanded a plod be dispatched to arrest me for principality treason. He’s still out there somewhere, with a warrant chipped into a standing stone, or possibly two standing stones, one in English, one in Welsh.
The Welsh bruise easier than ripe peaches; they have insult detectors more sensitive than a bat in a thunderstorm. They can take offence at silence, and nothing in the world has skin as gossamer-fine as a Welshman with a grievance.
I think it best that take the 5th at this point, having got into trouble is the past on this topic. Having taken formal legal advice I now fully accept that the Welsh do not have an inferiority complex the size of their dole queues
Comments
They do, nice folk but a bit chippy!
Posted by: TimC | February 28, 2008 10:39 AM
Since when can a British Subject take the 5th Amendment of the American Constitution? :)
Posted by: SSG Jeff (USAR) | February 28, 2008 5:30 PM
They are even harder on each other.
Loyalty only to a local leader, and more interested in using the invader to get back at their enemies in Wales rather than fighting said invader.
Lather, rinse, and repeat for several generations, and all the patriots are dead, and nothing remains but snitches and toadies.
This is how cultures, ones that can not get their acts together long enough to drive out an invader, die.
Posted by: Kristopher | February 28, 2008 6:44 PM
Kristopher,
And later it's how they come to be in the thrall of socialists, pc morons and other oportunistic scumbags.
Posted by: The Remittance Man | February 29, 2008 5:56 AM
No commentary on the Welsh would be complete without at least some reference to Max Boyce, Gareth Evans and sheep.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | February 29, 2008 5:15 PM