Author Topic: Interesting facts about Wales (Read 13559 times)

Efrogwr · « **Reply #25 on:** 30 July, 2018, 05:51:28 pm »

According to Wikipedia, the number of Welsh serial killers is the same as the number that attended
my school.

hellymedic · « **Reply #26 on:** 30 July, 2018, 06:29:36 pm »

'I went to Wales on a Sunday but it was closed.'

cycleman · « **Reply #27 on:** 30 July, 2018, 06:46:35 pm »

Wales now has added basil

Kim · « **Reply #28 on:** 30 July, 2018, 06:48:20 pm »

Quote from: cycleman on 30 July, 2018, 06:46:35 pm

Wales now has added basil

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=102876.0 refers

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #29 on:** 30 July, 2018, 06:55:34 pm »

There are two words for mile on Welsh road signs. Milltir and Filltir. That's because some numbers have a different gender in Welsh. Gender also depends on whether you're using the old or new counting systems.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #30 on:** 30 July, 2018, 07:08:27 pm »

If Wales were flattened out it would be bigger than England.

Exit Stage Left · « **Reply #31 on:** 30 July, 2018, 07:20:39 pm »

Wales is actually 1,000 square miles smaller, and has three fifths of the population of South West England.

There are probably more tenors in Wales though.

chrisbainbridge · « **Reply #32 on:** 30 July, 2018, 07:29:56 pm »

Quote

There are probably more tenors in Wales though

who can sing

Ben T · « **Reply #33 on:** 30 July, 2018, 07:36:20 pm »

If you went back 800 years in england, you wouldn't be able to understand the english language spoken at the time.

But if you speak welsh, and went back 800 years in wales, you would. But if you went to the next valley, you might not.

So I've heard.

Efrogwr · « **Reply #34 on:** 30 July, 2018, 07:53:38 pm »

Courtney Love liked Newport so much that she named her band after it.

Steph · « **Reply #35 on:** 30 July, 2018, 09:12:01 pm »

Quote from: Efrogwr on 30 July, 2018, 05:40:19 pm

Until 1974 a small part of England was Welsh, and a larger part of Wales was English.

Newport is one of the bits tranferred from England. I wonder if they'd like to have it back?

Until Hengist et al the whole of England and a chunk of Scotland were Welsh.

Canardly · « **Reply #36 on:** 30 July, 2018, 09:12:20 pm »

Liz one spoke fluent Welsh.

hellymedic · « **Reply #37 on:** 31 July, 2018, 12:43:04 am »

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45012357

Pedaldog. · « **Reply #38 on:** 31 July, 2018, 12:46:50 am »

I got attacked in Cardiff, 1979 February on a Sunday evening and in RAF uniform. I still have a scar/slash on the front of my lower lip that means I can't drink a cup of coffee without a dribble leaking down the side of the cup. I "Gave" them their knife back.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #39 on:** 31 July, 2018, 01:58:03 am »

Quote from: Efrogwr on 30 July, 2018, 07:53:38 pm

Courtney Love liked Newport so much that she named her band after it.

We have a winner

rogerzilla · « **Reply #40 on:** 31 July, 2018, 07:37:38 am »

Wales is one of only two countries with a dragon on its flsg.

Jaded · « **Reply #41 on:** 31 July, 2018, 08:20:21 am »

Wales has many slow arafs.

Efrogwr · « **Reply #42 on:** 31 July, 2018, 08:42:53 am »

The biggest, and most important, town in Wales is Llwybr Cyhoeddus. It's signposted from absolutely everywhere.

Ian H · « **Reply #43 on:** 31 July, 2018, 09:22:37 am »

Quote from: Canardly on 30 July, 2018, 09:12:20 pm

Liz one spoke fluent Welsh.

A Welsh-speaking friend of mine once said that South Walian was easy, it was just English words with 'o' on the end.

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #44 on:** 31 July, 2018, 11:23:28 am »

Quote from: Jaded on 31 July, 2018, 08:20:21 am

Wales has many slow arafs.

Is a Slow Araf anything like a Slow Loris?

Kim · « **Reply #45 on:** 31 July, 2018, 11:26:44 am »

Quote from: Mr Larrington on 31 July, 2018, 11:23:28 am

Quote from: Jaded on 31 July, 2018, 08:20:21 am
Wales has many slow arafs.

Is a Slow Araf anything like a Slow Loris?

Sort of, in that it hangs upside-down from a tree looking sleepy and harmless during the day. At sunset it turns into a deranged wowbadger-like creature, determined to collide with the wheel of an unwary cyclist.

In an effort to reduce cycling injuries, the Welsh government have helpfully marked the locations of slow arafs by painting the road.

ElyDave · « **Reply #46 on:** 31 July, 2018, 11:33:14 am »

Apparently they make very good bread in Wales, heavenly according to some.

They also make bread from seaweed

Basil · « **Reply #47 on:** 31 July, 2018, 12:25:23 pm »

Laverbread isn't actually bread.

snail · « **Reply #48 on:** 31 July, 2018, 02:32:58 pm »

Quote from: Jaded on 31 July, 2018, 08:20:21 am

Wales has many slow arafs.

I went to uni in Wales. My mum came to visit me. After driving through the hilly twisty turny peaks and valleys, she arrived in Aberystwyth and said, "You wouldn't think there would be all these RAF stations here, with all the hills."

citoyen · « **Reply #49 on:** 31 July, 2018, 02:53:37 pm »

Quote from: Basil on 31 July, 2018, 12:25:23 pm

Laverbread isn't actually bread.

Welsh cakes aren't cakes either.

Both are very tasty though. As long as you don't eat them together.

Author Topic: Interesting facts about Wales (Read 13559 times)

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