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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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Originally Posted by
Tuerto
I think that you're wrong mate. I saw it on a sticker of the back window of a Corsa. I'll just add that there are plenty of people in Wales whose 'other' car is a Ferrari as well. Culture.
My career as a cartographer has obviously been a total waste :hehe:
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
Not so. Wales is 8,000 square miles in area. England is 50,000. That 8,000 square miles could not exceed 50,000 square miles when flattened out. (And England's area would expand even more if it was flattened out).
Which is what I think bobh is saying, isn't it... i.e. not true.
"Things About Wales That Are Untrue - If Wales was squashed flat it would be bigger than England"
Well, that's the way I read it, anyway! :hehe:
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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cardiff55
In the mid 1980s I was working on the building of the A470 around Aberfan/Merthyr Vale. A younger engineers stopped work one day at about 3pm and looked out the window, as he wanted to see the dirty miners walking home from the pit whilst they sang! True.
Were they singing 'Maggie Maggie Maggie Out Out Out'? Twas a popular ditty at the time if I recall.
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
The women are generally slappers :hide:
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
My career as a cartographer has obviously been a total waste :hehe:
You can learn plenty of you keep your eyes peeled. A little secret, I was behind a ford Mondeo on the M5 some time ago and apparently, there was a 'Princess on Board' I kid you not.
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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BlueArmy 86
The women are generally slappers :hide:
Many a city slicker has come up the valleys thinking they can buy our women half a lager just before closing..
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
Not so. Wales is 8,000 square miles in area. England is 50,000. That 8,000 square miles could not exceed 50,000 square miles when flattened out. (And England's area would expand even more if it was flattened out).
He was quite right, the post about things that are untrue in Wales.
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
It’s colder in Ebbw Vale, Tredegar and surrounding areas than it is at the North Pole, Not a lot of difference mind you in the winter.
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There's a sleeping giant in Cardiff :hide:
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Come home to a real fire 🔥
Buy a holiday home in North Wales
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That people from Wales always sh1t on the other side of the bridge.
Sometimes they just don’t quite make it hence the colour of the water around the bridge.
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
That it's God's country
They also say that about Yorkshire, Scotland and Ireland
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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SLUDGE FACTORY
That it's God's country
They also say that about Yorkshire, Scotland and Ireland
It is.
The rest are lying.
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
Not so. Wales is 8,000 square miles in area. England is 50,000. That 8,000 square miles could not exceed 50,000 square miles when flattened out. (And England's area would expand even more if it was flattened out).
So its untrue, then.
As in the thread title.
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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Originally Posted by
Rock_Flock_of_Five
Which is what I think bobh is saying, isn't it... i.e. not true.
"Things About Wales That Are Untrue - If Wales was squashed flat it would be bigger than England"
Well, that's the way I read it, anyway! :hehe:
:thumbup:
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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Originally Posted by
Tuerto
I think that you're wrong mate. I saw it on a sticker of the back window of a Corsa. I'll just add that there are plenty of people in Wales whose 'other' car is a Ferrari as well. Culture.
I once saw a porche with a sticker on the back which had been amended to
"My other car is ALSO a Porche.
Flash Barsteward.
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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Originally Posted by
Cleve van Leef
It’s colder in Ebbw Vale, Tredegar and surrounding areas than it is at the North Pole, Not a lot of difference mind you in the winter.
I spent the early 1960s living in Garnlydan, just north of Ebbw Vale.
Ice ferns on the inside of windows, and in the 63 winter we tunnelled through a snowdrift that reached the roof.
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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RonnieBird
According to the venerable Bede there was a tiny Norse settlement in Llandath in the 7th century founded by Northmen who sought refuge after being driven out of the Thyords because of their speech impediments.
I hear they never really settled down here.
They were always 'Pining for the Thyords'
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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Tuerto
You're right, Dagenham way. ****ing huge, housed loads of the ford plant workers.
I am/was under the impression there are a lot of relocated Scots people who moved down south for work n Dagenham
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Sheep shagging is alive and well in this part of the world
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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light up the darkness
I am/was under the impression there are a lot of relocated Scots people who moved down south for work n Dagenham
Corby in Northants definitely had a load of skirtwearers move in
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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The Bloop
Were they singing 'Maggie Maggie Maggie Out Out Out'? Twas a popular ditty at the time if I recall.
No, but I was! I doubt if my colleague was as his dad was chairman of the Halifax Building Society.
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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Originally Posted by
Tuerto
You can learn plenty of you keep your eyes peeled. A little secret, I was behind a ford Mondeo on the M5 some time ago and apparently, there was a 'Princess on Board' I kid you not.
Good lord. A step up from Baby On Board then.
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Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue
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Taunton Blue Genie
Good lord. A step up from Baby On Board then.
That one irks me s bit "Slow Down-Baby On Board!" Yeah, like I was going to crash into you if there were only adults on board.
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