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Thread: Things About Wales that Are Untrue

  1. #51

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
    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

  2. #52

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
    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!

  3. #53

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    Quote Originally Posted by cardiff55 View Post
    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.

  4. #54

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    The women are generally slappers

  5. #55

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
    My career as a cartographer has obviously been a total waste
    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.

  6. #56

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    Quote Originally Posted by BlueArmy 86 View Post
    The women are generally slappers
    Many a city slicker has come up the valleys thinking they can buy our women half a lager just before closing..

  7. #57

    Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue

    Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
    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.

  8. #58

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    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.

  9. #59

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    There's a sleeping giant in Cardiff

  10. #60

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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.

  12. #62

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    That it's God's country

    They also say that about Yorkshire, Scotland and Ireland

  13. #63

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    Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
    That it's God's country

    They also say that about Yorkshire, Scotland and Ireland
    It is.

    The rest are lying.

  14. #64

    Re: Things About Wales that Are Untrue

    Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
    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.

  15. #65

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five View Post
    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!

  16. #66

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
    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.

  17. #67

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cleve van Leef View Post
    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.

  18. #68

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    Quote Originally Posted by RonnieBird View Post
    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

    Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
    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

  21. #71

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    Quote Originally Posted by light up the darkness View Post
    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

  22. #72

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Bloop View Post
    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.

  23. #73

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
    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.

  24. #74

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    Quote Originally Posted by Taunton Blue Genie View Post
    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.

  25. #75

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    They are fish!

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