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Lolly said:
Oh, I thought you were Welsh.
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That brings up a question I've never thought about.

Is Wales to be considered part of Pomgolia? How about Scotland and Northern Ireland?

Without Googling, I would have said 'Yes' to Wales and 'No' to the other two, but I have no kind of explanation as to why I'd say that.
 
Akhenaten said:
Is Wales to be considered part of Pomgolia? How about Scotland and Northern Ireland?
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Well, to me they aren't, I think of pommies as English and I think of England as different to Wales, Scotland or Ireland. But that's probably just me.
 
No, not just you, really.

I've never considered any of the divisions of the UK to be part of England either.

But it may be that I've considered Pomgolia (pommieland, whatever) to be Great Britain, and that does have Wales in it.

I really just haven't thought it through at all until just now, and I still haven't, I guess.

Daf will educate us,

:)


ETA: I've just recalled that the proper Strayian name for the fine Welsh people is 'Taffs' or 'taffies', but that doesn't really enlighten me much.
 
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Regardless of whether it's in Great Britain or the United Kingdom, I still think of them as different places - I know that's probably incorrect. I wouldn't call a welshman a pommie, in any event, to me pommies are English.
 
Akhenaten said:
That brings up a question I've never thought about.

Is Wales to be considered part of Pomgolia? How about Scotland and Northern Ireland?

Without Googling, I would have said 'Yes' to Wales and 'No' to the other two, but I have no kind of explanation as to why I'd say that.
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I can give you an explanation of your thought processes - though I still wouldn't call us Welshies 'Poms' as I think that's definitely a name for the Saes (English) alone: technically Wales isn't a separate country from England, it's a Principality of England - whereas Scotland and NI are not. However almost all Welsh people (and indeed most English people but for inverted reasons) think of it as separate country - or at least as separate as the other two. Even me - and I'm about as anti-devolution as they come (whilst still a passionate Welshman). Legally though, it's part of England - though the relatively recent establishment of the Welsh Assembly blurs that a bit.
 
Yep. I've finished my thinking it through, and I'm with you 100%.


10 points to Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. Goodness knows where that fellow from Gryffindor has gotten to.
 
Ethan Thane Athen said:
I can give you an explanation of your thought processes - though I still wouldn't call us Welshies 'Poms' as I think that's definitely a name for the Saes (English) alone: technically Wales isn't a separate country from England, it's a Principality of England - whereas Scotland and NI are not. However almost all Welsh people (and indeed most English people but for inverted reasons) think of it as separate country - or at least as separate as the other two. Even me - and I'm about as anti-devolution as they come (whilst still a passionate Welshman). Legally though, it's part of England - though the relatively recent establishment of the Welsh Assembly blurs that a bit.
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Perfect timing, Gryffindor! 30 points.

You've described my thinking exactly.

Is taffy OK? I mean nothing but respect when I use it.

Is saes Welsh for those sassenach invaders from Pomgolia?


Thanks very, very much for your timely response, Three-Named-One.


:)
 
Lolly said:
Regardless of whether it's in Great Britain or the United Kingdom, I still think of them as different places - I know that's probably incorrect. I wouldn't call a welshman a pommie, in any event, to me pommies are English.
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I didn't know that,I thought that all Brits were pommies.So it's only the Saes then.
 
Akhenaten said:
Perfect timing, Gryffindor! 30 points.

You've described my thinking exactly.

Is taffy OK? I mean nothing but respect when I use it.

Is saes Welsh for those sassenach invaders from Pomgolia?


Thanks very, very much for your timely response, Three-Named-One.


:)
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Saes means Saxon.We have long memories.
 
dafydd said:
Saes means Saxon.We have long memories.
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I've had a thing about the Hittites for 3½ thousand years, so I can relate to that.


dafydd said:
The Welsh are the Irish who couldn't swim.
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:D

So the Welsh living in Belgium, are they 'Welgians' or 'Belsh'?


Lolly said:
Don't pay too much attention to what I think. I'm peculiar, remember.
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'tis an entry requirement for this thread. Be proud.

:)
 
Akhenaten said:
I've had a thing about the Hittites for 3½ thousand years, so I can relate to that.





:D

So the Welsh living in Belgium, are they 'Welgians' or 'Belsh'?





'tis an entry requirement for this thread. Be proud.

:)
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Deleted,I'd better not.
 
Akhenaten said:
I've had a thing about the Hittites for 3½ thousand years, so I can relate to that.





:D

So the Welsh living in Belgium, are they 'Welgians' or 'Belsh'?





'tis an entry requirement for this thread. Be proud.

:)
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Ok,I thought that the only requirement was a criminal record.
 
:) Desirable, but in order to get the population moving along they had to drop it from the 'Must Have' list.

Aussies generally embrace their convict past with gusto, and a provable link to convict origins is worn as a badge of honour.


I thank you, sincerely, for taking the time to consider any potential offence you might have caused. What a top bloke you are.

:WALES:
 
Although they had no first aid class, Egyptians were not dummies. They knew the art of bandaging, They learned it from their Mummies.
 
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