Lee has decided the Welsh are pretty decent chaps, after all. They mauled a much stronger-looking English wing today at the battle of Tolpit's Meadow, probably preventing an outright defeat for the Lancastrians. Both sides backed off the field muttering threats after five rounds.
That's nowhere near grovelling enough for me to even think of changing my allegiance. ;)
Cheers - Phil. :)
I shall have to disabuse her of incorrect opinion !
It's the close harmony singing in a minor key that gives us the edge in advance to contact - demoralises the opposition. ;)
Quote from: Gwydion on 22 May 2021, 12:03:04 PM
It's the close harmony singing in a minor key that gives us the edge in advance to contact - demoralises the opposition. ;)
Unless they are Zulus :-bd :-bd
"The Welshman's dishonest and cheats when he can
And little and dark, more like monkey than man
He works underground with a lamp in his hat
And he sings far too loud, far too often, and flaaat!" - Flanders & Swann
:D :D :D
Quote from: Ithoriel on 22 May 2021, 01:13:16 PM
"The Welshman's dishonest and cheats when he can
And little and dark, more like monkey than man
He works underground with a lamp in his hat
And he sings far too loud, far too often, and flaaat!" - Flanders & Swann
:D :D :D
You missed the best lines - "The English the English are best
I wouldn't give tuppence for all the rest!"
Sorry, Phil. Lee won today. Byzantines against Persians.
Hun mercenaries played merry Hell with my cataphracts.
Huns can make a nusiance of themselves. Playing FoG 1 my Huns never lost ;)
Quote from: FierceKitty on 23 May 2021, 08:21:31 AM
Hun mercenaries played merry Hell with my cataphracts.
I think there's a good ointment you can get, that helps with the symptoms, Alexander.
Cheers - Dr Phil. ;)
One wonders when the English will get what muppets they can so often be. Gatling guns against the spear armed - fair play chaps.
Quote from: Leman on 23 May 2021, 10:15:04 AM
One wonders when the English will get what muppets they can so often be. Gatling guns against the spear armed - fair play chaps.
We used Gatling Guns on the Welsh?
Quote from: DecemDave on 23 May 2021, 10:20:42 AM
We used Gatling Guns on the Welsh?
Nah - never had Gatlings, we used Nordenfelts
Quote from: DecemDave on 23 May 2021, 10:20:42 AM
We used Gatling Guns on the Welsh?
I suspect Churchill would have done
Quote from: flamingpig0 on 23 May 2021, 02:32:11 PM
I suspect Churchill would have done
I doubt it - his mentor was David (Lloyd) Geiorge, actually born in Brum, but bought up in North Wales.
X_X
Quote from: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 23 May 2021, 02:43:23 PM
I doubt it - his mentor was David (Lloyd) Geiorge, actually born in Brum, but bought up in North Wales.
Some might disagree with you on that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonypandy_riots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonypandy_riots)
I learn to my delight that a rabbit prepared with tomato puree in the mix has been dubbed a blushing bunny.
Haven't had cheese on toast for ages......I like the idea of adding the tomato puree, Alexander ! That sounds yummy. :)
Cheers - Phil.
Amazing. I've spent 50+ years interested in history and had never heard of those riots. English bias to what I read maybe? There also seems to be a common recurring theme of populist protests over legit grievances which lead panicking authorities to send in the troops and things then go really bad. Peasants revolt, clubmen, Peterloo, the Troubles, .....
Good job Thatcher didnt use the army in 1984. or maybe she did
discuss. :d :d
Lets leave it that she would have liked to. Remember in 1910 there were no instantaneous mass media, it was limited to newspapers run by such unbasied people as Berverbrooke and Lord North...in 84 there were 5 TV channels and many radio stations.
Featherstone 'massacre' 1893. South Staffs fired on supposedly rioting miners - shot 2 dead.
Often quoted as the last time in England that soldiers turned their guns on the British people.
Not the last time in Britain though-
Llanelli riots 1911 (connected to the general industrial problems that caused the Tonypandy riots): The Worcestershire Regiment shot two men dead, one a tin plate worker supporting the striking railwaymen, and one a bystander in his garden. (British marksmanship down a grade in rules for the era?)
Oh - David LlG? Born in Manchester (I know all English cities look the same) not Brum. Supposedly the only PM who has had English as his second language - many others only sound as if they are not native speakers.