We need to talk about Wales....
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Rita_Poon
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Australia: Scores of false killer whales to be euthanised after mass stranding in Tasmania
Though 90 of the 157 stranded whales survived, they could not be saved due to complex conditions.
www.bbc.co.uk
would/could have been an environmental addition to a thread. Been some strange mass strandings in recent years.
Calzaghe, the best boxer to come from these isles. Had the class of Messi and Federer.
His 12 round mauling of the unbeaten world champion Jeff Lacy is my 2nd favourite fight (Nigel Benn knocking seven shades of [Poor language removed] out of Gerald McClellan being the top pick).
This display had Sugar Ray Leonard out of his seat at home asking who the hell is this?
duncs pigeon
Player Valuation: £35m
Born in England wasnt he?
tommye
Player Valuation: £100m
goldfinchmule
Player Valuation: £8m
Nye Bevan..a hero to the working class.
As someone who does a hell of a lot of driving for work, I quite like 20mph limits. I find them quite calming. Driving in London is loads better with a 20 limit.
Every rugby (union or league) supporter I've ever met was fat.
Every rugby (union or league) supporter has harboured an irrational dislike towards football players/fans.
Not good for your blood pressure a) being fat b) being fat and angry
Back on topic though, Welsh people are usually alright. The men have them big booming voices, they sound proper proud. Try to pronounce the name of their towns and your tonsils are tied in knots.
Every rugby (union or league) supporter has harboured an irrational dislike towards football players/fans.
Not good for your blood pressure a) being fat b) being fat and angry
Back on topic though, Welsh people are usually alright. The men have them big booming voices, they sound proper proud. Try to pronounce the name of their towns and your tonsils are tied in knots.
Gwladys St. Glory
Grumpelicious middle-aged git
Goat gets talked about enough.
Ohhhhh, wales without an h.
Ohhhhh, wales without an h.
Another life changing contribution from the Welsh. Invention of mail order, transforming shopping by selecting and purchasing from home.
"Pryce Jones could only dream of the impact his entrepreneurial vision would have on the world when he was selling Welsh flannel to Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale in the late 1800s. Jones is credited as being the pioneer of a global mail order industry now worth about £75bn.
Forget the internet and delivery drivers, Pryce Jones used the superhighway of the day - the railway and parcel post.
He didn't have an app or website, but in 1861 he started delivering catalogues - thought to be the world's first mail order catalogue - of his latest fashion items, from bloomers to a three-piece suit, to his 200,000 customers around the UK and the world."
Christmas: The mail order pioneer who started a billion-pound industry
How a 19th Century draper "set up a company similar to Amazon" and created a billion pound industry.
www.bbc.co.uk
"Pryce Jones could only dream of the impact his entrepreneurial vision would have on the world when he was selling Welsh flannel to Queen Victoria and Florence Nightingale in the late 1800s. Jones is credited as being the pioneer of a global mail order industry now worth about £75bn.
Forget the internet and delivery drivers, Pryce Jones used the superhighway of the day - the railway and parcel post.
He didn't have an app or website, but in 1861 he started delivering catalogues - thought to be the world's first mail order catalogue - of his latest fashion items, from bloomers to a three-piece suit, to his 200,000 customers around the UK and the world."
larrygobfiend
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If it’s so bad, why do you keep coming here ya scruffy little dangleberries.
WALES
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