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Why is MSE insulting the Welsh?

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Seems a bit rude to me! :rotfl:
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  • HampshireH
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    :rotfl:I reread it a few times too
  • diggingdude
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    I'm Welsh, I want a discount
    An answer isn't spam just because you don't like it......
  • iammumtoone
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    :rotfl:I only glanced at it but now you have pointed it out, that is hilarious. Do they not have anyone at MSE who proof reads?
  • Davesnave
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    edited 28 March 2019 at 8:28AM
    Glad someone has started a thread on this. No one has done so in Site Feedback and I can't find anything in Forum Policy & Rules to indicate a change of stance on the Welsh psyche.

    As a somewhat Welsh person with a Welsh name, I expect nothing less than a full apology from Martin himself for this slight on Welsh mental health.*

    *It's true, I don't actually live in Wales, but if it weren't for the weather, the people and some of the architecture, I'd be over there enjoying the richness of my heritage.
  • LandyAndy
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    As a somewhat Welsh person with a Welsh name, I expect nothing less than a full apology from Martin himself for this slight on Welsh mental health.*

    .

    I had no idea Dave was a Welsh name.
  • theartfullodger
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    Surely all should be insulted - English, Welsh, Scots, Irish etc etc etc

    Artful: Sadly born England, dad born Old Kent Road 1903 considered himself Welsh, proud son of immigrant mum born in Brazil.
  • Davesnave
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    LandyAndy wrote: »
    I had no idea Dave was a Welsh name.
    Oh?

    And there's me, thinking St David's is in Pembrokeshire. :p
  • AndyTails
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    LandyAndy wrote: »
    I had no idea Dave was a Welsh name.

    If it was spelt Dafydd instead would you find it easier to believe?
  • LandyAndy
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    Davesnave wrote: »
    Oh?

    And there's me, thinking St David's is in Pembrokeshire. :p

    Ideas above your station? Says he who lived for 16 years in St Andrews Close. :cool:
  • LandyAndy
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    AndyTails wrote: »
    If it was spelt Dafydd instead would you find it easier to believe?

    I thought Dafydd was the welsh equivalent of David.

    What is the welsh equivalent of Dave? Daffy seems appropriate.
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