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[challenge entry] what've they ever done for us?

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(I helped save b3ta! Ya What Skiddlyboop, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 12:03, archived)
# Well, we upset Anne Robinson for a start.
I speak as ambassador to Wales.
(DolphinWhipperer, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 12:38, archived)
# Caerphilly cheese and Eisteddfod.
Lloyd George, Manic Street Preachers, Dylan Thomas and Charlotte Church.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 12:43, archived)
# Aneurin Bevan
Instrumental in the establishment of the NHS...
(DolphinWhipperer, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 12:46, archived)
# Let's not forget
"perfick" Catherine Zeta Jones.
(I helped save b3ta! Smallbrainfield, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 12:52, archived)
# And Tom Jornes
(DolphinWhipperer, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 12:59, archived)
#
Well in recent times culturally I suppose, Dylan Thomas, Gruff Rhys, Super Furry Animals, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, 9bach, Griff Rhys Jones,
Peter Baynham, Rob Brydon, Terry Jones, Shirley Bassey, Ryhs Ifans, Anthony Hopkins and Irvine Welsh to name but a few.
Also it was a Welshman (David Edward Hughes) who invented the microphone.

Then there's Glamorgan sausages, leek and potato soup, faggots, Welsh rarebit and Welshcakes.

You can keep Rhod Gilbert though Wales, you dick!
(Cakie So very tired..., Sat 14 Jun 2014, 14:06, archived)
# Irvine Welsh?
The Scottish author?
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 14:59, archived)
# I was wondering how long that would take.
;)
(Cakie So very tired..., Sat 14 Jun 2014, 15:03, archived)
# wahey
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 13:05, archived)
# The Welsh invented package holidays too!
(DolphinWhipperer, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 13:07, archived)
# Fuck HS2..employ this simian now!!
(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 15:19, archived)
# I love this!
(I helped save b3ta! cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 19:21, archived)
# The Cornish gave us pasties, clotted cream & inbreeding I'll have you know
*not necessarily in that order
(I helped save b3ta! hekim 66 ɐŹ‡Ęš’ ŹžÉ”nā„² uooW, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 13:14, archived)
# this is an interesting
*wonders where Cornwall comes into it*
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 13:21, archived)
# Just to the left of Devon
(I helped save b3ta! hekim 66 ɐŹ‡Ęš’ ŹžÉ”nā„² uooW, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 13:22, archived)
# Cornwall along with Wales were the places the English fled to when the Romans and later the French invaded.
The Welsh and Cornish languages are more English than modern English, which is now largely made up of the Romance languages as opposed to what would have been Germanic/Celtic in structure, pre invasion.
(Cakie So very tired..., Sat 14 Jun 2014, 14:21, archived)
# Eh?
(Excuse me if I've missed the point here).

The English hadn't even been invented when the Romans were here. In any meaningful sense, the English (define them as you will), didn't come along until about the 10th century.

As for your remarks on the languages, well...

...and don't get me started on Dylan Bastard Thomas! Talentless verbose piss-head...
(judge62 Captcha must die!!, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 22:58, archived)
# ok, but apart from...
Etc, etc...
(I helped save b3ta! Ya What Skiddlyboop, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 13:18, archived)
# tell him
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 13:22, archived)
# There are more Hawaiian words in the english language than Welsh ones.
Trufacts.
(I helped save b3ta! Marxist Pig Better Red Than Smeg, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 13:20, archived)
# Real home fires
(I helped save b3ta! Nuisance Value, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 14:01, archived)
# Burning English holiday cottages doesn't constitute "home fires".
(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 15:20, archived)
# I'm glad somebody got it, it is a tad old now.
I remember the Not the Nine O'clock News advert in their book which went along the lines of..
"Come home to a real fire,
Buy a cottage in Wales"

I wonder if there could be a resurgence in this kind of thing, what with house prices and all that?
(I helped save b3ta! Nuisance Value, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 16:01, archived)
# I'm glad you appreciate the help from another old timer!
(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Sat 14 Jun 2014, 20:15, archived)
# Well, it wasn't the Welsh that actually did that.
The Free Wales Army was composed almost entirely of undercover policemen and secret policemen. All spying and informing on each other. In the name of democracy and keeping the public safe of course.
And the plain fact is that most of the "arson attacks" were simply insurance fraud.
(I helped save b3ta! stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sat 14 Jun 2014, 19:09, archived)
# Why is a bear eating Ilfracombe?
(Richy_T hundreds if not thousands of dollars, Sun 15 Jun 2014, 21:38, archived)