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if you missed it, on the bbc iplayer, there was a bbc 3 programme called Rob Brydon's Identity Crisis - very touching and funny it was...all about being welsh...

but then again, you can't get freeview of a decent broadband connect down a mine can ewe?

*please note i am jesting, i believe there is some welsh blood running through my hairy veins, my mum's maiden name is flewelling*

That can't be a real language

"Mae Cymraeg yn iaith twp fodd bynnag".

twp????
What happened to vowels? How is that even pronounced?
Sigh.

I get Welsh place names from people at work and I cry when it comes up on screen

6. The only time a cheque for working at a wedding reception has bounced on me was in Wales. Merthyr Tydfill. The cheque bounced and then they never sent another one despite hundreds of phonce calls. I gave up in the end. Whoever heard of ripping people off on your wedding day?

If anyone knows Merthyr, the wedding receptin was held at the football ground venue - called Strikers if memory serves. Shudder.

themagicwand wrote:6. The only time a cheque for working at a wedding reception has bounced on me was in Wales. Merthyr Tydfill. The cheque bounced and then they never sent another one despite hundreds of phonce calls. I gave up in the end. Whoever heard of ripping people off on your wedding day?

If anyone knows Merthyr, the wedding receptin was held at the football ground venue - called Strikers if memory serves. Shudder.

Fancy pulling a con like that; that is appalling behaviour. What pathetic lives those people must lead. So sad.

I am originally from Merthyr. (Now living in Mansfield)
So I will take the brunt Magicwand and apologise on behalf of everyone from Merthyr
SORRY!

taffymagic78 wrote:I am originally from Merthyr. (Now living in Mansfield)
So I will take the brunt Magicwand and apologise on behalf of everyone from Merthyr
SORRY!

That's okay. You're forgiven.

1) I ride the unicycle but don't juggle, which is a source of mild embarrassment as they go together so well.

2) I have scared Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen's children by throwing bangers (firecrackers) er, near them.

3) I ought not to really be alive - my dad once put his tongue over the mains socket (because when you put your tongue on a battery, you get a buzz, so he thought he'd get a better buzz from a socket ) and was subseqently blasted across the room, and, with the help of his friend, brought an unexploded shell home from a beach, put it in a vice and started hitting it with a hammer and nail, until my grandfather walked in to see what they were doing...

4) Despite not having the best of memories for every day things, I have a phenomenal memory for lines from films. I frequently quote something, to which people will jokingly ask "how many times have you seen that?!" and the answer will be - once, five years ago.

5) Apparently a distant relative of mine stowed away on one of Shackleton's expeditions, putting further strain on the already heavily rationed supplies. I can't imagine he was the most popular guy in the world.

Oh well....

1) I have had an attempt made on my life.

2) I have been to prison.

3) I have been locked up in a mental hospital.

4) I have the dubious honour of being considered one of the worst 14 children in the country.

5) All of the above happened before I was sixteen years old.



BTW...my life is much better now, thank you.

Best wishes
Gary

Gary Dickson wrote:
1) I have had an attempt made on my life.

Hmm don't think I'll try to follow that with my story of throwing stones at Keith Harris in Scarborough when I was 14....

Hmm, OK.

1) I'm currently unemployed.

2) From 12 to 16 I suffered from gender dysphoria.

3) I play heavy metal on an acoustic guitar.

4) I'm acquainted with George Galloway and he once offered to spank me.

5) Michael Vincent recently emailed me to encourage me to keep up the card magic.

you may like this then kate (if you haven't heard it already)...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-Manchester ... 144&sr=8-4

ah the guitar...not touched one for about 2 years now...but have been playing it since i was around 14...*takes off socks* - so for 20-22 years now...

Hmm don't think I'll try to follow that with my story of throwing stones at Keith Harris in Scarborough when I was 14....

Yeah..sorry about that. When I saw the thread my responses (which are true) buzzed around my head so I had to get them out really. So, on a lighter note......

1) When I was 12, at a festival, my sisters and I walked round the site, scrounged money off people, bought toilet paper and resold it at an extortionate price.

2) I cooked a vegetarian roast dinner on a Buddhist camping retreat where it rained solidly for a week and the kitchen tent was a sea of mud.

3) I make my own incense.

4) I keep spontaneously giving my Zippo to people as a gift and having to buy a new one. I've gone through about ten in the last two years.

5) I busk with djembes (big African hand drums)...... so if you're in Nottingham on a Friday or Saturday night follow the sound of the drums and stop and say hello!