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TOP 10 HARDEST WELSHMEN

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This is turning into a hard mothers forum, looks like all us who pee standing up dont know what hard is!Mind you, I must admit this, but dont get no ideas, it aint no regular occurance, I once put a pair of heels on and walked down the shop in them for a dare.Hell, you girls ARE hard, my feet n calfs were in tatters for days after, I even skipped a coupla runs for few days later.And I been constipated badly a cupla times, dont suppose thats even 5% of childbirth but it was painful enuff for me to thank the Good Lord he gave me a penis!!!!!

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I was hoping someone put him in. Despite our Rugby side's succes in the 6 nations, there's not one guy there at the moment that stands out as a real hardman. I guess Joe could be hardest living Welshman,we'll see when all the votes are in how he fares against history. An iconic individual is what we are after here and he's certainly that.We got guys out in Iraq and Afghan who are doing real heroic hardman stuff as Im typing, and a few of mine are missing limbs and stuff n still cracking on and not cracking up. So its a kind of a given that these boys are hard and a few individuals are truly hard but theres been no VCs yet, although sometimes these things are very arbitary and need witnessing n verifying, I've known guys do stuff that deserve one but nobody could verify in the smoke n confusion you know.

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Ye definately a good choice Ceri, the criteria is just pure 'hard', not noble or kind to little kids n stuff. Actually old Charlie can be a perfect gent by all accounts.I've gone for Tasker, but my candidates were some Gododdin characters, Terry Cobner, Owain Glyndwr and Johnny Owen the stick man lightweight.

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Once again a dissproportionate number of candidates for such a small race of people, as in most fields, such as drinking, drugs, womanising and wifebeating, we are overepresented!Could be categorised in terms of activities, sport, warfare, politics, journalism, criminal violence etc, but we'll just go for a mix in that ten, I'll kick off with my contribution.Plenty of boxers, footballers and rugby boys but I restrict myself to one vote as we all have. We'll tot up in a couple of weeks. Ceri and me will compile the final ten.The late Sir Tasker Watkins VC. I had the honour of meeting him at Glam Wanderers Rugby club years ago, modest, unassuming, tiny,10stone wet through. This ol boy charged a company of Waffen ss, well dug in defence, machine gun posts, barbed wire, the lot, pretty much single handedly, and bayoneted shitloads before they did one in a hurry. Anyone in doubt, check him out on google.
updated by @gareth-williams: 12/05/15 01:42:32AM

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Next.Right, cant verify this for certain but as the late great Rich Burton used to say to Stan Baker, 'never let the truth spoil a good story'I personally believe theres got to be something in it, it was told to me by an old Welsh Canadian in The Harp in Bangor in the late 80sJust after the massacre at the Little Big Horn when Custer and his valiant (if imperialistic and misguided) 7th Cav boys got to get the good news off Sitting Bulls Warriors, the tribes knew the wrath of the States would come down on them so they hightailed it North across the border to the lands of the 'great white mother' where us Brits had a slightly different approach with natives (ask any well educated Indian, more British than the Brits, even today!)The district commissioner for Alberta was a bit pushed for manning and only a little Welsh mountie was available to go and lay the law down to these fearsome warriors.So off he goes, and rides on his own to where Sitting Bull was campedHe sees all the scalp poles etc and all the Native Americans look at him in wonder. Now remember, these guys had just recently wiped out a complete regiment of crack US cavalrymen.He asks politely to see Sitting Bull.The speech went something like this: 'Now look here you naughty Red Indian fellows, we've heard all about your shenanigans across the border and you'll have to face the music I guess but for now you can stay here under the protection of Victoria our great white mother across the never ending lake BUT YOU MUST BEHAVE YOURSELVES, do you understand?'Sitting Bull has all this interpreted to him and just nodds speechless.The little Taff says 'Good', turns his horse around and rides home.How terribly British.

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Any bizzare Welsh theme stories? stick them on here. I got the full sky sports package but since I met Ceri and Gabbi Im vastly entertained on this site and hardly watch tv. Duw I must be getting old eh, or maybe I need to get out more!!My mate Tom Lewis from Penmachno, Geography teacher (dont hold that against him!) and super tennis player, anyway he gets the Oxfordancestors dna package done see, just cos I got it done and Im pure pure Celt, he wants to get that result too.Anyways, it turns out that Longshanks employed a battalion of Navarrese/Gascon mountain shock troops in an attempt to ethnically cleanse the Snowdonia area, whenever his reign was, I forget. Well, we were well ahead of our time and wrote the book for the Mujahadeen and Vietcong, so this attempt became a bit entrenched, they managed to supress but didnt clear the pockets of resistance altogether. These Gascons started dwindling after a few years, ensnared no doubt by willing Welsh ladies starved of male companionship, settled the valleys of the North and kind of dissapeared into the 'celt stew'Tom comes over totally down with his results indicating his male lineage traces to Basque and Gascon.He says to me 'my ancestors were trying to butcher yours all those years ago, Im so so ashamed'I says 'Duw, dont worry Tom, we are still here'And he says 'Exactly, thats what Im pissed off with, my ancestors couldnt even get that f****** right!!!!!!'HAHAHA
updated by @gareth-williams: 12/04/15 03:57:45PM

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Cwrw Conwy is starting to kick off up here, plus we got these crazy Anglesey youngsters making their own toffee vodka 'toffok'!!! Seriously. Not a bitter drinker, big lager lout me but Conwy bitter is ok, and the vodka is ok too, bit pricey though.Ye, Hollywood gave William Wallace the nice guy treatment, factually however he was a right twat. and immensely ugly by all accounts. Maybe Mel should have chilled out, had a few fosters and gone for a drive!!!

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Our heroes are always sanitised.The GODODDIN were a pack of murdering, pilaging, looting,raping probably too, drunkards. Brave as you like though.The Princes werent exactly Princely, Llewelyn was an egotistic control freak who beat up women from some accounts. Dafydd was a treacherous bastard who'd sell his own brother for his own gain and did, not once but frequently.Owain Glyndwr was a bullying mercenary, happy enough to kill fellow Celts for English crown pay and favour in his youth, who used patriotism for his own purposes.And Henry Tudor was the meanest sonofa**** who ever sat on the English throne and had a claim on it based solely on his grandfathers bedroom skills with royal widows. So his granpa was a Welsh gigilo at English court ( Im getting on a bit but what an appealing job, do you think the Welsh bit would get me more business?)Yep, our heroes are so Welsh and quaint.But if Id have been alive at any of those times, I would probably have followed such men passionately to my death, and thanked them for the glory and priveliage of doing so.Now that is what being TRULY WELSH is about.Crack that beer barrel open wench while I spitroast another Scot? Frenchman? or is it an Englishman today, who cares, as long as its not South Walian, they taste horrible, its all that Brains bitter they drink down there. Plebs.
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And right now, I can say that I know what fear is. Real fear to me is living a wage slave for people who cant inspire and are afraid to make decisions. Let me face bullets bombs and deprivation any day of the week. Dim problem.Yes, the real battles for old soldier poets begins when they realise they have survived the bullets bombs and deprivation and that the pension isnt quite enough to cover the debris of the past, and that there is a lot of life yet to live.Thats when you have to become your very own warrior leader poet, stand on that box and give yourself an inspiring oratory!

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Hi Harold, Ceri.To lead fighting troops in war, one needs to have the touch of a poet in you (and his maddness), my personal experience and history confirms this 100%.In non threatening situations I can hardly put together anything orally inspiring, but when the shit hits the fan and a bunch o young guys go all quiet and look at you, theres nothing else to do apart from, well deliver a cheesy, almost poetic oratry, and they swallow it. Mind you I could recite the 10x table maybe, delivered with a bit of panache and gusto and it'd calm them right down!!Despite all technology and modern systems of, well, almost everything, ultimately, man moves out of a passion or desperation to survive, or a combination of both.Probably the greatest company commander I ever had, God rest his soul because he committed suicide some years ago now, but that is another story, where he ultimately failed to apply his military leadership to the 'real' world of 'life', anyways he always said'stand on an ammo box, look heroic, look them all in the eye intently and tell them that life without honour is already death, and that it comes soon enough anyway, so have a ball right now and rage hard men, rage hard'Now that, Gentlemen, IS poetry