welsh kilts
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... and, sorry, additionally, if it's good enough for Her Majesty, it's good enough for us:
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welsh kilts
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THREE PAGES of kilt discussion?! I have only this to say:
welsh kilts
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I like kilts on men but I DON'T like the idea of Welsh tartan - it seems too fake and Disneyland-ish to me and too much like desperately copying Scotland to get some attention or something. Let's find out what our own things are and do those. I think if you have to wear a kilt to be a piper and you want it to be Welsh, how about Draig Goch or plain leather kilts?Vin Diesel in awesome black kilt from 21st Century Kilts http://www.21stcenturykilts.com/celebrityclients.htm# www.kiltednation.com
TOP 10 HARDEST WELSHMEN
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Yes, it does, now that you mention it. I'd really like to know just exactly who the top 10 hardest Welshmen are.
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I don't know how I got to this but I was looking up Jimmy Driscoll and I came across Tommy Farr and then saw that Mal Pope (who's on here) had done a musical about him called Contender . Anyone seen or heard this?I found a video interview with Mal Pope with excerpts of the show and here it is: I LOVE wiki.
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Lookin' fer more! I found her when I was looking for this other woman, who was a pirate but then I was disappointed to find that she was Irish, not Welsh, but still a butt-kicking Amazon. The second most successful pirate in history was the Dread Pirate Bartholomew Roberts, a teetotaling Welshman who kept a small chamber orchestra on his ship and held sermons there and commanded a vast fleet (and upon whom the Dread Pirate Roberts is somewhat based) and captured or sank more ships that any pirate save one: a Chinese woman, Cheng I Sao ("wife of Cheng"), who commanded more than 1500 ships and 80,000 pirates. She was never captured or prosecuted and at the end of her career brokered a deal with the Chinese government that allowed her to retire in comfort and most of her crews to go free and keep their booty.
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How about some chicas?Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwenllian_ferch_Gruffydd
meeting people from England in the US...
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Yep, I love that! I met a guy yesterday at a restaurant - speaking Spanish in the kitchen with other Spanish-speaking staff - they all looked Mexican but his accent made me go "bing! SoCal!" and sure enough, I asked him where he was from and he was from San Diego, speaking Spanish with a Southern California twang! He was annoyed when I told him that and said no, you can only hear that when I speak English and the waitress, who was from Guadalajara, said no, you speak Spanish with an American accent. It was wild to hear and recognize that sound in another language.
meeting people from England in the US...
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And of course, Romans in American films are almost always played by Brits. When we're doing the cradle of western civilization, everyone should have British accents.
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I've said this to Ceri but we in the US have "British envy".We worship Brits to an extent. The unconscious stereotype is that British people are more intelligent, better educated, more civilized, have better taste and know better than we do, and on the bad side that British men are all effeminate and all Brits are cold and passionless. I'm sure this comes from the inception of our country, that here is the wild frontier and the UK "the motherland" from which all good things come.Until about the 1960s, the thing for American actors was to have English vocal coaches and you can hear this especially in films made in the 30's and 40s, in the voices of Katherine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Vincent Price and MANY others, that was just the "right" way to talk. Even today it cracks me up to introduce Ceri to people and see this thing come over their faces when they hear his voice, like an enchantment, it's very funny. And he can be standing there in jeans and a dirty t-shirt, swilling a beer out of the can and talking about sheepshagging or beans on toast and they'll say to me later, "he's so cultured!"
