Critical Miss: Y Ddraig Cach
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I'm Welsh, thought it was funny, always amazes me how serious people get, and how many people get sucked into the trolling.
I have a sudden urge to visit Wales...and Canada now that I think on it...curse my paradoxical inclination to move south despite my desire to visit places to the north and east!
I'm late to this comic, but by God I laughed at this strip, and I'm Welsh! I've never heard the comparison of Wales as England's Canada, bloody epic!
Fi'n hoffi hwn!
Fi'n hoffi hwn!
You cant call an entire country parasites and then expect them not to take offense, even if it was for irony. that's a prime example of the old childish thing of saying to someone "No offense.. but" then proceeding to completely and utterly offend the person
This was the first, and last critical miss ill ever read.
This was the first, and last critical miss ill ever read.
It's true,
N.Ireland hates England
Scotland hates England
Wales hates England
The Channel Islands hate England
England hates England
And yet.... the country still houses our government...
No I can't do it, you're probably right. But in our defence, about 96% of the knife crime is in the city of Glasgow.
Seriously, don't go to Glasgow without a Police escort or a lightsaber!
N.Ireland hates England
Scotland hates England
Wales hates England
The Channel Islands hate England
England hates England
And yet.... the country still houses our government...
HEY! As a Scot, I...Grey Carter said:
No I can't do it, you're probably right. But in our defence, about 96% of the knife crime is in the city of Glasgow.
Seriously, don't go to Glasgow without a Police escort or a lightsaber!
Wales IS basically useless. Not necessarily all of its people, but as a nation it's really got nothing going for it.
I really feel like Canada, while large and mostly empty (well, the US is mostly empty too) still has the image of a liberal government that the US just doesn't. Politically, Canada is very different to the US. Wales is just an offshoot of England that gets its own language that is largely useless.
I really feel like Canada, while large and mostly empty (well, the US is mostly empty too) still has the image of a liberal government that the US just doesn't. Politically, Canada is very different to the US. Wales is just an offshoot of England that gets its own language that is largely useless.
Just want to clarify a few things from an 'English' perspective - like most 'English' people I'm actually mostly foreign, half Irish as it happens.
"As someone pointed out, every nation on the British Isles hates each other, hates England collectively (even England hates England)"
English people don't hate anyone else in the Union, it's a myth. They mostly don't care either way. The only thing that does rankle is the venom they get back from *some* Welsh people and regretfully, a lot of Scottish people, which is grossly out of proportion. Scotland was an independent country that VOTED VOLUNTARILY to join the Union because it was broke. There was no invasion, it was a volunary act. (If you want to go back further and talk about invading armies then most countries' past is littered with mis-deeds and slaughter, England itself was cobbled togther from several kingdoms.) IMHO if they want to waste energy hating 'the English', whatever that actually means, then let them. Just don't believe that this is a two-way thing because it isn't.
There are individuals who feel the same way as the character, the cartoon did a good job of sending up such petty minded people and the concept of 'acceptable racism', but I don't know any people who hate Wales personally.
Oh, and while we're at it:
- The UK includes Gibraltar and some other places.
- There is no Welsh component to the Union Flag because Wales is not technically a Kingdom, it is a Principality, which is why it has an Assembly not a Parliament. No one likes the Union Flag, least of all 'the English' but since the alternative is design by committee (look at the EU Flag) I think we can all agree to dislike it equally.
"As someone pointed out, every nation on the British Isles hates each other, hates England collectively (even England hates England)"
English people don't hate anyone else in the Union, it's a myth. They mostly don't care either way. The only thing that does rankle is the venom they get back from *some* Welsh people and regretfully, a lot of Scottish people, which is grossly out of proportion. Scotland was an independent country that VOTED VOLUNTARILY to join the Union because it was broke. There was no invasion, it was a volunary act. (If you want to go back further and talk about invading armies then most countries' past is littered with mis-deeds and slaughter, England itself was cobbled togther from several kingdoms.) IMHO if they want to waste energy hating 'the English', whatever that actually means, then let them. Just don't believe that this is a two-way thing because it isn't.
There are individuals who feel the same way as the character, the cartoon did a good job of sending up such petty minded people and the concept of 'acceptable racism', but I don't know any people who hate Wales personally.
Oh, and while we're at it:
- The UK includes Gibraltar and some other places.
- There is no Welsh component to the Union Flag because Wales is not technically a Kingdom, it is a Principality, which is why it has an Assembly not a Parliament. No one likes the Union Flag, least of all 'the English' but since the alternative is design by committee (look at the EU Flag) I think we can all agree to dislike it equally.