Mocking the Welsh is the last permitted bigotry

[Treffie]

I've never actually heard much Taff-bashing, except for the bit that they all switch to Welsh once they realize you're English. I had a lovely pint in the Ship Inn in Fishguard last month. Felinfoel stout it was. The landlord asked me if I liked it while he was pulling the pint. I said I'd had never had it before but I liked stout. He said this wasn't mere stout, it was Welsh stout. I approved of his patriotism, and his pint.

We joke about the English lack of ability to pronounce this word, I've heard people calling it `Feeling Foul`, or perhaps that's the English having a joke on us?

[Piparskeggr]

Besides, I could probably drink any man here under the table

I likely have 5 - 8 stone on you, plus I've been drinking heavy for the better part of 35 years...fifth of whiskey (750 ml), half and half with water or soda, 60 minutes?

Yeah, that was my nightly routine up until 3 years ago.

That, or a fifth of vodka, half and half with orange juice or apricot nectar...or the equivalent in wine, beer, mead or brandy.

Now, while I can still do the above, 4 - 5 mixed drinks (or equivalent) is a heavy night now.

Sorry, I get on my soapbox sometimes about drinking...

[Mrs Ulf]

Sorry, Fräu Ulf..I've Welsh blood too, but impossibly far back, whilst my Scottish blood, while equally far back, is far more rampant.Or is that plenteous? It sucks that people pick on their racial kindred to avoid being marked racists.I have a strong feeling that most of this anti-Welsh rubbish is just misdirected flack to cover their real resentments.All the Afro Caribbeans, Pakis and dune coons that are flooding in.I think they want to say "nigger"," camel lover" and "turbaned eunuch", but in case of lawsuits and media coverage and immigrant drama, they cast about for a more useful target that isn't too likely to strike back.

Yeah probably. I kind of think that humor is the best medicine for these sorts of disputes. As long as its humor and not some deep seeded resentment. Besides if you can't laugh about yourself, you probably have no right laughing about others.

I likely have 5 - 8 stone on you, plus I've been drinking heavy for the better part of 35 years...fifth of whiskey (750 ml), half and half with water or soda, 60 minutes?

Yeah, that was my nightly routine up until 3 years ago.

That, or a fifth of vodka, half and half with orange juice or apricot nectar...or the equivalent in wine, beer, mead or brandy.

Now, while I can still do the above, 4 - 5 mixed drinks (or equivalent) is a heavy night now.

Sorry, I get on my soapbox sometimes about drinking...

Soapbox it up. I said probably, you can be the exception But really good for you to cut back on it. I can drink all the men I've ever met under the table. I'm not sure if I should be proud of that or not

[Piparskeggr]

Mrs Ulf;

You seem like my kind of woman. ;P

best - Pip

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We joke about the English lack of ability to pronounce this word, I've heard people calling it `Feeling Foul`, or perhaps that's the English having a joke on us?

Perhaps the morning after sentiment.

[Graham]

I thought it was fashionable nowadays to pick on the Scots? Damn, news travels slowly over the water.

The only way someone could pick on the scots, is through the internet or a newspaper etc.. would love to see someone try it in person. Would be a laugh in a half. Mon the Wales!!

[Óttar]

I likely have 5 - 8 stone on you, plus I've been drinking heavy for the better part of 35 years...fifth of whiskey (750 ml), half and half with water or soda, 60 minutes?
Yeah, that was my nightly routine up until 3 years ago.

How did your liver withstand it? I get hangovers all the time, but I never drink enough to throw up. That also must've cost one Hell of a lot of money!

[Piparskeggr]

How did your liver withstand it? I get hangovers all the time, but I never drink enough to throw up.

I had the same question for my doctor; the findings were that I have a much higher than normal level of the enzyme, which breaks down ethanol. That much whiskey, I get sleepy.

Perhaps unluckily, the sort of hangover I get is a mild "fuzziness" around the edges and not feeling like eating for several hours after I get up for the day. I lost 2 days of work to brown bottle flu during the 4 year stretch I was drinking like that.

As to the last, neither do I. Last time I actually got knee-walking drunk and pukey was at least 20 years ago. I do, however, get a bit uncoordinated, hence my decades long habit of never drinking more than a glass of beer or wine while away from home if I am the one driving.

That also must've cost one Hell of a lot of money!

Ahhh, yeah...depending on what I was drinking, occasionally top shelf, never from the well ,-)

As I don't go to bars, this was all bottles I bought and then consumed at home; say $100 - $150 every week. The bills always got paid, but my retirement fund didn't.

My favorites are mid-range blended Scotch, "vintage" Canadian whiskeys or the better non-Bourbon - non - sour mash American blends. When I go top shelf; Highland, Islay or Speyside single malts.

When I drink vodka, I'll get mid-price ones if I'm mixing, but better sorts (Boru is my current favorite) I keep in the freezer and drink straight up.

Now, if I want a mixed drink, I'll stop by the package store and just get a couple of nips, certainly no bottle larger than a half-pint. I no longer keep distilled spirits in the house. Only exception is a bottle of rot-gut vodka I use for filling the airlocks on my fermenters.

I do fine with ale, wine and mead...seems the only passionate hatred I have in life is the sight of a full whiskey bottle.

[Brynhild]

In our part of the world, we don't crack too many jokes about the Welsh. More often than not, it's the Poms, Scots and particularly the Irish!