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I took my wife to Weston-Super-Mare yesterday.
Went into a shopping centre and, while in the toilets, out of the blue a guy told me "I hate the Welsh". It took me a few minutes to fathom what he was talking about. There were the six nations rugby matches that afternoon, and he mistook me for a Scot - well I was wearing a corduroy kilt.
I left him and went to find my wife, and bumped into a group of Welsh women - who thought I was Welsh because of the kilt (or cilt in Welsh). At least they knew there was such a thing as a Welsh kilt
Apart from the usual sidelong looks, those were the only reactions to several hours of being kilted in a busy shopping centre and a restaurant.
This is as good a place as any to mention that i have ordered my first kilt---and it's a Welsh one along with a couple of "Cymraes" (tr. Welsh girl)t shirts for the smaller 3 & 5 yr. old grandchildren and a Welsh flag style for the 11 year old. Ahh, Rugby, the game played in heaven . CYMRU AM BYTH!
It will not always be summer: build barns---Hesiod
you know... george orwell warned us!
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We Aussies aren't all that good at that other game, the one using a round ball with only the goalie able to catch the ball with his/her hands And the goal scorer ripping his shirt off um why?. Maybe that's why the two Rugby codes are so strong here and also AFL, which is a derivative of irish "hurling." There's a strong Celtic heritage here--both Scots; irish; Manx (Goidetic) and Welsh, Cornish (and maybe some Breton) Brythonic. Soccer only got some momentum with the post war European migration, and we still aren't anywhere in international competitions
It will not always be summer: build barns---Hesiod
I once heard rugby describes as "[...] one of those Celtic 'games' where the presence of a ball is a thinly-veilled excuse for mayhem."
And in another case, a chilling description of a local match where "the teeth were flying like Chicklets". (Chicklets are small rectangles of candy-coated gum.)
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crfriend wrote:...a chilling description of a local match where "the teeth were flying like Chicklets". (Chicklets are small rectangles of candy-coated gum.)
That sounds like the sort of rugby I used to play... I did OK and still have all but one of my teeth
Have fun,
Ian.
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What is the best strapping for a rugby player after a broken collarbone? I am 13 and have recently broke my collarbone playing rugby. I am in the last week of a sling but when i return what kind of strapping should i where when i go back to rugby?
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New postby crfriend on Tue Feb 16, 2010 3:21 pm
I once heard rugby describes as "[...] one of those Celtic 'games' where the presence of a ball is a thinly-veilled excuse for mayhem."
Sorry to have to be the one to break the news, Rugby, either code, Is many things. But one thing it ain't is a celtic game,
Like many sports, it may be played by the Celts and any other ethic group.
The game is named after the School where it was first played.
Where Rugby differs from football is that in Rugby the violence is confined to the pitch.
Tim ( English and proud to be so.)
ashiyaa wrote:What is the best strapping for a rugby player after a broken collarbone?
I am 13 and have recently broke my collarbone playing rugby.
I am in the last week of a sling but when i return what kind of
strapping should i where when i go back to rugby?
__________________ welsh rugby
First,
and as far as Rugby goes, I don't play it, and too old to start.
When you can, please post an introduction about yourself
and tell us your likes and dis-likes. Do you wear kilts & skirts?
or just one or the other. It's nice to see a young person
interested in eliminating the fashion bias of clothing choices
for men.
Uncle Al
Kilted Organist/Musician
Grand Musician of the Grand Lodge, I.O.O.F. of Texas 2008-2025
When asked 'Why the Kilt?'
I respond-The why is F.T.H.O.I. (For The H--- Of It)
The original was "Give blood. Play hockey".
As in, for our American friends, proper, unprotected field hockey, not that namby-pamby game on ice where there is more padding than a party political broadcast!
Anyway, you may like to note that for the Blackpool Hockey festival I played in a skirt mostly the whole time, and that includes going out for several after the games!
. CYMRU AM BYTH!
