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Mostly because I like the song - The Captains and the Kings....



The Auld Grump

*EDIT* Damn, but Ronnie Drew looks young in that picture....

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Kilkrazy wrote:When I was a young boy all my wargames were narratively based because I played with my toy soldiers and vehicles without the use of any rules.

The reason I bought rules and became a real wargamer was because I wanted a properly thought out structure to govern the action instead of just making things up as I went along.
 
   
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Lincoln, UK

 Frazzled wrote:

So on the "big island" besides Scotland and Wales, are there other non English locations?


Kernow - Cornwall is another "Celtic fringe" with its own language.

Isle of Man has its own Celtic language and parliament.

The Scottish Islands are interestingly different (both Western Isles and the Orkneys and Shetland Isles). The Gaelic tradition in the North and West of Scotland is very different from the Border country (where people went from speaking Brythonic - Old Welsh - to Aenglish earlier than many parts of England). The Islands and Man all have a Viking tradition too.

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Besides doing Cream Tea's wrong, the constant efforts to revive 'Cornish' is a source of bemusement, it died somewhere around the early 1800's and the what is touted these days is a lot of cobbled together approximation on the level of Klingon or Drothraki

"AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED." 
   
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North Carolina

 Iron_Captain wrote:
Just something completely unrelated I have been always wondering about the Welsh:
Why the hell do they write Cymru but pronounce it something like Cumry? That does not make sense!




I thought it was pronounced "BAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH"


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 Future War Cultist wrote:
In my experience, to be English is to get very nervous when confronted by anything Northern Irish. I go over to England and open my mouth, they get nervous. My English cousins come over here and it’s all “why are all the police carrying guns? And why do all the walls have paintings of men in masks with guns? Am I going to be shot?” So silly.




Reminds me of the plastic paddies I know from up north (mostly from Boston and New York), when they found out the "Scots-Irish" equals "Ulster Scots" on one drunken St. Patrick's Day, and that I was 25% Ulster Scot (in addition to the Welsh and English ancestry). The fact that I toasted the Queen just to piss them off probably didn't help matters any.


Americans of Irish decent take that stuff dead serious. ESPECIALLY on St. Paddy's Day.

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