(This title is a reference to the sequel to Highlander, which has the most memorable bad title ever)
I realize that a few days ago I wrote a rather oblique post about the dangers of being Welsh. I would like to make a fairly substantial restatement of things, in light of a youtube video I saw and a general change in my mood, though not necessarily a change for the better. I did however do some thinking and come up with a few cool (if slightly geeky) reasons why Wales is pretty awesome.
Our national flag is a red dragon that, in a myth defeats the white dragon of England. So HA!...despite England’s patron saint being a dragon slayer. It’s also the only European nation with a mythical creature on its flag, which is kind of neat, especially if you have a penchant for the fantastic.
Also, our Sir Kay isn’t a prick, but a giant slayer who can grow at will and can use powers of fire and ice, so for those of you keeping score at home, that’s yet another source that George R. R. Martin has stolen from! Okay…it’s nothing like that but it is called a Song of Ice and Fire and it’s suddenly all the rage, so I’m making the stretch.
We also produced (in order of impressiveness for people who don’t watch ungodly amounts of British TV) Ruth Jones, Rob Brydon, Tom Jones, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, and Catherine Zeta Jones, which is really quite impressive given three all come from the same village.
Oh, and we use our little known and seldom spoken Gallic language to annoy foreigners.
However, there are some very good reasons why being Welsh is terrific, and they are all explained, very well in this youtube video by the great David Mitchell, who does so much better than I ever could. Also his videos are sponsored by a product that doesn’t even exist over here which is means I don’t really even need a disclaimer about it. By the way, if you were interested, I would recommend the rest of David Mitchell’s Soapbox and the show That Mitchell and Webb Look, as supremely intelligent pieces of mindless entertainment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bOqY2xSD6U
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