Jimbo (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} oranjedoom) wrote,@ 2006-03-01 19:23:00 |
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BOO!
The Lizard Queen was down the bay today, opening the £67 million National Assembly building. How many schools and hospitals can you buy for £67 million?
I was delighted by this:
They're not really worth repeating, just slurs and swears in the general direction of the German lizard family.
Serious. Neither that dirge of an anthem, nor that stupid gaudy flag, nor the Moronarchy mean anything to Welsh people (and by that, I'm generalising, and mean "me").
There's nothing wrong with that. The English don't get all gushy over the Ddraig Goch or Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, and nor should they.
But the Welsh don't go over there and sing it to them expecting Londoners to bow and scrape and tug their forelocks to, erm, some... Welsh... Royals...
Which we haven't had since Llywelyn ap Gruffydd ap Llywelyn died in about 1282.
Anyway. If you can find it, First Minister Rhodri Morgan's speech is worth a listen in its entirety.
The Lizard Queen came on giving it all, "The skill and imagination of those who've designed and constructed this remarkable... zzzzzzz", and then Rhodri gets up and starts making jokes about the Star Trek Enterprise and Caesar getting stabbed.
It was piss funny, not because Morgan is a particularly funny man, but just the incongruity and lack of respeck' for da Queen. Tidy! HRH was amused.
Another highlight was the look on The Rinse of Wales' [sic] face while our national poet Gwyneth Lewis (who was at my graduation ceremony, woo!) read out a poem.
I remember something about walking on a sea made of slate, and not being able to hear. And something about an island of the mind. It was a bit rubbish.
Old Kaiser Philhelm had not a clue what she was on about.
His missus is a bit of a growler though. Jesus.
The Lizard Queen was down the bay today, opening the £67 million National Assembly building. How many schools and hospitals can you buy for £67 million?
I was delighted by this:
"In Cardiff Bay, the royal group were greeted by a mixture of music from the Royal Welsh Regiment Band, cheers from hundreds of children and well-wishers, and boos and jeers from a variety of protesters."You could hear the boos on telly as well! I was booing along merrily with them, and made up some alternative words to the "national anthem" (pffffft).
They're not really worth repeating, just slurs and swears in the general direction of the German lizard family.
Serious. Neither that dirge of an anthem, nor that stupid gaudy flag, nor the Moronarchy mean anything to Welsh people (and by that, I'm generalising, and mean "me").
There's nothing wrong with that. The English don't get all gushy over the Ddraig Goch or Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, and nor should they.
But the Welsh don't go over there and sing it to them expecting Londoners to bow and scrape and tug their forelocks to, erm, some... Welsh... Royals...
Which we haven't had since Llywelyn ap Gruffydd ap Llywelyn died in about 1282.
Anyway. If you can find it, First Minister Rhodri Morgan's speech is worth a listen in its entirety.
The Lizard Queen came on giving it all, "The skill and imagination of those who've designed and constructed this remarkable... zzzzzzz", and then Rhodri gets up and starts making jokes about the Star Trek Enterprise and Caesar getting stabbed.
It was piss funny, not because Morgan is a particularly funny man, but just the incongruity and lack of respeck' for da Queen. Tidy! HRH was amused.
Another highlight was the look on The Rinse of Wales' [sic] face while our national poet Gwyneth Lewis (who was at my graduation ceremony, woo!) read out a poem.
I remember something about walking on a sea made of slate, and not being able to hear. And something about an island of the mind. It was a bit rubbish.
Old Kaiser Philhelm had not a clue what she was on about.
His missus is a bit of a growler though. Jesus.
