The Liverpool Welsh ( A happy thread )

[pasha]

kevin where do you get your info from?
there has been free prescriptions in wales now for 2 years
and i have lived here for 25 years and have never heard of such rubbish
(people coming across the border to get free prescriptions)

""oh yea right i,ll just nip across the border to wales to to save myself £4.50 on a prescription "
where's the border kevin so i can inform the welsh assembly about foreigners.

what aload of old ****e

[lindylou]

must admit I'd never heard about it Pasha.

I'm never away from Wales - have been going there every summer since the 1960s.

[kevin]

kevin where do you get your info from?
there has been free prescriptions in wales now for 2 years
and i have lived here for 25 years and have never heard of such rubbish
(people coming across the border to get free prescriptions)

""oh yea right i,ll just nip across the border to wales to to save myself £4.50 on a prescription "
where's the border kevin so i can inform the welsh assembly about foreigners.

what aload of old ****e

You've never heard of it and therefore it doesn't exist?
It was on Radio 4 yesterday - I'd never heard about the free prescriptions before so perhaps they don't exist?
Don't know what they base their claims on but I think they said there are 10,000 more people registered with doctors than the supposed population of the country.

'Crossing the border' may merely involve walking to the other end of the street for some people so it's hardly a Checkpoint Charlie situation, is it?

Sorry you've got so wound up over this. Next time you go the docs, perhaps you can ask them to increase your (free) medication?

[Samp]

I think some pictures from Lindylou would be a good free tonic!

[Mark R]

You've never heard of it and therefore it doesn't exist?
It was on Radio 4 yesterday - I'd never heard about the free prescriptions before so perhaps they don't exist?
Don't know what they base their claims on but I think they said there are 10,000 more people registered with doctors than the supposed population of the country.

'Crossing the border' may merely involve walking to the other end of the street for some people so it's hardly a Checkpoint Charlie situation, is it?

Sorry you've got so wound up over this. Next time you go the docs, perhaps you can ask them to increase your (free) medication?

Yes, I've heard of it as well.

[pasha]

do know what i know now why people want to leave this forum
because you have prat's like him coming on it, who knows nowt.

how old are? in your 50's i suggest you go the doc's and sort your jealousy out.

you honestly think we are getting our

( free) prescriptions with english people's tax ol your a joke
and your wife says her job pay's £5,000 more and she works for the gov (can she speak welsh ) sadly i dont think so so i dont think you,ll be moving here then.
i,ll tell you what you stay there and pay your english taxes and we,ll get our free prescriptions here with it ok.

[lindylou]

I think some pictures from Lindylou would be a good free tonic!

ha,ha, thanks Samp.

[pasha]

samp i dont need to look at lindy's picture thanks although there lovely because i live here and i see the views every day

[pasha]

while i,m going across the border to get my free prescripton

[kevin]

do know what i know now why people want to leave this forum
because you have prat's like him coming on it, who knows nowt.

how old are? in your 50's i suggest you go the doc's and sort your jealousy out.

you honestly think we are getting our

( free) prescriptions with english people's tax ol your a joke
and your wife says her job pay's £5,000 more and she works for the gov (can she speak welsh ) sadly i dont think so so i dont think you,ll be moving here then.
i,ll tell you what you stay there and pay your english taxes and we,ll get our free prescriptions here with it ok.

My original post was meant to be quite light hearted but I seem to have struck a nerve. Jealous of Wales? I think not. I like the place and have had many holidays there, but wouldn't particularly like to live there full time.

'Who knows nowt'. Indeed, that's why I said 'no doubt somebody will correct me'. I was commenting upon something I'd caught part of on the radio and it was a (slightly) provocative post trying to get somebody to respond and clarify the issue. Your knee-jerk (with special emphasis on jerk) reaction hasn't exactly done that - so I still 'know nowt'.

As this thread is meant to be a 'happy post' perhaps it's best if I butt out - too much instant aggression for my liking.


PS - My wife's job pays more in Wales because they are struggling to get enough qualified professionals, for her particular specialism, to work there. Her family is Welsh, but you are correct in your assumption that she doesn't speak Welsh. Neither do any of her Welsh relatives.

[kevin]

Just starting this for anyone who would like to chat about the Welsh history in Liverpool. Its meant as a happy thread. Talk about Liverpool Welsh and Welsh in general.

please join in if you would like to celebrate the Welsh culture. but please its a happy thread, not a thread for having a go at the Welsh.

Gnomie,
Apologies for causing a stir on your happy thread. Tongue was fairly well planted in cheek but some are too thin skinned to notice.

Here's to more happy posts in future.

[knowhowe]

Wouldn't be more pertinent to be getting angry about the fact that we mugs, the English are still being made to pay for our prescriptions when the Welsh and Scots can run their system perfectly well without having to impose such disgraceful 'health taxes' upon their people?
Oh, and prescriptions in England are now £7.10 not £4.50!

[kevin]

Wouldn't be more pertinent to be getting angry about the fact that we mugs, the English are still being made to pay for our prescriptions when the Welsh and Scots can run their system perfectly well without having to impose such disgraceful 'health taxes' upon their people?
Oh, and prescriptions in England are now £7.10 not £4.50!

Going off thread a little, as you're in Chester:

Had a Welsh boss a few years ago who was a bit of a prat (nowt to do with him being Welsh, I hasten to add). Learnt a bit of trivia about Chester which I used next time I had a row with my boss.

Me 'Do you ever go to Chester, Dave?'

Him 'Sometimes'.

Me 'Can you warn me next time you go?'

Him 'Why?'

Me 'Because it's still technically legal for an Englishman to shoot a Welshman, with a bow and arrow, in Chester'.

That was the beginning of the end and I left a few months later.

[Mark R]

Going off thread a little, as you're in Chester:

Had a Welsh boss a few years ago who was a bit of a prat (nowt to do with him being Welsh, I hasten to add). Learnt a bit of trivia about Chester which I used next time I had a row with my boss.

Me 'Do you ever go to Chester, Dave?'

Him 'Sometimes'.

Me 'Can you warn me next time you go?'

Him 'Why?'

Me 'Because it's still technically legal for an Englishman to shoot a Welshman, with a bow and arrow, in Chester'.

That was the beginning of the end and I left a few months later.

I think it is also legal for an Englishman to shoot a Scotsman (with a bow and arrow) if he is found within the walled city of York.

[knowhowe]

Haha. Yes, I believe this is still technically true and they never got rid of the old law. Don't know if it's ever been tried though or if you'd get away with it if you did...
There's been justifiable emnity between Welshman and Cestrian for umpteen centuries, Chester being the hated HQ for the subjugation of that nation.
I admire the viewpoint of the great medieval bard Lewys Glyn Cothi, who'd been booted out of Chester for marrying a local girl without the permission of the mayor and his cronies...

Go, complaint, to Gwynedd's sun,
I complain of the mongrels,
So crafty they were, so cold,
Mobs in the town of Chester.
It's they who plundered my house
Of my bed and fine bedspread,
And they have left me barer
Than salmon swimming a stream.

I will shave, by Saint Non's hand,
All of the lads of Chester.
On every churl I'll whet it,
Rib of steel, if I come there.
Not one leaves, till Saint Dwyn's Feast,
The hot town head unbroken.

I'll carve, if I come near them,
Twenty thousand naked curs.
That day, after drinking wine,
I'll wield the blade of Cyffin,
I'll deal with my hands a hurt
To that two-faced town yonder.

From the towns of Rhos at dawn,
By nightfall to dark Chester:
Let me kill, if my day arrives,
With Dafydd's sword two thousand!

"That two-faced town yonder"- still as true today as it was then. And then there's the Chester-Wrexham footy matches!!