#celtophobia

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

those aren't individual accents, they're accent *regions* which contain multiple interrelated accents. there's a map by Ryan Starkey which details closer to individual accent areas, of which Wales has at least 11.

Ah, yes, regions. That's why Wales had 3, one of which was inexplicably the Isle of Man, but England had 31. Wales doesn't have regions. I remember now.

[scottish-valkyrie]

Love listening to a podcast only to hear some asshole Americans making a "WeLsH NaMeS FuNiE" joke on their fucking ads. We get it, Americans have no understanding that Wales and England are separate countries but if Jesse thorn could not rub salt in the wound of years of historical oppression and language erasure for yet another comparison to archetypal fantasy that would be cool!

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

My sister told me today that her in-laws know someone English who decided to drive to Wales on the weekend during a pandemic to visit their elderly aunt, and we're SHOCKED when they were stopped and turned back at the border. Meanwhile the Welsh news is full of confused English people who somehow dodged the border patrols to go hiking in the Brecon Beacons who promptly got stopped by police, fined on the spot and fucking deported.

I can't tell what I'm enjoying more - the fact that the government has accidentally established a hard border between England and Wales, something that even Yes Cymru hasn't dared to dream of, or the whining of the bewildered English people who not only didn't realise that Wales has different rules but had never heard of devolution, and are now outraged on national telly that WELL THAT WASN'T IN THE NEWS! THE BBC SHOULD HAVE TOLD US! as though Welsh people haven't been talking about our exclusion and invisibility for decades.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

PM rejects Wales-England Covid travel ban

Boris Johnson rejects calls to stop people travelling from English Covid hot spots to Wales for leisure.

So... the excuse for not stopping people from hotspots spreading the disease from England to Wales is "Because we want to reduce the virus across the whole country".

Is it just me, or is this feeling dangerously close to 'We don't want you realising how much better you're doing without us so we want to make your infection rate worse' territory? Like... that's tantamount to saying, in literal human words, that it's not fair that the Welsh infection rate is so much better than England's, and it makes us look disunited as a country, so we're going to intentionally allow it to spread from England to Wales.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Anyway the Westminster government has literally stopped firms from sending PPE to Welsh or Scottish care homes etc so they can prioritise the English, but an English MP wants us to get rid of our parliament so that he can go to our beaches more easily

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

'The day devolution died': Westminster to give itself power to overrule Wales on key issues

New post-Brexit rules drawn up by the UK Government will give it the power to overrule Wales on matters such as building a new M4 motorway.

Yep, you read that right.

Our post-Brexit future is that England is stripping our powers and autonomy back out of the Celtic nations. They've already stated that they are going to fund the M4 Black Route, after the Senedd said no.

We need independence now.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

What is it about Progressive tm tumblr that makes them think mocking the welsh language and erasing the experiencing of Celts is Woke?

Oh man I don't even know what post this is specifically referring to but I feel it on a spiritual level

Featuring my triple favourites:

"There's no such thing as a Celt (but Anglo-Saxons defo existed)"

"England may have oppressed the Celtic nations historically, but not anymore!"

"It's just the south east of England, though, the North are treated just as badly!"

Eat a rose-covered bag of shit, lads

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

We’re getting ready to do our Hallowe’en Trail in work, which this year will mean doing night-time walks through the woods and trying to scare the shit out of some kids. All good, except it’s NOT ALL GOOD, because for some reason, in spite of me having now been in this job for two years and this trail being planned in the exact same way that we always do and everyone using the exact same roles as we always do, one of the fundraisers has decided that, rather than allowing me to translate the trail clues into Welsh LIKE I ALWAYS DO, she’ll just run them through Google translate.

We have two weeks before it needs doing. This isn’t urgent. It could have waited for me to come in today, and do it today.

Instead, she’s already run it through Google translate, printed it all off and laminated it.

WWWHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

“I will need to redo the Welsh,” I said, controlling my horror in her office.

“Okay,” she said. “You take those then, and write on the translations?”

So apparently she expects us to just have the Welsh sharpied on as an afterthought and sees no problem with this at all oh my god what the fuck, Tumblrs, what the fuck.

SOME EXAMPLES

“Don’t be afraid of guts and goo - for in the stew is your next clue.”

“Peidiwch a bod ofn i chwistrelli a mynd - oherwydd yn y stwff yw eich cliw nesaf.”

IT SOUNDS LIKE A PSA ABOUT HEROIN

AND IT’S TRANSLATED ‘GOO’ AS ‘GO’

“They say that bats come out at night - but don’t be overcome with fright”

“Maen nhw’n dweud bod ystlumod yn dod alllan yn y nos - Ond peidiwch a’ch goresgyn rhag ofn”

WHAT THE FUCK

‘DON’T BE DEFEATED LEST’

Literally what possessed her?!? Why did she not just wait for me to do it??? It’s my job. It’s my job. I don’t???