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UK inter-country racism
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 11:00 pm
by Gob
A drunken Welsh wedding guest who insulted the English was convicted of racism today.
Phillip Pritchard, 32, was on a coach home from a smart country wedding in Wales when he started singing anti-English songs.
A court heard Pritchard, a father of two, was 'winding up' some of the wedding guests who travelled from England for the ceremony at the upmarket Peterstone Court Hotel in Brecon.
He began by singing rugby songs but then segued into anti-English chants of his own design.
Another Welshman on the coach objected to Pritchard’s taunts and a 'heated row' erupted, forcing the coach driver to pull over into a lay-by and call police.
Prosecutor Helen Tench said: 'The passengers had been to a wedding reception when Pritchard began singing rugby songs.
'He then started singing: “I’d rather cut my f****** arm off than be English”.
'Passenger Gwyn Richards felt it was abusive as there were people he knew to be English on the coach.'
The wedding guests were on their way home from the luxury Peterstone Court Hotel in Brecon, South Wales, when Pritchard started his anti-English abuse.
Pritchard, of Swansea, admitted using racially aggravated threatening, insulting, abusive words or behaviour.
Lucinda Nicholls, defending, said: 'He was one of many guests at a wedding function and it appears they were all intoxicated to some extent.
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 2:07 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
they were all intoxicated to some extent.
Ya think?
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:06 pm
by Lord Jim
a smart country wedding in Wales
What's that, where the bride wears a clean bowling shirt?
*
*(I love the way old "Pollock" jokes work so well as Welsh jokes...
)
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:13 pm
by Gob
Sorry Jim, they don't. No "bowling shirt" scene in Wales.
If you'd have said a "clean shell suit", you'd have had a hit on your hands.
What colour bowling shirt did your wife wear to your wedding by the way?
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:28 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
zoot suit, white jacket with side vents, five inches long
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:35 pm
by Gob
And what did you wear?
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:55 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
I'm out on the steet again, and I'm leaping along
Just right, for a street fight and I just can't explain
Why that uncertain feeling is still here in my brain.
lyrics mate, luyrics 
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 12:03 am
by Lord Jim
What colour bowling shirt did your wife wear to your wedding by the way?
She wore a lovely white gown....
(Which in her case, was probably somewhat inappropriate....)
Did I say that out loud
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 4:43 am
by MajGenl.Meade
'He then started singing: “I’d rather cut my f****** arm off than be English”.
Two things.
a. what was the tune - Men of Harlech or All through the Night?
2. Agreed - the English would rather the Welsh cut their arms off than be English so where's the insult?
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 5:17 am
by Gob
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 10:44 am
by Sean
Lord Jim wrote:*(I love the way old "Pollock" jokes work so well as Welsh jokes...
)
I've always preferred Picasso jokes myself...
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 8:33 pm
by Gob
That's fishy, I think you'll be on your Jack son.
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 10:55 pm
by Jarlaxle
Lord Jim wrote:a smart country wedding in Wales
What's that, where the bride wears a clean bowling shirt?
*
*(I love the way old "Pollock" jokes work so well as Welsh jokes...
)
Why...are most Welsh actually cold-water oceanic fish? :p
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:07 am
by MajGenl.Meade
"Oy, I'm from Darwin. I'm not NS Welsh!"
"Two things. (1) it isn't me and (b) the fish and Darwin don't mix, ya wowzer"
Re: UK inter-country racism
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2012 8:04 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
Sometimes (ok many times) I have no clue what you guys are talking about.
This is one of those times.
