"Croeso i ddyfnderoedd fy isymwybod: Welcome to the depths of my subconscious. Shark Fishing in Wales is one man's odyssey to understand the land of his birth through anecdote, observation and reminiscence! By learning about his country, perhaps he can learn more about himself. A process of individuation which Carl Jung suggests we should all go through. Less assuming one nationhood and more working towards one nationhood before we become Independent." Daf Williams
Cymru/Wales: Bipolar Nation
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Friday 31 January 2014
Thursday 30 January 2014
Drwgdybiaeth/Suspicion
Monday 27 January 2014
Saturday 25 January 2014
Any Questions?
Now 25 years on I probably agree with the two men in the van but because it was my first time canvassing I was a bit taken aback. I remember seeing Captain Beany in Neath once in his full regalia and by now my politics is closer to his than to Plaid Cymru.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beany
Last night I was listening to Jonathan Dimbleby pronouncing Castell Nedd 'chwarae teg' and listening to David Steel (Liberal), Carwyn Jones (Labour), Michael Fabricant(Conservative) and Jill Evans(Plaid Cymru) Everything was mundane and boring as per usual when the whiney, nasally question of one Cerys Bevan came across the wireless like Lord Haw Haw 'ers llawer dydd'. The question was something along the lines of "Can we blame the Welsh Language for the poor showing of our schools and education in the PISA tables?"
Loaded or what!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03qfzh7
I knew the type of person this was. I had met many on my travels. The Welsh Quislings who blame the Welsh Language for all of societies ills. These are people who didn't enjoy the experience of learning Welsh in school, they didn't like their Welsh Teacher, they don't see the point in it, there's too much money spent on it, they are the minority, they get all the best jobs, it alienates children, nobody speaks it round here, blah di blah di blah like a toy with a string in its chest. By this stage I was standing, shouting at the radio as if I was shouting at every one of these I had ever met. The most sensible answer was Lord David Steel when he declared 'No Comment'. You could hear the ripples of approval and the folded arms from the audience when Cerys went on "I am not a Welsh Speaker and I am obviously biased towards the English Language". This is why the language is in such dire straits because so many of the Anglo Welsh have an ambivalent nay poisonous and resentful attitude to something which is the pure essence, the nectar of communication for the country. They would rather their children learn French or German than Welsh because they are bound to be going on their holidays there...at some point. "You live in fucking Wales Cerys, Welsh is the indigenous language of Wales". I would like to see Cerys in years to come singing the National Anthem like John Redwood. I did what any self respecting Beany would do, I went into the kitchen, opened and ate a cold can of baked beans and as Jonathan Dimbleby declined to say 'Castell Nedd' brow beaten by the 'Cymraeg Dissaprovers' in the audience at the end of the programme. Even the Scottish continuity announcer declined. This is not a fucking joke. I went up to the radio and farted into the speaker. I think this is why I don't like Neath.
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Sex & Death in Wales
Apparently the French have been at it! In the Torygraph another one of these scientific studies show that philandering which is a posh word for cheating is common place.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10587153/French-study-shows-a-majority-of-men-and-a-third-of-women-cheat.html
As a confirmed singleton I can only wonder out loud why do you get married in the first place if your intention is to cheat on your spouse. Well obviously you don't get married with the intention of cheating but after seven years of marriage you have an itch that needs scratching. Those itches are being scratched in Travelodges and Premier Hotels across the land as I type this. We're all at it apparently. Well we are if we're French.
We are all dying as well but we never talk about it until it happens. I am obsessed with death. Anybody else? I think I am so obsessed because I am so disappointed with my life. I am disappointed with my life because I am not getting any... I mean enough sex. Is sex a euphemism for love & intimacy I wonder or is it the act that can facilitate it? This must be a difficult post for women to read (Hello women, waves hand!) because as blokes we are led to believe that women don't actually enjoy sex. That they only participate in it as a favour to the man. We blokes in small towns across the UK of a certain generation learnt about women's physiology and needs from a certain kind of magazine that was available in shops and sold in brown paper bags. From the start human sexuality is taboo, a mystery, something that you have to search for online. Trouble is, this education is from a man's point of view so its bound to be a bit oppressive because men in a patriarchal society are oppressive. In the gender wars of cheating and mistrust one thing that men and women have in common is that they are both going to die. Maybe this fact explains why men are generally keener and more insistent on the sexual act, because they know they are going to die sooner. They have a shorter life expectancy than women.
Sex has been a lot in the news recently especially in relation to 1970's DJs and Celebrities. There is a lot of condemnation and 'burn the witch' (The Irony) type statements. Paedophile is perhaps the worst accusation or slur that can be levelled at anybody. Is nobody actually interested in why these men committed these crimes? What was in their upbringing and psychology that led them to these actions and crimes. Or is it just best to lock them away and gloat?
I actually saw a heavy set man in a black coat today sneaking a peek, in a what the butler saw type fashion, in the window of Anne Summers, was he looking at the tantalising lingerie mes amies or was he looking at himself in the shop window? What's so strange about that? Well he was wearing a Dog Collar ( as in what Vicars and Ministers wear) not as in some kinky bondage attire. (You see I had to add the word kinky) He looked more like a bouncer than a vicar. Perhaps he was God's Bouncer? Sex & death are fiercely intertwined in Religion. Can abstinence and celibacy be a good idea if it leads to sexual abuse? The Pope running a seminary on 'family values', so a single celibate man can tell families what they can and can't do! Use a condom for 'feck's sake! And we believe this bullshit.
Sunday 19 January 2014
Second Anniversary Guest Blog Post
Wednesday 15 January 2014
Friday 10 January 2014
Emotion over Logic!
Sunday 5 January 2014
Barddoniaeth y Storom/Storm Poetry
Meistres y môr yn chwerthin arnynt,
ac yn chwibanu fel blaidd yn y gwynt.
Sŵn llais y bos yn torri ar ei clyw
"Dewch 'nôl i'r depot bois bach
Mae'r llywodraeth yn wneud toriadau syth bin
Gadewch i'r llanw ddod mewn
Ni aiff e ddim mas"
Pobol gyffredin sy'n dioddef
Rhaniadau, colledion di-ri!
Nawr a wnewch chi gredu
Fod y ddaear fam yn dial arnom ni!
Brave Council workers standing like Neptune with their forks.
The Mistress of the Sea laughing at them,
Wolf whistling in the wind.
The Boss's voice comes over the radio
"Come back to the depot my boys
The Government have made immediate cuts
The tide will come in but not go out."
Ordinary people are those that suffer
With losses and divided
Now will you believe that Mother Earth
Is wreaking her revenge on us.
The fact is, the poet does not want admiration, he wants to be believed.
— Jean Cocteau Quotes (@CocteauQuotes) September 21, 2020
I am a poet dahling not a paramedic
I have not written a blog post in the month of April 2024 yet and it is the 22nd already. As I type this I do not know what I am going to ...
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