Ambulance... Ambiwlans - Has dumbing down gone too far?

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The thread that just keeps on giving

I am heading to Araf* in July - I will look out for Ambiwlans-isms

ETA - I didn't realise that this was 10 years old!




* Genuinely - I'm off to Bangor

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Rh14n said:

I really, really want that to be a real story

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DickyC said:

When i was working in South Wales - for Barry from Barry - he told a story about learning Welsh as a child. The family were on holiday in North Wales and in a shop catering for tourists. They were speaking English and the staff were speaking Welsh. He heard one of them say something unkind about them and particularly unkind about his mother and before he could stop himself he let her have it loudly in Welsh. The lady was aghast she had been found out and, you'd hope, was more circumspect in future.

I used to do this all the time in Paris - I used to be fluent and my tourist-ness was obvious and happily let people dig themselves into a hole and then do the same...

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This time next week.... I will be in Araf

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I've made it all the way to Gwasanaethau

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Couldn't come without seeing this. Am confused at the extra wording though

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Looks more like someone had a handful of stickers and just threw them at the ambiwlans....

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I'm amazed too but we're cutting our visit a little short as my daughter isn't that we'll and the weather isn't as nice as I'd hoped. We've done a bit though and seen caernarfon castle, Llanberis, bit of Bangor and Ffestiniog (tomorrow).

I forgot to go to that long named train station place though...

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welsh blackbird said:

james_tigerwoods said:

I've made it all the way to Gwasanaethau

That looks like the A55.

I think it was. That was the McDonald's services not long after the sign (I think)

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Dogwatch said:

james_tigerwoods said:

I've made it all the way to Gwasanaethau

So who IS doing the driving? Or is the car a left-hooker?

Excellently observed... It's a selfie that I forgot to flip back.

And my daughter was taking photos with my phone of the journey - I have deleted about a thousand of the back of my head

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Gary29 said:

welsh blackbird said:

That looks like the A55.

Definitely. Coming into Deeside from the M56.

The gwasanaethu would've been A55 Northop, with McDonalds, Costa, OK Diner and Shell station.

That it was

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kdri155 said:

Come on then who was it?.....I did a job from North Wales to Birmingham airport earlier today, as I'm unloading the customers luggage from the back of my car I hear the now famous words "It's Welsh you tard" coming from a Mondeo driving sowly past us, I think they spotted the Tacsi (taxi) sign on my roof.

Not guilty

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sc0tt said:

Where is JTW?

Still here

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dickymint said:

Just felt the need for a bump....

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Justayellowbadge said:

He's Welsh, you 'tard.

A legend making a legendary comment in a legendary thread.

RIP fella.

I am, and was, both privileged and honoured

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Great. Even my Alexa devices are now taking the piss out of me!

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I do hope he's ok...

As it happens, I'm recuperating after an op - No ambiwlans required though...

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Tyre Tread said:

dickymint said:

We've been recuperating after the OP for twelve years

My daughter is exactly a month older than this thread

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tribalsurfer said:

Excellent work chaps

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Am...

Apparently my work laptop agrees with me

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tribalsurfer said:

james_TW said:

Apparently my work laptop agrees with me

Here you go

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And it was even cross posted on to my Facebook space - The thread that keeps on giving at nearly 13 years old :P

Is this the oldest post still being dragged up