How to pronounce Celtic words and names
Step 1: Read the word.
Step 2: Wrong.
Michael Sheen: No one except those from Wales can pronounce this
David Tennant: Hold my whisky
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Welsh isn’t a gaelic language but sure
It’s such a pity the Picts, Scots and Irish can’t just collectively banish the English
I’m Scottish, Irish, and Welsh. The trifecta of fuck england. The royals fear me and I will defeat them in battle with my bare hands and turn buckingham palace into a gay bar
That’s the human equivalant of the “sir are you aware you are a cat” meme.
I thought I was Jewish when I was her age but I was actually Catholic so when my Jewish friends invited me to give a prayer at his house during Chanukah and I recited “Our Father who art in heaven…”, my friend’s mom got on her knees and said to my face in a super soft voice, “Joey, I think you’re catholic not Jewish,” in front of everyone and I thought I was in trouble and I started crying.
I was raised on films like Oliver and Annie, so I just sort of assumed I was adopted for the first five years of my life. Then one day I asked my mum who my real parents were. She blinked at me, baffled, then laughed and said “Halima, you’re not adopted.” I threw the biggest tantrum of my life.
When I was about 4 my parents told me I was part native american and I was so used to them being depicted as the ‘bad guys’ in cartoons (ex: Peter Pan) that I freaked out and locked myself in the bathroom
PSA
White people with dreadlocks who scream “the Celts had locks” every time you get called out. Stop. Just stop.
I’m mixed race and a Celt so here I am to tell you that Celtic people do not traditionally wear locks. Any Celt in the Isles today could tell you that. Most Celts living in North America could tell you that. Most Creole people who are Celtic could tell you that.
Observe.
See this? This is called plaiting. It’s a type of braiding. THIS is the Celtic and Nordic style that ancient Romans mistook for dreadlocks because they were Colonial Imperialists who didn’t see or care about the differences between the cultures they were “conquering.”
If you are Celtic, Nordic or trying to emulate Celtic culture (which is a discussion for another day) and you have dreadlocks all that says to me is that you don’t care about or respect those differences either.
I apologize on behalf of Celts with locks and random white people with locks who try to make this excuse. I can only hope correcting them might make a bit of a difference.
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I read an anecdote from someone whose African Grey didn’t particularly get along with her Amazon parrot, Paco. One night she was preparing cornish hens for dinner, while the grey hung out with her in the kitchen. He got a closer look at one of the hens, looked his mama dead in the eyes and asked, “Paco?” Then he laughed.
that is one sadistic bird
I am slightly afraid now.
I love birds?
African Grey Parrots are one of the smartest birds, and seems they can be known to play “jokes” or “pranks” on their owners or any visitors.
I was visiting a friend of the family one time and I was just casually watching tv when I thought I heard the water running. I go into the kitchen but everything’s fine. the parrot looks at me and says “gotcha”.
Parrots are awesome.
I have an African Grey named Loki and he lives up to his name.
He likes to scream and mimic the sounds of things falling off the shelf and when we run into the room to see what’s happening he says “The cat did it! Bad Sammy!” and laughs.
Whenever he gets mad at me he flies away from me, but since he can’t fly very well, he always crash lands. And the first thing he says when I go to pick him up, without fail, is always “You need to vacuum,” in a very bitter grumble.
Loki likes to call our cat to him. He’ll sit there for minutes saying “here kitty kitty kitty.” The cat will come, walk up to the bird, get bit and then Loki will laugh as the cat screams and runs away. This goes on for hours.
If it’s late at night and he’s tired, but I’m still up with the lights on, he’ll say “Loki go night night.” It’s starts of in a normal tone and then gets louder and louder until he’s screaming “LOKI GO NIGHT NIGHT!”
If he sees my dad fall asleep, he screams like a little girl to scare my dad awake. And then laughs. He’s kind of perfected that evil laugh.
But the best one was when I brought home the man who has since become my ex for the first time, Loki looked him dead in the eyes and said “I’m going to bite you.” My parrot was the first one to see what a bad person my ex. He was smarter than us all.
Parrots are people.
today i learned that Jews in Ireland used to call an goyische Irish person “beitz” or “beitzimer” (pl) which in hebrew is EGG. because “eggs” in yiddish is “eyer”. (get it?? because eyer-ish?)
irish goyim:
irish jews:
Anonymous asked:
ngl those alternative spellings look like the names of some welsh people I knew growing up
They sound like my uncle who was a chain smoker for 40 years coughing up a lung
