That's not my name-r

[ask_captainjack]

Dear Captain Jack,

Okay. Here we go then. There's this guy, and I like him a lot. I'm not talking like I want to make the beast with two backs or nothing, but he's a nice dude and I value his bon mots, even though we are just online "friends". You couldn't see me make the air quotes, but imagine that I quoted the hell out of the air just then.

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[amand_r]

You should, because I get so confused about Welsh that whenever I'm there, I freeze up and just make big sad panda eyes at everyone. The entire of country of Wales probably thinks I'm a deaf mute. Well, mute, anyway, because I do respond to all the whistling and cries of "Hey, sexy mama!"

[ask_aboutcoffee]

I am making notes of all this, Sad Panda Amand_r!

(That rhymes in Welsh, btw.)

[amand_r]

That's funny! The diminutive, Mand-r Pand-r, rhymes in the quasi-English that I speak! I say quasi, because I'm fairly sure that there are some places in the world where I would get arrested for just opening my mouth. Then again, not as many people find yodeling as hysterically funny as I do. Like the Pope.

Really, I'm always afraid to say Welsh names, because I'm afraid that you'll all just roll your eyes at me. Then again, I'm told that you roll your eyes a lot, so maybe that's like the Welsh equivalent of a mild greeting?

[gwen_e_cooper]

Welsh names are simple!

Tom Jones

Ruth Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Dylan Thomas

Easy-peasy!

[amand_r]

I do like me some Tom Jones!

But what about Llanfairpwllgwyngyll? That's where I get confused. And then I cry. But then someone kind sould offers me pasties and I feel better. Pasties cure all ills!

[gwen_e_cooper]

Welsh (or Cornish) pasties or the sort you stick to your nipples?

Because both have their place. (The latter have two places!)

[amand_r]

LOL TOO TRUE. The first kind! Though I guess if it was the right person. Welshmen are kind of hot. You know, the sexy ones are.

[gwen_e_cooper]

The sexy ones are sexy!

There are a fair number of highly sexy Welshmen.

Not down my local, but...there are plenty. Of them.

[amand_r]

Somewhere, right?

[gwen_e_cooper]

Well.

There's Ianto and Rhys and Andy.

And a couple of other Heddlu blokes (not Derek, he's fit but a crap shag, or so I hear) and the bike messenger who delivers our Tourist Office brochures who has an arse of steel.

Would you like me to fix you up?

[amand_r]

Hrm, I do like me some bike messengers. They have those nice shorts and after you've had a few, they let you sit in the basket whilst they drive you about! Bike romance! So much better than like, scooter romance or rickshaw romance.

Well, no, like that too. The rickshaw is a great place to shag!

[ask_aboutcoffee]

Gerard. He was in Tour de France last year, you know. He told me about the special anti-chafing pants they wear.

[gwen_e_cooper]

Told you?

He showed me.

[ask_captainjack]

We all enjoyed the footage, Gwen.

[gwen_e_cooper]

Is there a cranny of the Plass that doesn't have our CCTV trained on it, Boe?

[ask_aboutcoffee]

Well, you're more his type.

But we have very good chats where I drop brochures a lot so that he can pick them up.