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The Cornish

  
 
Margin Walker
05:36 / 14.08.02
"Boy howdy, why do they have to be sooooo darn Cornish?!? I mean, why? 'WHY?', I ask you!! And their hens are far too small!! Almost miniature!! Grr, move over France, there's a NEW asshole on the map!!"

*yawn*
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
06:40 / 14.08.02
Come over here and say that. I'll drive my combine harvester over you.
 
 
Bad Horse
07:49 / 14.08.02
What is this, beat the Celt month? I'm so glad I came.
 
 
Justin Brief
10:52 / 14.08.02
Interestingly, my granparents had to put up with a lot of aggression from the Mebyon Kernow lot when they moved from Devon to Cornwall in the 1930s, shortly after my grandfather finished fighting Mussolini. But they wouldn't really want to talk about it, because that would make them NAAAAAZZZZIIIs.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
12:08 / 14.08.02
I thought Cornwall was an imaginary place that only materialised from the mist once every hundred years.

I had also heard that the Cornish still worship an elemental force of nature: known in kernewek as shortfatdyke, which means She-Who-Will-Come-Very-Soon-With-A-Carry-Out. The locally cured pilchards, used to make gluten-free stargazy pies, are sacred to this local deity. So beware her wrath if you continue to diss these brythonic relicts.
 
 
T*M*U*M*A
12:23 / 14.08.02
look .. as a resident of plymouth .. a city thats half in Cornwall .. i feel that i have to stand up for the baby-eating sibling-shagging retards.

..

i dont want to be here anymore.
 
 
grant
13:37 / 14.08.02
These threads are rapidly becoming toxic.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
13:46 / 14.08.02
ZoCher: I think you're thinking of Brigadoon, which is, as everyone knows, Scottish. And they sing.

TMUMA: Plymouth? It's Cornwall's misfortune to be joined to Devon and crowned with Plymouth. It's like putting paste diamongs on a faberge. At best.

And don't forget when you're dissing us that we have fish genes, webbed feet, and claws, and will rise up out of the estuary and eat your town, then go home and drink Scrumpy and do a little wrecking.

grant: You're right. Still and all, you can't help these people from the North. You know, upcountry of Lizard. I mean, Coverack folks are bad enough, and St. Kevern is full of loons, but those grockles, well.
 
 
Ganesh
19:30 / 14.08.02
Nick: I think he knows it's Brigadoon; he's being intentionally fey and whimsical...
 
 
T*M*U*M*A
21:00 / 14.08.02
hey nick .. i'll defend those hideously malformed occupiers of satans anus (the cornish).

But Plymouth isnt a nice place to grow up or indeed to live in, so attack it at will.
 
 
Mourne Kransky
21:15 / 14.08.02
There is a place called Lizard? The men have webbed feet? I am intrigued, though still fey and whimsical.
 
 
Shortfatdyke
17:37 / 17.08.02
I will indeed be arriving in glorious Cornwall shortly - the end of October, to be precise. I will, of course, be instructing the locals on what the Internet (and, indeed, electricity) is, and will find no joy whatsoever in the relaxed way of life, the hours I intend walking on the beach, the friendliness of my parents' neighbours and the Cornish Earth Mysteries group, which I will reluctantly join forthwith. No matter - I will post Cornish jokes here at every opportunity!
 
 
El Gato Was Right: the t-shirt
04:18 / 19.08.02
So, like, Cornish game hens...? (scratching head, well, ok, typing) Cornwall? So that's a place? Where the hens came from? (alright, I'm stoned, I admit it)
 
 
bio k9
04:23 / 19.08.02
Your Grandfather fought Mussolini? With Karate?
 
 
invisible_al
21:02 / 19.08.02
No I suspect it was with a gun and while rather outnumbered if it was where and when I think it was.

But anyway cornwall, is it true they still burn people for using electrickery?
Probably then stick em in pasties for unsuspecting tourists...
 
 
tom-karika nukes it from orbit
18:50 / 21.08.02
Ain't half as bad as the Isle of Wight you know.

Think cornwall without the surfing.

And more webbed feet.
 
  
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