No sex please, we’re Welsh
It’s not easy being a small and in all ways completely insignificant neighbour to a big yob of a bully. Especially if that much bigger guy can’t even be bothered to kick sand in your face on the beach.
When you’re Scottish you can claim all sorts of true (and nonsensical) things when it comes to your relationship with England. Scotland has seen successful scientist-inventors, politicians, sports players and even the odd (and short-lived) military success against the enemy in the South.
As some Scotsman once said about the ‘glorious union’ of the two countries, ‘We were getting tired of stealing their sheep, so we decided to take the whole country.’
Then, there are the many ways that the Scots have been waging a very dirty war against the English - with their kilts and bagpipes, with the endless Nessie stories, those terrible Burns poems and their Godawful haggis.
So, the English might have done a lot of bad things to and in Scotland but the Scots have always been willing to return the favour.
It’s a different story for Wales, alas.
According to an old anecdote there was this Frenchman who was asked to give his opinion about the English cuisine. He just shrugged politely and said, ‘La cuisine Anglaise…? Soit.‘
So, yes, I’m afraid that that’s what one would have to say about poor Wales as well, ‘Soit’
Members of the Welsh Assembly are up in arms after a Cardiff film production company used a baby-changing room at the £70 million Senedd building to shoot a sex scene. Assembly authorities gave Fiction Factory permission to film various scenes at the landmark building last month, including what they thought would be a “conversation scene” in the Senedd’s baby-changing facility.
In the event, however, that scene was notable for its non-verbal communication as Lea, a 29-year-old civil servant played by the actress Alys Thomas, entices her older lover, played by Dewi Rhys Williams, into the room for a moment of forbidden passion.
Among those complaining is William Graham, a Conservative AM and member of the Assembly Commission which is responsible for running the building. Mr Graham told the Western Mail last night that he expected people to be outraged.
“This is obviously unpleasant and unnecessary,” Mr Graham said. “Potentially it’s distressing for people who don’t like the idea of one of the buildings they funded being used in this way. One doesn’t want censorship but nothing that is controversial or concerning should happen. My mother would be outraged – and I think rightly so.”
The scene was shot for the S4C Welsh-language series Caerdydd (Cardiff), Wales’s answer to Sex and the City. Caerdydd is advertised with the tagline: “Love and lust at the cutting edge of capital city life”.
Of course, it’s not just the raunchiness that makes this series so problematic to the good people of Wales.
There is something far, far worse than that…
According to the Western Mail, the series launched in 2006 and “immediately attracted attention for its raunchy storylines, graphic scenes of sex and drug-taking…
(Here it comes!)
… and heavy use of English”.
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