‘Anti-English attack’ hurts horse
A horse’s nose was cut and anti-English graffiti daubed on a stables owned by a Cardiff woman who had moved to a village in west Wales.
Alison Hayes, who was born in the Welsh capital, found her seven-month-old pony with a wound to its nose.
As she helped the animal at her land in Tegryn, near Crymych, Pembrokeshire, she also noticed graffiti written in slang Welsh saying “English out”.
Dyfed-Powys Police are investigating the attack.
Mrs Hayes and her husband moved to the area last year with the intention of opening a riding stables.
But she was shocked when she discovered their pony, Hope, with a bleeding wound on her nose.
“It is awful, she is very frightened,” she explained.
“I just can’t understand it - I’m from Cardiff, I was born there. My mother and father are both Welsh - what’s going on?
“This is a Welsh-speaking area and they might have mistaken our Cardiff accents for English, that is all I can think,” she added.
“This was an incredibly cruel thing to do. Hope is a beautiful, friendly animal and she was slashed across the face and mouth.
“The motivation of these people was ridiculous and to take it out on an innocent horse was wicked.
“Hope loved being around people but now I can’t get near her. She is terrified.”
Source: BBC
I mean, come on, when your excessive nationalism leads you to attack horses I think you need to sit down and ask yourself some pretty serious questions, questions such as “why am I such a fucking cock-end?”
Still, it’s pretty good proof really, if proof were ever needed, that in order to be a bigot you have first to be a complete moron.
Speaking of excessive nationalism, it’s nice to see the Olympic flame taking such a kicking from people who find China’s little PR exercise somewhat offensive. Obviously violent protests are somewhat hypocritical, but then again, taking part in the flame carrying process is much the same. Still, it is quite apt; the whole flame carrying concept was cooked up by Hitler after all.
Olympic protests spread to Paris
Protests against the torch relay ahead of the Beijing Olympics have spread to France’s capital, Paris.
Four people were arrested, including two who were taking part in demonstrations critical of Chinese rule in Tibet, AFP news agency said.
Officials twice extinguished the torch and put it on a bus for safety reasons.
Earlier, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, expressed concern over unrest in Tibet and the torch protests.
The French protests come after 37 people were arrested during pro-Tibet protests which disrupted Sunday’s relay in London.
Security in Paris was extremely tight, with some 3,000 police on duty, riding motorcycles, jogging or on skates.
About 500 protesters were reported to be involved in the demonstrations, mainly near the Eiffel Tower.
Several hundred demonstrators waving banners gathered on the Trocadero esplanade where the relay got started at 1235 local time (1135 BST).
A member of the French Green party was restrained by police after attempting to grab the torch from the first of Paris’s 80 torch bearers, former world 400 metres hurdles champion Stephane Diagana, Reuters news agency said.
Police twice carried the torch onto a bus amid the demonstrations.
On the second occasion, the flame was being relayed out of a Paris traffic tunnel by an athlete in a wheelchair when it was taken onto a bus because protesters booed and began chanting “Tibet”, the Assoicated Press reported.
Source: BBC
There’s something very dodgy about this. What the BBC failed to tell you in that story is that the words painted on that shed do not say “English Out”. The words “Cai Maes Sais” are in fact total gibberish - it means nothing in Welsh.
“Cai” is not eve a word
“Maes” means field
“Sais” means Englishman
Whoever wrote that graffiti was most certaintly not a welsh-speaker and very unlikely a welsh nationalist (what self-respecting Welsh nash doesn’t know how to say “English Out” in Welsh!
Interesting enough if you put “Get Out Englishman” into the notoriously awful IntraTran online translator it comes out as “Cai Maes Sais”.
(see here: http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?url=http%3A%2F%2F&type=text&text=Get+out+englishman&from=eng&to=wel)
I have no idea why anyone would want to fake a welsh nash attack - could be the owner I guess, trying to cover up injuring her own horse.
Whatever the true motive, it is so dissapointing that the BBC don’t realise the writing is not Welsh and just assumes the woman is right in saying it means “English Out”. If they had checked their facts a little better they would have avoided inflamaing matters and turning people against Welsh speakers and nationalists.
Unfortunately the story is complete nonsense. ‘Cai Maes Sais’ doesn’t mean anything in Welsh, it’s gibberish. But if you put ‘Get Out English’ in Intertran, an unreliable internet translating tool, guess what comes out the other end? ‘Cai Maes Sais’. Are we supposed to believe anti-english welsh speaker would use a internet translating tool that doesn’t work? Someone’s playing silly buggers.
‘Cai Maes Sais’ is not an anti English slogan at all! It makes no sense in Welsh. And someone has pointed out to me that if you put ‘Get Out Englishman’ into an online translator… http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?url=http%3A%2F%2F&type=text&text=get+out+englishman%0D%0A&from=wel&to=eng
guess what yo get….Cai Maes Sais. Sound like a poor and ridiculous attempt at mimicking a Welsh language protester to me.
I’m going to take a different tack, and point out that the Olympic Torch was an idea resurrected by Hitler, not started by him. In fact, the Flame was restarted in the Amsterdam Olympics in 1928 and the relay was restarted by Goebbels, but both originate from the Greek Olympics back in dem der olden days. A minor point, but to a pedant, one I feel that a fellow pedant should raise.
Also, you may have an email or two from me in your gmail account. Is this no longer the best way to contact you? They both relate to fun.
Well, considering I was discussing China’s hijack of the relay I’m only going to concede the point that it was Goebbels and not Hitler that started off the relay. Then again, he was technically working for Hitler, I won’t quibble though.
As for the Olympic torch. it didn’t feature in the ancient games at all, there was the fire on the Altar of Hestia (which burned constantly) and the local tradition for lighting fires in sanctuaries thereabouts that, when the games were on, were supplimented by aditional flames, but that’s it. So ner.
Also, I’ll check my email
Ah well, that’ll teach me to read only part of a wikipedia article. Anyway, I think Clare has added to my emails about fun now too, so you’d best check them out before the opportunity is gone.
I shall be replying this evening having just located my usb key (containing my email client) at work, in my emergency shoes.