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Reply | Gorllewin Abertawe Gŵyr
at 20:28 3 Jan 2025
All my official correspondence comes bilingually. My son is forced to learn Welsh in school, not that he's bothered, failed his Welsh miserably, he wasn't alone.
People have the choice to smoke, drink alcohol, do drugs and/or eat too much crap food. The Senedd gives us no say on Welsh, it has equal billing when, as you rightly point out, we ave bigger problems to worry about.
You can call it small change but 50 million would pay for around 3,500 hip or knee replacements and there's a lot of people waiting for those. How many of them are currently out of work when having the surgery would see them back to work?
Again it's priotities and it's not just about that 50 milliin, there are many other millions being wasted when the Senedd says we are broke.
Tell me Lifelong, do you run your household budget the same way? Do you go out and spend money you don't have on things you don't need and ignore things you do need?
Wales is in a stinking mess and people are justifying spending money on relatively unimportant things when people are dying. I hope nobody in your house needs an ambulance anytime soon. Or elective surgery..
Wate not, want not. That's how it should be. |
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Reply | Past Managers
at 20:14 3 Jan 2025
And me, I was 16 in 1983.
Frankie Burrows, top bloke. |
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Reply | To clarify to date
at 15:44 3 Jan 2025
He went over to the Jack army, not many left to sing to them. Most had left with 5 minutes to go, as had I and my son. We were too disgusted by the rubbish we'd seen to stay til the end.
His comments before and after the game don't sound like the comments of someone ignorant about what was going on. Talk to his agent he said.
How can a pro manager these days not know what's being said on social media? The club will have known all about it and they will have brought it up with him. Does he claim that nobody he knows has social media and shown him what's been said?
It is just not feasible that he knew nothing. Besides, if someone sent him a sceenshot then he has heard something.
Sounds like BS. |
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Reply | Second BREXIT Referendum
at 15:23 3 Jan 2025
Well the official stats say only 1 in 5 16/17 year olds voted, as I told you earlier. So OFFICIALLY now, the vast majority aren';t interested.
Maybe the kids looking at those internet platforms are just browsing tiktok for fun things, looking on insta for football stuff. We all know you cannot trust the internet because there's a lot of fake stuff out there. It's even worse than the BBC for fake news.
So in the much wider debate, the facst are simple, 16 and 17 year olds don't vote in high numbers. An average 80 year old will still be better informed because they'll be more likely to take an interest, is that a fact? Maybe not but the over 65's turn out in higher numbers than young people, around the high 70% mark ever since they started checking, that's 1964 |
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Reply | Gorllewin Abertawe Gŵyr
at 14:58 3 Jan 2025
Maybe some ARE moaning about Welsh being spoken. Personally, if people want to speak Welsh then great, I just feel that there should be bigger priorities right now than forcing Welsh on people, most of whom aren't interested, the costs of the Senedd's plan take money from places where it's badly needed.
For example, the Senedd's 2023/24 plan has a budget of 50.3 million. The Welsh language strategy action plan, Cymraeg 2050, aims to increase the percentage of the population who speak Welsh daily from 10% to 20% by 2050. Meanwhile, people queue in A&E for whole days. People wait YEARS for badly needed surgery and people are dying waiting 7 hours and longer for an ambulance.
SO fine, if people want to learn Welsh it's not a problem, but that 50 million (which will probably increase as the years pass) could be spent saving lives.
Kilkenny, maybe you won't like to read this but Welsh speakers numbers have been dropping the last 5 years,
gov.wales/welsh-language-data-annual-population-survey-april-2023-march-2024-html
Taken from that report,
For the year ending 31 March 2024, the APS estimated that 28.0% of people aged three years or over were able to speak Welsh. This figure equates to around 862,700 people.
The latest estimate is around 1.6 percentage points lower than the year ending 31 March 2023 when an estimated 29.7% of people aged three years or over were able to speak Welsh.
Children and young people aged 3 to 15 years were more likely to report that they could speak Welsh (48.4%, 241,300) than any other age group. This is consistent over time, but the percentage of children and young people aged 3 to 15 years who can speak Welsh has been decreasing in general since the beginning of 2019.
There you go, 10% of Welsh residents speak Welsh daily and while we are spending a lot of money to increase the numbers, the numbers are actually falling. And those are the Senedd's own numbers too, I assume people will accept them?
Call me anti Welsh if you like but if my son has an accident or myself or my wife gets cancer and we need life saving treatment, I really won't care about speaking Welsh.
People have strange priorities. They put culture over saving lives.
People banged on a lot about the 20mph zones saving lives, wouldn't they rather this 50 million was spent on that cause than on speaking Welsh? Maybe, maybe not. |
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Reply | Is it all Bluebirds Broadcasting Corporation plot
at 21:14 2 Jan 2025
The headline followed by...
Alan Curtis turned up in the dressing room to give "the" pep talk, Matt grimes did the team selection and talk and Lee Trundl did the swim away as they left the dressing room. |
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Reply | To clarify to date
at 20:32 2 Jan 2025
Aren't Sorinola, and Ogbeta in Plymouth now, with Whittaker and Obafemi...there's worse managers! |
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Reply | Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match day thread Game Day !
at 16:11 2 Jan 2025
I'm not blaming Grimes for Christie, I'm blamimg Grimes for being too deep, for too many backwards passes and being between our centre backs and getting in the way.
Oh how I wish we could keep Allen fit for the season and have him and Franco in the middle, then we'd see an improvement. Grimes, he really is marmite, there's not much middle ground with him, it's love or hate. |
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Reply | Gorllewin Abertawe Gŵyr
at 16:07 2 Jan 2025
There are 102 Primary schools and 14 secondary schools in Swansea. 10% Welsh then, roughly.
There has always ben a Welsh speaking community in Swansea, there were more Welsh speakers here 50 years ago, my gran was fluent Welsh as were all her family (all dead now) and they were from Waunarlwydd, Gypsy Cross as it used to be called. At her Chapel (Mumbles tabernacle) quite a few spoke Welsh as did the vicar, back in the day. We used to sing Welsh hymns at morning assembly and my form class teacher in Dunns lane Primary was fluent Welsh, as were a few other teachers.
The number of Welsh speakers in Wales has dropped, immigration has played it's part I think but it's not entirely because of the English, there's quite a few immigrants from outside the UK here too which some people often handily forget. |
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Reply | Second BREXIT Referendum
at 15:47 2 Jan 2025
Voting on mobile phones...then we'll see some vote rigging!
It's not a downer on young people either, it's a reality. I asked my son about his political views (bearing in mind politics is often discussed in this house) and he wasn't interested, didn't have a clue, says none of his friends ever talk politics and when it's been brought up in school most of his class are the same. He was 16 last September. Politics is boring to him, if it's not football, food or girls he's not bothered.
80 year olds now haven't used the technology like kids do. Try again in 30 years and then the 80 somethings will all know about the tech. You have to move with the times see. [Post edited 2 Jan 20:35]
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Reply | Russell Martin
at 15:41 2 Jan 2025
A "lot" eh, I wonder what that amounts to, 20....50....200? Maybe some of them were cheering the opposition?
There are people here who still love Martin, obviously not myself though! |
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Reply | Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match day thread Game Day !
at 15:39 2 Jan 2025
Grimes dropped us in it at least 3 times yesterday because he kept coming too deep. That they only got one goal from his fannying was more by luck...
How can we drive forward when the man who gets more of the ball than anybody else is so often found between oiur centre backs? If he is our pivot, if he is the supplier, then how does he supply the attck when he's practically in the away end with the fans! |
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Reply | Russell Martin
at 15:31 2 Jan 2025
Southampton played a match on our concourse? How did I miss that?
Seriously, NO. If Martin comes back I reckon there's a lot of fans, myself included who wouldn't go, crowds would drop further. Martin has been found out, I think. |
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Reply | Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match day thread Game Day !
at 12:32 2 Jan 2025
Not all shots are chances mind, a hopeful potshot from 25 yards isn;'t really a chance. That's why they created xG
Portsmouth created more chances than us yesterday with 27% of the ball.
I'd love to see the seasons stats to see how many chances we have actually created, Because, again, not all chances are equal and when Bianchini misses a chance from 6 yards, that is a chance, when darling puts one in the keepers hands from 25 yards, not so much a chance, just a shot.
And I know it's labouring the point but the reason our opponents put away more of their chances is because when we play silly passes in and around our penalty area we present them with good chances whereas the oppo aren't gifting us good chances. They make us work for ours. |
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Reply | The Folly of Rushing to Today's Green Solutions
at 12:25 2 Jan 2025
The UK never dumped acid rain, strange notion.
Port Talbot children MAY be healthier, but they could end up in poverty too.
The rivers are filthy because water companies have ignored the laws and regulators haven't done their jobs.
cabling...it is hoped? Surely they know, they know what they used and if it is designed that way.
We'd use public transport if it was suitable, it doesn't work for us.
China and India aren't following the western lead, or do you have evidence? Inida's pollution is rising.
Your shares, of course the money is going to shareholders, if you actually get 300 quid, how many shares do you have and how many have those companies sold, you likely have a tiny percentage of the total number of shares. One national grid share sells for £945.00 today. Blackrock investment owns 307,977,440 shares, Merrill Lynch 216,654, 059. Do you own a few hundred? The dividen this year is less than 16p per share. |
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Reply | The I voted labour and want to apologise thread.
at 12:10 2 Jan 2025
Not last time I looked.
I feel this thread is wrong anyway, maybe the titlke should be I have voted tory and/or labour for the last 50 years and I want to apologise.
Both party's have led us to this sorry state. |
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Reply | Second BREXIT Referendum
at 12:07 2 Jan 2025
An 80 year old could still have plenty of younger family members and want the best for them
The average 16 year old isn't that well informed and doesn't care that much about anything much besides what they want. Here,
electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre/young-voters-wales-need-more-support-engage-elections
And from that...
More education and engagement is needed to support young voters to understand and participate in Welsh elections, according to recent research and analysis by the Electoral Commission. Approximately one in five newly enfranchised 16-17 year olds in Wales registered to vote ahead of the local government election on 5 May, with turnout lowest amongst younger age groups.
Feedback gathered for the Commission’s post-poll report on the Welsh local government elections in 2022 found a lack of motivation to engage in elections amongst young people. Reasons given included not knowing enough about candidates, parties and the democratic process in general. The majority of voters in Wales remain confident the elections were well-run and satisfied with the process of voting and registering to vote.
The report also includes feedback from parents in Wales. While 77% of parents think it’s important that children learn the basics about politics, voting and democracy at school, just 22% think the current information their children get on these topics is sufficient. Parents in lower socio-economic households are also less likely to discuss politics at home, increasing the need for school-based learning.
So, 1 in 5 or 20% of 16 and 17 year olds voted. Understand that, 80% said they either didn't care or didn't know enough. More informed, definitely not, more stake in the future, I'm sure the average 80 year old still cares about their future.
You're very ageist as if old people don't matter anymore. I wonder how you'll feel when you're 80. |
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