Wales

[sus]

Think I'll print it out to see if that helps me read it. I don't think I can read one on the screen.

Miss Wales

Miss Wales is a confidence-building experience coupled with the fun and glamour of pageantry.

misswales.co.uk

Little concerned about Bethany. Olivia seems nice. Gabrielle Shaw looks like she'd poison my martini, serious Basic Instinct vibes

 

[Slothrop]

But once she is sick of Cardiff and therefore settled in, she should graduate to 'deep Wales'. This is, for me: the Gower peninsular; the A477 from Carmarthenshire to Pembrokeshire (i.e. the route from Laugharne to Skomer); the Brecon Beacons and the Black Mountains; Hay-on-Wye, Usk and the Wye Valley. Anything anybody could want exists in this southern belt.

I've just got back from a weekend in Elenydd, the Green Desert of Wales. It's an incredibly sparsely populated area. From the top of Drygarn Fawr you can see Cardigan Bay to the West and Hay Bluff to the East, so you can essentially see the whole width of the country.

 

[Mr. Tea]

Little concerned about Bethany. Olivia seems nice. Gabrielle Shaw looks like she'd poison my martini, serious Basic Instinct vibes

Well I think they're all lovely and they're all wearing absolutely smashing blouses.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

 

[craner]

'Louis Rees-Zammit and the Question of Wales'

This is actually a very interesting topic that I would write about if I had the time or motivation.

 

[WashYourHands]

Go for it

He had rugby in the palm of his hand but was an internationalist at heart. His Mum and Dad seem very ambitious in interviews

 

[craner]

He chose to be a small fish in a big pond instead of a big fish in a small pond. There is something quite unusual and brave in this.

 

[WashYourHands]

He’s still young, quick and ambitious - ambition is crucial

His Dad would’ve seen the first round of NFL games broadcast here as a younger lad and then has a son as rapid? Sprinters are gold dust, it’s his catching game and old lady luck

He has an escape route/backup plan to fall back on too which is where a lot of US-focused European ambitions fail, barring injury

Wales rugby form tanked slightly with his announcement but a coach can’t say no, it’s like the rugby league biographies of yesteryear but more like your Dubai Wives international adventures instead cast west into America, land of bounty’s frontiers

 

[luka]

i think its just that he knows he has a 0.01% chance of making it and if he does he's rich beyond his wildest dreams but if, as is likely, he can't pick it up then it's back to rugby and only a season or two lost. My feeling is if the vastly more talented, quicker, more explosive, trickier Jarryd Hayne failed then he don't have much chance but why not try it?

 

[craner]

He's from a new generation in Wales that has realised that rugby is just another sport and one we are not that good at, which is refreshing. Also, you end up with Alzheimer's and nobody really gives a shit and you can't pay your medical bills.

 

[version]

Also, you end up with Alzheimer's and nobody really gives a shit and you can't pay your medical bills.

How does he hope to remedy that playing in the NFL?

 

[craner]

How does he hope to remedy that playing in the NFL?

He'll get very rich very quickly, I guess. And he'll live in Florida, probably with some fantastic, pneumatic bimbo.

 

[luka]

and he might end up being paid not to play and still get more than hed ever make in rugby.

 

[linebaugh]

Unfortunately he will be in Kansas City

 

[luka]

 

[linebaugh]

Rees-Zammit has drawn comparisons to Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill due to his speed. During his rugby career, his speed was once measured at 24.2 miles per hour, while Hill's fastest speed in a game was measured at 23.2 miles per hour.[31]

 

[linebaugh]

Is he that fast? At 6’3 that’s really impressive. If he can catch a ball at all he could at the very least be a great short pass receiver