Yoomiliation
That’s how my American friend Mike pronounces Humiliation, and that’s how I feel about Wales’s latest exploits on the rugby field.
We have been knocked out of the World Cup, after successive losses to rugby giants Italy and the USA.
However it’s not as bad as it seems, and I haven’t slumped into a black depression, because of one little word — this is League, not Union. Rugby League is barely played in Wales, where the Union code is dominant, so a loss at a sport I know little about and don’t follow at all doesn’t affect me much.
So why am I Yoomiliated? Because like 99.999% of Americans, I wasn’t even aware that the USA had a Rugby League team. And Wales is quite well known for rugby. So I think we should have won, whatever the code.
But they yoomiliated us. Apparently only one of their team was actually American, the rest being journeymen Pacific Islanders and Ozzie emigrants, but that’s not the point any longer. Once we start picking people on the grounds that their grandparents may once have visited Wales then to my mind it ceases to be a Welsh team and becomes a Wales team.
Oh, hang on — that’s how they’re described nowadays.
November 5th, 2013 at 20:41
Please make your mind up! One minute you are voting UKIP next you are Welsh. I cannot for one minute see a Welshman voting UKIP.Which are you?
November 6th, 2013 at 09:49
I’m Welsh. I have never voted for UKIP and I never will. I wrote in my last posting “I’d switch to UKIP in a flash if they didn’t have that bloody silly policy about wanting to quit Europe” because I find a few points in their manifesto more practical than the rubbish ideology spouted by the main parties. Politically I’m an extreme centrist. I’m pro-Europe, because I live in it, and if I wasn’t I ought to move elsewhere. A’right Pete?
November 10th, 2013 at 08:48
You must feel awful, your side losing to an underperforming SA. 3-0.
A’right Taffy
November 22nd, 2013 at 11:00
I certainly do. I was in Belfort the only time Wales ever beat South Africa, listening on a earphone in a smart restaurant. I was turfed out for shouting.