Thread by @TheSpoonyOne

One time I won a game of scrabble with the word "CRWTH."

Yes. It is a word.

I only knew that because I studied bardic stuff to get in character. My opponent was... rather vulgar.

A crwth is a pile of crap bowed string instrument, and beside bagpipes, the most likely instrument to get a bard lynched within seconds was the crwth.

I presume the crwth is of Welsh design, mainly because it's horrible and the Welsh have not yet invented vowels.

The Welsh language can be charitably described as what would happen if a Klingon tried eating a handful of powdered chalk and suddenly took a truncheon to the larynx while trying to swallow it.

Wales is currently enforcing a social distancing policy of seventy-five yards, because someone speaking Welsh is nearly indistinguishable from a late-stage tuberculosis patient with hay fever.

Not that the Welsh are a particularly neighborly people. Their friendliest greeting, roughly translated to English is "fuck you looking at that's right fuck off."

Then again, most European cultures have historically had trouble with diplomacy. The English greeted most people by trampling them with horses. The Scots simply threw trees at each other until they got tired.

The Irish were among the friendliest folk upon introduction. The problem was getting them to leave.