yes anything tartan counts..... me and clare have tartan pjs tho lol
Dr Dave why did you have the Haggis in the bath?
Has some mad scots bird been taking the piss out of you again. I know the pesky little things are bastards to catch, Its the wonky legs you know and stumpy wings, but i have known one to swim.
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[quote user=miss_ccrider]Dr Dave why did you have the Haggis in the bath?
Has some mad scots bird been taking the piss out of you again. I know the pesky little things are bastards to catch, Its the wonky legs you know and stumpy wings, but i have known one to swim.
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i didnt kno haggis at legs?????:doh:
I'll bring you a pet haggis to leeds Funky xxxxxxxxxxxx
Its illegal to hunt a haggis with out a license.
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u 2 r pullin me plonka aint ya????
well if you had too many people hunting them they would die out and then what would happen. Thats why you need a license and the proper equipment
or if you want it in Scottish.......
Och aye, laddie, huv ye never heard of the wild haggis hunters o' the Heilans? Y'see, laddie, the thing about the haggis is that it makes its home in the Scottish Heilans, which are full of big muckle mountains...
Noo, Evolution has gifted the haggis wi' two wee right legs and two big long left legs, so they dinna topple o'er when they run around yon hills (clockwise, nat'rally.) Yon Haggis are fun-loving little critters, but they're easily startled - so all the hunter laddie has to do is make a wee hide where he knows a haggis is going to run past, then BANG!, he leaps out in front of the puir wee thing, which gets a fright an' tries to turn around and run anti-clockwise. But as ye ken, the haggis is only gifted to run clockwise, so it topples over and bounces all the way down the mountain. After a good day's haggis-frightnin', the hunter walks doon, picks up all the puir helpless haggi, and sells them at the local market...
and yes I am really bored today waiting for the solicitor to call about someone buying my house, but hey you lot have learned something
Funks, I will bring you to scotland one day and we can go up and see he Haggis. I cant promise that will see one as they are shy. But we can try. I cant believe you would think i would lie to you about Haggis.
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i wanna see a walkin haggis in leeds cus i think u 2 r pullin me pisser!!.....:uhoh:
they can only walk round hills though, due to the two short legs and the two long legs.
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What is a Haggis ?
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A haggis is a small animal native to Scotland. Well when I say animal, actually it's a bird with vestigial wings - like the ostrich. Because the habitat of the haggis in exclusively mountainous, and because it is always found on the sides of Scottish mountains, it has evolved a rather strange gait. The poor thing has only three legs, and each leg is a different length - the result of this is that when hunting haggis, you must get them on to a flat plain - then they are very easy to catch - they can only run round in circles.
After catching your haggis, and dispatching it in time honoured fashion, it is cooked in boiling water for a period of time, then served with tatties and neeps (and before you ask, that's potatoes and turnips).
The haggis is considered a great delicacy in Scotland, and as many of your compatriots will tell you, it tastes great - many visitors from the US have been known to ask for second helpings of haggis!
The noise haggis make during the mating season gave rise to that other great Scottish invention, the bagpipes.
Many other countries have tried to establish breeding colonies of haggis, but to no avail - it's something about the air and water in Scotland, which once the haggis is removed from that environment, they just pine away.
A little known fact about the haggis is its aquatic ability - you would think that with three legs of differing lengths, the poor wee beastie wouldn't be very good at swimming, but as some of the Scottish hillsides have rather spectacular lakes on them, over the years, the haggis has learned to swim very well. When in water, it uses its vestigial wings to propel itself forward, and this it can do at a very reasonable speed.
Haggis are by nature very playful creatures, and when swimming, very often swim in a group - a bit like ducks - where the mother will swim ahead, and the youngsters follow in a line abreast. This is a very interesting phenomenon to watch, as it looks something like this :
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The long neck of the mother keeping a watchful eye for predators.
This does however confuse some people, who, not knowing about the haggis, can confuse it with the other great indigenous Scottish inhabitant, the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie as she's affectionately known, who looks more like this :
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From a distance, I'm sure you'll agree, the tourist can easily mistake a family of haggis out for their daily swim, as Nessie, this of course gives rise to many more false sightings, but is inherently very good for the tourist industry in Scotland.
The largest known recorded haggis (caught in 1893 by a crofter at the base of Ben Lomond), weighed 25 tons.
In the water, haggis have been known to reach speeds of up to 35 knots, and therfore coupled with their amazing agility in this environment, are extremely difficult to catch, however, if the hunter can predict where the haggis will land, a good tip is to wait in hiding on the shore, beacuse when they come out of the water, they will inevitably run round in circles to dry themselves off.
This process, especially with the larger haggis, gives rise to another phenomenon - circular indentations in the ground, and again, these have been mistaken by tourists as the landing sites of UFOs.
I hope this clears up some of the misconceptions about the Haggis, that rare and very beautiful beastie of the Scottish Highlands (and very tasty too).
I have included here as much factual material as possible, although there are many gaps in this subject, and some of the information has to be mere speculation.
No-one has as yet been able to ascertain the sex of captured Haggis, and partially because of this, scientists assume the haggis is hermophroditic.
This may also be a product of evolution, and does explain the logistic problems of bringing two haggis together - after all, sure footed though the beast is, if two were to mate on a Scottish hillside, it is a long fall down, and a slip at the wrong time may very well result in a reduction by two of the total haggis population.
What is known about Haggis breeding is that, several days prior to giving birth, the Haggis make a droning sound - very much like a beginner playing the bagpipes for the first time - giving rise to the speculation that the bagpipes were indeed invented in Scotland, simply to lure unsuspecting haggis into a trap. At the onset of this noise, all other wildlife for a five mile radius can be seen exiting the area at an extremely high rate of knots (wouldn't you if your neighbour had just started to play the bagpipes?). The second purpose of the noise seems to be to attract other Haggis to the scene, in order to lend help with the birth. This also gives rise to the assumption that Haggis are tone deaf.
Haggis normally give birth to two or more young Haggis, or "wee yins", as they are called in Scotland, and from birth, their eyes are open, and they are immediately able to run around in circles, just like their parent.
The wee yins are fiercely independant, and it is only a matter of weeks before they leave the parent, and go off foraging for food on their own, although it is perhaps a two or three year period before they are themselves mature enough to give birth.
Most Haggis hunters will leave the wee yins, due simply to their size, but when attacked by other predators, they are still able to emit the bagpipe like sound, which again has the effect of very quickly clearing the surrounding area of all predators, and attracting other Haggis to the scene. This results in a very low infant mortality rate, with most wee yins actually making it to adulthood.
The lifespan of the Haggis is again an unknown quantity, but from taggings done in the Victorian era, we know that some haggis live for well over 100 years.
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well i didnt know they could swim that well, so i learnt something new there, and you see Funks that why you cant get them in England as they cant cope with your air.
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Haggis hunting season is the week before Robbie Burns Birthday, that's January 25th. So, the season is open January 18-25th.
Only kilted Highlanders can hunt a haggis, and only then if they can play certain notes on the bagpipes .... and then only if they have secured themselves a Haggis Hunting License at Hogmany.
If the hunters fail to catch a Haggis then synthetic Haggis is made at home using an old traditional Scottish recipe instead.
Fucking Genius..........
I've learnt something very new today.....
I had no idea they lived in the moors of the highlands.. I thought they were lowland creatures living solitary lives and only getting together for mating...
I think my teacher also told me they the males had antlers that grew during the mating season for rutting.. This, as it turns out is utter crap.. He was getting confused with Deer..
Just goes to show what a mess our education system is in.. This from the same system who teach us that x+y = xy or something... Who has ever used algebra in the real world (like for purchasing carrots or lampshades)??????
hi all silencer here, some of you might just be getting some of my chat, not too much happens here in scotland so any pointers at all would be helpful, don't be frightend by the bi tag that is only used when required!!
hope to here from lots of fun hunting scots!
Gonna take Funkis haggis hunting
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yiipppppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee can i wear me deer stalker that rosie very kindly gav me????
yes you can young lady.
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hope u got your license miss funky
Its alright Puss im going to sort one for her, when she decides to come up
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