Wales - sheep shagging

[green_giant]

why do people asume that people from wales shag sheep?!

[laurence2]

why do people assume that irish are thick.

why do people assume that all tottenham hotspur fans are jews.

why do we assume that all jocks are a bunch of haggis eaters.

I DON'T NO

[raysparx]

are you saying they don't?

Seriously I live in wales haven't come across one being done yet,but having said that we all have hobbies mine is football and fishing but each to his own

[Ethel]

I don't think anybody really believes that Welsh people do that, it's just a jokey thing.

It would be interesting to know if it stemmed from a particular incident though.

Historically, Welsh shepherds would be away from home for long stretches, particularly when walking their sheep to the big markets as far away as Birmingham.

One man, no women, just sheep....

Or maybe the inference is that Welsh women resemble sheep? Today woman are referred to as 'dogs' which is equally insulting.

Thank you for asking this and making me think!

Sorry I don't the answer though.

[Ethel]

I have just found this snippet, which is a valid explanation. Don't know if it's true though.

The reason for which, the Welsh at least, have a reputation for sheep-shagging is that there is a high instance of it in old crime records of days old. This high frequency is because the penalty for bestiality was less severe than that for sheep rustling, which often took place, so when the owner of the sheep or authorities arrived, to lessen their punishment, all the sheep rustler would have to do was drop his pants...

[Philtaz]

I'm Welsh and all I can say is that we're no as baa-aad as people make us out to be!

[Philtaz]

That should say 'not'.

[jno]

just because there are a lot of sheep in Wales, I think. I've heard the claim made of Scots too. New Zealanders face the same accusation from Australians (who have kangaroos and platypuses and things). Any excuse for an insult.

[Postdog]

You Welsh can't pull the wool over our eyes even if you can pull it over other things......

[Lonnie]

Our regimental padre was caught red handed,(if thats the correct phrase),shagging a sheep, back about 1969, in the Brecon Beacons, North Wales, he wasn't welsh though, needless to say, he disappeared shortly after.

[MustafaTinkl]

In reply to Ethel, the particular incident was this:
In Dublin many years ago an Irishman was sentenced to many years in gaol for often repeated rape. After a long while he managed to escape and reach the coast from where he swam across the Irish Sea and fetched up on the coast of Wales. When he recovered he looked around and saw a sheep which he caught, and, bearing in mind the reason for which he was convicted, that was the beginning of the first Welshman.

[Tatty Rollox]

Which one did he catch?

[Toureman]

It was in the news not long ago that several people on a train had seen a man sheep shaxxxxg in a field and had rang the police, this happened in England.

It's strange but there has been no reports in Wales of this sort of occurence!

[Philtaz]

You may be a bit geographically challenged there Lonnie, the Brecon Beacons are in South Wales, not North!

[kempie]

Toureman - it seems those from NE England prefer goats...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2002050329,00.html

[Lonnie]

Well noticed Philtz, I've been there too many times not to have made that mistake, challenges of timw, well done.

[tali122]

mm... an intresting combo of bestilality and demographics- the afghans/pashtaus are known as donkey shaggers

[LeoMunro]

Don't forget that most of the Welsh really are excellent baaards!

And, if I may, Lonnie & Philtaz, the Brecon Beacons are in south Wales -lower case, also small n in n. Wales.

Great site this is -nice week-end to one and all.

[henrymullen]

have you seen the women in Wales wouldnt you.

[DMA]

Hey Henry - I'll have nowt said against Zeta - a tidy boiler she is.

[Drusilla1S]

My nine year old found this question and is expecting me to explain it. I'm going to plead ignorance and tell her to ask her father.