catgate Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 Daily MailTen Scots diabetics a week need to get limb amputatedScotsman - 2 hours agoTEN Scots have a limb amputated as a result of diabetes every week, it has been revealed........How do these ten people continue growing more limbs so quickly? Is this do do with porridge or is it some new scientific breakthrough? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 It makes it easier for them to chase the haggis's around the mountain side.The normal haggis always runs clockwise round the mountain and because of this, its right legs wear down and are are much shorter than the left ones. To enable the Scotsman to give chase more easily, he has his right leg shortened so that he can match and beat the haggis speed.There is always the problem, though, of the left handed haggis which runs anticlockwise round the mountain. In this case its other pair of legs are shorter so there has to be a special squad of haggis hunters with the other leg shortened. These people are normally to be found lining the gutters of Glasgow on Friday and Saturday nights where their practise attempts are made walking along with one foot in the gutter and one on the pavement roaming from one bar to the next in search of the elusive Nirvana of oblivion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted July 7, 2008 Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 pops you are getting as cynical as catgate. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted July 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2008 I had not realised that, although may be I should have done due to an encounter, about fifteen years ago, when we were high up in the central mountains of Cyprus.We saw this shepherd boy with his flock of sheep upnear the top of this mountain. They were going round and round this mountain, and all his sheep had longer left legs than right legs. So had this shepherd boy. This leg irregularity prevented them falling down the mountain side. We got talking to him.We said that we thought that all this could be a bit of a trial and asked it presented any problems. He said that it didn't and that they just continued going round and round this mountain in an anticlockwise manner.He told us that he had a brother who had another flock of sheep, and they were such that there right legs were longer than their left legs, and so were his brother's, and they kept going round and round this mountain, in the opposite direction. We asked him what would happen when these two flocks met. Would they not try to breed and thus finish up with one big flock all with uniform length legs? He explained that they could not do this because, when they tried to breed, one of the attempting pair, as it turned to facilitate the act of procreation, would fall over sideways, and fall right down to the bottom of this mountain. By the time it had dizzily spiralled it's bruised way back up to the flock again it would have lots all it's enthusiasm for breeding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted July 8, 2008 Report Share Posted July 8, 2008 Idiots. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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