Bazj Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 Spain got their bailout and the cost of their borrowing has risen today; so that didn't work!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted June 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 Looking like it's going to have to be the Fourth Reich then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 Looking like it's going to have to be the Fourth Reich then! Â Â Margaret Thatcher; Â " You have not anchored Germany to a unified Europe...You have anchored Europe to a newly unified and dominant Germany! In the end my friends, you will find it will not work." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RingoDave Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 It seems I've missed most of this "discussion". I have to agree with Cleo and state here and now that I am English - in fact, my family traces back to before that Norman lot came into "our country"! However, on further inspection, my surname is actually saxon, so "we" are also invaders....How far do we go back? Very few families around now can positively state that their names have remained unchanged throughout the centuries, so what if they are now the Mountbatten-Windsors? Bringing up old family histories could open up a huge can o' worms for most of us, I'm sure. Â As an aside, I currently have three haggises (haggae??) in my fridge as I love them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Eating Haggis, Baz will have you down as a traiter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 The plural of haggis is hagii Dave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Eating Haggis, Baz will have you down as a traiter  Being a lover of all things foreign and a hater of all things British, I thought you would have spelt it Traiteur!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted June 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 Seems to be a trait Baz! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted June 13, 2012 Report Share Posted June 13, 2012 only four days to go until the end of the Euro!! Â come on Greece; do the right thing and scupper Brussels!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted June 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Holidays should work out cheaper this year - we hope! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Nothing wrong with haggis. Delicious! Whisky is too more-ish for me I'm afraid :unsure: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 Nothing wrong with haggis. Delicious! Whisky is too more-ish for me I'm afraid :unsure: Â No-one saying anything is wrong with haggis, or whisky, just that if Scotland decides to go solo you will have to pay import duty on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted June 15, 2012 Report Share Posted June 15, 2012 I'll just have to go ashore when I'm in Scotland and catch a couple of them. The wee beasties are quite easily come by :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Ahh but Asperity, you would still have to declare them at Customs. Don't forget they will have sniffer dogs to sniff out any haggis smugglers. And those Skye Terriers can be little terrors when they grab hold of your trouser leg! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RingoDave Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Well I'm alright. Just taken delivery of three of the wee beasties, brought across the border legally still! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Not sure why anyone would want to eat what looks like a bald hedgehog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 The taste maybe, wolfie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted June 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Sheep's stomach stuffed with oats - yuck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Ok, observer, let me educate you. There is more to a haggis than just oats. A haggis is made from the offal of the sheep. Windpipe, lungs and heart and liver which have been boiled then minced. Then it's mixed with beef suet and a little lightly toasted oats. That is all stuffed into the sheeps stomach then further cooked by boiling or roasting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Ok, observer, let me educate you. There is more to a haggis than just oats. A haggis is made from the offal of the sheep. Windpipe, lungs and heart and liver which have been boiled then minced. Then it's mixed with beef suet and a little lightly toasted oats. That is all stuffed into the sheeps stomach then further cooked by boiling or roasting. Â So it's not the taste then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 So it's not the taste then? Â Well you may not think so but many others do and, lets face it, haggis has been a popular dish for many centuries so it can't be all that bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Well you may not think so but many others do and, lets face it, haggis has been a popular dish for many centuries so it can't be all that bad.  A friend of mine , learning about the Scottish culture, once asked me for my idea of the perfect Scottish breakfast.  "A bottle of whisky, a haggis and a collie dog" I replied  "Why the collie?" he said  "To eat the haggis..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 LMAO That should have been in the jokes section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted June 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Well your ingedients give it a treble - yuck Cleo; obviously designed for the poor, while the Lairds ate the meat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted June 16, 2012 Report Share Posted June 16, 2012 Don't be silly, even the Lairds ate/eat haggis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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