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To have felt uncomfortable when me and my family were loudly talked about for no good reason ?

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ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 19/04/2011 15:29

Me and dp took the minieggs for a nice walk along the river yesterday, lovely sunshine, birds singing. Etc and so on

Kids were running ahead, collecting pretty stones, leaves and suchlike. As kids do.

Halfway down the path they suddenly stopped, me and dp hurried on to see what was going on, when we caught up with them we were met by another family blocking their path in what can only be described as a sinister and threatening manner ! We asked them to move and they just glared back at us.

The mother in the group spoke to the dad and kids, quite a conversation was going on by then in a language we couldn't understand. They shouted to more of their group to join them, more and more of them came running down the hill until about 30 were blocking our path.

Feeling intimidated, we had no option but to turn round and walk back Sad

Fucking sheep, baaaaa'ddddd at our retreating backs i'd bloody love to know what they were saying about us Angry They ave won this time, but next time, i'll be ready for the oversized puffs of stuffing

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madonnawhore · 19/04/2011 15:41

You'll be having the last laugh when you're tucking into your shepherd's pie.

They might have won that battle, but until they do anything that at least makes them worthy of a proper plural, then sheep are going to always lose the war.

chimchar · 19/04/2011 15:41

i think you'll find this works like magic!

nickelbaalamb · 19/04/2011 15:41

ducks and sheep?

have you ever thought it might be you ???

Get0rfMoiLand · 19/04/2011 15:44

I have been chased (chased!) by sheep in a field once. I had a great big overcoat on and they assumed I was the farmer (who stored feed in his pocket)

They started off trotting after me, I was a bit unnerved, started walking faster, then started a mild jog, then all the sheep in the county joined in and I was terrified of the sheep (despite my name I am a townie) and started pelting it, shrieking 'fuuuuuuuuck' into the oncoming wind. I was heavily pregnant as well.

So you have threads on MN about some pregnant wimp standing up on a bus. Imagine being chased across fields by 8 dozen million sheep!

Bloody Lambingwatch with Kate Humble. It may as well be called Stephen King's Lambingwatch to me.

nickelbaalamb · 19/04/2011 15:45

next time, take food.

Ormirian · 19/04/2011 15:47

You should have waved your arms about and talked loudly in simple one-syllable words. If they didn't understand, do it again but louder.

That's the way to talk to foreigners. And sheep.

TandB · 19/04/2011 15:48

Sorry, GOML - I just laughed out loud at the thought of you pelting across a field screaming!

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ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 19/04/2011 15:48

Take food ?? Shock

They are bloody food.... on fast, evil legs Wink

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SueSylvesterforPM · 19/04/2011 15:50

I'd feel tempteed to try and guess what thelanguage was, pick up a few choice phrases incase I bump into them again.

blackeyedsusan · 19/04/2011 15:53

rofl

sorry it took a while for the penny to drop..

nickelbaalamb · 19/04/2011 16:04

sorry, Apocalypse, not you - that was to GetOrf. Blush

heliumballoons · 19/04/2011 16:23

Next time take some clippers - see how fast they run then!!!

Anyone else ever wondered why lambs are cute and sheep so bloody scary. Grin

LifeIsButtercream · 19/04/2011 16:26

Next time...... RUN AT THEM WITH THE MINT SAUCE! Wink evil laugh

MrsMeow · 19/04/2011 16:27

Bastards Angry

Never trust anything that has square pupils!

sharbie · 19/04/2011 16:27

get a sheepdog just in case this ever happens again

flootshoot · 19/04/2011 16:30

Swans are buggers too. I had to punch one in the face to stop him attacking DS. Was a last resort, the bastard couldn't take a hint.

pjmama · 19/04/2011 16:41

DH got bullied into handing over his sandwich by a swan once. Oh i did laugh!

wildfig · 19/04/2011 16:41

Hee. Welcome to Cumbria. Were they Herdwicks? They don't say much but they really put the eye through you.

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ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 19/04/2011 16:54

I am in Cumbria wildfig, wonder if we have encountered the same sheep Hmm

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wildfig · 19/04/2011 17:00

Herdwicks would be the ones with the big fat white legs that mutter 'offcomer' to themselves as you go past. They're the UKIP of sheep. I used to enjoy watching them staring out cars on the backroads round Wasdale - nothing brings a tourist to a stop like an enormous sheep walking very slowly across the road, giving it the full 'go on, punk, make my day' routine.

i secretly love them

RevoltingPeasant · 19/04/2011 17:06

I was driving over Dartmoor a couple of weeks back and as you enter the moor road there is a sign saying, 'WARNING: sheep may be lying in the road.'

Sunbathing...? In political protest...?

Hmm
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ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 19/04/2011 17:07

We were up Wasdale the other week. Love the Everton mint cows' as we call them Grin

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MadamDeathstare · 19/04/2011 17:12

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TooManyBlossoms · 19/04/2011 17:24

Rofl at demonic rolling sheep Grin

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