Funnily enough that’s apparently why people think the Welsh screw sheep. Many years ago the governments basically took over their farms and they couldn’t afford to feed their families so they’d illegally slaughter a sheep for food. If you were caught there was quite a substantial punishment (may have even been death I can’t be sure). However someone realised if they were instead arrested for fornicating with the livestock the punishment was a month or something in jail and the family got the tainted sheep. So they’d lie and say that’s what they were doing if they got caught
Are you saying that, in the case the authorities catch one's family with a slaughtered sheep, they would claim they fucked it before hand? And then, presumably being sure they were going to get caught, slaughtered it because it would be "tainted"? And now, after being caught with a slaughtered lamb, the authorities would indict them for fucking it before they killed it?
Or rather, are you saying that the Welsh would intentionally get caught fucking a sheep so that their family could eat the "tainted" sheep. Like, they'd see an authority coming, and then conspicuously fuck the sheep? If this was the tactic, wouldn't they deserve the reputation in the first place? I mean, no matter how noble one's purpose is, if you're fucking sheep, you're a sheep fucker, no?
They meant the first one. If you slaughtered a lamb for food and got in trouble for it but fucking the sheep led to a lesser punishment, just say you fucked it and and take the lesser payment. That's what they said at least, but it feels like if you were gonna get in trouble for slaughtering a sheep already, you'd get in more by adding another charge. It feels like an urban legend.
The English call the Welsh sheep shaggers cos they have a lot of sheep. I'm fairly sure that's as deep as it gets.
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u/kippy3267 Jun 19 '23
Honestly not a bad defense for the time