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Post by lordeffinghamhunt on May 17, 2013 22:02:39 GMT
Seeing that this season we will be more well known for a pig than our football I rather think that we should have a thread about pigs. Pig facts,pig pictures intact everything pig!
I will start
Pigs, because of there acute sense of smell have been used on the battle field to sniff out land mines!
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2013 22:19:07 GMT
Pigs are very intelligent animals , although the one I married wasn't.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2013 22:20:06 GMT
Pigs are used to 'sniff out' truffles in some parts of Europe.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2013 22:22:01 GMT
Anyone remember the 'Tamworth Two' who escaped from the Abbatoir...
It was a bit like 'Escape from Colditz...
FANTASTIC.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2013 22:28:03 GMT
Pigs are used to 'sniff out' truffles in some parts of Europe. I know they mostly use dogs for that job......with a pig there would be the danger of it eating the truffle before it could be collected I would have thought ? |
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2013 22:29:47 GMT
No....You're getting confused with well heeled Conservative voters...
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Post by Maccca100 on May 17, 2013 22:38:02 GMT
Pigs are used as a fine substitute for ill soldiers in some parts of Eastern Europe. #pigfacts
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Post by cheeesfreeex on May 18, 2013 1:34:47 GMT
PIGS
Other than a rescue from vegetarianism.
I didn't like them in 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell, but supported them against the Wolf.
If that's any use.
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Post by lordeffinghamhunt on May 18, 2013 4:56:14 GMT
Owd grandad Piggot was not a pig and neither was he related to Lester Piggot . But he was or may be still is on radio Stoke!
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Post by lawrieleslie on May 18, 2013 7:45:05 GMT
Pigs have been used in ancient warfare to frighten elephants of opposing armies. In one legendary battle the pigs were set alight and driven towards the enemy and their elephant bolted killing many of their own side.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2013 8:02:01 GMT
Didn't they send pigs down the tunnels they'd made under castle walls, then set them on fire to bring down walls because the fat burnt hotter and for longer ? Saw it on Iron Clad  |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2013 8:02:47 GMT
Pigs have been used in ancient warfare to frighten elephants of opposing armies. In one legendary battle the pigs were set alight and driven towards the enemy and their elephant bolted killing many of their own side. Rome Total War  |
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Post by blackie on May 18, 2013 8:09:09 GMT
B-|I have been with a few pigs in my time
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Post by lawrieleslie on May 18, 2013 8:37:55 GMT
Didn't they send pigs down the tunnels they'd made under castle walls, then set them on fire to bring down walls because the fat burnt hotter and for longer ? Saw it on Iron Clad This is how pork scratchings were invented apparently. Soldiers followed the pigs down the tunnels to collect the remains. |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2013 10:38:54 GMT
No....You're getting confused with well heeled Conservative voters... Or fat well off pseudo socialists ....... |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2013 10:44:17 GMT
Didn't they send pigs down the tunnels they'd made under castle walls, then set them on fire to bring down walls because the fat burnt hotter and for longer ? Saw it on Iron Clad Quite right mate ( the pig fat was used for that very purpose ) not sure they were live pigs though ....it sapped the strength of the walls causing them to collapse...hence the men digging the tunnels became known as sappers , a term still applied to military engineers today .. |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2013 10:47:48 GMT
Didn't they send pigs down the tunnels they'd made under castle walls, then set them on fire to bring down walls because the fat burnt hotter and for longer ? Saw it on Iron Clad This is how pork scratchings were invented apparently. Soldiers followed the pigs down the tunnels to collect the remains. I have heard that mate ....not too sure how edible they would have been had that been the the case ! |
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Post by Orbs on May 18, 2013 10:48:20 GMT
Salop must have thought Whelan had paid a visit when he woke up this morning
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2013 10:54:45 GMT
Pigs have been used in ancient warfare to frighten elephants of opposing armies. In one legendary battle the pigs were set alight and driven towards the enemy and their elephant bolted killing many of their own side. Rome Total War That was during the second Punic war between Rome and Carthage I believe , Hannibal employed over thirty Elephants against the Romans with some success , getting them across the Alps was a remarkable achievement |
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2013 11:09:52 GMT
Pigs are very intelligent animals , although the one I married wasn't. Obviously .....  |
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Post by kingstokie on May 18, 2013 22:51:07 GMT
 One features on my second favourite Pink Floyd album. |
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Post by ihaveadream on May 19, 2013 10:25:00 GMT
Chinese Years of the Pig
1911 1923 1935 1947 1959 1971 1983 1995 2007
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Post by ihaveadream on May 19, 2013 10:28:14 GMT
B-|I have been with a few pigs in my time I have been with a few male chauvanist pigs  |
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Post by ihaveadream on May 19, 2013 10:40:11 GMT
PIGS I didn't like them in 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell, but supported them against the Wolf.  |
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