She’s A Big Girl, But A Looker
Because it’s Monday, that’s why:
“When we dress a cow, it’s not like pulling pants on, on a regular person.”
Dawn Luebbe’s short documentary about the Dress A Cow event at Ohio’s Canfield County Fair.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
Well, yes. I suppose so.
People are weird.
Yes. But then, cows are pretty weird too. I don’t quite understand them, if you see what I mean. I get dogs, and I sort of get cats. Even chickens and ducks. But cows and horses confound me.
Some good news, albeit belated:
For those unfamiliar with the saga – and its woke inversions of reality – there’s a brief but telling overview here.
But then, cows are pretty weird too.
I wonder if a dairy farmer could give us the insights to “get” cows.
For those unfamiliar with the saga – and its woke inversions of reality – there’s a brief but telling overview here.
And for those who want full details, note the category hyperlinks at the bottom of that Legal Insurrection post: They have been covering the saga from the beginning, with heavy emphasis on the legal aspects. Ditto for some other important news stories, such as the Trayvon Martin hoax.
Gibson’s bakery: the students had made it a hobby to shoplift the store. The whole problem started when the bakery dared to stop a black student who stole and hold him for police. Gibson’s claimed it did not do anything, when in fact it cut the contract for gibson’s to supply food to the campus, send official emails, printed flyers, encouraged the students etc.
Animals: Dogs are excited to be domesticated. Cats think they domesticated us. Horses love people and attention but are unsure about people riding them sometimes. Odds are if you have a horse you will end up with a serious injury at some point. My aunt had to have her thumb reattached (horse leaned on her against a fence). My cousin was thrown off and got pretty hurt. My friend got front teeth knocked out. ie moody. Cows…??? Not sure they understand their situation.
But cows and horses confound me.
I find sheep baffling. Little more than fluffy, empty-headed automata with vacant, staring expressions, and made from meat and clouds. They’re like reality TV stars, only more socially useful. And more delicious.
Odds are if you have a horse you will end up with a serious injury at some point.
Or, as Ian Fleming wrote, “A horse is dangerous at both ends, and uncomfortable in the middle.”
I often pass fields in which a single horse, or a pair of them, just stand immobile, as if in power-saving mode. It’s a little odd.
I’m assuming there must be something there to get. But unlike dogs, cats, hamsters, etc., where you can get some idea of their preferences and what their world must be like, cows and horses seem, to me, rather alien and unreadable.
I recall cows often being described as rather stupid and dull, sheep as almost terminally stupid, and horses as, well, just skittish and slightly crazy. The dumber an animal is, the less mind there is to relate to. But consider the numerous videos of cows enjoying being serenaded by musicians playing various instruments: There is something there, and I suppose that farmers have a better understanding of what that something is.
In related news, season two of Clarkson’s Farm should air on Amazon Prime on February 10th.
I think you mean “Oberlin claimed it did not do anything,”
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Horses aren’t hard to understand. They are basically overgrown dogs. Albeit a little dumber and more awkward. Now cows/cattle OTOH. They always look depressed.
Added because it’s important: Ducks are just evil. Fortunately they are tasty as well.
@COMPUTERLABRAT – post your reply I did a little more digging for low cost telescopes.
There a mildly irritating youtuber called astrobiscuit – I’ve watched quite a few of his vids and he seems to know what he’s doing.
He did a sub £100 scope comparison last year.
https://astrobiscuit.com/best-budget-telescope/#under_100
The Celestron he’s recommending actually looks very good – Moon, Mars, Jupiter should all be available provided you have fairly still atmospheric conditions..
Skip to about 10:40 to see a demo of what he caught from his rooftop in London…
Hope this helps…more…..
What, the rabbit?
Yes, Oberlin claimed it did nothing wrong. Sorry.
Horses: they can be pretty smart. A rodeo video–they open the gate and the horse is bucking and the guy is not falling off. The horse stops (seems to understand that bucking isn’t working), turns his head and bites the leg of the rider. hahaha. A girl is riding a horse in a personal corral area. The horse rides fast up to the water trough and stops, dumping her in the water perfectly. A cowboy is branding a calf. His horse blocks the cow (mom probably) that is trying to get close.
For cows and sheep, we have bred them for 10,000 years for docility which looks a lot like supidity.
One you milk and/or eat, one you ride. The rest is just detail.
one you ride.
Non! Non! Ce n’est pas vrai!
In ongoing blizzard news.
Re: sheep
Check out the interview ( long) with Clarkson and Kaleb
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pGNO-9fP_D4&ab_channel=performancepeople
Clarkson: no matter how well you treat them, sheep will always try to find a way to kill themselves.
Kaleb: at a public talk, he asked for a show of hands of those keeping sheep. He bows to them to show respect.
pst314: “I wonder if a dairy farmer could give us the insights to “get” cows.”
Would you take a beef rancher?
I think there are two factors — intelligence and facility with communicating with humans.
Horses, dogs and cats are all pretty bright, but their real strength is that they intuitively “get” humans. Horse body language is more subtle than dogs, and most people don’t spend a lot of time around horses, so there are a lot more people who don’t “get” horses, but once you do, they’re definitely right up there with dogs. Cats seem plenty smart, but as we all know they mostly give no f**ks about anything but what they want. Goats are also pretty smart and good at communicating with humans, but probably a notch down from horses and dogs.
Cows are a little lower in intelligence than horses, probably, but the biggest difference is that they don’t have as much breeding for cooperative work with humans. They don’t read us as well and we don’t read them as well.
I think the internal life of a cow is pretty sweet and simple: I have my herd and my food and I’m happy. Bottle-raised cows and dairy cattle sometimes bond more with the humans who raised them and they can be quite social, but they can also be dangerous because a lot of them don’t seem to have the intuitive care that most horses take around people. Horses accept the dichotomy that we are somehow both more powerful and dominant than them, while still being more fragile.* Cows just forget and start to treat you like another cow, which can be fatal for you.
*Of course, accidents happen. Riding horses causes more per capita rider deaths than riding motorcycles (about 700), and cows kill about 22 people per year, but that’s because riding is dangerous, not that horses are more dangerous than cattle.
Would you take a beef rancher?
I’ll take it and say thank you very much.
but their real strength is that they intuitively “get” humans.
A good reminder that communication is a two-way street.
Horse body language is more subtle than dogs
And few people learn it.
Goats are also pretty smart and good at communicating with humans
That’s the impression I’ve gotten from a lifetime of afternoons at state fairs. While acknowledging that farmers leave the difficult animals at home.
In ongoing blizzard news
I’m hoping for a new entry in the category of Feminist Snow Ploughing.
With regard to sheep: It is arguable that Michael Bloomberg is less intelligent than sheep. Or at least less useful.
Plants crave it even without electrolytes, because it is charged with positive words and music.
In ongoing blizzard news
Oh, the humanity!
Plants crave it even without electrolytes, because it is charged with positive words and music.
And it’s nano-enhanced!
In ongoing blizzard news.
When this happens in Toronto, the Mayor calls on the military for help. The rest of the country, in fact, the rest or the Greater Toronto Area points and laughs in ridicule. For them, this kind of snowfall is akin to the one in David’s link
Plants crave it even without electrolytes
Here in Canada there’s a bottled water company that bottles tap water from a small town and sells it for more than gasoline. Similar scams exist in the US. It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep their money.
horses seem, to me, rather alien and unreadable
I dated a woman who trained horses and picked up enough horse behaviour through osmosis to read them superficially on sight. As with everything, it’s evolutionary biology; horses instinctively follow the herd leader because in the wild the herd leader is the strongest, smartest horse that keeps the herd – much of which will be his dams and get – alive and safe. Successfully and safely training a horse relies on convincing the horse you are the herd leader.
Her bete noir was teenage girls who got a horse because they’d watched too many movies or cartoons and thought the horse was a big cuddly puppy or something. She did a brisk trade in brokering horse sales from such when they found out keeping a horse was actual work, and/or got themselves injured from not understanding horse behaviour.
season two of Clarkson’s Farm
While I’m not going to fault him for bringing attention to the travails of the British tenant farmer, I am going to point out that the show is calculated image rehabilitation for a man with a £60M net worth who got fired for punching a minimum wage staffer because his pasty wasn’t hot enough.
There’s a reason they never show you his house. Frankly I think a show that focused on Charlie the farm manager, stoically trying to keep the farm solvent while Clarkson does donuts in the field in his Lamborghini tractor, would have been more entertaining.
Ah, but you’re not supposed to notice.
Colin Wright and Alice Dreger debate the biological reality of sex.
And on the subject of not noticing,
Well, sometimes the expected pretence is asking a little too much.
And once again, we’re told that “professionalism is a patriarchal and White supremacist myth.”
It’s curious just how often woke mouthings sound like excuses for inadequacy, infantilism, selfishness, and delinquent behaviour.
How I want my cow dressed: medium rare with a little salt, a little pepper, and a little garlic powder, Oh, and a dollop of butter.
I’m a blue cheese and peppercorn crust man myself.
… who got fired for punching a minimum wage staffer …
It was a producer, not a gofer, who got 100,000 Imperial Dollars for his troubles for his hurt feelings. When you have May defending Clarkson, it couldn’t have been a big deal.
And on the subject of not noticing…
He claims to be “genderfluid” so if he goes to the slammer will they have to keep moving him from male to female prisons?
Also on the subject of not noticing...
Ah, but you’re not supposed to notice.
Except when you are supposed to notice? I have read that his sexuality was what got him hired: the Department wanted a flaming trans who would be a constant public advertisement of the Department’s embrace of Queer ideology. What a surprise that he turned out to have other “problematic” tendencies.
Here in Canada there’s a bottled water company that bottles tap water
Bottles of “enhanced” water are a big thing, and until I retired I had to be careful to refrain from saying anything derisive. Perhaps it will go the way of other fads (how long will the current kombucha craze last?)
It was a producer, not a gofer, who got 100,000 Imperial Dollars for his troubles for his hurt feelings. When you have May defending Clarkson, it couldn’t have been a big deal.
I didn’t watch a lot of Top Gear, but did enjoy it. Clarkson’s rudeness and expressions of ethnic bigotry seemed to be a big part of the show’s success and I felt embarrassed about enjoying that. A recurring question: Does Clarkson deliberately behave more outrageously than he would in normal life, just to viewership?
On Bastille Day the Biden Administration sent Brinton and Levine to the French Embassy as the United States’ representatives to their celebration. That is extremely high profile, and was done to make a point.
Maybe the point is that America is no longer a serious country? And that its ruling class has largely gone insane?
Maybe the point is that America is no longer a serious country? And that its ruling class has largely gone insane?
Speaking of which, I continue to wonder who bombed the Nordstrom pipelines. Was it the United States? Or another state actor? And if it was America, did the Biden administration think this would remain forever secret and without consequences?
So Brinton is a high profile symbol chosen specifically for his gender fluidity. That makes his behaviour significant.
How about a remake of Dr. Strangelove in which General Jack Ripper is a transsexual who decides to start a nuclear war with Russia in order to make the world safe for Queer Folk Everywhere? Or just because he got a rip in his nylons?
When your politics looks a lot like a Two Ronnies comedy sketch.
I asked chatGPT and it replied:
Piper Former Cowtown Resident Paul
There’s a reason they never show you his house.
You mean the mansion he’s building? He has talked about it, I know, or at least about the construction delays.
I have read that many of his neighbors are not happy about him. For instance, many locals objected when he announced plans to open a restaurant on the farm (the traffic would be a serious problem.) And the BBC reports that the local planning council has ordered him to stop selling anything in the farm’s souvenier shop which is not made locally, which I suppose is a pretext for dealing with the traffic problems caused by the shop.
When your politics looks a lot like a Two Ronnies comedy sketch.
I repeat: Our ruling class has gone absolutely insane. Barking mad. But the rest of the Western world is not exactly in good shape, either, so there’s no point in emigrating.
David, would it be possible to increase the time allowed for editing a comment? I just noticed several comments in which I failed to italicize quotes.