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.
It’s possible, but I’m not inclined to. If I extend it, we’ll end up with people already having replied to a comment currently being edited, which opens a can of worms. A 15-minute window to catch typos or whatever seems quite sufficient.
Today’s word is proofreading.
Speaking of big, um, “girls”, I am not sure which is worse, the venue, or the idiots squeeing over him.
Today’s word is proofreading.
“I can eat olive oil and butter, but not butter with olive oil”, another exciting episode in the series “Change The World To Suit Me™“.
Today’s episode, “How To Be An Ass In A Restaurant”.
If he were actually singing, as opposed to miming badly, there might be a basis for applause. But they seem to be applauding him simply for being a drag queen, i.e., a garish and rather ludicrous parody of a woman. As if it were some kind of feat.
Sam Brinton: sorry, but I want my gov official in charge of nuclear waste, or even in charge of processing dog kennel permits, to be boring, traditional, no-nonsense, just-doing-my-job kind of person. These are not serious people. Putting non-serious people, incompetent people, in charge of actual things is why everything is going to shit right now. Janet Yellen claiming they were surprised that printing all that money (though without admitting that is what they did) caused inflation. Huh. Get woke go broke is funny when it is ESPN (who cares) but not when it is real stuff. Even the fiasco of Disney ruining Star Wars impacts people.
Snow: in Chicago, we can easily handle a foot. Two feet is tough. Three feet at once does shut it all down for a few days. People who get to their garage via an alley are out of luck for up to a week.
Today’s episode, “How To Be An Ass In A Restaurant”.
That brings back so many memories of cringing embarrassment while another diner made a nuisance of him-/herself.
Also: I keep seeing claims on the internet that seed oils are terribly unhealthy, and yet none of them actually link to any scientific studies.
See also: “The evidence-free influencer.”
What’s the punishment for that infraction, anyway?
Time to wheel out this old girl I think.
Also: I keep seeing claims on the internet that seed oils are terribly unhealthy, and yet none of them actually link to any scientific studies.
For general woo it ranks up there with those claiming they can only drink gluten free vodka.
Also: I keep seeing claims on the internet that seed oils are terribly unhealthy, and yet none of them actually link to any scientific studies.
For general woo it ranks up there with those claiming they can only drink gluten free vodka.
Heh.
It didn’t take many years to go from studies showing that margarine is less healthy than butter to wild claims about various types of naturally occurring fats and oils.
I do wonder how many of these people are just crackpots broadcasting their delusions and how many are “influencers” being paid by the makers of one product or another.
Speaking of influencers, for some time I have noticed how so many “cute and funny” Twitter accounts would appear and then soon be suspended or canceled. (This was disappointing because I would occasionally forward something sweet to people having a hard time.) I suspect that they were “influencers” of one sort or another, whose strategy was to first get large numbers of followers by posting innocent fun things, and then start adding toxic material of one sort or another.
Heh
On the one hand, there are people buying into this nonsense, OTOH, P.T. Banum is smiling.
“How To Be An Ass In A Restaurant”.
Parody, right?
Not that I don’t know why, but why? We live in a society of nutcases because we defer to their insanity while simultaneously being intimidated against expressing our own rather sane ideas…crazy shit like “a man has a penis and a woman has a vagina”. It’s literally a win/win for the nutcases. Is it any wonder that they are winning?
Parody, right?
No, see the link to his website for selling tortilla chips.
G. K. Chesterton comes to mind.
It didn’t take many years to go from studies showing that margarine is less healthy than butter to wild claims about various types of naturally occurring fats and oils.
The original idea, promulgated by the paleo diet people, was a reasonable hypothesis: Humans evolved over many tens of thousands of years to successfully eat all sorts of naturally occurring forms of foods, but recently created artificial foods (such as margarine and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils) might pose health problems. But the rhetoric quickly escalated from a hypothesis to an assertion of absolute truth.
No, see the link to his website for selling tortilla chips.
Frito-Lay, trembling in fear.
Merry Winter Closure Period.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brighton-university-christmas-winter-closure-period-christian-offensive-tjxrsdrn9
I’m feeling more festive already.
Heh. In a passive-aggressive battle of wills, I noticed that the other members of my HOA board were a bit more adamant/consistent this year in referring to our annual/seasonal party as the “holiday party” whilst I continued to refer to it on emails and in the last meeting as a “Christmas party”. Quite the elephant in the room, though not awkward at all. Or so we all pretended.
Merry Winter Closure Period.
𝅘𝅥𝅮 Have yourself a merry little winter closure period 𝅘𝅥𝅮…practically rolls off the tongue.
Christmas celebration: I refer to those who get offended as “Orthodox athiests”. It is heresy if you celebrate. Though ironically, the holiday is already so far from a religious one (I don’t believe Santa is a recognized saint) that it is unclear what they are upset about. Anti-eggnog and colored lights?
Why so crazy? We have so many of what used to be called neurotics because life is easy. Same reason so many are overweight. When everyone worked 12 hr days on a farm, no time to drift off into neverland. With the current longest lifespan and greatest wealth in human history why are people so afraid of everything? Because they are unaquainted with actual risk, actual hardship.
Ooh, this. One thing that struck me about the somewhat recent WWI documentary (1915?) was that as horrible as that war was or perhaps as horrible as I was told it was, so many of the men interviewed seemed to have fond-ish memories. At least far more so than nearly any other war that I’ve heard personal accounts from.
Hope this helps…more…..
@Chris – it does! I like second one that seems to be good for planets and such but also for galaxies. And it leaves budget room to get a good tripod for it. I already have a good spot on campus to play with it (my backyard is under an enormous tree, so home is out), and when I go home for the holidays the backyard there is tree free and away from city lights. Still keeping the other one in mind – but I like that Meade one for learning and getting started in the hobby.
[goes off to do some research at Amazon (US)]
Merry Winter Closure Period.
“Guidance suggests that in the interests of inclusivity staff may wish to avoid the word Christmas because it is too ‘Christian-centric’. Another phrase that could cause offence, according to the nine-page Inclusive Language Guidance document sent to lecturers, is ‘millennial snowflakes’.”
How about the phrase “obnoxious, happiness-killing leftist douchebags”?
whilst I continued to refer to it on emails and in the last meeting as a “Christmas party”.
As did I until I retired. And I continue to send Christmas cards that reproducing the great Christian art of the last thousand years.
Frito-Lay, trembling in fear.
I do see claims that McDonald’s french fries tasted much better back in the day when they were cooked in lard rather than vegetable oil. Such claims seem plausible, but I cannot venture an opinion because fast food was not in the family budget when I was a child.
pst314: I think the rule is that one may not offend even one person (ie, inclusivity), though we all know this only goes one way. So jews have put up with christmas forever, and do not get special treatment, but moslems and athiests do. No one cares what Hindus think.
I had a policy of sending the most Jesus-y and Mary-y Christmas cards to my most fanatically secular friends. A couple of the more religious relatives would get a more secular Santa type card, though I tended to avoid the “Season’s Greetings” thing unless it was a real nice looking card. I doubt my more religious relatives noticed or cared about the secular thing. The more secular ones…well, they mostly have asked me not to send them cards because they don’t do so. Some because of laziness but another couple of them because Gaia…or wtf she’s called. But after 2020, I decided to just drop those people. No great loss if I never hear from them again. The ball is in their court.
Oh they definitely did. I noticed a clear difference. I hadn’t eaten burger/fries at McD’s in ages but was in a bind one day back about 10-15 years ago shortly after they made the change. In the context of being a bit nostalgic it was very noticeable. They were very bland. Which was something that was starting to happen at most other restaurants as well.
I hadn’t eaten burger/fries at McD’s in ages but was in a bind one day back about 10-15 years ago shortly after they made the change.
I have had that experience with various kinds of food, but cannot be confident that the change is always in the food: All sorts of foods do not taste as good as when I was a child, and I am inclined to believe that the sensitivity of taste buds both decrease and change as we age.
I do see claims that McDonald’s french fries tasted much better back in the day when they were cooked in lard rather than vegetable oil.
Although anyone old enough (25 cents for a burger and fries, been there done that) has probably lost the ability to tell the difference between then and now, it makes sense, something cooked in peanut oil tastes different than butter, than bacon fat.
Regarding seed oils, I would imagine most of the bad press about them is because they are not “processed naturally” (as opposed to a fresh squeezed olive), however the true wisdom is that anything that is touted to cause all the symptoms known to man and beast, probably causes none.
Thin made me laugh. .
So essentially, not being a foooking moron means that you must be a white supremacist.
Oh they definitely did. I noticed a clear difference.
On the other hand, David’s bar snacks taste the same today as fifty years ago.
It was a producer, not a gofer
What do you think “producer” means in reality show land? Are we seriously defending the notion that rich and famous people can commit assault and battery, as long as the target is less famous and/or wealthy? I could have sworn the US fought an entire war to get rid of that notion.
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
Several of the Hallmark Channel’s television productions (series and movies) were filmed in the nearby town of Dundas, Ontario. So many that the town passed a moratorium on filming for five years, because the productions caused so much disruption they destroyed the downtown core businesses.
I had a policy of sending the most Jesus-y and Mary-y Christmas cards to my most fanatically secular friends
I find that fascinating because it’s essentially impossible to find such anywhere around here. I suppose there’s probably some kind of Christian specialty bookstore somewhere around, probably on the back side of a dilapidated strip mall.
The chief problem with liberalism is that liberals do not suffer the consequences of their ideas.
Thin made me laugh. .
I see what you did there.
Ah, but you’re in Canada, right? The nice country full of nice people? My wife gets them at Publix (mainstream, almost woke Florida grocery store) and TJ Max, HomeGoods, etc. stores that sell excess inventory from other higher end stores. They aren’t overwhelmingly plentiful but definitely not hard to find.
I suppose there’s probably some kind of Christian specialty bookstore somewhere…
There used to be a number of greeting card companies that specialized in cards reproducing great Renaissance paintings and images. Lots of Madonnas, holy families, and the occasional golden angel weather vane. Every Christmas the department stores would have a large selection. Such cards have become very hard to find, which I take as a depressing measure of one of the ways in which our culture has declined.
Salvation Army Xmas cards are my go-to and have the added bonus of snarking those who deserve it.
Merry Winter Closure Period.
What’s wrong with Yule?
or Saturnalia…
Because only Spring itself will give me closure.