Cows are fucked
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@PleegWat said in Cows are fucked:
@mikehurley said in Cows are fucked:
@Karla said in Cows are fucked:
@error said in Cows are fucked:
@Gąska said in Cows are fucked:
Mitch Hedberg:
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
I liked Mitch.
My favorite bit of his:
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.Only if it fails into braked.
Not if it fails into neutral.
If it fails into neutral, it becomes a StairMaster.
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@HardwareGeek said in Cows are fucked:
@Carnage said in Cows are fucked:
Lappsko roughly translates to Sami shoe.
Still more edible than surströmming.
Everyone should try surströmming at least once in their lives.
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@HardwareGeek said in Cows are fucked:
Still more edible than surströmming.
Nothing wrong with surströmming. It does have a very sharp taste, but it doesn't taste like it smells. And the smell isn't that bad either, the paper mill I pass on the way to work has the same smell.
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Unrelated, but I want to name this thread "The Dairy WTF" now.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Cows are fucked:
make friends with a farmer who has Jerseys. They're smaller cows with solid golden-brown colored fur all over, and the difference in milk quality is very noticeable
Cream from Jersey cows is often sold separately in the UK, as it tends to be a lot thicker than that from other breeds, with double cream from Jerseys often being so thick that it won't pour at all. Which sort you want depends on what you're doing with it; very thick cream isn't the best on a portion of fresh strawberries, for example.
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@Carnage said in Cows are fucked:
Apparently it's a dish from the UK
Not necessarily. It came from somewhere near a port somewhere in northern Europe, but it seems to have been around in lots of places before anyone really documented the word. I guess it dates from the time of the Hanseatic League, and was probably spread around (with variations) as part of their trading arrangements, but getting more accurate than that is going to be tricky.
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@Atazhaia said in Cows are fucked:
@HardwareGeek said in Cows are fucked:
Still more edible than surströmming.
Nothing wrong with surströmming. It does have a very sharp taste, but it doesn't taste like it smells. And the smell isn't that bad either, the paper mill I pass on the way to work has the same smell.
I used to pass a paper mill... There's no way in hell I'd want to try something that smells like that!
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@_P_ said in Cows are fucked:
Unrelated, but I want to name this thread "The Dairy WTF" now.
Unfortunately, we moved away from Discourse.
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@Gąska Unfortunately???
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@Mason_Wheeler unfortunately for him, but fortunately for us.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Cows are fucked:
@Gąska Unfortunately???
Have you repressed the memory of level-3 Discourse users causing Renamageddon, or were you strategically offline at the time?
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@JBert said in Cows are fucked:
Renamageddon
I can't remember: were thread renames rate limited or not?
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@dkf said in Cows are fucked:
@JBert said in Cows are fucked:
Renamageddon
I can't remember: were thread renames rate limited or not?
Only by natural laws. ISTR a bot or two causing cooties by trying to rename things thousands of times in a loop.
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@boomzilla So Mr Rate-Limit-All-The-Things
didn't do that one? 
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@dkf only indirectly.
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@Gąska said in Cows are fucked:
@_P_ said in Cows are fucked:
Unrelated, but I want to name this thread "The Dairy WTF" now.
Unfortunately, we moved away from Discourse.
Just set us all as moderators and we gonna have even more fun than we had with discourse.
(The dwarf fortress kind of fun)
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@Gąska said in Cows are fucked:
TL;DR: After 60 years of artificial insemination that resulted in rampant inbreeding, it turns out Holsteins, the most common breed of dairy cow, has only two different Y chromosomes left in the entire population. Some scientists dispute that it's a disaster.
Fun fact: there are herds of wild cattle where there's essentially only one version of each chromosome; the only meaningful variations at all are in the sex and age of the cattle. They seem to be highly healthy too (though vets keep at a distance anyway; wild cattle are very much not safe animals to be near, and have a tendency to kill anything that doesn't look or smell right).
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@Atazhaia said in Cows are fucked:
@HardwareGeek said in Cows are fucked:
Still more edible than surströmming.
Nothing wrong with surströmming. It does have a very sharp taste, but it doesn't taste like it smells. And the smell isn't that bad either, the paper mill I pass on the way to work has the same smell.
I don't find that comforting. I grew up near enough to a paper mill that we could smell it when the wind was just
rightwrong
