Hi #fediverse. We need to talk about something.
While talking to a colleague it came up that they have never sat on a cow. Like, not even once in their childhood.
Another colleague listening in admitted they also have never sat on a cow.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a cow.
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Have you sat on a cow?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
- Yes (8%, 648 votes)
- No (91%, 6912 votes)
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
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So. Looking at the current poll numbers I'm starting to have a suspicion my hypothesis will be disproven.
There's two ways I thought this could be people's lived experience:
1) At primary school during an excursion to a petting zoo or dairy farm. And then just to sit (with or without saddle) for a bit on a friendly dairy cow.
2) Subset of people, growing up with access to dairy farms: kids bumbling around trying to actually ride the cow.
(I personally check both boxes)
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in reply to Pepijn • • •Iโm surprised at how many people have sat on cows in this poll. I wouldโve guessed the percentage to be no more than 2%.
Sammi
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As a veggie, me neither, although as a kid I have sat on a donkey, a horse and an elephant.
I am very surprised at the high numbers of people who have sat on cows though, which seems very abusive to cows in my eyes.
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When my father retired to his family's ancestral farm (with pension) where we had never lived while growing up (pursuing his pension) he took over his uncle's dairy herd. When my son was about 8 or 9 years old and we were visiting for Christmas, the proud Grandpa hitched the trailer to the farm tractor, put hay around the edges and us in the middle, and drove out into the meadow to let His Grandson get up close to the calves and their mamas.
I think any attempt to ride any of those cows would have ended up in a tanned hide.
Wolf480pl
in reply to Pepijn • • •But cows are huge! especially if you're a child. How would you even get on top of one?
Also, grandma always said "don't come near the cow or it'll kick you"
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in reply to Pepijn • • •David de Groot
in reply to Pepijn • • •Iโve been around cows, and pigs, but never felt the need to sit on either of them.
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Also, in the UK, there's the City Farm movement, so that children could see where food really comes from. :D
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I would be in group 2 but never attempted to ride a cow but it was some kind of cruel "boys having fun" challenge to attempt to push over sleeping cows.
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in reply to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK • • •Guilty as charged! I sat on a cow and look at what happened to me!
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in reply to Pepijn • • •Growing up rural, I'd have had the chance to do that, but ...
One morning (about 5yo) I was at the neighbouring farm to get fresh milk. I was early, so the big tin bottles with fresh milk still've been in the stable. So I followed the farmer (f) into the stable.
There the last remaining bull in the village was to get a nose ring. He wasn't happy about that and demolitioned his stall.
FIVE-FUCKING-CM-THICK-OAK-PLANKS!
After that I kept my distance to cows.
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in reply to Local Dad, Ben Hamill • • •I too am a Texan who has been astride bovine. We may have watched Blazing Saddles too young. ;)
Nantucket Lit
in reply to Pepijn • • •No, never sat upon one,
But I can tell you anyhow,
I voted on Mas-to-don.
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in reply to David Griffith • • •@theplaguedoc ooh, I cringed in sympathy. I've ridden herd on cattle, and they're big and heavy and dumb. I've had three surgeries on one foot because of cow.
If I never get any closer to a cow than a porterhouse for the rest of my life, I will consider it a win. ;)
Nomdeb
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Crystal_Fish_Caves
in reply to MissConstrue • • •@MissConstrue @theplaguedoc one of my fav lines from The Cowboys is cows being nothing but trouble tied up in a leather bag.
The only John Wayne movie I've seen multiple times. Fun fact it was also a Book! Funner fact Mr Wayne went to my highschool. Funnier fact his name is listed on his picture as a member of the football team; it was Marion.
Thinking the John was prob a wise move.
MissConstrue
in reply to Crystal_Fish_Caves • • •@Crystal_Fish_Caves I do remember hearing that his name was Marion. It was apparently a really common name for both genders.
Despite living in cattle country, riding draft horses through the badlands, with a rifle across my saddle, to leave water barrels along the routes that migrants travel, and never learning to throw a rope despite much time trying, I have never seen a John Wayne movie. And despite that, I think I could imitate the walk and the speech pattern because he was so ubiquitous in the culture when I was young. :)
Crystal_Fish_Caves
in reply to MissConstrue • • •@MissConstrue that's amazing! growing up in LA I am one of those that cannot help yelling MOO at cows whenever I see one, which now that I live in Oregon is not unheard of. Thank you for leaving the water; I had heard some people do that, and that others come along and destroy them so yes Angels and Demons walk among us.
Fun John Wayne fact #5 The Cowboys is one of I think only 2 of his movies where he (spoiler alert) dies, and it is horrific, but not half as bad as Bruce Dern gets later...
MissConstrue
in reply to Crystal_Fish_Caves • • •@Crystal_Fish_Caves The water trips are actually organized by people in Tribal lands. ICE/BP were destroying the ones we left in national parks. Because they are monsters and destroying life saving supplies in a 125F degree desert is tantamount to murder, in my ethical system.
I just got lucky enough to be invited once, and then when they found out I used to train Percheron for jousting teams, (a million years ago) were thrilled to have a helper that could handle draft horses with no trouble, so I've gone out quite a few times when asked. Besides, when else am I going to get to ride some of the biggest, sweetest horses in the world? :) Literally one of them is so big I end up sitting crosslegged on the saddle for flat parts, because at my age, I'm worried my hips will just go north and south while I'm headed west. ;)
Nick
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I mean, do you know what they do to those bulls to get them to act like that? It's downright rude. And cruel.
As a rule, except during breeding season, bulls are closer to the Ferdinand side of the scale than bucking bullrider scale. That said, they weigh as much as a truck and have no sense of humor and are not to be toyed with.
Davey
in reply to Pepijn • • •a lot of people haven't physically touched a cow, sure
I'm a yes but can say I never did it where a cow thought it was ok. Kids will climb stuff you know yourself.
Jarjantifa
in reply to Pepijn • • •However, I did rescue a sheep once! Does that count?
The poor thing, a Texels sheep, had rolled over onto it's back. Texels sheep can't roll themselves back (too wide, over bred for wool production) and can die of stress if they're on their back too long.
Nick
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in reply to Pepijn • • •Growing up on a farm we had a few cows which didn't mind being ridden.
There's a photo of me riding a cow which my dad had on a leash.
Her name was Silvia iirc.
Rupert V/
in reply to Pepijn • • •Just, why would you? I doubt the cow would enjoy it much, either.
MissConstrue
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I wonder if dairy cows and beef cows are built differently. (I know they're both cows, but I wonder if adaptation to environment and use has changed their physiology at all.)
I suspect that because most beef cattle are steers (castrated males), most of us in the American south have seen beef cattle in the fields, and beef cattle are huge. Huge. I could get on the back of a Percheron easier than I could get on a steer, despite a steer being significantly calmer animal.
That said, it's not uncommon for there to be a steer at petting zoos that the kids ride around on in like a little covered chaise kinda thing.
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in reply to Pepijn • • •I donโt think your hypothesis will end up being correct. Most people who own even one cow are likely farmers, and farmers (despite the image that they project) tend to be quite wealthy. Cows cost a lot to buy, cost a lot to look after, and need a lot of land.
Most of the population arenโt wealthy or in close contact with any wealthy people, so itโs common sense that no - most people havenโt sat on a cow.
Pete
in reply to Pepijn • • •Fed chickens or harvested fresh eggs
Never eaten a duck egg
Never played with a baby goat
Never milked a cow
Never been mobbed by a litter of 6 week old puppies
jmht
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in reply to Pepijn • • •Plenty of horses, no cows.
I had a friend who went cow-tipping once tho'
(it did not go well) (you don't want the cow to wake up)
Crowjane
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in reply to Pepijn • • •Where I grew up, there are some concrete cows... they were created by some artists staying at what was then known as the Stacey Hill Museum of industrial and Rural Life... later becoming Milton Keynes Museum.
I grew up nearby, we used to play around the farm as kids... help out on open days and the artists in residence in the old farmhouse... went on to create several 'concrete' structures around the city.
So I helped make the concrete cows, a concrete snowman and a concrete crocodile.
So yes... I have sat on a cow... you never specified it had to be an alive one.
I've also sat on a 6ft tall concrete snowman and an 8ft long crocodile.
Jason Petersen (he)
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in reply to Pepijn • • •I havenโt, but my wife has ridden cows.
She says it was good fun.
Mike P
in reply to Pepijn • • •Cows can be more dangerous than a lot of people realise.
Once in a while this comes up in the local news, and people have to be loudly reminded: DO NOT TRY TO RIDE THE COWS. THEY WILL HURT YOU.
If you would like to ride a large mammal - try a horse. They're really a lot better suited to it.
Mike Smale
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in reply to Pepijn • • •dad used to enjoy sitting us up on the docile old whitehead bull as kids and holding us there, for giggles. So one day, when I was 3, I pottered into the field beside the house and mounted the bull myself as he lay chewing the cud.
My mother describes what happened to her when she found me as like that dream you have when you're screaming but can't make noise and running but can't move. She had to get to me without startling him into standing. There was war that night.
So anyway, yeah.
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in reply to Pepijn • • •i have never sat on a cow, but a newborn calf has sat on me. in the back of a pickup truck while the mother cow followed behind as we went slowly down the hill.
does that count in an inverse sort of way?
Larry
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in reply to Pepijn • • •For me, pigs are a legend and doesn't exist. And we don't know what we eat.
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in reply to Pepijn • • •If the opportunity doesnโt present itself in life, go and find it
More people should be sitting on cows, itโs an important rite of passage
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hugging cows for healing
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in reply to Pepijn • • •Horse: Yes
Dog: Yes
Human: Yes
Elephant: Yes
Cow: What?!?
David Penfold
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in reply to Pepijn • • •horse yes, sheep yes, maybe I never heard of anyone sitting on a cow? I grew up around them.
If it was usual for you, then probably regional variation? People using English just don't know the joys of cow sitting?
Oma_Trisha_F
in reply to Pepijn • • •Horse? Yes. Carousel horse? Yes. Big old dog? Yes. Sibling? Yes.
Cow? Unfortunately, no. But I'm not dead yet.
Jon
in reply to Pepijn • • •Jay Elbey
in reply to Pepijn • • •Not 100 percent positive, but I'm pretty sure I would remember sitting on a cow even as a small child.
I am, however, positive that I have sat on a pig. ๐ท
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in reply to Pepijn • • •My parents had a hobby ranch in the 70s, with a hundred head of cattle.
One cow was mostly tame, perhaps a former dairy cow?
When she was eating alfalfa hay at a round bale feeder, it was possible to pet her and gently climb onto her back.
I recall riding her slowly about, not directing her, and even reclining on her back to stare at the sky.
She tolerated all this.
Gentle big beastie!
Das
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in reply to Pepijn • • •Despite spending several summers on my uncle's dairy farm, I have never sat on a cow.
And my uncle is an authentic (Canadian) Dutchman!
Michele Feltman Strider
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in reply to Pepijn • • •I own cows and I have never sat on a cow!
My cattle are longhorns, and they are mostly not gentled/trained. Trying to sit on them will result in injury, at best. They can easily kill us if they feel threatened, and we have to handle them carefully when taking care of their health. While longhorns can be trained for riding, most are not.
Most beef cattle are barely handled and are unlikely to tolerate anyone sitting on them.
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in reply to Pepijn • • •I have been to many farms. Many petting zoos too. I've always loved animals.
I have ridden horses, quite a lot.
But I don't know of anyone who has ridden a cow, and I feel like I'd have known as I would have been very jealous.
I'd be very, very shocked if your hypothesis turned out to be true. If it IS true I'm going to go find a friendly cow to ride TOMORROW.
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isol
in reply to Pepijn • • •I have experienced two cow-sitting scenarios:
We had almost-pet-status cows when I was young; there were always 2 or 3 cows.
I've seen pictures of me as a young kid, sitting perched on a cow's back. Both cow and I seemed pretty happy about it.
As a teenager, I've sat on one of our cows to assist with restraining it in order for a vet to treat it. Neither cow nor I were happy about it!
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in reply to Pepijn • • •I grew up with/near a milk farm, helped with herding and feeding and bailing hay, and picking rocks, but I don't think I have ever sat on a cow.
Let cows lick my hand? Yeah. Get zapped by a weak electric fence? Sure.
But nope. Not sat on a cow.
marymessall
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in reply to Pepijn • • •every time i have been in a situation to sit on a cow it has been plain to both me and the cow that if i attempted to do this the cow would cause me severe bodily harm.
one time a cow chased me. or rather, chased a van, which i was riding in the back of. it seemed upset about something. it was successfully keeping pace with the van. i am quite certain had it caught up the van would have been more damaged than it has. i had many thoughts, none of them "i could have ridden that thing"
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in reply to Pepijn • • •I've tried to ride a dog tho.
Pickle Rick
in reply to Pepijn • • •My grandparents' generation were all farmers. I've seen lots and lots of cows, but I'm pretty sure I've never sat on one. Pretty sure I've never seen someone sitting on one.
I have occasionally ridden horses, though. And some horseback riding classes (childhood and college).
But no cows.
Lee from Colorado
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in reply to Pepijn • • •There was apparently a cow (young bull) that one of my older brothers rode often. Not sure if that means he rode it like a horse able to direct it or just sat on it while it rambled.
I'm in the "No" bucket, but I know I have at least one relative has, in fact, sat on a bovine and used to do so regularly as a child.
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in reply to Pepijn • • •at first I thought you were asking if you've ever seen a cow in person and not on TV/film. I did know people at university who had never seen a cow. But then I realised you weren't asking that...
Definitely seen cows, and patted them, not sat on one though... I don't think either of us would enjoy the experience.
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in reply to Pepijn • • •I never intentionally sat on any animal and never will. An ant I can overlook, but not a cow.
Morten
in reply to Pepijn • • •Why put a kid on a cow? Considering how many people are hurt falling off horses or hurt by cows in fields it seems like an incredibly stupid idea. Is this prompted by a discussion with your wife? Your wife is right.
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Unknown parent • • •Cows are funny, happy creatures. Also big.
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in reply to Pepijn • • •That's science for you; you ask for a result, and you got it. Well, not the result you thought should come out, but it's a result anyway.
As most people don't grow up in rural areas, they never have sat on a cow. So, that's that.
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in reply to Pepijn • • •Yeah, no.
I was very good friends with a dairy cow, Molly, throughout my childhood; but I would never have tried to sit on or ride her. Something about the potential for broken bones (mine); and, more importantly, spoiled milk (milk was an important income stream for the farm).
*In retrospect, it seems like the amount of thought I gave as a child to adult concerns like "Is this going to cost us money?" is disproportionate to other kids' experiences.
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in reply to Pepijn • • •I grew up in a medium size town in NL somewhat rural, but mostly agriculture around, not dairy farming.
I've never ridden a cow, at least not as far as I can recall.
We live in Delft now and our kids have met all sorts of animals at the petting zoo, petted them, fed them, etc. But they've only sat on horses or ponies.
Oh and camels.
thefathippy
in reply to Pepijn • • •I've "herded" cows, I've patted & fed cows, I've milked cows, I've watched cows being milked both manually & on the rotorlactor, and being herded. I even watched a vet extract a calf during a breech birth. Not regularly, but on farm holidays & excursions.
I never sat on a cow or saw anyone sit on a cow. I have seen kids on tv riding bucking bull calves. ๐คท
Steampunk_Prof
in reply to Pepijn • • •Roland Dieterich
in reply to Pepijn • • •Your question immediately evoked memories of me as a child, visiting with my brother the stable of a nearby farm with a bunch of cows in it. The smell, the munching and mooing sounds, the warmth of the animals. ๐ฅฐ
But don't think I've ever sat on one of those (or any other) cows. Not exactly scared, but I rather kept some distance to those large animals.
Keith Judge
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in reply to Pepijn • • •As a child, before the big blow up in the family regarding a culture clash, Christmases were spent with the cousins, actually the extended family line from my grandmother's sister. They own a ranch in West Texas, we lived in New Mexico.
I do indeed recall at one point, I sat on a cow. Or at least a calf. Probably a calf.
Russell Garner
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in reply to Pepijn • • •becoming obligatory at this point, sorry, someone probably did this already
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in reply to Pepijn • • •I grew up for a short time on a "ranch". I put it in quotes because while it was a farm, it was a mere 50 acres and we grew livestock instead of crops.
Anyway, I had just come home from watching a rodeo for the first time and decided I wanted to try riding a bull, but I was afraid of our bull so I decided to try one of our cows instead... Found out how much it hurts to have a cow step on your foot for my troubles.
David B. Himself
in reply to Pepijn • • •Wot?
My uncle was a farmer and had cows, so did most people in his village. I never sat on cow. I don't know anyone that has sat on cow. It never crossed my mind to sit on a cow.
What country are you in that it seems like a common practice for you?
jens persson
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in reply to Pepijn • • •Esther Payne
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I sat on an Elephant when the Chipperfields Circus came to town when I was six.
I've sat on a massive Clydesdale horse.
Never a cow.
Esme Ciredutemps
in reply to Pepijn • • •Have you ever pet a cow ?
- Yes (0 votes)
- No (0 votes)
Poll end: 2 weeks agokrejgo
in reply to Pepijn • • •@dgar I've sat on many cows, even some horses, one unfortunate alpaca and a hen.
I've haven't, however, sat on something more challenging, like a cock.
I would be interested in the results of your poll asking about that, for science.
David Schmidt
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in reply to Pepijn • • •Jules
in reply to Pepijn • • •this is kind of reminding me of the time my friend just casually talked about going to jousting matches as a kid and we were all like "wtf, did you grow up in a Medieval court?" and it turns out he grew up in Zeeland which is the one place in the world that still regularly does this and he thought it was normal.
Sometimes you don't know your childhood experiences aren't universal until you do a Mastodon poll I guess. I'm now wondering what I think is common that isn't
Carsten
in reply to Jules • • •Actual jousting, or the variant where people try to spear a metal ring on a piece of string?
Jules
in reply to Carsten • • •Carsten
in reply to Jules • • •Ah, that's called 'ringridning' in Denmark. There are events/festivals in Southern Jutland, Bornholm, and select other areas of Denmark every summer. Guess we also joust in Denmark :D
Esther #antifa
in reply to Carsten • • •@EvilCartyen
"Ringsteken" was/is not only common in Zeeland. I've seen it (aprox. 40 years ago) in Katwijk aan Zee which is in Zuid-Holland.
@afewbugs @Pepijn
Pepijn
in reply to Esther #antifa • • •Also in the north of the country. For example: twice a year in the centre of Bolsward.
It's a nice experience when the heavy horse carts, with their solid wheels, come racing over the canal streets.
edit: youtube.com/watch?v=5n0dH0Y6urโฆ Is this similar to what it looks like in Denmark?
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in reply to Pepijn • • •I grew up in dairy country, had friends who lived on farms, spent many afternoons hanging out with neighbor kid while he did his cow-related chores.
I don't think either of us has ever sat on a cow. Never seemed like a good idea.
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in reply to Pepijn • • •For lack of cows I never sat on one as a kid. And later sittimg.on somethimg was usually connected with some kind of guided tour. And there were only donkeys, ponys and horses available.
all with rather painful endings ๐คฃ
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in reply to Pepijn • • •Everyone who has been to the Arboretum in Austin has sat on a cow.
#austin
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in reply to rk: itโs hyphen-minus actually • • •rk: itโs hyphen-minus actually
in reply to lonely extrovert • • •In the field that you walk through to get to the path down to the duck pond thereโre a bunch of cow sculptures (life sized). Kids often sit in them (as do drunk adults).
lonely extrovert
in reply to rk: itโs hyphen-minus actually • • •rk: itโs hyphen-minus actually
in reply to lonely extrovert • • •Yep. If you walk past Amyโs thereโs like a field and trees and stuff, and then a path down to the duck pond.
Jim Hubbell
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in reply to Pepijn • • •I've never sat on a cow.
I haven't ate a cow in 30 years.
In elementary school they had us stick our hand inside a cows stomach on a field trip to the (agriculture) university ๐คฎ
katfeete
in reply to Pepijn • • •Growing up on a dairy farm this was an entire game for my brother and I. Sneak up on cow, sit on cow, wait for her to get up and ride her around.
It was a complex sport. Cows that were hardest to sneak up on gave the most exciting (if shortest) rides. Cows that would let you sit on them without protest generally were a bit dull (if they bothered getting up with you on at all.) Then there was the whole โhow sharp is the backboneโ grading systemโฆ.
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in reply to aqunt • • •@aqunt No I think that's Twitter.
:)
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in reply to Pepijn • • •I have never been sadder for the Fedi than this day...
GO OUT AND FIND YOURSELVES A COW Y'ALL, RIGHT *NOW*! ๐ฎ
John G Fitzgerald
in reply to Pepijn • • •Odo
in reply to Pepijn • • •I have been in the position where I could have sat on a cow many times in my life but I have never once had the thought to do so.
How did you find yourself sitting on a cow?
Eli the Bearded
in reply to Pepijn • • •7,560 people responded, 91% no. I'm more curious about the 9% yes.
I've sat on horses, elephants, and camels. Never cattle (or donkeys). All of those were in the context of paying the owner for a ride.
Do people do paid cattle rides? I've never seen them. And if not, when and how did they get the opportunity?
W
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