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 (5%, 2 votes)
- No (94%, 32 votes)
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silverwizard
in reply to Pepijn • • •Deborah Pickett
in reply to Pepijn • • •Nick
in reply to Pepijn • • •Space Catitude ๐
in reply to Nick • • •Strictly speaking, it's about sitting on *bulls*.
Deborah Makarios
in reply to Pepijn • • •Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]
in reply to Pepijn • • •Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
in reply to Pepijn • • •Mia Alm
in reply to Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK • • •Pepijn
in reply to Mia Alm • • •@Malm @vfrmedia
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)
David de Groot
in reply to Pepijn • • •Iโve been around cows, and pigs, but never felt the need to sit on either of them.
post punk mclovin
in reply to Mia Alm • • •Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to post punk mclovin • • •Sibylle
in reply to Petra van Cronenburg • • •They used their cow to plow, pull carts etc.. I bet they sat the children on their back, too.
They used a dog to pull the not so heavy loads like the milk cart to the milk house.
Rural Switzerland, late 19. early 20 century.
Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to Sibylle • • •@sibylle That's interesting! In our village, cows were too precious because of the milk, the calves etc. - and mostly too aggressive for such work. The ox was something like a common good, it was rented for ploughing to all the farmers around, like nowadays a machine.
But people here (Northern Alsace), producing milk and butter already had some wealth, they sold the butter to Paris. We also have photos of milk carts pulled by dogs ... or children.
@postpunkmusic
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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!
@Pepijn
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Pepijn • •@Pepijn I don't think I've ever sat on a cow or seen anybody sitting on a cow, even if I've spent a big part of my childhood summers at an alp (pasture)
this happened between Italy and the Italian speaking part of Switzerland
(I've sat on at least a donkey, and some horses)
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Brie Mmm
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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