Silliness So what are you doing RIGHT NOW? - Page 193

pshrynk · 01-24-2009, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Do you mean how do people keep from stepping on huge bulls?? Or, how do huge bulls keep from stepping on their own private parts??
If the first, it's really rather easy. Just don't step on the ginormous animal with the horns that is standing in front of you.
If the second, well, it's a matter of natural selection. Any bull that could not keep from stepping on his own weenie isn't going to produce that many offspring. It's called the "Theory of Traumatic Weenie Damage" .... one of Darwin's lesser known works.

I think VR did an upload of that one...

nekokami · 01-24-2009, 09:20 PM

When I was about 10 I was walking to a friend's house, about half a mile away, and there was this cow at the side of the road, just standing there. (I think it was a cow... I was too surprised to try to check for gender.) I'd seen cows before, but not without something between me and the bovine in question. I had to pause a long moment to decide what I wanted to do. I eventually crossed to the other side of the road and continued. The cow paid me little mind. I was pretty rattled at the time. I think I had thoughts like "Cows are vegetarians... I don't normally hear about people being attacked by cows... it probably won't want to cross the road... they can't climb trees anyway, right?"

In my current area, we occasionally see cows (bovines, anyway) out wandering around before someone calls their owners to come and get them. They don't particularly spook me anymore.

lilac_jive · 01-24-2009, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by nekokami

When I was about 10 I was walking to a friend's house, about half a mile away, and there was this cow at the side of the road, just standing there. (I think it was a cow... I was too surprised to try to check for gender.) I'd seen cows before, but not without something between me and the bovine in question. I had to pause a long moment to decide what I wanted to do. I eventually crossed to the other side of the road and continued. The cow paid me little mind. I was pretty rattled at the time. I think I had thoughts like "Cows are vegetarians... I don't normally hear about people being attacked by cows... it probably won't want to cross the road... they can't climb trees anyway, right?"

In my current area, we occasionally see cows (bovines, anyway) out wandering around before someone calls their owners to come and get them. They don't particularly spook me anymore.

I lived on two farms that raised beef cattle (ahh Northern Virginia). All you had to do was go BOO! and it would have scattered.

Unless it was a bull. Then it might not have worked.

We used to watch them fight. Pretty crazy.

nekokami · 01-24-2009, 09:26 PM

Yeah, thinking back, I suspect I was worried by not knowing for sure which gender I was looking at.

In fact... (mind is very blurry)... I think on this occasion there were two of them, just grazing by the side of the road, which argues that they were cows, not bulls.

GeoffC · 01-25-2009, 04:43 AM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Speaking of animal "moral fiber", my daughter sent me this great little link. It made me laugh for ten minutes. Oh my spleen! (to quote NatCh)

Durex condoms

link not work oh great mind .... [unless it's one of your usual "don't look here"!]

Sweetpea · 01-25-2009, 08:18 AM

Backing up my PDA...

I finally bought a new battery (after 4 years of use, the old one will drain after 4 or 5 days of reading), and, as my PDA is supposed to have a backup battery (so you have 30 minutes to exchange your battery), I didn't make a backup.

Result: either having to restore a 6 months old backup or re-install everything and create a new backup. I voted for the second option.

And in the process of re-installing everything, I managed to corrupt my SD card. Which left me with 1085 files with the name "FILE[0-9]+". So, I put all those file in one zip, to be sorted out later, formatted the stupid thing, added my books back on it (hey, there's a reason I keep two backups!) and now I'm making a fresh backup of my PDA on that very clean SD card...

yvanleterrible · 01-25-2009, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

link not work oh great mind .... [unless it's one of your usual "don't look here"!]

Sorry. The video was on Facebook and has been prudishly removed.

desertgrandma · 01-25-2009, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Speaking of animal "moral fiber", my daughter sent me this great little link. It made me laugh for ten minutes. Oh my spleen! (to quote NatCh)

Durex condoms

Just takes you to a "facebook" login page........

desertgrandma · 01-25-2009, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Sorry. The video was on Facebook and has been prudishly removed.

we seem to have posted simutaneously........

ShortNCuddlyAm · 01-25-2009, 10:37 AM

we tend not to see cows wandering around where I live, but it's not at all unusual to come across cows, ponies or - at certain times of the year - pigs wandering around by the side of, or in the middle of, the road where we usually go on holiday.

zelda_pinwheel · 01-25-2009, 10:39 AM

there are very very few cows in the streets of paris. so few as you might even venture to say "none".

lilac_jive · 01-25-2009, 10:50 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

there are very very few cows in the streets of paris. so few as you might even venture to say "none".

Cows tend to avoid Paris, since they have trouble digesting carbs. There are so many patisseries in Paris that they feel they would not be able to resist the temptation.

Wetdogeared · 01-25-2009, 11:03 AM

I placed this add, but so far have got no response?

zelda_pinwheel · 01-25-2009, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by lilac_jive

Cows tend to avoid Paris, since they have trouble digesting carbs. There are so many patisseries in Paris that they feel they would not be able to resist the temptation.

they are probably right about that. i know it's very difficult for me...

lilac_jive · 01-25-2009, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

they are probably right about that. i know it's very difficult for me...

Huh?

Oh sorry I wasn't listening, I was daydreaming about those croissant chocolate thingies with a nice cup of coffee...

01-25-2009, 11:03 AM	#2893
Wetdogeared Storm Surge'n Posts: 5,780 Karma: 8213195 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Polar Vortex Device: S0ny PRS-300/350/505/700/T1	Anybody seen my cows? I placed this add, but so far have got no response?

01-24-2009, 09:20 PM	#2882
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	When I was about 10 I was walking to a friend's house, about half a mile away, and there was this cow at the side of the road, just standing there. (I think it was a cow... I was too surprised to try to check for gender.) I'd seen cows before, but not without something between me and the bovine in question. I had to pause a long moment to decide what I wanted to do. I eventually crossed to the other side of the road and continued. The cow paid me little mind. I was pretty rattled at the time. I think I had thoughts like "Cows are vegetarians... I don't normally hear about people being attacked by cows... it probably won't want to cross the road... they can't climb trees anyway, right?" In my current area, we occasionally see cows (bovines, anyway) out wandering around before someone calls their owners to come and get them. They don't particularly spook me anymore.

01-24-2009, 09:26 PM	#2884
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Yeah, thinking back, I suspect I was worried by not knowing for sure which gender I was looking at. In fact... (mind is very blurry)... I think on this occasion there were two of them, just grazing by the side of the road, which argues that they were cows, not bulls.

01-25-2009, 08:18 AM	#2886
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	Backing up my PDA... I finally bought a new battery (after 4 years of use, the old one will drain after 4 or 5 days of reading), and, as my PDA is supposed to have a backup battery (so you have 30 minutes to exchange your battery), I didn't make a backup. Result: either having to restore a 6 months old backup or re-install everything and create a new backup. I voted for the second option. And in the process of re-installing everything, I managed to corrupt my SD card. Which left me with 1085 files with the name "FILE[0-9]+". So, I put all those file in one zip, to be sorted out later, formatted the stupid thing, added my books back on it (hey, there's a reason I keep two backups!) and now I'm making a fresh backup of my PDA on that very clean SD card...

01-25-2009, 10:37 AM	#2890
ShortNCuddlyAm WWHALD Posts: 7,879 Karma: 337114 Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mitcham, Surrey, UK Device: iPad. Selling my silver 505 here	we tend not to see cows wandering around where I live, but it's not at all unusual to come across cows, ponies or - at certain times of the year - pigs wandering around by the side of, or in the middle of, the road where we usually go on holiday.

01-25-2009, 10:39 AM	#2891
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	there are very very few cows in the streets of paris. so few as you might even venture to say "none".