Now THAT blew my mind.............

Goose

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Was at a series of meetings the last couple of days. This noon in conversation at lunch, what blew my mind was one of my contemporaries from another county said a local teacher took a class of youngsters on a guided tour of a nearby packing plant. The TEACHER asked the guide in all seriousness, "After steaks are cut off of a cow, how long does it take for them to grow back?"

And this in a rural farming area. I'm still dumbfounded.
 
I once watched a news interview where a woman said she didn't care if all the farmers went broke cause she gets her groceries at the store. People like that is why this country is going down hill like snow ball headed for he!!
 
I remember a teacher in the news asked her kids if a cow gave 40 lbs of milk a day how much would she give in a week answer 200 lbs. Apparently the didn't know you milked on the weekend
 
YES IT TRULY IS STUPIDITY ON PARADE... a little city fella came out of the dairy barn , after watching the milkers being switched from one cow to next and seeing all the milk go surging along the piplines,, and of course a little cow poo too ,,...and exclaimed ,,. MAn I didn't know any of this ,,,I am never drinking milk AGAIN ....
 
I have a herd of black Angus cattle. Some city folks were out here and I showed them around the farm. The man asked me if I had bull. I said, "Yes, he's right over here". The man was quiet for quite a while and then said, "I thought bulls had horns. Where are his horns?"


On another occasion, a woman was telling us about a friend of hers who bought a steer so he could breed a cow that he had bought.

Hmmm.


Tom in TN
 
Your contemporary was probably pulling your leg or repeating a story he fell for himself.

Even if the story was true, supposedly dumb questions like that only sound naive to someone with experience in the industry. If you think about it, is that question any worst than some of the off the wall electrical, legal, hydraulic, medical, mechanical, structural, or chemical questions we asked on these forums? Some of our questions must sound just as naive to the professionals in those industries too, yet people still help by answering our questions.
 
Also let's not forget that famous quote by Maria antoinette when they complained about not having bread to eat she said let them eat cake. Kinda lost her head on that one
 
They DO live among us. I had a guy, who I have known for may years, ask me if my bull was mean, just this past week.

Now, I raise black angus, and do have a bull. Really easy bull to be around, and I told him, "No, my bull is pretty quiet and easy to be around."

He told me that he was just looking at the horns that 'he' had. 'He' is a scottish highland cow that belongs to my daughter- she's the only thing that has horns in my herd.....
 
Meanest cow I ever had was Hereford heifer with 16 inch(each) horns. Got two good calves from her but she was mean. I shot her and enjoyed many dinners. LOL
 
Had some city cousins who came to visit with my grandparents. The girls were sitting on the fence while my grandma was milking a cow. When they saw this they ran to the house and told their brother "don't drink the milk, you should see where it comes from".
 
I believe that the truly dumb people are those who believe that story to be true. They are in a slaughter house with dead animals hanging in the cooler and now we are to believe that someone would assume that steaks come from a living animal! I would not want you on my jury.
 
ya, people are really that dumb.
If you are a hunter, you've faced the same angry tirades a thousand times.
even at a barbecue...with hot dogs, beef burgers, beef steaks, ribs, and chicken on every plate. sigh
 
I guess you have never worked around a feed store. Had one guy refuse to by a bag of corn from us. Because he wanted deer corn and what we sold was not deer corn. Because it didn't have a picture of a deer on the bag.Had a lady come in looking for something to get rid of gophers. Didn't want to hurt them just kill them. Had a guy bring a flash light back because it didn't work. So I installed the batteries and gave it back to him.Another guy brought a battery charger back.Showed him how to plug the power cord into the wall plug. Sent him back out.

The stupid are out there.
 
OK, in the first place what many here miss is that someone who grows up in city area with absolutely no exposure to the farm industry has no idea about any of it. I grew up in Red Bank NJ. I knew about farming because that's what my dad wanted to do when he retired and we had several farm magazines delivered each month. But my dad, who loved a good joke had most of the neighborhood kids convinced that you milked a cow by pumping thee tail and that you got ice cream by putting the cow out in the cold before you pumped it's tail. This was back in the 60's. But you take a kid who's never been in a city and they know nothing about city life. Jokes are told about both the dumb country boy and stupid city dweller.

Rick
 
Honestly, to this day I was never sure about the horns on cows thing - now I know. But I always knew that chocolate milk comes from brown cows though.
 
Back when my one daughter was in HIGH SCHOOL one of the new teachers she had did not know that a BLACK Angus was pronounced that way she INSISTED that they were BLACK -An-GUS and had the rest of the class believing it to be true . My daughter tried to tell her that she had it wrong and she was correct . This NEW teacher got mad at her for trying to correct her and she called me to inform me that my daughter was incorrect and argued with her over the point . When i told her that she was the one that was incorrect not my daughter she got huffy with me .
 

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