Be Excellent To Each Other

I know, we have to read it.

Who ordered this zing? Oh, hello sir!

I am re-doing mine at teh moment..

is this picture real?





(from here)

I think not.





Malc

Define "real". I can certainly see it, if that helps.

Looks real to me.

She is probably 5ft 2-4 and standing on a slope which makes the cow look even bigger. Also the cow is nearer to the lense which adds to the effect.

Note that her hand may not be on the cow's rump -- she might be stood a few feet behind the cow. You can't see the hand itself.

Remember, this one is little. Those ones are far away.

It's not a cow.

Has anyone said "What a cow!" yet? No? Okay. What a cow!

TECHNICALLY CORRECT.

It's quoted as being a steer, which is a castrated male cow as far as I know.

Malc

Today is too quiet... No phone calls, emails and folks not returning my ones...


I am so bored...

Only as if you own a female dog, someone says "Lovely dog" to you, and you go "She's not a dog! Ahhhh." then sit back, smiling and making a gom face.

That is also not a cow. And never was.

@Dim: A bitch is a female dog. A dog is a male dog (although, technically, you could argue the term is canine).

See also: Tomcat and queen.

But then if a you were to say a woman was a man, you'd get told off for that...

Malc

A Steer is a castrated male cow

Malc

FTFY. There's no such thing as a male cow. How is this hard to grasp?

it's not that one that's the problem, it's the ud- (BANG! - Ed)

Hmm. That's almost exactly the point I made. Anyway, let's look at that photo of the delightfully large domesticated ungulate.

or dinner as I like to call it.

But there is.

Cow means female cow

Bull means male cow.

The word has 2 meanings.

Malc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle
(emphasis mine)

What's good for the goose is good for the gander, I suppose.

bad/wicked/sick also colloquially mean good. So if someone said to you: "That concert was wicked man." you would take them to mean that it was evil?

Also I have 3 female cows and 2 bulls, fill in the missing word: "I have 5 ______"

Malc

"animals"

(emphasis mine)

Also

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cow



If a forum about computer games isn't "informal" then I don't know what is.

Malc

No. I am merely pointing out that Grim... is, technically, correct. But only technically.

That's colloquial slang for "technically correct", reckon.

Please be as specific as possible. If this was Family Fortunes (or Family Feud for those living stateside) then I think the top answer would be the only answer.

Malc

Farming background, innit. Tell you what, I'll get someone to milk that 'cow', and you drink what comes out

[edit]Also in the same catagory is when people say "JCB" and mean "Backhoe loader"

Where's the beef?

A lecturer of mine at uni spent a large part of his PhD rolling around in the sow's pens in overalls, then getting in with the boy pigs so they could get ready to be collected from. he's a far braver man than I.

Yeah, but I'm fully aware that cows are only female cows, but the fact that these sentences even make logical sense, shows the dual nature of these words

Cows are female cows.

Dogs are male dogs.

Men are male men.

It doesn't work with Sheep, as you have Ewe and Ram.

But to me the first 3 sentences are the same as

An orange is orange.

A violet is violet.

It's just people being lazy when coming up with the language.

Malc

Duurrrrr. A boy pig is called a Dinkle Rummycub. Don't you know that yet?IDO!

Can't we just call them moo-moos and be done with it?

That's more akin to Hoover meaning Vacuum cleaner and Cellotape meaning sticky tape and so on.

Malc

all this bickering and no Mr Chris or Myp or JC....

I am impressed

*eats more popcorn and watches*

Yes, I know. I spent a lot of weekends on a mate's sheep farm growing up, as I have said before, so I know where you're coming from.

Why can't you Welsh just leave the poor sheep alone?

My Nan always used to called them Ar-moos for some strange reason.

That reads wrong to me, too.

But I'm so lonely...

maybe it reads better like this:

A boy is a young male human, a girl is a young female human, a woman is an adult female human, a man is an adult human.

but man is a DIRECT synonym for human so, this sentence is just as valid.

A boy is a young male man, a girl is a young female man, a woman is an adult female man, a man is an adult man.

Malc

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8271773.stm

Awesome.

And now we get Jaqui Smith.

Yes, or like dog what I done said above.

I think we all agree that Jaqui Smith is a dog.