October 6th 18, 01:21 AM
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Cyclists waste petrol
"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 02:45:36 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 10/04/2018 11:24 AM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 04:05:26 +0100, rbowman wrote:
On 10/03/2018 04:45 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 23:38:38 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 03:49:03 +0100, rbowman
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On 10/02/2018 04:44 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2018 20:27:05 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
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On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 05:45:16 +0100, rbowman
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On 09/09/2018 01:08 PM, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
I really ****ed off a horserider once. I was driving a very
old
Range
Rover automatic which had a conversion to LPG. It very often
misfired,
made loud bangs, and changed gear without warning. I managed
to
cause a
small explosion and a loud revving of the engine just as I
passed a
horserider coming the other way along a narrow country road.
The
horse
**** itself, and so did the rider.
I did better than that... I was coming down a narrow road that
went
past
a dude ranch on my Harley. Coming the other was was a herd of
dudes
on
their docile refugees from a canning factory led by a genuine
wild
west
cowboy. ****head's horse had a nervous breakdown while the
guests'
nags
barely roused from their stupor.
it doesn't take much to set them off. I've worked with horses
enough
to
know most of them are a neurotic bundle of nerves. If the horse
can't
handle public roads, trailer it to a nice quiet horse trail
someplace.
Indeed. Horses on roads were fine, before the invention of the
motor
car.
They weren't actually, lots got killed by them bolting etc.
They're not the brightest of animals.
A common description around here is a cowboy is the third dumbest
critter riding the second dumbest and chasing the first dumbest.
I would agree with that statement.
I wouldn't, sheep are a lot dumber than cattle.
I'd say they were equally stupid.
No, you can turn cattle out in the forest in the spring and expect to
find most of them in the fall, minus the few that walk off cliffs etc.
Try that with sheep and the first thing they will do is find something
poisonous to eat. Then the survivors will find a fence line to pile up
against and smother half of them. The remnant will then try to drown
themselves in a creek. The hardy few survivors will get eaten by the
bears, wolves, mountain lions, and coyotes.
We do have wild bighorn sheep that can fend for themselves but
centuries
of breeding have dumbed down the domestic version.
Besides, sheep are an excuse for blue heelers.
Maybe they should let the stupid sheep all die off, then the next
generation will be more sensible.
There wouldn't be a next generation. Goats have 60 chromosomes, sheep
have 54. The extra six control the formation of a working brain.
Then why does the animal exist?
For the same reason the dodo did.
Shouldn't it have died out before humans began farming them?
Nope, not even with the dodo.
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