Sometimes, reading the news leads to learning something new, like the wind-catchers used in the hot and dry areas of the Middle East, (thanks to Wikipedia) and sometimes, it leads to wondering if most people have all their 'marbles', like while reading Rex Murphy's column in the Globe and Mail today.
Rex goes on and on about how Al Gore visited Toronto and from the relative safety of its distance from Alberta, took the opportunity to tell us that our tar sands projects will result in the end of civilization as we knew it. Meanwhile, elsewhere, Sir Paul McCartney is still complaining that there will be dire consequences from all the world's farting cows.
Both of these pampered modern-day princes are masters at avoiding the real issues while promoting their own latest pet causes. Those tar sands, or oil sands, or whatever you choose to call them are a small fraction of the fallout produced by bigger nations with even dirtier economies than ours, and neither of these high-profile attention-grabbers are saying a word about all those expensive explosives being set off constantly somewhere around the globe, while people in various places are attempting to re-arrange national boundaries, or negotiate changes to someone's political systems or alter their belief structures along with changing the shapes of their dwellings.
Meanwhile, getting back to those farting cows, there's only about 1.53 billion of them sharing the planet with about 6.8 billion farting people. So today's Question Everything is: "Do 4.4 people create more pollution than one farting cow?"
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Ha, I've noticed, and I'm sitting in the first row, that the main issue with cows is their shitting and pissing, rather than farting hehe. Would I ever lie to you? I'm a cowboy. Moohooho!
ReplyDeleteNo milk today, the cow has gone away.
I agree with you. We can't expect a former Beatle to know much about cows, but it might be a good idea for him to engage brain before opening mouth.
ReplyDeleteAnd I guess this means you know all about how it is with a tall cow pissing on a flat rock, and how boring three-day-old cowshit is :)
And what makes the grass grow green!
When I Googled for 'how many cows are there in the world?' I was surprised to see that India has the most, followed by Africa, and then China, and then the U.S. - I guess as a kid I saw too many of those Hollywood westerns, or as we called them, "Horseshit & gunpowder movies". We loved to sit in the Saturday Matinees and loudly count out 15 or 18 shots from the hero's six-shooter. This sometimes got us tossed out, but it was a lot of fun. And getting back in through the side door fire escape wasn't all that difficult with your pals inside to unlatch it. Those were the days....