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now see I like goats. goats use their brains to invent new crimes and formulate evil plots, which means they are often preoccupied with their own inner worlds and the logistical problems of how to maximize the impacts of their mischief. unlike rams. which have no interest in criminal activities more complicated than giving and receiving as many concussions as possible.
An extremely funny and 100% real thing about this difference is
When a goat buck and a ram get into a fight
The buck rears up on his hind legs, as bucks do, to be able to come down on his opponent with a sweep of his horns
And the ram um. Puts his head down and RAMS his opponent. At head level
So like um when a buck is reared up that puts his dick at head height.
Um so
A lot of bucks get their dicks rammed really hard by rams in fights its like it's. A thing. Super common
And this happened to one of my goat bucks once and he screamed and ran to a bush and cowered and cried and had a nosebleed. And I thought he was hurt but. He was not I sat with him for an hour or two to calm him down and o inspected him and he was. Fine like he was totally normal the next day. He was just like damn bro you punched my dick with your skull that SUCKED
Like goats are doing you know posturing and like, going for psychological warfare or whatever and rearing up to look big and be like YO MAN YOU WANNA GO???
And rams are already like oh yeah no we are doing this and they just don't even consider like they locked on 30 seconds ago they're doing it
OK I don't know if goat kids do this too cause I've never raised any, but lambs from the day they're born have to punch their mama's udder in order to get milk out, that's how lactation works in ewes, so the instinct is very firmly ingrained in their little baby lamb heads to "punch the dangly thing on adult's belly in order to dispense food." By the time they're big enough to wean, they will sometimes punch hard enough to lift their mama's back legs off the ground in their enthusiasm for food.
I'm sure you see where I'm going with this. One year I had to pull a few of the ram lambs two weeks early for reasons (nobody @ me they were fine) and because they were smaller than usual and there were only a few of them I didn't want to dump them straight into the pen with all the big guys to get beat up. Instead I put them in a smaller pasture and tossed the Boss Ram in with them as a babysitter because he's always been relatively gentle with lambs and letting The Boss get used to new guys alone usually helps with dominance fighting later.
So here is this big, dominant ram, undisputed king of his domain, locked in a pen with four of his newly weaned mini-mes who have never shared a pen with an adult male before. He's got the biggest horns and the hardest head on the farm, he's ready for anything.
Except. The lambs have no interest in bashing skulls. The lambs are hungry. The lambs see an adult with dangly bits in approximately the same place as their mama's dangly bits. Their entire three months of lived experience tells them punching those dangly bits results in food.
That ram, who had never before run from a fight, spent a very uncomfortable and confusing time being chased around the pen by four miniature copies of himself, all of them crying at the top of their lungs and very determined to punch him in the nuts.
Fucking SOBBING
Inspired by @official-deutschland post, here's the German Bundesländer as seen by AI
So I work at a library and about a month ago I helped a little old woman who is legally blind figure out how to listen to our audiobooks on her tablet. We got to chatting and I mentioned that I always listen to audiobooks while I knit, which made her very excited and she told me all about the afghans she used to make when she could still see. She was so sweet and I was so glad to be able to help her figure out a way to still enjoy books without being able to read.
Yesterday I answered the phone at work and when I said my name the woman on the other line got so excited and said “Madeline?? You’re exactly who I wanted to talk to! This is Marie, you helped me about a month ago. How late are you working today?” It was her!! And about an hour later she and her husband showed up, and she was carrying a huge stack of old knitting patterns for me, and her husband brought in a few boxes full of yarn. They couldn’t stay long but I was so touched that she remembered me, and I struggled to not just flat out start crying when she handed me the patterns. When I looked through them later I realized it was her entire personal collection from over the years, including all her personal notes and drawings and even some photographs of her finished pieces. No one in my family knits, and to have someone pass on their legacy to me like that was incredibly moving.
This isn’t what I usually post here, but with life being especially dark lately I wanted to share a moment of happiness and a reminder that a bit of kindness goes a long way ♡
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“These are my children.”
“They look nothing li—”
“LOOK HOW BEAUTIFUL THEY ARE.”
for some reason I really like that she’s called Hilda.
This happened on my grandmothers farm when my mom was little,
baby ducks act a lot like baby chickens so in the beginning it wasn’t so bad
the main problem is that baby ducks LOVE water, but baby chickens get very very dead from it,
so you can imagine the mother hens surprise and horror the first time they go by the farm pond and ALL THE BABIES RUN TO THE WATER AND JUMP IN
my grandmother had to come out of the house to investigate all the noise the hen was making
The mother hen was clucking and screeching in distress and running circles around the pond while the duckies were having the time of their lives.
This happened a few more times before Momma hen was like FUCK IT YOU WANNA SWIM SEE WHAT I CARE , and would sit a distance away watching them in the pond.
if the ducks ever abandoned any eggs my grandmother would always put it under that particular hens nest cause from then on she always knew how to deal with her “water loving” delinquent children
BEST ADOPTED MUM
“Half my children are fucking idiots but they’re my children and i love them”
these are about 2/3 of the readings for my intro to lit theory course, if you’ve ever wondered what one studies on such courses, the links lead to free pdfs
I thought you said you didn’t read much. Well, what is much?
My friend linked this to me on reddit when I was feeling really down and it changed me. Excellent advice!
30.3.2021 // listen,,, idk where march’s gone okay, i blinked and suddenly it’s april in two days
okay, so i didn’t exactly succeed at participating in this challenge, but i knew this month (and the upcoming ones) would be quite hectic… in any case, i wasn’t told this as a piece of advice per se, but i think ‘trust in the process’ is a line everyone should keep in mind, always. it applies to literally anything, from academia to health and other life goals; as long as you consistently put in the work, you’ll arrive at your desired destination :)
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Giveaway: We’re giving away 12 vintage classics by Charlotte Bronte, J.R.R. Tolkien, Alexandre Dumas, Harper Lee, Shakespeare, and others! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 1 April, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaways. For full rules to all of our giveaways, click here.
Giveaway: We’re giving away 12 vintage classics by Charlotte Bronte, J.R.R. Tolkien, Alexandre Dumas, Harper Lee, Shakespeare, and others! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 1 April, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaways. For full rules to all of our giveaways, click here.
