Sometimes (most of the times if it’s Akari), the reality tends to be a hundred times more terrifying than any expectations that they could possibly have…
Yup! I’ve helped with hoof trimming quite a bit. Most dairies I’ve been on have stand-up chutes like this:
Which lets the trimmer lift up one foot at a time while the cow doesn’t need to hold any of her weight. We’ve certainly gotten dirty looks while hoof trimming cows when visitors have showed up. 😛 Some farms use tilt tables which look… odd to me, but apparently are perfectly ok on the cow.
Hoof trimming is important to prevent lameness: hoof trimmers make sure the two toes are even, they get rid of abscesses, and given cows hoof blocks as a way to keep pressure off of healing toes. They can be wooden, the ones on my farm look kind of like sandals almost:
Cows with poor foot confirmation need trimming more often, as well as cows kept inside. Cows that move around a lot might need less foot trimming but it’s still pretty important to do for best results. Basically we do it to give cows even claws and to treat ulcers and abscesses.
You have flip sheep and goats onto their back or put them in a chair and its the most ridiculous thing.
my grandma told me the Nephilim are soulless breeds of demons and humans and that the demons disguise themselves as aliens and then they abduct people and cut out their ovaries and it’s going to happen again, “as in the days of noah so also shall the coming of the son of man be” or whatever.
Yeah the Rudolph elf meme is funny, but are we really forgetting about all the other great and bizarre Christmas specials moments, like when Rankin/Bass beat DreamWorks to the idea of “Hot Jack Frost” by more than 30 years?
How about when they made a Nativity fanfic with a misfit donkey and a baby angel?
That Santa Claus started off giving toys exclusively to depressed World War I-era German children? (Did I mention he was a ginger)
We also shouldn’t gloss over the time when Rudolph teamed up with a caveman, a knight and goddamn Benjamin Franklin not to walk into a bar but to save the Baby New Year.
Really, Rudolph could fill up this entire list all by himself, considering that he also teamed up with Frosty the Snowman one time to fight thiswintery motherfucker
WHO HAS GIANT ICE DRAGONS TAKE THAT NIGHT KING
And is one of the five or six clowns who are supposed to be running winter in this universe (they were not very creative when it came to making up bad guys apparently)
And later dies in the most HORRIFYING WAY POSSIBLE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT SHOW THIS MOVIE TO CHILDREN AGE FIVE AND UNDER
Oh, and by the way, Rudolph is also Reindeer Jesus. Look it up.
Confirmed: God is a woman.
When I was in college, my friends and I had a private joke about The Year Without A Santa Claus.
The plot, to wit, goes something like this:
Santa just Isn’t Feeling It this year because he has a cold, so he decides not to deliver any presents. So Mrs. Claus teams up with a couple of elves and a bunch of pagan deities (no really Mother Fucking Nature is in this show), to prove people still believe in Santa, because one of the reindeer has been sent to the dog pound.
The way they choose to accomplish all of this is by making it snow somewhere in the southern US. Somehow, this leads to the release of the reindeer, Santa agreeing to deliver presents, and everybody believing in Santa Claus.
I love seeing all these faux-NES retro mockups that have 8-bit graphics but are otherwise meticulously true to the source material, when we all know that the real contemporary NES adaptation would have involved the characters jumping around a derelict industrial park throwing stuff at robots. Doesn’t matter what the source material in question is – it could be freaking Waiting for Godot, and it’d be Industrial desolation and chucking crap at alien cyborgs.
Monsters and Stuff 