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Cow Tipping

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  • 18-10-2012 12:32am
    #1
    dave3004
    Registered Users Posts: 621 ✭✭✭


    Is this a real thing?

    If it is, why can't I find any videos on youtube of it?


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    #2
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tipping

    Also, try MooTube.


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    #3
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    If the steak is tasty I like to tip the cow and the waiter.


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    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Forget the tipping, it's the Cattle Mutilation that's never caught on tape... Weird stuff. Any theories?


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_mutilation


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    Chucken
    Registered Users Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    dave3004 wrote: »
    Is this a real thing?

    If it is, why can't I find any videos on youtube of it?

    Why would you want to see it on youtube?

    You have to be there!!!


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    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tipping

    Also, try MooTube.


    Moo Tube?!!? Pull the udder one, would ya?


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    The Jammy dodger
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    It's done at night time and most of us lads in the council estates can't afford an infrared Camera that's why.


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    Chucken
    Registered Users Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    The Jammy dodger wrote: »
    It's done at night time and most of us lads in the council estates can't afford an infrared Camera that's why.


    The cows around here live in fields. :confused:


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    The Jammy dodger
    Registered Users Posts: 651 ✭✭✭The Jammy dodger


    Chucken wrote: »
    The cows around here live in fields. :confused:

    Years ago in my council estate there were cows in fields. they arent fields anymore though. big retail parks.


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    the groutch
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    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Also, try MooTube.

    do you have a steak in that company?


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    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    Cow tipping's a myth, I'm afraid.

    Also, cows are large and cranky, so I don't recommend checking.


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    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    the groutch wrote: »
    do you have a steak in that company?

    I herd that one before


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    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Why don't you ask The King Of Moo OP? I'm sure he's been tipped before :D


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    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    KKkitty wrote: »
    Why don't you ask The King Of Moo OP? I'm sure he's been tipped before :D

    You're milking it now


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    Chucken
    Registered Users Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Cud ye stop with the puns please?


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    syklops
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    jill_valentine wrote: »
    Cow tipping's a myth, I'm afraid.

    Also, cows are large and cranky, so I don't recommend checking.

    Ive never met a cranky cow. Bulls yes, but cows no.

    In the US(where the phrase cowtipping was coined) you can drive a car legally at the age of 16. So imagine Galway(only 20 or more times the size), less rain, can drive at 16, have access to car, are bored of an evening... I doubt its a myth.


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    frag420
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    How much do you tip them?


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    Chucken
    Registered Users Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    frag420 wrote: »
    How much do you tip them?


    You know its 3 fiddy!!


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    KKkitty
    Registered Users Posts: 7,534 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    Omackeral wrote: »

    You're milking it now
    I know. Don't want to cause any beef though :D


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    aN.Droid
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    Another pun thread.

    Think I will steer clear of this one.




    *cough*


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    M1XR
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    jill_valentine wrote: »
    Cow tipping's a myth, I'm afraid.

    Also, cows are large and cranky, so I don't recommend checking.

    Ah come on , pull the udder one will ye


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    WindSock
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    Limericks wrote: »
    Another pun thread.

    Think I will steer clear of this one.

    Not an udder one!

    Edit: damn you M1XR. Bit of a fluke.


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    #23
    jill_valentine
    Registered Users Posts: 7,090 ✭✭✭jill_valentine


    syklops wrote: »
    Ive never met a cranky cow. Bulls yes, but cows no.

    In the US(where the phrase cowtipping was coined) you can drive a car legally at the age of 16. So imagine Galway(only 20 or more times the size), less rain, can drive at 16, have access to car, are bored of an evening... I doubt its a myth.

    It's a myth because it's basically physically impossible. Even the more petite cows weigh around half a ton, they've got four legs to stand on, and they actually don't sleep standing up in the first place.

    When they're awake and on their feet, they're pretty alert and they don't take kindly to random hillbillies trying to push them over - if a stranger approaches, they get wary and will either keep their distance or adopt a defensive "I'm about to charge you through that hedge over there" stance.

    And they're not as dopey as they look. If something is trying to push them over, they'll just adjust their footing.

    Sheep tipping on the other hand is actually possible, if you can get close enough. And they'll get stuck on their back too, because the wool flattens down under their weight, which is why farmers have to wander around counting them. Fun fact - they can't pee when they're rolled over like that, so when you do rescue them and set them upright the first think they do is relieve themselves. For ages. It's weird.


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    [Deleted User]
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    As a dairy farmer I can tell you that cow tipping is a myth, they don't sleep standing up and way too strong and sturdy to be just pushed over. The closet I've seen, took place in a shed, took 3 men, a vet, some rope and anesthetic. The cow was being operated on and had to be knocked on her side before we started. It wasn't easy.


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    Chucken
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    As a dairy farmer I can tell you that cow tipping is a myth, they don't sleep standing up and way too strong and sturdy to be just pushed over. The closet I've seen, took place in a shed, took 3 men, a vet, some rope and anesthetic. The cow was being operated on and had to be knocked on her side before we started. It wasn't easy.

    There! We have conformation.


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    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    Deleted User wrote: »
    As a dairy farmer I can tell you that cow tipping is a myth, they don't sleep standing up and way too strong and sturdy to be just pushed over. The closet I've seen, took place in a shed, took 3 men, a vet, some rope and anesthetic. The cow was being operated on and had to be knocked on her side before we started. It wasn't easy.

    I've seen cowboys pulling down horses by roping one front leg and simply falling on their asses. Haven't tried this meself yet. I'd be fairly sure I'd pull down a moving cow with a rope around it's opposite side (farthest) front leg.


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    newmug
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    Never heard of this cow tipping till I went to college in Dublin.

    Now calf tailing, thats a skill.

    You get one person to lie down in the middle of a field. All the cattle will come over to look at the person out of curiosity. Someone else sneaks up, chooses an animal, grabs their tail, the animal bolts and you hold on as long as you can. You usually pick a smaller animal like a weanling as bigger animals are much stronger and have longer legs to kick you with. I once saw a calfs tail coming off from doing this!


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    [Deleted User]
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    El Weirdo wrote: »
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tipping

    Also, try MooTube.

    I hope I'm not the only one that checked if there was a MooTube.


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    #29
    Jimoslimos
    Registered Users Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭Jimoslimos


    Limericks wrote: »
    Another pun thread.

    Think I will steer clear of this one.
    Subtle! Don't be so moody now!


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    kowloon
    Registered Users Posts: 13,326 ✭✭✭✭kowloon


    The Jammy dodger wrote: »
    Years ago in my council estate there were cows in fields. they arent fields anymore though. big retail parks.

    If they looked like these council estate cows you may need to sit down, I have something to tell you.


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    Spread
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    Chucken wrote: »
    There! We have conformation.

    Yes chucken ........... but not confirmation :D
    Anecdotially .......... a Yank visiting the auld country ........ called to the relatives (very distant) in The Kingdom ......... asked if he could milk a cow ...... was given the stool (no bad jokes please) and bucket. Having seated himself comfortably he proceeded to milk the two front paps ........... and after a half bucket
    the cow tipped over backwards
    .This is a true story.
    You can now understand why the Kerry Group post year-on-year 10%!


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