Commercial dairy keeping calves with cows

Re:Commercial dairy keeping calves with cows by YeGoblynQueenne on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @11:52AM (#25930465)

You're joking but you'd be surprised. Apparently, all people of Indo-European descent are the descendants of ancient dairy farmers. Who bred, and bred, and bred- and took up, well, a lot of the available space. And dairy (rather, the ability to digest it) seems to have been a major reason for that taking-over.

Incidentally, are you Greek?

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Re:Commercial dairy keeping calves with cows by caturopath on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:04PM (#25930644)

Fascinating, thanks! :)

I'm not Greek.

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Re:Commercial dairy keeping calves with cows by YeGoblynQueenne on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @12:18PM (#25930850)

You're welcome and sorry- I thought your username was a play on words that would have made some sense in Greek.

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Re:Commercial dairy keeping calves with cows by pcthrowaway on Thursday January 28, 2021 @05:09AM (#25940144)

I'm learning Greek. Curious what play on words that would be? In English it reads as a portmanteau of "cat" and "naturopath"

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Re:Commercial dairy keeping calves with cows by YeGoblynQueenne on Thursday January 28, 2021 @06:07AM (#25940501)

Ah, I see. It's a bit offensive really, sorry about that, but "catur-" sounds like the root for "κατούρημα", a slightly vulgar way to say "peeing". I thought you were kind of taking the piss off naturopaths. :-)

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