JHCC Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Having heard the sounds of Swiss cowbells in their native habitat, I can say that it's actually a much softer and rounder sound than comes across in the video. But then again, I am not a cow, so I don't know what sounds pleasing to a cow's ears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Sells Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 you need to understand cows have to have bells because their horns dont work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Having been to a Corrida de Toros in Spain in the early 1970's I can attest that their horns do work. Seems like I have heard that old joke from each of my 8 grandkids when they hit a certain age in grade school; I wonder about tribal memory at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockstar.esq Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 Not to take this conversation on a weird(er) tangent, but I've noticed that a lot of travel experiences I looked forward to as an adult are a let-down in huge part because there's some aspect that nobody who has been there will think to talk about. For example, I loved the show C.S.I. which was set in Las Vegas. When I went to Las Vegas, I was absolutely gobsmacked by the noise level everywhere I went. The live concerts were very literally quieter than restaurants, bathrooms, casino floors, parking garages, sidewalks, and pool facilities. It's bizarre to me that nobody thinks to mention this. Another example, people in Midwest states tend to describe Colorado as though it's lot like Northern Canada or a warmer version of Alaska. Most of the state is high desert plains. On any given day, you're far more likely to die of dehydration than hypothermia. It's so dry here that people carry water with them all year around. I watched a lot of westerns as a kid, and they pretty much never mentioned, or depicted wind in Wyoming. I've been to Chicago and experienced many calm days, Cheyenne, not so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 When I spent a month in Jakarta Indonesia; everybody kept asking me if I lived in a gated community with armed guards. They found it hard to believe that I lived in the inner city. US crime shows make a very false impression on the world. When I worked with Europeans and told them I had a 5 bedroom brick house with a slate roof they thought I must come from a wealthy family when actually that 100 year old house in the inner city was the cheapest house of anyone I worked with in the USA! Travel is "broadening" if you can accept that other cultures do things in different ways and that those ways are *different* not *wrong*! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted July 19, 2019 Share Posted July 19, 2019 When my wife was in Ireland she struck up a conversation with a grounds keeper, talking about landscaping our place with large rocks. He said to her " you own land?" which is only for the rich there. He was dumbfounded that regular folks could own land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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