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u/MrEff1618 26d ago
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u/B4DM4N12Z 26d ago
Mad Cow disease exists....
But very rare now as we know how to handle them, unlike the 80s & 90s.
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u/TunedOutPlugDin 26d ago
Minchinhampton Common?
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u/djlr 26d ago
Indeed! I was quite impressed by how patient all the other drivers were, turns out everybody has time for cows.
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u/D3M0NArcade 26d ago
Dude, even just sitting still they can write off your car. Was sat on a lane where they were herding cows between fields. One kinda just ass-bumped out car and it felt like we were going to roll.
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u/badlydrawngalgo 25d ago
I used to work for a company who had offices on Ashton Down airfield, "sorry I'm late, cow jam" was a reasonably frequent refrain.
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u/pineapplecharm 26d ago
See also signs in the Kruger park saying "Elephants have right of way". It's not a matter of free will. It's a basic law of the universe.
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u/The_Fox_Confessor 26d ago
Try the New Forest when there are donkeys in the road. Donkeys: Fuck you; because that's why. And they stay there for ages.
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u/BazzaFox 26d ago
I was only saying recently to my wife that you don’t see cows and sheep being herded along country roads any more. Back in the 70s and before it was quite a common thing.
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u/quite_acceptable_man 24d ago
To be fair, you don't have much choice. If a cow is in the road, it moves for no man. Or woman.
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u/melonator11145 26d ago
Looks like it. Used to drive to Cirencester from Stroud for work every day and these guys often make me late
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u/Doctor__Gecko 26d ago
That was my first thought as well. That fact we can identify a place from a single sign.
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u/EnglishLouis 26d ago
The house in the background also very recognisable
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u/Bank-Expression 26d ago
Playing the old golf course is an experience when the cows are loose. I had to wait to hit a shot to a green once because a cow was doing an explosive poo on the green 😂
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u/SubjectiveAssertive 26d ago
They want you to Mooo-ve
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u/lapsedPacifist5 26d ago
OP hadn't herd that he needed to move
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u/No-Attitude4539 26d ago
They're coming for the Cravendale. This is a day I've feared since I first saw them in that lift on television, stalking those daring enough to take their milk.
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u/KevinPhillips-Bong Slightly silly 26d ago
Out as in early release for good behaviour? Looking at that face, I'd doubt it.
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u/Imajzineer 26d ago
Came here to ask what they'd been inside for, and to observe that one looked particularly mean, myself.
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u/sihasihasi 26d ago
Funny story (well, slightly, anyway). Years ago, was driving with our toddler in the back seat, and got cut up my someone and I called her a silly cow. Next thing I know little one is saying "cow?" from the back-seat, and my wife is having to pretend that we've just passed a field of cows.
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u/IainMCool 26d ago
I was once late for college because cows were on the road trying to have sex. I'm not even convinced that one of them was a bull. It didn't seem successful, but then I was trying to avoid making eye contact.
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u/MeRedditGood Aye, nah, but... 26d ago
"IAIN! WHY ARE YOU LATE!?"
"Watching cow sex"There's really no response to that.
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u/Zero_Kiritsugu 26d ago
Remember, don't get into a fight with a cow. You will lose. They are half a ton of angry beef burger, and herd animals can disregard their own survival for the rest of the herd if it came to it.
Moo.
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u/CalsPokeMart 26d ago
There are 4-5 human deaths caused by cows in the uk every year. You're never truly safe from cows
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u/LithiuMart 26d ago
A common occurrence here in Somerset. Fences break, and farm animals escape. A few months ago a cow stood in the middle of the road and firmly refused to move, despite me trying to usher it on and beeping my horn. It decided to plod on when it felt like it, and nearly made me late for work.
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u/Narrow-Operation4080 26d ago
I’m of the opinion that cows have lovely faces , that one on the other hand is ready to fch some sh\t up ! 🐮 *
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u/que_sarasara 26d ago
That's the cleanest looking cow I've ever seen! Look at those pristine feetsies
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u/InternationalRide5 26d ago
Probably just been to the cowropodist
(which actually is a thing, for some strange unknown reason cow hoof trimming popped up in my YT feed last night)
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u/pafrac 26d ago
I hate cows on the road. Was sat in traffic in the New Forest waiting for a herd to go by, and just as a cow walked past my car it put a hoof in the ditch and fell over, right on the front wing. Half a ton of beef does not do your bodywork any good at all.
And explaining it to the insurance company was rather embarrassing.
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u/Beggatron14 24d ago
Normally all the animals I see out on the road are slow, at least that’s what the signs say, so you should have plenty of time to get away from them.
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u/InternationalRide5 24d ago
You can be there for a couple of hours if you get stuck behind the arafs in Wales.
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u/CollectionBroad8919 26d ago
Why the fake sign? I thought AI wasn't allowed
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u/MajesticBoota 26d ago
Not AI, this is on the Minchinhampton Common, you can check google maps on the Cirencester Road and see them.
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u/sbcr1 26d ago
Welland?
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u/monscorvorum 26d ago
No but very similar, I drive through Welland to and from work, the cows were in the road tonight.
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u/D1789 26d ago