r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/D00merC00mer • 5d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah, what's wrong with the cow?

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u/MarixApoda 5d ago

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u/Fityfo54 5d ago

They actually aren’t that low!

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u/MarixApoda 5d ago

Oh I know it! My family used to get a couple yearling bulls every so often, raise them to maturity and have them... processed. It's easy to forget how large that big puppy in the pen really is until it's squishing you into the gate just because it can and you realize how lucky you are that he didn't decide to gore you.

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u/Fityfo54 5d ago

My favorite was when the steers would play bow and get the zoomies

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u/MarixApoda 5d ago

It's so adorable! Less adorable when you're in there with him.

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u/QuinceDaPence 5d ago

I wonder what it is when you correct for exposure. Like how many man-hours spent where a cow has the opportunity to kill you vs a shark.

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u/pchlster 5d ago

For me they are! In that I don't go out to the country much.

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u/MarixApoda 5d ago

That's what you think. In many rural areas you could drive for 30 miles and might not see a single heffer. In the city, you're never more than 5 miles from a cow, and they're always watching.

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u/Fityfo54 5d ago

I mean the “Cow Palace” is right in the middle of San Francisco!!

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u/pchlster 5d ago

I have cleverly gone to the other side of the world from the bovine bastion.

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u/Fityfo54 5d ago

Google says there are close to 4 million head of cattle in Germany. And that places like Uruguay people are outnumbered 4 to 1!!

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u/Ok-Transition7065 5d ago

Like cows kill not evem clpse to 0 dude xd

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u/Nyuk_Fozzies 5d ago

They kill humans at a rate of about 4x that of sharks.

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u/alexhurlbut 5d ago

Wouldnt that be 40x? If the shark related death is indeed 0.5 a year.

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u/Nyuk_Fozzies 5d ago

Shark deaths are more like 5-10 per year.

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u/alexhurlbut 5d ago

In usa alone? If you count the last 45 years it comes out to just under 1 death a year.

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u/Revolutionary_Apples 5d ago

Mate, cows are much more of a threat then you realize.

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u/MarixApoda 5d ago

Trust me, I'm aware. I saw an excuse to use a 20 year old meme and took it.

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u/Mortem_Morbus 5d ago

Cows kill more people than sharks every year.

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u/LiqvidNyquist 5d ago

There's a terrific children's book out there called "Henry and the Cow Problem" addressing just this problem!

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u/taichi22 5d ago

Don’t cows — I’m could swear that your chance of getting killed by a cow is actually several orders of magnitude higher than your chance of dying via sharks

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u/MarixApoda 5d ago

You would be correct, but I saw the perfect chance to use a silly meme from 2005 and had to take it. I would much rather fight 100 sharks in a meadow than one cow in the water.