Stuff that grinds your gears

[Hallbopping]

Shur there's fuck all else to do out there!

That is an excellent point.

 

[Matlock]

FFS BoppY

Nt everyone lives in a city and the ploughing is a major event for people engaged in farming etc. A day or two off school wont matter a jot to these kids, but they will enjoy seeing the machinery etc., and there will be plenty there on tech/development for the next generation of farmers etc that would be very educational and help them and the country in terms of getting agriculture moving towards a more sustainable model

They'll learn more there than in most classrooms

About 90% of the kids I was in primary school with were farmers. A fairly naïve teacher suggested that we go to a play farm (like a Leahy's farm type place) and asked what the class thought of it.

One of the 6th class boys answered "I don't want to go there Sir"

"why not?"

"Nothing there but cowshit Sir, and I've enough of that at home Sir"

Every time I pay for my children to feed a lamb or look at a chicken or some other bullshit that i'd have done for free (as work) as a kid I think of it!

 

[Hallbopping]

FFS BoppY

Nt everyone lives in a city and the ploughing is a major event for people engaged in farming etc. A day or two off school wont matter a jot to these kids, but they will enjoy seeing the machinery etc., and there will be plenty there on tech/development for the next generation of farmers etc that would be very educational and help them and the country in terms of getting agriculture moving towards a more sustainable model

They'll learn more there than in most classrooms

Ah you’ve got a point there in fairness and I was mostly ball hopping.

Genuine question though, why the need to miss school for it? Why not put it on in early August when the weather is better and the kids are off anyway?

 

[Happyhonkaman]

About 90% of the kids I was in primary school with were farmers. A fairly naïve teacher suggested that we go to a play farm (like a Leahy's farm type place) and asked what the class thought of it.

One of the 6th class boys answered "I don't want to go there Sir"

"why not?"

"Nothing there but cowshit Sir, and I've enough of that at home Sir"

Every time I pay for my children to feed a lamb or look at a chicken or some other bullshit that i'd have done for free (as work) as a kid I think of it!

To be fair to that kid, the minute they go home from school they become part of the farm labour force so he was spot on!

I went out with a farmer daughter many moons ago. The brothers used love bringing me out to move the cows because they would stand me on the road as the diversion into the next field while they ran them down the road at me, knowing I was shitting it!
Its a bloody tough life, anyone who takes farming on loves it

 

[Matlock]

Ah you’ve got a point there in fairness and I was mostly ball hopping.

Genuine question though, why the need to miss school for it? Why not put it on in early August when the weather is better and the kids are off anyway?

Because September is ploughing season!

Also, farmers would generally be too busy in the summer to attend. Stuff calms down a bit in Autumn.

 

[Happyhonkaman]

Ah you’ve got a point there in fairness and I was mostly ball hopping.

Genuine question though, why the need to miss school for it? Why not put it on in early August when the weather is better and the kids are off anyway?

Havent a clue but my guess is that it started way back as an actual ploughing event to co-incide with when they would plough their fields in autumn. No point ploughing fields in the middle of January!

 

[Hallbopping]

Because September is ploughing season!

Also, farmers would generally be too busy in the summer to attend. Stuff calms down a bit in Autumn.

Havent a clue but my guess is that it started way back as an actual ploughing event to co-incide with when they would plough their fields in autumn. No point ploughing fields in the middle of January!

I’m really showing up my ignorance of farming here. I’d move back to the city in a heartbeat if I could afford it.

I was briefly seeing someone years ago but it never was serious. When she told me she was involved in Macra I knew we’d be totally incompatible!!

 

[El Guapo]

I remember being 1 of 6 from class of 30 when I was in 6th year.

Everyone else was at the ploughing match

 

[Matlock]

I’m really showing up my ignorance of farming here. I’d move back to the city in a heartbeat if I could afford it.

I was briefly seeing someone years ago but it never was serious. When she told me she was involved in Macra I knew we’d be totally incompatible!!

I girl I knew from the city was dating a farmer years ago and she was apoplectic that he missed a night out because they were doing silage. She was like "im not putting up with this" and I was trying to explain to her that if she stayed with him she would, indeed, be putting up with this for the rest of her life!

I found it amazing that didn't understand that silage wasn't an optional activity, but I suppose how would she?

Same girl thought that all cows were black and white until she was about 20 and saw her first brown cow...

 

[Hallbopping]

I girl I knew from the city was dating a farmer years ago and she was apoplectic that he missed a night out because they were doing silage. She was like "im not putting up with this" and I was trying to explain to her that if she stayed with him she would, indeed, be putting up with this for the rest of her life!

I found it amazing that didn't understand that silage wasn't an optional activity, but I suppose how would she?

Same girl thought that all cows were black and white until she was about 20 and saw her first brown cow...

Sure cows and bulls take human form too but that’s a conversation for another day!