Why/how is that cow from London? We don't have cows round these parts. She should sound like a farmer, or maybe a posh village lady who still listens to The Archers.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 109d (3 replies)

Why/how is that cow from London

It's a very old and fireproof cow.

unknown@piefed.social · 0 pts · 108d (2 replies)

I had to look that one up as I'd not heard it before. The only reference I could find though was a youtube video, which I admittedly didn't watch in favour of reading the wikipedia page, which does not mention any cow being involved in The Great Fire of London.

Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 108d (1 reply)

I wasn't actually being that specific, just accounting for it being a long time since cows were common in the streets of London, there having been at least one major fire in the time since, and cows not generally being flame-retardant 🤷🏻

Note to spell check: no. I do NOT mean to call British cows "flaming retards", and I'm frankly insulted that you'd think me likely to! 😄

unknown@piefed.social · 2 pts · 108d

Ah, my pattern recognition went a bit haywire there, haha.

It was a fun little wiki binge though, I keep running into Pepys's diaries when looking stuff up about London and it's kinda mindblowing being able to look back in time through his eyes like that, he documented so much. Also this painting of the city on fire is spectacular.

festnt@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 106d