No but simple cow girl as I am I just used dictionary and saw that this word is used both in USA and in UK. Actually when I first talked to my boyfriend I thaught he had irish accent and he wasnt really happy when I told him that. Mother, brothers and sister all have different accents, but I have told that it might happen in UK!
Dear Annika The Simple Cow Maid,
The term 'wack' or 'wacker' is a uniquely British term it is never used in America. It is unheard of in America. In fact it is a unique word to Liverpool. In the 60's and 70's it came into common usage for a while all over England but it is scouse only really.
It means 'mate'. It is another way of saying friend.
You are confusing it with the word 'whack' which is used all over the English speaking world and means to hit something. Totally different word. Ask your boyfriend. He will know this word if he is from Liverpool.
Britain uses many, many words that Americans do not use or understand. Also within England, that tiny island, are accents that are completely non understandable. Americans think they have accents, they do not. Until you have listened to a broad cockney, a scouser, a glaswegian and a geordie side by side you have no idea what the word 'accent' means.
I always laugh when on TV in America they have a documentary with British people and they use subtitles !! I understand everything of course and it is really funny. I don't blame them though British accents can be totally like Chinese to the uninitiated. :)))
Wacker in the US is defined as a pud puller. Look that one My Mad Cow Maiden. Wack is defined as an idiot or crazy person, many women in the US are defined as wacks or wack jobs.
ok, I admit ignorance. I shouldn't trash a whole country because of one nut job. The dairy industry ... is it big in Estonia? Something like Estonian cheese head ... is this a common term?
I hear first time about cheese heads? Estonian cheese is a bit crappy so I dont think its so popular abroad? Maybe they send it to some lover developed countries, no idea? Where are you come from?
And as Im such specialist in milking cows I give you some statistics about estonain food industry : 4% of GP, 4,4% of export and employ 3% of working population.
Annika, I understand the chances that you were ever involved with cows are pretty slim since only 3% of the Estonian population is doing this. Ok let's burry the hatchet. Lover developed countries?? he-he-::)) I come from two lovers' lands, USA and Greece. You can ditch both as much as you please, I won't be insulted. I am infected with arrogance from the one side (USA) along with rudeness from the other side (Greece), so you know the result:) You are involved with a Brit and the Brits are gentlemen or so they say. There is more cheese in a village I know in Wisconsin than in the whole Estonia.
When I lived in South Carolina-all the guys called me "Bo" or "Cousin". When a parent was threatening punishment to a child ( also called a young`un ) they would say "I`ll cut your ass" ( spank ) The word ass had many meanings. When a person was "showing his ass" he was being foolish-usually drunk. If he was really wasted drunk and out of control, he was considered to be "wide-open " You would "mash" a button rather than "push" it. A lot of people used the expression "God-dog" instead of goddamn. And I never heard the word Mother****er so much in my whole life-even from older ladies who sometimes chewed tobacco. When a person said goodbye-he often said," I`ll get up with you later". If it was a loan he had to repay, "I`ll get straight with you later" A person who is angry is "shittin". When you are satisfied with something,you are "good to go" I always laugh when I hear somebody say." I turned around---" I usually interject with, "Don`t you get dizzy from turning around so much?" And the expression "smack -dab" always killed me too. Also,the first time I seen an outdoor cooking pit,I was nervous that it was a grave. Of course it was for cooking a hog,so that you could celebrate on the weekends at the "pig-pick" The dialectics are fascinating and confusing. The character on the animated series "King of the Hill" Boonhauer--well,I met a lot of these men,and they really do speak that way,in a fast mumbling southern accent.
Annika--I was also a cow expert,having worked in beef and dairy. We are actually called stockmen or dairymen rather then cowboys,but I have rode herd on horseback and motorcycle too. Some of this lifestyle may seem harsh and cruel to some of the gentlemen in here,but death is also a way of life,and living. When you say "crappy cheese",you are actually making a factual statement about all production dairies. The milk collectors will often give a monetary incentive to the dairymen for less bacterial ( shit) count. When you have to milk 200-300 or more cows twice a day on a "16 stall double herringbone ",you must be quick. You must wash the bags of the girls quickly,start the teats to running by hand,and put the suckulators ( I call them ) on fast,or maybe get kicked or slapped in the face by an irritated cow with a crappy tail. ( you must always keep your mouth closed too,as the cows are walking above you and constantly evacuating their bowels ) You must also be alert to see which cows are taking medicine,which have mastitis or a torn bag ( strawberry milk ).. I have pulled ( delivered) many calves,and it is a joy,but also a lot of hard work. I have tickled the insides of their noses with a piece of straw to make them start breathing. I love the lifestyle. It is honest and sincere-kind of like me!! I learned the many personalities of cows,and some of them were like pets for me. I also seen them get their legs splayed on ice,or their milk production fall,and they get a bullet in the base of their skull. Good old number 225-she was such a cooperative,docile Holstein girl-I could never think of eating her liver!!! I would trade my work as a plumber for a job in Europe doing this. A simple,deliberate life. And the wonderful gardens from the plentiful fertilizer!! I did not care too much for gas-bloated cows when we had to cut them open,or milk fever,or bull calves being sold for veal,or having my arm all the way to my shoulder inside a cow--come to think of it maybe this work is not as good as I imagine!! Or as romantic as I make it out to be--but it is honest work and I respect the people that do it. Do your cows like to listen to the Rolling Stones, Mozart,or Clint Black?
Sorry I dont know actually much about dairy things, its just a joke what wtrv02 started, europeans have a bit other sense of humour than americans have :)
What about estonian food industry so cheese might be crap but youghurt and quark are fantastic!
Arrogance has no nationality,unless you are French and you claim a patent on it, and humor I've found to be similar around the world, just how it's delivered by the person.
Okay okay-bust my bubble. You cannot tell me if classical music or country western music encourages more milk production. ~Sighs~ Since this thread is about food,I am curious about 2 foods. It seems no Russian woman can explain to me about paporotnik ( my spelling is probably bad ) And I wonder if anybody can tell me about horse milk ( I have read that this is drinken in Kyrghyzstan ) Also,I really like that so many FSU people are mushroom collectors. I have always been a mushroom collector,and used to grow one particular psychedelic,although I am no mycologist. In Montana, the season after a forest fire will yield large amounts of the succulent Morrell mushroom.The next year they will not grow. It seems that the regrowth in a forest stimulates them. This is a delicious mushroom that has a meaty flavor. I suspect that there are fire-watchers all over the U.S. who take advantage of this phenomenon. Maybe professor TD will know something about this?
I don't feel so gawd awful alone no more! You for got to tell her about real ranch horses. The type that suck wind everytime they see a saddle and bite you, kick you, and try to drag your ass off on anything they can. But there still ain't no life like the country!
"Thank gawd I'm a country boy!"
Dunno that name Morrell S, but find the Latin one and look up its specifics.
Only after a fire you say? Many plants germinate only after fire, having been exposed to excess heat or literally burnt down. Protea's for instance do, and this makes a nursery for them a rather odd one, amoung the equipment a flamethrower standing in the corner.
So you're into mushrooms you say. Funny one's, or Magic one's maybe? Or let me guess - all four of your previous wives died of mushroom poisoning? ;-)