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[TripletDaddy]

While yours is perhaps technically correct, I believe the widely accepted spelling is bullshit. This is perhaps my favorite expletive, though as a worker of livestock I have many in my vocabulary. Still, I've often wondered at it's origin, as cows produce just as much manure as bulls, and there is really no difference in content or texture.

Also, why is it a pejorative at all? Doesn't manure contain fertilizer qualities that facilitate growth?

[creekster]

Also, why is it a pejorative at all? Doesn't manure contain fertilizer qualities that facilitate growth?

Sure but nobody wants a pile of it in their parlor during a conversation.

Plus your question is clearly from someone who has never had to shovel wheelbarrows full of it in a corral. Trust me, at that time it is an obvious pejorative.

[TripletDaddy]

Sure but nobody wants a pile of it in their parlor during a conversation.

Plus your question is clearly from someone who has never had to shovel wheelbarrows full of it in a corral. Trust me, at that time it is an obvious pejorative.

I've had my own experiences with manure and they are just as valid as yours.

[smokymountainrain]

While yours is perhaps technically correct, I believe the widely accepted spelling is bullshit. This is perhaps my favorite expletive, though as a worker of livestock I have many in my vocabulary. Still, I've often wondered at it's origin, as cows produce just as much manure as bulls, and there is really no difference in content or texture.

That is all I needed to hear. It's cowshit for me going forward.

[CardiacCoug]

I have often contemplated the expression "chickenshit" as I clean out the backyard coops. Chicken feces is small, insubstantial compared to other types of animal excrement and thus the epithet "chickenshit" connotes unimportance and lack of heft, at times a useful variation on the feces-related insult.

[smokymountainrain]

That's awesome. Aaron Brown who is the high councilman was one of the guys that started the By Commom Consent blog. You have to stay in the Church to make it better.

http://bycommonconsent.com/aaron-b/

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Aaron Brown is a great guy. Great sense of humor too.

[cowboy]

Also, why is it a pejorative at all? Doesn't manure contain fertilizer qualities that facilitate growth?

Yes, specifically ammonia, which is a source of nitrogen, and phosphate. The benefits of manure really kick in on the second year, when microbes have broken down the organic matter.

[USUC]

Bullshit just sounds tougher than cowshit. I actually like Horse Shit, with an intentional separation of the words when spoken.

Also, why is it a pejorative at all? Doesn't manure contain fertilizer qualities that facilitate growth?

In my experience growing up on a small farm, bull/cowshit was highly desirable for the fields/home garden while horse shit had almost no practical value (the cow/bull digests every seed while the seeds pass through a horse and cause all sorts of extra weeds if you use it on the garden). Horse shit, as a pejorative, is much worse than bull/cowshit.

[Jeff Lebowski]

How come we don't use "pigshit" as a pejorative? It is way worse than all of the above.

[USUC]

How come we don't use "pigshit" as a pejorative? It is way worse than all of the above.

I imagine it is just the result of the relative number of cattle vs pigs in agriculture in England and North America. People just aren't exposed to pigs as much. Plus pig farmers are weird. They sometimes kill people and dispose of the bodies by feeding it to their pigs.

[cowboy]

How come we don't use "pigshit" as a pejorative? It is way worse than all of the above.

I agree 100%. My only real experience on a pig farm was the tour we took of BYU's pig farm in Spanish Fork. My clothes smelled like pigs just from walking through the place, and I had to change and shower when I got home. Also, why do people make a big deal about free range chickens but not pigs?

[Jeff Lebowski]

I agree 100%. My only real experience on a pig farm was the tour we took of BYU's pig farm in Spanish Fork. My clothes smelled like pigs just from walking through the place, and I had to change and shower when I got home. Also, why do people make a big deal about free range chickens but not pigs?

I can't imagine how anyone can live near a pig farm. Horrific smell.

But dang it, those little critters are delicious when smoked and cured.

[clackamascoug]

The title of this thread has nothing to do with the names of fecal matter of various animals. I think you guys should knock this Nazishit off, and get back on topic of helping homo's find their equilibrium in Mormon culture.

Is it ok to say homo?

[smokymountainrain]

The title of this thread has nothing to do with the names of fecal matter of various animals. I think you guys should knock this Nazishit off, and get back on topic of helping homo's find their equilibrium in Mormon culture.

Is it ok to say homo?

Who is homo? Also, whoever he is, I think you meant to say his rather than their.