France passes law protecting cocks' right to crow in the countryside
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The new ‘countryside sounds and smells law’ aims to give more protection to existing farms from newly arrived residents in the area.
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Not trying to be weird or anything, but the smell of manure is one of the most important parts of the rural experience. But try explaining that to real estate parasites...
There was a rural town where I grew up that had roots in ranching. Everyone had horse corrals. It got big enough to incorporate into a city and started to grow quickly, but the new incoming residents started complaining about the horse manure smell.
So the city council passed a law that says basically the manure was here before you were. Get over it.
It's like those people moving into houses beside an airport or railway track and complaining about the noise.
They probably got a house for 10% cheaper than elsewhere, why did they think it was such a good deal?
That organic smell means my exit is coming up next and I'm almost home.
Did you know that Alfred Krupp, one of the guys responsible for the arms race that led to World War 1, absolutely loved the smell of horse manure? He loved it to a point where he built a house designed so he could always smell it. Wild stuff.
How do you design a house to smell like horse shit, aside from filling the walls with it?
I vaguely remember something about him building a horse barn with a well furnished bedroom in what would normally be the hay loft, with a big hole in the floor for the smellz to waft through.
Manure! I HATE MANURE!
I much prefer the manure smell to the smells of the city.
There are farms that remind me that it is spring by the smell of pig manure being spread on them. That is the week when you drive with your windows rolled up and the vent set to recycle. lol
The house prices in my area dropped so hard when my neighbor had to close his pig farm after the ammonia killed his lungs, I mean come on, can't you keep doing it with your oxygen bottle?
Thank god the cow farm on the other side is still working, without the screaming of them being tied their whole life in their own shit it would have gone all down the drain.
Dumping massive amounts of pig manure on already over fertilized fields (as very common) to cheaply get rid of it, is just pollution and should not be tolerated.
It's six o'clock, it's up with the cock! (NSFW obviously)
OMG!!! I have looked for that song for so long!! When I was a teen someone played that on a drama club bus and no one has ever believed me that the song exists!
What was the alternative?
Farms and other such places getting shut down by newly built housing developments.
Ahh the old Let me move to country side and get upset by local things so I change everything. Then later move again when it was just like where I started.
Don't worry, people do that in cities too. People move into "trendy" neighborhoods, ruin them by campaigning to change them, and then move to the next trendy place.
Self entitlement and stupidity have no bounds.
People should be forbidden from complaining about things that predated them moving into an area.
Go to any popular national park where they cram development right up to the entrance. "What a lovely place, let's build the fuck out of it."
Asking the important question
Can we ban my neighbor yelling back at the roosters? Like, buddy, I'm sorry that Disney tricked you into thinking it's a sunrise thing. They do it all hours of the day and night as they please, and you yelling "SHUT THE FUCK UP IT'S NOT SUNRISE" isn't helping anything.
I dont know why but some dude yelling at roosters like that is fucking hilarious. Especially since roosters DGAF.
They most certainly do not.
The title without additional context sounds like an old man yelling in the country side that people call a cock
I remember when the rich people moved up from NY and NJ to Maine to live in all those quaint seaports then they complained about the smell from the docks and such because of the people who dared to work as lobstermen and fishermen instead of lawyers. Maine finally got sick of it and passed laws protecting the working seaports.
Then the rich folks bought the pretty islands off of the coast and complained about the foghorns that are part of the protection system for boats. So now they don't sound unless you have a device that triggers them. Part of the beauty of the seacoast, hearing the foghorns, is now gone because some millionaire needs to be coddled.
The eternal issue, people see these rural areas and go "Oh how quaint! Lets live here!". Then they proceed to destroy the very things that attracted them. "Oh, these farms are smelly, and these animals are noisy. Can't have that." Lets move to the woods and cut all the trees down, then move to the desert and suck all the water up to force the landscape to look like a golf course.
I remember a comedian said "Real estate developments are named after the thing they destroyed when they built it, like "Beaver Creek" or "Oak Woods".