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Calling random things “spiritual cows” is a fine comedy bit, but has no place in a professional environment where you have to be able to communicate with others

Calling random things “spiritual cows” is a fine comedy bit, but has no place in a professional environment where you have to be able to communicate with others to achieve a common goal. TFA is just shitposting in blog form. Not sure if the author realizes that.

jagged-chisel 1y ago
Did ... did you mean "spiritual"? Because, depending on culture, spiritual cows would indeed be a fine comedy bit.
ok123456 1y ago
Spherical. "Spherical cows" is a common expression in physics that means an oversimplified model (e.g., modeling a cow as a sphere). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
- hinkley 1y ago
  I’m also having trouble figuring out why mentioning sacred cows would be a problem in business. Other than potential career suicide for handling the news poorly.
  - ErroneousBosh 1y ago
    "Sacred Cows" crop up in business surprisingly often, if you deal with agricultural services in parts of the world with a significant Hindu population. You have to be absolutely certain you've got the right cows in the right trailer, for one thing.
    - hinkley 1y ago
      Oh you mean literal sacred cows. Yeah I was talking metaphysical. (I used to know someone with an ostensibly Hindu coworker who she caught eating a burger. His response to being caught was to say that Indians aren’t reincarnated as American cows.)
      - ErroneousBosh 1y ago
        I know a guy who is a very devout Muslim, whose "home cuisine" is basically potatoes, sauerkraut, and pork sausage. He comes from a part of the fiddly little "-istans" that weren't quite Asia and weren't quite the former Soviet Union, where really all they had to eat were potatoes, cabbages, and the pigs that ate the scraps. The general idea is that if you live in a desert then - as with Jewish dietary restrictions - eating stuff like shellfish and pigs that don't naturally lend themselves to being eaten unrefrigerated a hundred miles from the sea in 40°C weather is not a good idea. But if it's roughly the same climate as Scotland and you know what you're doing, it's all just fine, it's far more haraam to starve yourself to death when you can eat a big bowl of lentil and ham soup.
        hinkley 1y ago
        Most of Leviticus is about hygiene, including the part that people take as a hall pass for bigotry and murder. Which is on the same page and in the same phrasing as “don’t eat shellfish.” There are some people who think someone mistranslated “unclean” a lot.

jagged-chisel 1y ago

Did ... did you mean "spiritual"? Because, depending on culture, spiritual cows would indeed be a fine comedy bit.

ok123456 1y ago

Spherical. "Spherical cows" is a common expression in physics that means an oversimplified model (e.g., modeling a cow as a sphere). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow

hinkley 1y ago
I’m also having trouble figuring out why mentioning sacred cows would be a problem in business. Other than potential career suicide for handling the news poorly.
- ErroneousBosh 1y ago
  "Sacred Cows" crop up in business surprisingly often, if you deal with agricultural services in parts of the world with a significant Hindu population. You have to be absolutely certain you've got the right cows in the right trailer, for one thing.
  - hinkley 1y ago
    Oh you mean literal sacred cows. Yeah I was talking metaphysical. (I used to know someone with an ostensibly Hindu coworker who she caught eating a burger. His response to being caught was to say that Indians aren’t reincarnated as American cows.)
    - ErroneousBosh 1y ago
      I know a guy who is a very devout Muslim, whose "home cuisine" is basically potatoes, sauerkraut, and pork sausage. He comes from a part of the fiddly little "-istans" that weren't quite Asia and weren't quite the former Soviet Union, where really all they had to eat were potatoes, cabbages, and the pigs that ate the scraps. The general idea is that if you live in a desert then - as with Jewish dietary restrictions - eating stuff like shellfish and pigs that don't naturally lend themselves to being eaten unrefrigerated a hundred miles from the sea in 40°C weather is not a good idea. But if it's roughly the same climate as Scotland and you know what you're doing, it's all just fine, it's far more haraam to starve yourself to death when you can eat a big bowl of lentil and ham soup.
      - hinkley 1y ago
        Most of Leviticus is about hygiene, including the part that people take as a hall pass for bigotry and murder. Which is on the same page and in the same phrasing as “don’t eat shellfish.” There are some people who think someone mistranslated “unclean” a lot.