Goats provide lawn, weed and invasive plant management. I would love to have goats. The more sullen and ornery the better.

I live in a city that has a wealthy area which is still zoned to allow stables for horses and other random livestock. Llamas, goats, chickens, porkbelly pigs, whatever. All the horseback riding clubs are there. It's fantastic and I don't see why this wouldn't work other places.

When the hip raise goats in the city
and the sun dries out the hay
do I want to be there,
in my city?

FreakinB: About a year ago I saw a guy who looked like Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York - complete with mustache - riding one of those 19th century bikes with the huge front wheel through the East Village. If you can come up with anything more hipster than that, more power to you. But as far as I'm concerned I have seen the top of the mountain.

I make projectile points (arrowheads, spear points) by knapping them out of flint. I can make an Olduwan chopping tool using hard-hammer percussion. It doesn't get any more hipster than that.

Whatever, dogs are way worse in terms of noise level. I had two goats being raised in someone's downtown yard 3 houses down and it was awesome.

bobbette: Goats provide lawn, weed and invasive plant management. I would love to have goats. The more sullen and ornery the better.

plus, lets be honest. nobody is going to rob the dude in the city who has a bunch of goats in his yard.

Cause its hip to act like a bunch of off the boat immigrants?

Cabrito.

Andromeda: tuna fingers: Hipsters?
No, I think the majority of the people who did the urban chickens were 3/4 crazy survivalists.

Nope, the only people I've known to have chickens in the city were very definitely hipsters.

I'd never want a goat near me personally because they are clearly evil, and I challenge anyone to look into a goat's eye and conclude otherwise.

/their pupils freak me out

...and this is clearly why my friends assigned me the moniker "goat" about 15 years ago....

If I had to return to agriculture to survive, I'd raise goats.

dittybopper: When the hip raise goats in the city
and the sun dries out the hay
do I want to be there,
in my city?

Oh goddammit.

Watch out for the pumas!

FreakinB

About a year ago I saw a guy who looked like Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York - complete with mustache - riding one of those 19th century bikes with the huge front wheel


It's called a penny-farthing.

CSB Time:

My great-grandmother had a goat and she lived in the city (back in the 80's - before she lost her mind and shat in the nursing home food trays) and some punk kids poisoned it.

Our neighbor sells live goats to Muslims, they come and slaughter the goat themselves and butcher it and then take it away. Not too bad...

Andromeda: tuna fingers: Hipsters?
No, I think the majority of the people who did the urban chickens were 3/4 crazy survivalists.

Nope, the only people I've known to have chickens in the city were very definitely hipsters.

I'd never want a goat near me personally because they are clearly evil, and I challenge anyone to look into a goat's eye and conclude otherwise.

/their pupils freak me out

I'm told their eyes are tasty.

I had a friend who had a small herd of goats, until one of them for no reason ran at her and butted her in her pregnant belly. Her husband didn't kill the whole lot of goats then and there (admirable restraint), but found a woman who gladly picked up the whole lot that same day.

I blame the Omnivore's Dilemma.

I got to play with this woman's 3 goats in Laurel Canyon (hills above hollywood). So goddamn cute, and their butt holes are hilarious

Man, back in my day, the rich kids would just waste daddy's money on booze, coke, and whores. This new generation of trustfundies are getting really creative.

dryknife: Cabrito.

lysdexic: cabrito!

Funny, the wife raises prized dairy goats. It's a breading and competition heard so the boys aren't worth much. The neighbor was burning a flash pile this weekend. Big pile of fire + a couple of useless goats. AWESOME weekend.

/I ate so much I can't walk

stpauler: There's something odd about a submitter pointing the hipster finger while quoting from the Utne Reader.

"Hipster" invariably starts a flame war no matter what the subject is, and thus gets greenlights.

FreakinB: About a year ago I saw a guy who looked like Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York - complete with mustache - riding one of those 19th century bikes with the huge front wheel through the East Village. If you can come up with anything more hipster than that, more power to you. But as far as I'm concerned I have seen the top of the mountain.

It's called a penny-farthing.

Immigrants were doing that before it was popular

tentaculistic: I had a friend who had a small herd of goats, until one of them for no reason ran at her and butted her in her pregnant belly.

I guess I'm a certifiable bad person now, because the mental image this conjures up is making me laugh.

Kids these days.

tentaculistic: I had a friend who had a small herd of goats, until one of them for no reason ran at her and butted her in her pregnant belly. Her husband didn't kill the whole lot of goats then and there (admirable restraint), but found a woman who gladly picked up the whole lot that same day.

I blame the Omnivore's Dilemma.

Kid on kid violence.

So, is goat BBQ any good? How does one slaughter and prepare goat? Cause I might want to "rescue" a few of those suckers.

FreakinB: About a year ago I saw a guy who looked like Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York - complete with mustache - riding one of those 19th century bikes with the huge front wheel through the East Village. If you can come up with anything more hipster than that, more power to you. But as far as I'm concerned I have seen the top of the mountain.

applause to you sir / ma'am for restraining what must have been an understandably violent reaction.

or throwing up.

whichever

Kit Fister: Problem: Abandoned/closed down multi-story buildings.

Solution: Create multi-storied farmland in the city. I see no problem with this.


/farmer
//not a hipster

No problem, huh? You sure you're a fsrmer, and not more of a... Gardener, perhaps?

inner ted: FreakinB: About a year ago I saw a guy who looked like Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York - complete with mustache - riding one of those 19th century bikes with the huge front wheel through the East Village. If you can come up with anything more hipster than that, more power to you. But as far as I'm concerned I have seen the top of the mountain.

applause to you sir / ma'am for restraining what must have been an understandably violent reaction.

or throwing up.

whichever

Should have asked him where the World's Fair was.

Hey, Man, don't make fun of Bush. It's not his fault he didn't know what to do. He had people for that.

Slaves2Darkness: inner ted: FreakinB: About a year ago I saw a guy who looked like Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York - complete with mustache - riding one of those 19th century bikes with the huge front wheel through the East Village. If you can come up with anything more hipster than that, more power to you. But as far as I'm concerned I have seen the top of the mountain.

applause to you sir / ma'am for restraining what must have been an understandably violent reaction.

or throwing up.

whichever

Should have asked him where the World's Fair was.

Maybe he was a shill for the Penny Farthing?

http://www.thepennyfarthingnyc.com/

FreakinB: About a year ago I saw a guy who looked like Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York - complete with mustache - riding one of those 19th century bikes with the huge front wheel through the East Village. If you can come up with anything more hipster than that, more power to you. But as far as I'm concerned I have seen the top of the mountain.

The dream of the 1890s: http://youtu.be/mPKe9OfWs-M

Kit Fister: Problem: Abandoned/closed down multi-story buildings.

Solution: Create multi-storied farmland in the city. I see no problem with this.


/farmer
//not a hipster

Unless you're growing mushrooms, I DO see a problem with that.

Tragic.