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Maybe the midterms will bring us hope, but remember, we'll still have to deal with this fucker. It's just unbelievable.
OPEN POST: The Sunday Roast, featuring the Knitting, Stilted Shepherds of Landes, France
Getty Images Happy Sundog, y'all! Today we're doing a road trip, as is traditional on Sunday, only instead of ending up at Grandma's house for hours of boredom with your cousins and food in every shade of beige, we're going to Landes, France, a century ago. And we're gonna get some nice sweaters while we're there. Now a surfing capital and tourism destination, a hundred years ago it was mostly marsh and forest. The hard-working sheep herders of the local marshland got tired of wet feet, as one does. The land was great for grazing sheep, but not so good for the humans who looked after them.So they decided to watch their sheep on stilts (the shepherds, not the sheep. Sheep are terribly clumsy on stilts) and as they strode, stilted and majestic across the marsh, they knitted and spun the wool from their own flocks. I tell ya, the shepherds of Landes musta been hella coordinated! Science Photos As you can see, the stilts were of the hands-free variety, and shep...
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