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Title: Camels for Sweden
Post by: pr126 on February 14, 2017, 12:19:26 AM
Posted for LULZ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyqqpGrLXdA
Title: Re: Camels for Sweden
Post by: Munch on February 14, 2017, 05:08:17 AM
Be much easier to farm camel piss this way.
Title: Re: Camels for Sweden
Post by: Baruch on February 14, 2017, 06:48:31 AM
Quote from: Munch on February 14, 2017, 05:08:17 AM
Be much easier to farm camel piss this way.

If the Swedes are unfamiliar, I hope they can tell the male from the female, when it is piss milking time ;-)

Emperor Vespasian put a tax on  human piss.  It was a major industrial chemical in ancient times.  When he was criticized for it, he replied "money doesn't smell".
Title: Re: Camels for Sweden
Post by: Gawdzilla Sama on February 14, 2017, 08:33:46 AM
The US Army considered using camels for their cavalry units in the Southwest United States. Doughboys and camels. ...
Title: Re: Camels for Sweden
Post by: Baruch on February 14, 2017, 01:57:40 PM
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on February 14, 2017, 08:33:46 AM
The US Army considered using camels for their cavalry units in the Southwest United States. Doughboys and camels. ...

Unfortunately not all deserts are created equal.  Probably they used dromedaries.  The bactrian breed might have better served ... spare hump ;-)
Title: Re: Camels for Sweden
Post by: Gawdzilla Sama on February 14, 2017, 07:09:14 PM
Quote from: Baruch on February 14, 2017, 01:57:40 PM
Unfortunately not all deserts are created equal.  Probably they used dromedaries.  The bactrian breed might have better served ... spare hump ;-)
They were indeed dromedaries. Bactrian camels come from Communist countries.

(This was in the 1870s IIRC.)
Title: Re: Camels for Sweden
Post by: Baruch on February 14, 2017, 11:11:55 PM
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on February 14, 2017, 07:09:14 PM
They were indeed dromedaries. Bactrian camels come from Communist countries.

(This was in the 1870s IIRC.)

Bacteria camels also carry diseases ;-(
Title: Re: Camels for Sweden
Post by: Cavebear on February 15, 2017, 03:13:54 AM
Oh NO!  How could we live without Swedish camel milk?