Mad Cow Tarot (Le Tarot des Vaches Folles)
Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 10 Mar 2004, and now archived in the Forum Library.
| Mimers |
10 Mar 2004 |
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OMG! That is hilarious! Thanks Rusty!
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| ros |
10 Mar 2004 |
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Wouldn't these be great for a dairy farmer tarot reader?
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| Kissa |
10 Mar 2004 |
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hmmmm...
dunno. when i think of vache folle, i see these young ppl in france and the uk who died because they ate too many candies loaded with bovine gelatine.
i don't find it hilarious. the perspective that our degenerated society succeded in creating a new lethal disease (creuzfeldt-jacob), that it was all once again because of the money and that governments chose not to react fast enough, well, i have a hard time finding this deck funny.
but then again, i'm one of the few who was not bothered by the metrosexual tarot so my sense of humour must be rotten somehow.
Kissa
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| Theia |
10 Mar 2004 |
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WOW, now theirs a novilty deck.
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| Majecot |
10 Mar 2004 |
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LOL those are great! I have to show my friend that loves cows!
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| dolphingirl |
11 Mar 2004 |
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ahhhh these are so cute! I would love to use these at the Puyallup fair to do readings for people ! :)
Samantha
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| Tarotmyst |
11 Mar 2004 |
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I failed to see the funny side to these too. There's just something not right about them.
What next the cancer tarot??
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| Kissa |
11 Mar 2004 |
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I noticed that we have two different sides here. The North American and the European points of view. Ppl in the US and Canada didn't have to worry like we did here in Europe, that's probably why this "mad cow" thing is hard to be funny for us. We think of moms transmitting this disease to their foetuses, moms feeding their babies with jar food of questionable quality, kids eating in fast foods, etc.
And governments, like always, lying, and politics somehow saving their skins ...
I'm sorry, this is off topic and not what you want to read on a tarot board. I'll keep off this thread from now. Just wanted to explain i make such a big deal out of this...
Blessings,
Kissa
edited to add: i'm not angry at anybody for loving the deck! ;-)
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| HudsonGray |
11 Mar 2004 |
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We got it in the US and Canada now too, but not as badly as what the UK & Europe had.
My sister's a dairy farmer, I wonder if she'd be interested in the cow cards? She's pretty religious, and took a dim view on my decks when she saw them...
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| rota |
11 Mar 2004 |
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I get both sets of arguments, for and against the 'mad cow' humor.... I personally think there's a connection between Creutzfeld/Jacob, BSE and Alzheimer's in humans.
Still, I look at the card images and laugh. They're very well-done.
Perhaps I can see them as funny because I'm vegetarian...?
:P
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| yve |
12 Mar 2004 |
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I cannot take these cards seriously as some of you do...it's not at all that I minimize or downplay the seriousness of the BSE phenomena (and actually i'm in the middle of the contraversy by living in Alberta, mad cow country), but if I was to get stressed, worried, put negative analogies/make negative connections to everything bad that happens in life/this world, I would be an unhappy, miserable person always looking for and expecting bad to happen to me and my family.... I chose to look at life positively, not worry about what might happen, and never take the negative outlook on things...I want to enjoy my time on this earth...to me these are just cards, goofy cards that make me smile. Nothing more, nothing less....
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The Mad Cow Tarot (Le Tarot des Vaches Folles) thread was originally posted on 10 Mar 2004 in the Tarot Decks board, and is now archived in the Forum Library. Read the active threads in Tarot Decks, or read more archived threads.
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