Add some goat to your meeting

February 12, 2021 9:17 PM

A farmer who was half kidding when she suggested hiring out her goats out for Zoom meetings during lockdown has said making £50,000 shows it was no joke. (BBC). Reserve your goat for £5 here.
posted by ShooBoo (22 comments total)

This is very good. Goat With A Note involves sharing a message that the goats will then eat on camera! Zero waste, how forward thinking of them.
posted by Mizu at 9:32 PM on February 12, 2021 [3 favorites]

Would improve almost all of my endless daily meetings
posted by greenhornet at 9:36 PM on February 12, 2021 [2 favorites]

A farmer who was half kidding

I see what you did there, BBC.
posted by armeowda at 9:48 PM on February 12, 2021 [28 favorites]

awesome. zoom giraffe would be cool.
posted by clavdivs at 10:17 PM on February 12, 2021 [4 favorites]

This Zoom animal thing has been going on for months and months now from various sources. There are zoos and aquariums also doing similar things. I think it's great. The world doesn't have enough whimsy, and unexpected animals at professional meetings are definitely whimsical.

A panto horse in a Zoom meeting is not whimsical. Do not do that.
posted by hippybear at 10:26 PM on February 12, 2021 [1 favorite]

I'm here live. I'm not a goat.
posted by tclark at 10:33 PM on February 12, 2021 [33 favorites]

<3 and bless that lawyer whose life has been turned upside down. I hope he finds peace soon.
posted by hippybear at 10:34 PM on February 12, 2021 [1 favorite]

OMG, so you schedule your meeting for an hour but you tell the team they should be able to meet their goal by 45 minutes and then at the 45 minute mark the goat appears, and you get all fake mad because they were supposed to meet their GOAL not their GOAT. And then 15 minutes of useless stuff because everything useful for the day has already happened.
posted by hippybear at 10:40 PM on February 12, 2021 [2 favorites]

Do that once, and you're legend. Do that twice, and you're overbooked.
posted by hippybear at 10:43 PM on February 12, 2021

Even the website is a delight CORONA VIRUS: FORCING WEBSITES EVERYWHERE TO ADD A GENERIC BANNER MESSAGE
posted by daybeforetheday at 1:34 AM on February 13, 2021 [8 favorites]

Hey trolls, meet Billy Goat Gruff.
posted by adept256 at 2:43 AM on February 13, 2021 [1 favorite]

Thanks, ShooBoo, I love this post and I love this farm. You can stay there, and there's a documentary about the place. From the home page:

All of our livestock are farmed in line with the RSPCA "5 freedoms" philosophy and have access to large outdoor spaces for grazing and foraging during fair weather including species rich mowing meadows. They also have indoor weatherproof accommodation for poor weather.
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Climate change is something we are very concerned about. We have a great sense of urgency to do all we can to prevent our contribution towards emissions and help our visitors do the same. This includes working towards changing our current farming practices in order to grow produce with a lower carbon footprint. We are also working hard to raise money to invest in renewable power technologies so we can produce and store energy on site.

Same page:
FOOD: Neary's shop (a local shop for local people - but Mrs Neary is nice and will let you in if you are polite) is by the bus stop and has everything you could want if you're after buying supplies once you're here so you don't have to carry loads of food/ drink while travelling. DON'T YOU DARE buy eggs there though, you buy them from us or our hens will be very offended!

I wanna visit so much.
posted by Bella Donna at 3:03 AM on February 13, 2021 [5 favorites]

I feel like there must have been some trademark battle in the past 9 months over this, because I could swear that this started out as a pun:

Goat2Meeting

posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 3:45 AM on February 13, 2021 [7 favorites]

Just shared in a community where there's at least one alpaca farmer.

Easy income streams for all of the independent family farms now, please and thank you!
posted by Sheydem-tants at 4:40 AM on February 13, 2021

We had an owl bomb for one of our meetings—it was planned and everyone showed up early because we were so excited to meet the owl. (The owl’s name was Apollo and it was such a handsome and good owl.)
posted by pie_seven at 4:47 AM on February 13, 2021 [15 favorites]

We have had a goat meeting, and it was a strong candidate for our GOAT meeting.
posted by mhoye at 6:25 AM on February 13, 2021 [1 favorite]

Sheydem-tants: "Just shared in a community where there's at least one alpaca farmer. "

Can I just say that "Zoom Alpaca" is a right-on name for a superhero.
posted by chavenet at 9:46 AM on February 13, 2021

However, one should probably fear an alpaca that has the zoomies.
posted by hippybear at 10:05 AM on February 13, 2021 [2 favorites]

I just received a Goat Note I ordered earlier in the day and I can confirm that they are Good Goats, Bront.
posted by _Lasar at 3:25 PM on February 13, 2021 [2 favorites]

I made a similar offer in our work slack. My family's goats & chickens have made several appearances via zoom at book club meetings & Girl Scout troop gatherings, in exchange for donations to the local food shelf.

Now I'm thinking we really need to up our marketing game. £50,000 would buy a lot of hay.
posted by belladonna at 3:56 PM on February 13, 2021 [1 favorite]

We had an owl bomb for one of our meetings

Was it a few days ago? Was it a superb owl?
posted by pH Indicating Socks at 10:32 PM on February 13, 2021 [3 favorites]

I work with the DNC Tech Team. We’ve been remote first since 2017, but always tried to have semi annual meetups/off sites in different cities. This past year, the usual meetup had to go online, and one of the organizers arranged for a donkey to guest star on our Zoom. (Because: Democrats). His name is Mambo and he is a delightful keynote.
posted by bl1nk at 7:07 AM on February 14, 2021 [4 favorites]