Year of the Goat

[Ginger Power]

Happy Chinese New Year! It's the year of the goat which is totes magoats cool!

[IronicDeadBird]

Looked up the corresponding Chinese Cosmic element was hoping it to be water... But looks like its the year of the wood goat.

[Doug Frisk]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Looked up the corresponding Chinese Cosmic element was hoping it to be water... But looks like its the year of the wood goat.

The wood goat? Really? Excellent!

[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by DareDad

The wood goat? Really? Excellent!

Yay I guess? Is that good? Did I do a thing?

[Doug Frisk]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Yay I guess? Is that good? Did I do a thing?

Actually, I did. Concerned about field reset affecting my cycle times I built a thing I call a "Tote Goat", which is a wheeled wooden contraption that can let a single person move 15 to 20 totes easily.

So if this is the year of the wood goat, I find that very auspicious.

[Taylor]

Originally Posted by DareDad

Actually, I did. Concerned about field reset affecting my cycle times I built a thing I call a "Tote Goat", which is a wheeled wooden contraption that can let a single person move 15 to 20 totes easily.

So if this is the year of the wood goat, I find that very auspicious.

So married folks can't operate your device? That seems unnecessary.

[MasterMentor]

Originally Posted by IronicDeadBird

Looked up the corresponding Chinese Cosmic element was hoping it to be water... But looks like its the year of the wood goat.

Awesome! Wood floats, you know!

[tindleroot]

Now it's time to start the debate about whether or not a sheep is a goat...

[Richard Wallace]

山羊

Put "goat" into Google Translate and you get the characters above (Shānyáng).

However, many Chinese language explanations of the 12 year animal zodiac cycle list 2015 +/-12N as the year of 羊 (Yáng), for which Google Translate returns "sheep".

Hence the confusion. I've traveled in China for business, a few times. This translation confusion is typical of many examples I have seen.

[artdutra04]

http://qz.com/346283/happy-lunar-new...omething-else/

[IndySam]

wohooo!

[tindleroot]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

http://qz.com/346283/happy-lunar-new...omething-else/

Leave it to a bunch of engineers to find that

I propose we call it the year of the "sheep, goat, ram, whatever"

[HelloRobot]

Originally Posted by MasterMentor

Awesome! Wood floats, you know!

Hey, whatever floats your goat.

[Whippet]

Originally Posted by HelloRobot

Hey, whatever floats your goat.

This debate totes floats my goats, and I have notes and quotes to prove it. Maybe we should take votes?

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by MasterMentor

Awesome! Wood floats, you know!

As well as witches, gravy, very small rocks, and oh yes - a duck (or perhaps a barbary hen).