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― remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

and I don't see what the big deal is with them. They smell and they're too much work and they're not much fun. Dogs are infinitely better.

― remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

Henceforth this thread will be about two things:

1) Horses being stupid.
2) St. Bernards with whiskey kegs being the ne plus ultra earthly creature:

http://www.riverchasesaints.com/images/keg.jpg

― remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

HORSES ARE OK.

according to Oxes.

― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

http://home.nycap.rr.com/watchd/images/rescue2.gif

― remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

You're insane. Horses are lovely. Or Norses, as I like to call them.

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

I'm with remy, I don't want to hang out with any animal that is bigger than me.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

They're both GREBT. It's cats that are crap.

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.webspawner.com/users/momzride/st%20bernards.jpg

― remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Ask Catherine the Great.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

I agree also. I don't trust horses one bit. They act friendly but I think it's just a ruse.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

I thought this was about the missing verse to "Dreadlock Holiday"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Hate horses, my best friend is a farrier and she's constanstly ending the work day with horseshoe shaped bruises on her face (ie not really, but she gets kicked a lot)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

http://www.oxfordbands.com/albums/Oxes/AS2004_Oxes1_6.sized.jpg

HORSES ARE OK

― Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

THAT WAS A MYTH MADE UP BY THE ENGLISH TO DISCREDIT CATHERINE THE GREAT!!!

Anyway, how could you dislike something so cute and shaggy?

http://away.com/gifs/states/md/wilhorse.jpg

Aren't you cute? Yes, you are such a cutey!

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Putting a few bob on the geegees/dogs = CLASSIC

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

they are great to make money off of, at the track.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

... that what I just said, in Britspeak

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

I know Kate, just fooling around.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Do you know the only thing cuter than horses?

PONIES!!!

http://www.wayland.org.uk/images/icons/228%20%20Wild%20Ponies-1_small.jpg

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

You just like them because they have filthy bangs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

And don't think they wouldn't eat you if they got the chance.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

I wish I liked horses. I mean, I do, but they're terrifying. Not because I'm afraid of kicking -- BITING. My dad is a surgeon and used to "bring work home" (by which I mean: pictures of his cases), and I can recall no less than 3 instances (w/pics!) of widdle kids getting bitten in the FACE by horseys.

Scared ever since.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Once a horse stepped on my toe so I punched it really hard in the shoulder. I'm lucky it didn't kick me. My friend's dad told me that his grandpa had a huge hoof mark on his chest from being kicked by a Cossack horse when he was a Jew in Russia.

xpost.

n/a OTFM (on the FUNNY mark)

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

If you don't like them coz they are BIGGER than you, then you can get little itty bitty tiny ickle PWNIES!!!

http://www.tufts.edu/vet/vet_common/images/gift/pony.jpg

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

my favorite horse.

i saw a lot of horses last week, in kentucky.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Ponies are vegetablearians, they will not eat you. They will however gang up on you and mug you for carrots and then eat themselves silly on apples and end up colicky, the poor things.

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

That is a lovely norse, Stence. Look at those hindquarters. What an athlete!

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

They are cute but they're not proper horses so they don't count.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

I like horses. They're tasty too

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)

If horses carried rye-casks around their necks there's a chance I'd like them.

― remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

yes, midway road is quite the athlete, that's why i like him. won $630 on the exacta in the 2003 preakness thanks to that horse.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Take a Sunday morning stroll on Wimbledon Common and you get to here lots of plummy horse-riding instructors shouting things like "Control your ponies, children" at their young charges while local dogs bark wildly at the nervous hooved ones.

It's probably the most middle-class thing it's possible to shout.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Ponies and horses can interbreed (the only qualification for ponyhood is height and sometimes breed) so yes, they do qualify as horses.

Besides, look how cute, the welsh ponies are:

http://www.welshponies.com/schollerfillygrazesm.jpg

More here (I almost cannot stand the cuteness):

http://www.welshponies.com/mardifoals.htm

― Please Snap StressTwig (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

That thing looks like an anorexic teenaged gymnast with alopecia.

― remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

YOU ALL SEEM TO BE FORGETTING ABOUT SOMETHING:

http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/alpaca.jpg
http://www.shelales.com/Girl%20with%20baby%20alpaca%20and%20llama.jpg
http://www.bonnydoonalpacas.org/images/heirloo.jpg
http://www.estesnet.com/events/alpacas.jpg

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Red Rum winning the National for the third time always brings on the old waterworks

http://www.aintree.co.uk/images/redrum_grave.jpg

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Is a horse just a shaved llama?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

My favourite filly:

http://ranchosanantonio.com/pic_database/jclicker/images/genuine_risk.jpg

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

llamas rule. as does genuine risk.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

My Rifle, My Pony and Me

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Britishes: tell me of these "Handy Pony" contests.

xpost -- llamas >>>>>>> ponies.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

I had a Breyer Animal ~~toy~~ Creation of Genuine Risk when I was a child.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

Those are alpacas not llamas. There's a farm of them near my folks' house.

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

same diff

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

that's a fucking ugly horse up there at the top. I wouldn't like them either if they all looked like that.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

whatevs.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:15 (twenty years ago)

http://plush-toy.co.uk/acatalog/My-Little-pony.jpg

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:16 (twenty years ago)

::screams::

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:17 (twenty years ago)

i found a my little pony on the sidewalk a few saturday nights ago and it was very dirty and missing most of its hair.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

it's a hard knock life here in baltimore.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Again: "Handy Pony" info, plz.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

[URL=http://www.theimagehosting.com][IMG]http://images5.theimagehosting.com/zipper [/IMG][/URL]

Me and my pony zipper. I was about 10.

― andy --, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

aw, nevermind.

― andy --, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

Breyer Animal Creations. My cousin and I used to collect them. When I was young, my room looked a bit like this:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/k/a/kah19/Breyer/breyer_horses_ambers.JPG

(in fact, I had many of those.)

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

This was my favourite:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/k/a/kah19/Breyer/shermanmorganqvc.jpg

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:21 (twenty years ago)

HORSES HORSES
BIG EYES
little eyes
BIG EYES
little eyes

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

Penis Unicorn to thread.

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

My sister went to horse camp because she was girly like that, I never did the horse-crazy thing. But riding is fun, even if all I know how to do is the most basic idiot-proof stuff like stop & turn!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

George Stubbs to thread!

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Urgh, those shelves look scary, like The Birds but with horses.

Admittedly I did have some plastic horse toys when I was little. If the real things were that size I might like them more.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

I liked the Lego horses. They introduced them just as I was getting too old for Lego, I always wished they'd been around sooner.

I would like to build a Lego Trojan horse.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

That would be ace! And inside could be Lego Greeks on Lego actual horses.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

omg

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I thought you meant, like, a lifesized one that you could hide inside yourself.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

It would be really awesome if they had made classical era legos. Little centurians! Columns! Barbarians! Minotaurs! Centaur horse bottoms that click onto human torsos!

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Can't we just talk about Misty of Chincoteague or something?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Lego topless towers of Ilium!

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:38 (twenty years ago)

yeah totally Lego Classical Myths! Damn Lego people need to get thinking!

I knew someone in the universe woulda already made a Trojan horse! It'll have to be life size.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

What was the name of the woman who did all the Misty books? She was an amazing illustrator! I had several of them - the one about the Godolphin Arab and the one about the Lipizzaners. What was her name. Time for a google...

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I bet they make Lego Narnia to tie in with the film.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

What was the name of the woman who did all the Misty books? She was an amazing illustrator!

Marguerite Henry. I actually liked the second book Stormy more. The Godolphin book was interesting.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Lego Medusa!
Lego king midas playset!!!!

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Margarite Henry!

http://www.mistyofchincoteague.org/

x-post argh...

Well, anyway, this was the one I really liked:

http://www.kidsbooksandpuppets.com/images/audiobooks/kingofthewindaudiobooksmargueritehenrybooks.jpg

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

This was the version I had:

http://www.signalhillbooks.com/bkimages/941995.jpg

Brighty of the Grand Canyon! Justin Morgan! Mustang, Wild Spirit of the West! (With Breyer Animal Creation tie-in!)

http://www.modelhorsecollector.com/imagesx400/1258.jpg

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

I *know* we've had a Walter Farley "The Black Stallion... On Acid!" appreciation thread before.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.janice142.com/Kidlet/Series/TheblackM.jpg

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

I've noticed that a lot of indie rock bands do tend to sing about horses, like it's some sign of ironic back to nature coolness.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Bucephalus

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Alexander_on_Bucephalus_bronze_statue.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I blame Patti Smith.

Xpost. Obviously.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002VQQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Jon OTM. Alpacas > horses.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

alpacas >>> horses because of the wool (but frankly, I think it smells funny)

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

I like unicorns, and the The Unicorns.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

Those plastic horse toys really baffle me. They don't even have movable limbs or anything. Where's the fun?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

In kids' imaginations?

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

They sorta just jump, like they have jet feet or something.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Girls are weird.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

you are all insane and/or jealous. horses are the greatest creatures to ever walk the earth. plastic ones included.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

GI Joe never had a horse, did they?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Hell no.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)

Actually what really baffles me about those Breyer horses is that they're quite expensive.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

They are ridiculously expensive. One used to cost my entire month's pocket money when I was 11.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

For the price they really should include some sort of kicking action, combable hair, genuine horsey smell or something like that. I'm really paranoid that my house will start filling up with these in a couple of years.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Horse: you're not supposed to keep them, you're supposed to bet on them.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:18 (twenty years ago)

I think I have a breyer shire horse somewhere. I don't know where it came from, I probably wasn't that grateful to get it.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

Afterwards, he says, they always embrace.

The animal digs his sweaty brow into his cheek...

and they stand in the dark for an hour...

Like a necking couple.

And of all nonsensical things, I keep thinking about the horse...

not the boy, the horse, and what he might be trying to do.

I keep seeing the huge head, kissing him with its chained mouth...

nudging through the metal, some desire absolutely irrelevant...

to filling its belly or propagating its own kind.

What desire could this be?

Not to stay a horse any longer?

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/Equus.jpg

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

The first toy I ever really begged for was a Calamity Jane w/ horse (from the TV show F-Troop). Eventually I ended up a cowgirl and rode rodeo for a few years. Horses are great to work with, smell less than a dog, bite less frequently than dogs, are able to carry much more whiskey than a St. Bernard.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

Houhynhmns are smug, sanctimonious motherfuckers.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

horses aren't fun??? i beg to differ:

http://www.minihorses.com/amha/postcards/PostCardPix/KristicostumeC.jpeg

seriously, dont make me slap you.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

ps: pleasant plains ordered me a credit card with a horse on the front. it arrived yesterday and it rules.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

But it's like... pony! Cute! Clown... SCARY!!!

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh come on, that pony is way creepier than the clown kid.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Is that one of the lap-ponies from Great Apes?

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Unicorns are cool. Horses are too...non-mythological.

― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

its a horse! does everything small have to be a pony with you people?

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

http://www.putlearningfirst.com/br/grape/unicorn.jpg

― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Unicorns are so ghey.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

If it's under 14hands, it's a PONY.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Ponies have hands?

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

a unicorn could stab you with its HORN

― latebloomer: The Corridor (Yes, The Corridor) (latebloomer), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

But it wouldn't, would it? It'd be too busy mincing about in a woodland glade with a Stevie Nicks lookalike.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.guidehorse.org/images/ponies_n_bed_180.jpg

this says theyre minihorses:

http://www.guidehorse.org/faq_horses.htm

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.horsedata.co.uk/GeeGees/Stories/StoriesImages/story8.gif

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I had all those books, the Breyer horses, an actual real 4H horse for a year, the full-blown girl horsefetish. Now I just like to look.
People down the road from me have Norwegian Fjord horses. They are so cool—supposedly the most ancient bloodline, with a dorsal stripe and a bi-colored mane. They're possibly the horses on the Lascaux cave walls.
But my main motivation in posting this was to provoke Kate into more baby talk!

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

http://horsehater.blogspot.com/

― a Side-walkin' Street Wheeler (aaron ef.), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 20:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.chiropracticresearch.org/Images/MrEd.jpg

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

You people are SILLY! I ride horses all the time and they RULE. Just give 'em a chance, maaaaaaaan

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

i love you

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Oh my god, I hate horses too!

― Abbott, Monday, 28 April 2008 20:50 (seventeen years ago)

BIG EYES
little eyes
BIG EYES
little eyes

― the next grozart, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 23:18 (seventeen years ago)

My appreciation of horses takes place from any vantage other than astride one, or broken beneath its hooves. I prefer them always beyond kicking distance.

Once these simple ground rules are observed, I find I tolerate them quite nicely and even have a sort of intellectually-based admiration for them, what with their historic connections with the Light Brigade and the mongol hordes and whatnot.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 30 April 2008 02:03 (seventeen years ago)

eight months pass...

pwn

http://i44.tinypic.com/dwujrk.jpg

― 909090909 Rivethed Brikkchin Reverk now DANZ (Mackro Mackro), Friday, 2 January 2009 00:27 (seventeen years ago)

If it's under 14hands, it's a PONY.

this is rong.

― Waffles Admin (wilter), Friday, 2 January 2009 01:36 (seventeen years ago)

Also I like horses and u__u @ ppl who are scared of them solely because they've never ridden/been around one.

― Waffles Admin (wilter), Friday, 2 January 2009 01:38 (seventeen years ago)

fair enough if you've been injured by one tho.

― Waffles Admin (wilter), Friday, 2 January 2009 01:39 (seventeen years ago)

14.2 hands--close enough.

― quincie, Friday, 2 January 2009 01:44 (seventeen years ago)

i see i just looked up wikipedia also.
maybe it's just in Australia, it's about breed not size.
if u had a thoroughbred for example and it was under 14.2 hands, it would not be called a pony.

― Zune Admin (wilter), Friday, 2 January 2009 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

Yes it would.

Though a thoroughbred under 14.2 would be k-weird.

― quincie, Friday, 2 January 2009 01:57 (seventeen years ago)

yeaah i'm talking about aus tho..

― wilter, Friday, 2 January 2009 01:59 (seventeen years ago)

OK I admit that I was unaware that Aussies have a different pony definition.

A fine horsie tradition, though, has Australialand.

― quincie, Friday, 2 January 2009 02:01 (seventeen years ago)

PHAR LAP
PHAR LAP
PHAR LAP
HE WAS AN AUSTRALIAN HORSIE

PHAR LAP!

― quincie, Friday, 2 January 2009 02:02 (seventeen years ago)

you're right tho. I was brought up in a thoroughbred-mad family and am just used to colloquialisms etc i guess.

― wilter, Friday, 2 January 2009 02:07 (seventeen years ago)

Oh geez now I'm second-guessing myself--was Phar Lap from New Zealand?

Time for my yearly viewing/weeping with the movie.

― quincie, Friday, 2 January 2009 02:12 (seventeen years ago)

yeah he was, we claim him as ours tho. It's what we like to do w/ awesome kiwi stuff.

― wilter, Friday, 2 January 2009 02:13 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

Good news, Jeremy!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/19/dead.horses/?tsp=1

― StanM, Monday, 20 April 2009 15:03 (sixteen years ago)

Horses and I get along well enough, provided we stay at a respectful distance from one another. Intimacy is not in the cards.

― Aimless, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:52 (sixteen years ago)

They are fun to hug! Fuck u horse haters.

― quincie, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:36 (sixteen years ago)

O'Connor said each team brings between 40 to 60 horses for matches, and they are continuously switched out throughout a match to keep the horses from overexerting themselves.

Wait seriously? You have to bring SIXTY HORSES to play polo?

― nabisco, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:38 (sixteen years ago)

per team, apparently...

― dowd, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:39 (sixteen years ago)

You don't want to know how many seahorses it takes for game of waterpolo.

― StanM, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:46 (sixteen years ago)

So 4 players per side = each player requires at least 10 HORSES?

I mean, I knew polo was considered a sport of the wealth, but geez

― nabisco, Monday, 20 April 2009 20:54 (sixteen years ago)

this reminds me :(

I visited my parents' farm over easter and one of the horses impaled itself on a wire protruding from a fence and obviously flipped out and wound up disembowling herself. We found her dead the next morning.

It was really horrible and the most gruesome thing I've ever seen. Just a really shitty freak accident.

― wilter, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 01:59 (sixteen years ago)

Hate horses. They stink, and their piss and shit is all over the main streets thanks to the jolly tourist horse and carriage crap in the city.

Not scared of them, I just think they pong like hell.

I *am* wary of extreme horse-loving women, however. There's something ever so slightly unwholesome about a teenage girl with a horsey obsession...

― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 02:11 (sixteen years ago)

But I would not wish Mark's awful story on any animal :(

― one art, please (Trayce), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 02:11 (sixteen years ago)

good old Jethro Tull lyrics, those guys are crazy (well one of them is technically a girl now):

And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away
on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George
who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision.
(The examining body examined her body.)

― Mulvaney, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 05:32 (sixteen years ago)

You don't really need that many ponies to play polo. I've been to matches where each rider has maybe 3 ponies he/she switches out during a match.

― quincie, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 13:34 (sixteen years ago)

wuhhhhhh @ those lyrics

― Young Chizzy (country matters), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 13:41 (sixteen years ago)

Still that you need to round up at least 25 horses to cover both teams is kinda ridic. Like you clearly live in a different world when you know 7 other people all of whom personally own at least three horses each.

― invitation to rabies (╓abies), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 13:48 (sixteen years ago)

rent-a-horse

― ian, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 13:56 (sixteen years ago)

Doesn't everyone have horse on their land?
here's some of mine yesterday
http://www.pisz.ca/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=486&g2_serialNumber=2

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 14:06 (sixteen years ago)

yes, but those are the wild horses; we need our polo horses for the match.

― ian, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 14:18 (sixteen years ago)

ws all these horses

― quincie, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 14:18 (sixteen years ago)

umm

― quincie, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 14:19 (sixteen years ago)

they can play polo too, they're pretty good at it.

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 14:34 (sixteen years ago)

by themselves?

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 14:35 (sixteen years ago)

That's just daft, they can't hold the sticks for starters!

― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 14:42 (sixteen years ago)

I've been to matches where each rider has maybe 3 ponies he/she switches out during a match.

Depends on whether it's low goal or medium goal polo, but it's usually at least a pony per chukka. At the highest levels of competition they tend to have more horses so they can change them out for fresh legs whenever desired.

― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 14:44 (sixteen years ago)

i knew a lad who had only one polo horse, my favourite memory of him was the look on his face when he arrived at his stables to find us all boomed off our box on magic mushrooms.

― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 14:51 (sixteen years ago)

Looks like they got tainted dope.

― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 21:57 (sixteen years ago)

aw, i started a thread for this and nobody came :(

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 22:02 (sixteen years ago)

wau that's the most sinister "play video" button ever; did they film them falling over and dying????

― I can sit in my car all day, and that doesn't make me a car. (HI DERE), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 22:04 (sixteen years ago)

Sorry, gbx. I didn't know.

― Le présent se dégrade, d'abord en histoire, puis en (Michael White), Wednesday, 22 April 2009 22:11 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippotherapy

^^^so misleading a name

I would be expecting some hippopotamus action!

― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 02:28 (fifteen years ago)

I want a semiaquatic mammal with a slow hand.

― kenan, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 02:34 (fifteen years ago)

My sister-in-law who is getting a physical therapy degree just told me how much she loved doing hippotherapy with kids. I gasped and got really enthusiastic about hippos and generally made an ass of myself, it was charming.

― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 02:36 (fifteen years ago)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d15/lsealey/HippoInThePark1copy.jpg

something like this

― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 02:37 (fifteen years ago)

http://nerdnirvana.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/ridinghippo.jpg

― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 02:38 (fifteen years ago)

horses are nice chaps

― sock recognize sock (buzza), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 02:47 (fifteen years ago)

abbott you were thinking of horseytherapy which is all abt hippos

― waka flocka display name (zvookster), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 02:51 (fifteen years ago)

i think i remember reading that hippos killed hella ppl so maybe that would be not so good

― waka flocka display name (zvookster), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 02:52 (fifteen years ago)

The hid the hippos under the horrible name! Thank you zvookster.

― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 02:52 (fifteen years ago)

I am aware hippos are not friendly, and are also quite powerful, and have massive crunching jaws. But they just look so chubby and cute! Like manatee alligator dogs. Also the four or five times I have ridden a horse, the horse has invariably tried to remove me from its back quickly and painfully. "The horse could sense you didn't like it," its owner would always say. Well, I didn't like the horse, no, but my feelings didn't lead to me violently punishing the damn thing. Horses are jerks as far as I'm concerned.

― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 02:55 (fifteen years ago)

http://dump.fm/images/20100806/1281137754016-dumpfm-noisia-MULEKICK-left.GIF http://dump.fm/images/replaced/20100912/1284273976010-kick.gif http://dumpfm.s3.amazonaws.com/images/20100621/1277150495482-dumpfm-noisia-MULEKICK-right.GIF

― dayo, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 03:00 (fifteen years ago)

I wish I had a horse to hug.

― quincie, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 17:42 (fifteen years ago)

eight years pass...

I got a horse to hug!

Only took me 40 years!

(Technically just a lease, but closest I've ever had to my own)

His name is Lucky hahahahaha

He is a big pony and a pinto and acts like a dog.

I love him.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 8 June 2019 02:43 (six years ago)

aww congrats on your new horse!

― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 June 2019 02:57 (six years ago)

completely disagree with the thread premise btw, i am pro-horse in every respect

― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 June 2019 02:58 (six years ago)

I like that post quincie

I fell in love with a horse when I was 12. I rode him a lot and ended up falling off him while riding bareback with my best friend. I was in traction for a few weeks and had trouble writing out my homework assignments for another month, but I never stopped loving him

― Dan S, Saturday, 8 June 2019 03:18 (six years ago)

horses are rad

my cousins had horses when I was a kid & they taught me to ride. their uncle was a farrier & there was always horse stuff going on - my older cousin still does week-long alpine rides & hardcore cool stuff like that. there is just something about horse people & horse life & horse gear that makes me nostalgic & happy

congrats quincie, v excited for you!!

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 June 2019 03:28 (six years ago)

if you could either get one horse or two otters which would you choose

― del griffith, Saturday, 8 June 2019 03:41 (six years ago)

I'm not sure if horses can truly love people, but they are capable of immense loyalty and trust for people, and so can earn our love for them.

― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 8 June 2019 04:12 (six years ago)

I get a huge oxytocin hit with horse nuzzles.

Lucky and his BFF Opie come running from the far end of the pasture when I come to the gate.

So what if it is maybe only because they want treats?

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 8 June 2019 13:50 (six years ago)

That said, one horse vs two otters is a tough call!

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 8 June 2019 13:51 (six years ago)

PICS

― Yerac, Saturday, 8 June 2019 17:26 (six years ago)

<3 <3

― brimstead, Saturday, 8 June 2019 17:30 (six years ago)

PICS

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 June 2019 17:43 (six years ago)

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